Second edition

Developing your o wn understanding of language
There are a number of books for teachers which aim to increase our language awareness (our understanding of how language works) and our awareness of how to teach language. They often include tasks that we can do by ourselves or with a colleague, and detailed explanations and comments as well as answer keys.
Anticipating learners' difficulties
Reference materials about learners' errors can help us anticipate particular language problems that our learners might have. Many difficulties with vocabulary or grammar are the result of interference from LI. Books or articles about specific differences between the learner's LI and English can help to explain these problems.
Looking for new approaches to teaching lessons and new classroom activities If we are looking for new approaches or activities, or if we want to give our learners something different from their eoursebook, there is a wide range of supplementary mater ia Is (i. e. m a te r i a 1 s у о u ca n u s e i n a d dition to о r i n stead of you r con r s eb oo к), focusing on grammar, vocabulary and particular skills. There are also very many teacher's resource books with ideas and materials for all kinds of lessons, as well as a growing number of free websites with articles, ideas and activities for teachers on different teaching topics.
Finding out how to use the material in your eoursebook Teacher's books provide suggestions about how to use the material in the eoursebook. Many teacher's books also include suggestions for alternatives to the procedures in the eoursebook, as well as explanations of answers to exercises and extra resources (i.e. things teachers can use to support their teaching in the classroom), such as homework tasks and activities for further practice. Many new teacher's books provide extra material, such as supplementary worksheets (pieces of paper with an exercise or task for learners to complete), progress tests, photocopiables (practice material for teachers to photocopy), and a choice of easier or more challenging activities for classes with mixed levels.


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Unit 23 Consulting reference resources to help in lesson preparation

Getting advice about particular lessons or teaching materials
colleagues who have fauglii at the same level or used the same teaching materials may be able to offer useful advice. As with the suggestions in teacher's books, a colleague's approach may not suit us, but may help us to think about our own planning.
■ Key concepts and the language teaching classroom
Read these tips and tick the ones which are most impoitant for you.

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  Some grammar books and dictionaries may contain dearer explanations or examples. So when checking a language item, we should try to look at more than one reference resource.
  
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  Language changes, as new words appear and people stop using some older words. Grammatical usage, too, changes slowly over time. One way to keep up-to-date is to use the most recently published grammar books and dictionaries.
  

© Dictionaries on CD- or DVD-ROMs have many extra features, such as practice activities, collocation searches and audio recordings of pronunciation.





Look at the resources 3.-7 below. Working with the resources themselves or just the titles, decide which purpose (A-G) they are suitable for.

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   http://www.yourdictionary.com/ Free online resources: definitions, sentence examples, synonyms and more.
   
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