DELTA Coursebook and syllabus

Which of the following is not a type of syllabus?

• Notional

• Functional

• Structural

• Proximal

Which type of syllabus tends to be most common in ELT?

• Functional

• Structural

• Content-based

• Skills-based

Notional/Functional is often used interchangeably, but strictly speaking a notional syllabus...

• deals with semanticogrammatical concepts related to time, duration, instrument, agent, etc

• deals with language forms related to a communicative purpose such as persuading, apologising.

Which of the following coursebook is an example of a (weak-end) task-based syllabus?

• Cutting Edge

• face2face

• Inside Out

• New English File

Why might there be a song about road safety in a YL coursebook?

• Songs can make language more memorable

• To teach values

• It provides listening practise

• All of the above

Which of the following is not a principle of most modern coursebook design?

• Accuracy before fluency

• Language is contextualised

• Productive to receptive

• Meaning first