Bài soạn Method 7

Group 3: Trần Thị Hiền
Nguyễn Thu Tuyết
ASSIGNMENT 1
TEXTBOOK EVALUATION
Material evaluated: Tiếng Anh 10 (Basic)
Aspects evaluated: Appearance, interesting and skills.
I. Appearance
1. Cover: Well-designed: quite eye-catching
• Front side: clear title (printed in big size with white color),
suitable and real picture
• Back side: light color but unattractive information -> should
give some tips to learn English or some English saying, idiom
2. Design.
Clearly designed to follow
a. Introduction: simple, concise -> orient for students to have overview.
b. Book map: prepare what is coming and review what have done easily
• Light colors: clear and eye-soothing,
• Vertical: unit tittles with page numbers -> students look for pages
easily
• Horizontal: five rows for R,S,L,W,L
=> Easy to seek for information
-> Design different background colors for five rows
c. Unit design
• Title: large size, red color, bolded, unit’s beginning left side
• Main point: different colors and forms letters, clear size (easy to
read)
d. Glossary: list of new words for each unit -> students look up and practice
easily and quickly
• Printing: good quality
3. Illustration:
Pictures: two types

- Drawings: colorful, beautiful, simple, accurate
->suitable for topics and age of learner.(pages:15,16,26,35,68)
- Photographs: colorful, taken from real life, interesting and beautiful
(pages: 12, 82,142)
 Make the information more realistic, more authentic.
4. Colors
- A wide variety of colors are used in the book.
- Lively colors
- Used effectively
→The book’s appearance is appealing and attractive
II. Interesting
-There are no games and songs in the units
- Language focus exercises are too mechanical and non-
communicative→ students are boring
Ex: Unit 9: Undersea world
Conditional sentence type 2:
Exercise3: Put the verbs into the correct forms
1. They would be rather offended if I didn’t go to see them. ( not/go )
2. If you exercised more, you would feel better. ( feel )
3. If I were offered the job, I think I ________it. ( take )
4. I’m sure Amy will lend you the money, I’d be very surprised if
she_________. (refuse)
5. If I sold my car, I_________ much money for it. (not/get)
6. A lot of people would be out of work if the factory__________ ( close
down)
-There are fewer interesting topics than uninteresting ones.
interesting topics uninteresting topics
Unit 1: A day in the life of…
Unit 4: Special education
Unit 5: Technology and you

Unit 8: The story of my village
Unit 12: Music
Unit 13: Films and cinema
Unit 14: The World Cup
Unit 2: School talks
Unit 3: People’s background
Unit 6: An excursion
Unit 7:The mass media
Unit 9: Undersea world
Unit 10: Conservation
Unit 11: National parks
Unit 15: Cities
Unit 16: Historical Places
- Some topics are interesting because it suits the hobby, psychology of the
Vietnamese students at 10
th
grade.
Ex:
Units Reasons
Unit 1: A day in the life of… Because it is the first unit, it can help
students to orient by make timetable and
the ways of saving time.
Unit 4: Special education It introduces the Braille Alphabet and has
high education.
Unit 12: Music Music is popular with young people so
that student can talk about their favorite
idols and songs.
-There are some uninteresting topics
Units Reason
Unit 2: School talks It is too accustom to students to talk

because they know each other
Unit 7: The mass media It is too dull. Ex: the reading part only
list programmers
-Related – to – life- topics
The units don’t relate students’ life.
Unit 10: Conservation: This unit shows the general information about
conservational theory → should give the ways of limiting traffic jams and
preventing floods and storms.
→ Tiếng Anh 10(basic) is not interesting
III. Skills
* This book covers all the skills but it is not suitable in the way we want to
teach to students
o Process of learning 4 skills
+ In the textbook
Reading – Speaking – Listening – Writing
→ Receptive- Productive- Receptive- Productive
+ In our way
Listening- Speaking- Reading- Writing
→ Receptive- Productive- Receptive- Productive
Both of ways are from reception to production. We chose the order of
the skills because the first listening part will give pronunciation,
intonation, stress and vocabulary. Next, in the speaking part students
can practice more and make monologue and dialogue by themselves.
Then, they can read the available passages easily. Finally, by basing
information in the previous part they can write better
→ Our order of the skills is suitable for learning the second
language
o The connection of the skills
- The skills focus on the topics
Ex: Unit 1

Reading part is about Mr .Vy and Mrs .Tuyet’s daily
routines