Book: New english file pre-intermediate

This book consists of 9 units

1. Topic

- All topics are familiar with students’ life such as subject, weather , classes,
etc.
- There are even some practical English topics of real-life situations such as
at the airport , at the conference hotel,etc.
→ suitable topics and contents in order to enhance students’ learning in terms of
speaking and communication skills.

2. The aims of the book.

- This book focuses on grammar, vocabulary, and the four crucial skills
( L,R,W,S) which can be easily applied to daily life/conversation by providing
ss’ real life content as we mentioned.
- This new book also expands ss’ knowledge of ss’, culture and the sense of
teamwork.HOWEVER, there are not so many tasks or activities related to
pronunciation in the textbook. Similarly, there was little knowledge of culture
textbooks. These facts require teachers to adapt the tasks as well as designing
more tasks and exercises to provide ss’ the environment to practice their
pronunciation.

3. Types of tasks

- The book gives a diversity of tasks and activities for grammar such as:
rearranging the word orders ( activities 3a, 1a, p5) and giving the right tense as
well as gap-filling in most of the units.

- Tasks for speaking skills also were

designed diversely in types through the
textbook for example working in pairs/groups found in most of
the units. Besides, role -play activities were asked to practice in all Practical
English. Similarly, by the end of each unit, students
spent time doing writing tasks. In this part,
students got familiar with some kinds of
writing like letters, emails, or compositions
beside question answering or sentence rearrangement

4. Guidance for doing task

- The textbook supported effectively not

only teachers’ teaching but also students’ learning process in terms of
guidance for doing tasks. However, it is vital that teachers
→ Second, to overcome some shortcomings of
the textbook, teacher should draw up learning
 strategies based on students’ need, learning styles and ability.Besides,
despite the lack of tips or learning
strategies in the textbook, the teachers with teaching and
learning experience should share
their learning strategies by giving clear
instructions or delivering handouts with necessary tips for students.

Furthermore, teachers always need to be

flexible in the way of amending the textbook
in order to make it suitable for students’
ability. In order to have appropriate
modification, teachers ought to analyze the
textbook before using and determine whether or not the textbook need be
changed, edited or modified.

As a result, teachers will design

suitable lesson plans, activities and strategies for students to develop their
learning

Our group will teach unit 8-writing: Giving your opinion_page 97

This lesson contains 6 sections:
∙ Section 1: Warm up: game
∙ Section 2: Pre-writing ( task a and task b )
∙ Section 3: While-writing ( writing part )
∙ Section 4: Post- writing ( checking part )
∙ Section 5 : Consolidation
∙ Section 6 : Homework