A) Criterion 1: Objetives explicity laid out in an introduction, and implemented in the material.
Rating: 6.0
It has all the tools to carry out a good work of the material, but I guess it needs some details of clarity according to the introduction, but in general it's good enough.
B) Criterion 2: Approach educationally and socially acceptable to target community.
Rating: 7.0
Yes, because the book has good terms, phrases and after all it shows all about Chile. so Educationally is very important the students know about our own country , and Socially some of them should join in the class because there's a lot of ideas they could tell.
C) Criterion 3: Clear attractive layout; print easy to read.
Rating: 7.0
yes It is, because it has interesting pictures and the print is enough visible.
D) Criterion 4: Appropiate visual material available
Rating: 6.0
It has many pictures, but the most important is that it has a lot of exercises with questions and answer, and I think that's excellent because it's necessary that the students have liberty to write an answer of themself.
E) Criterion 5: Interesting topics and tasks.
Rating: 6.5
I think so because it shows a lot of good exercises that the students can develop, the instructions are very clear, too.
D) Criterion 6: Varied topics and tasks, so as to provide for different learner levels, learning styles, interest, etc..
Rating: 6.0
It has good topics and tasks which allow that the students can improve his/her good learning.
E) Criterion 7: Clear instructions.
Rating: 7.0
The instrucctions are quite clears, and there's nothing that can misunderstand- well sometimes even our own students can comment about a mistake.
F) Criterion 8: Systematic coverage of syllabus.
Rating: 6.0
It has a good planning of syllabus, and it allows to the teacher have a good timing to mix between the book and what the teacher wants to explain.
G) Criterion 9: Content clearly organized and graded (sequenced by difficulty).
Rating: 6.5
Content is excellent, it has all very well organized, besides it shows things very important about our country, I guess the sequency is a little weak, because there's no so many differences between a unit and another.
H) Criterion 10: Periodic review and test sections.
Rating: 6.0
Well, in the page 68 there's a Extra practice that is part of our review , it is important have one , because our intention as a teacher is to impede to the students forget something so valuable as the learning and practicing exercises.
J) Criterion 11: Plenty of authentic language.
Rating: 5.0
It has some sayings, imperatives and a little of phrasal verbs.
K) Criterion 12: Good pronunciation explanation and practice.
Rating: 6.5
There's no so much explanation, rather there's a lot of exercises to practice such as listening ( his/her own pronunciation improves if they listen to a native say it) , writing ( through exercises).
L) Criterion 13: Good vocabulary explanation and practice.
Rating: 7.0
The vocabulary of this book is a WORKLIST which is between the last but one and the last pages. so if the students have a problem can see in the Worklist, anyway it's important they learn by heart the most of them at least.
M) Criterion 14: Good grammar presentation and practice.
Rating: 6.0
Yes, it has a good grammar, anyway the students have to know a good order of the words in a grade as is 1ro medio, so we have to give priority to more exercises-sayings, imperatives, exclamations and phrasal verbs, etc.. that they perhaps don't know, and the last but not least the listening to get better his/her pronunciation and understanding ( at least what they can understand).
N) Criterion 15: Fluency practice in all four skills.
Rating: 7.0
Well the 4 skills are good determinated in the syllabus, besides I think that the book has a good mix of all in general.
O) Criterion 16: Encourages learners to develop own learning strategies and to become independent in their learning.
Rating: 6.0
The development of our students depend on themselves, if they want to learn and they like english, they'll look up new words, idioms, phrasal verbs, exclamations, imperatives ( i.e informal phrases) etc.. that would great, but not all of them think the same, the important is they understand that we are here because we want they learn a motivating and challenging second language, anyway the book always is our tool of supporting.
P) Criterion 17: Adequate guidance for the teacher, not too heavy preparation load.
Rating: 7.0
It's good enough, it's not complex, it has exercises, listenings and reading.
Q) Criterion 18: Audio cassettes.
Rating: 7.0
What is a cassete? ( a joke) but this question a little boy will ask for it some day, because we live in a world where all is technological, so we use audio CD's.
R) Criterion 19: Readily available locally.
Rating: 5.0
I'm not sure but it seems to be that I can't find a dowload about of this book, Not even a link. but at least I have a photo of this, mmm I guess that's all.
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