Selection and use of supplementary materials and activities – UNIT 25

Supplementary materials

            What I learned about this unit is that supplementary materials are additional or extra materials that teachers do not include in a coursebook. These sources are useful for students since their language skills will be in practice in order to improve them. Moreover, it is really important to take into consideration students’ needs and interests at the moment of bringing extra materials to the class since learners need to get interest on the topic or lesson in order to understand and participate in class, teachers can bring movies, games, and books. Furthermore, we have to remember that we could have a mixed ability class where the supplementary materials procedure will need to be adapted to the leaners because all the materials are not going to be motivating for all the students in the class. Also, there are resources already created by other teachers that can be useful for us because it is essential to add variety in our classes. For example: listen to music, use web resources in order to achieve a task or read books that cover learners' expectations.

Finally, I will apply the knowledge learned about this when I could have different kinds of students that need plenty of extra materials in order to achieve all the objectices of the class because as much materials as I could create better understanding from my future learners.

Bibliography

• Sanchez, A. (2013). The selection and use of supplementary materials and.Slideshare.net. Retrieved 16 January 2016, from http://www.slideshare.net/aguedacastillosanchez/the-selection-and-use-of-supplementary-materials-and
• YouTube,. (2016). Lesson Preparation supplementary materials. Retrieved 16 January 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma4Huav4z4w