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Fourth: General Teaching Tips

- Teacher’s Book

Make sure that you read the introduction in the Teacher’s Book (Basic Education

Grades 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10) very carefully as it contains:

• A description of the course and the rationale for teaching English.

• The approach to the teaching of the four skills in English Language:
Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing.

• Detailed learning objectives for each of the course units.

• Cross-curricular links between English and other school subjects as well as learning

strategies.
• Advice on dealing with diversity and mixed ability teaching scenarios.

• The unit design and the list of stories, projects, and portfolio tasks in each unit.
• The Lesson design (Grade 5 Third Edition & Grade 7 Second Edition).

• Activities included in the syllabus (games, songs, rhymes, chants & tongue twisters,
stories, arts & crafts, role-play).

• Tips on classroom management (preparation, classroom language, classroom

organization, error correction, classroom display).
• A section on Assessment and Evaluation.

• A description of the course components.
• A list of symbols and abbreviations.
- Contents Map in the Teacher’s Book

Make sure that you study the Contents Map in the Teacher’s Book very carefully because it
contains the following:

• Aims of each unit.
• Main language focus of each unit.

• New and recycled lists of vocabulary in each unit.

• Skills and strategies in each unit.
• Lists of activities and projects in each unit.

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