1. Adapting coursebooks to foster creativity
Willy Cardoso

2. Language

3. Language brain embodiment cognition culture Consciousness society
history
embodiment
Consciousness
brain

4. What do you need to speak a language well?
grammar | vocabulary | pronunciation
reading | listening | speaking | writing
motivation | fluency | confidence
intercultural awareness | positive mindset
learner autonomy | study skills

5. Reversals Rewrite the story so that it conveys the opposite message
Make the characters more ‘real’
e.g. bad mood, unsuccessful

6. Other ideas
Change the order of the unit(s) so you do the hardest things first.
Each group is responsible for a section of the unit, then they present it to the class
Use colour codes (e.g. yellow for most interesting/important things; red for difficult areas, etc)

7. Reading between the lines
Write three questions the text does not answer?

8. New English File Intermediate Student’s Book (OUP), p. 12.

9. New English File Intermediate Student’s Book (OUP), p. 13.

10. New English File Intermediate Student’s Book (OUP), p. 13.

12. Convergence and consensus

13. reproduce ‘correct’ concept = learning
concept: ‘unknown’
Teacher
Book
Student
test
define the concept
transmit the concept
study the concept
reproduce ‘correct’ concept
= learning

14. Concept development

15. Applying Socratic Questioning

16. PARSNIPs
Politics
Alcohol
Religion
Sex
Isms
Pork