Selection and use of supplementary materials and activities

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Teachers have different points of view about the coursebooks they are using. It means that not all of them feel comfortable with the coursebok they are using in the lesson. Thus, they tend to get activities and supplementary materials for including in the coursebook syllabus (a tool for planning and organizing the content of a lesson: objectives, content, didactic sequence, methodologies, evaluation mechanisms and references). So, supplementary materials are books or other materials which we can add to the syllabus in order to implement other skills development materials, grammatical structures, vocabulary and phonology practice materials. 

™On the same token, there are some reasons about why to select supplementary materials and activities:

    - To replace material that is not important at all for learners

     - To provide material missing and learners need to have knowledge og that (needs)

     -  To give extra or skills practice for challenging language learning

      - To add variety to our teaching as a tool for acquiring more information:

There are some suggestions you need to consider in order to select the materials-
 -  Supplementary materials are available in school.

 -  Authentic materials (advanced levels) will be used for more challenging-

 -  Activities contains other skills activities.

 -  Supplementary materials are adapted in level of learners.

          On the other hand, supplementary and activity materials have advantages and disadvantages, for example: books can be used for encouraging extensive reading, however, some of them have no motivation in content; or games could be for enjoyment and language practice, but they must be designed according to the learners´ age, time, even they are difficult for classroom management because of long classrooms.

Source: 
YouTube,. (2016). Supplementary materials and activities. Retrieved 26 January 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWqbGzePlDQ

Sanchez, A. (2013). The selection and use of supplementary materials and.Es.slideshare.net. Retrieved 29 January 2016, from http://es.slideshare.net/aguedacastillosanchez/the-selection-and-use-of-supplementary-materials-and