Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Activity 3 Metaphor about a coursebook
Objective: to let students explore their beliefs of a coursebook through a metaphor
Time: 20 minutes
Materials: posters, markers

Procedure:

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  Draw students’ attention to the Materials and resources section of the syllabus (Handout 2). Tell students that the syllabus suggests using several books for the use to teach this course. Now let us explore what we think of coursebooks.
  
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  Put students in groups of 4 or 5. Ask students to think of a metaphor for a coursebook. Explain what is a metaphor if students do not know.
  

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, for example, All the world is stage (W.Shakespeare), Teacher is a garderner. In groups students should draw their metaphors for a coursebook.

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  Once groups are ready with their posters ask them to share with the whole class.
  
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  Summarise the activity by saying that teachers usually regard a coursebook as a guidance (metaphors like – map, lighthouse, compass, path, guideline), resource (supermarket, salad, menu, handbag etc.).