Step 1. Revision

Step 2. Lead-in

Ask the students to brainstorm the advantages and disadvantages of our textbooks

Step 3. New Text

I. What are textbooks for?

    Despite some disadvantages for using a textbook, overall we may find more advantages. Westbury (1990), one of the world's formost curriculum scholars, summarises the importance of textbooks as follows:
    In all modern school systems the textbook as long served not only t support instruction but to symbolise that instruction, in other words, the textbook defines the curriculum. Howcver, as no textbook is perfect, the tasks facing teachers is how we can compesate for the desavantages when using a textbook.

II. Why and What

III. Evaluating textbooks

3. Features of good textbooks
1) attract the students' curiosity, interest and attention
2)help students feel at ease
3)help students develop confidence.
4)meet students' needs
5)expose studetns to language in authentic use
6)provide students with opportunities to use the target language to achieve communicative purpose
7)take into account that the positive effects of language teaching are usually delayed
8)take into account that students differ in learning styles
9)take into account that students differ in affective factors
10)maximise learning potential by encouraging intelllectual, aesthetic and emotional involvement which stimulates both right and left brain activities.