Reflect:

- Think about / have a look again at the old series of English textbooks for primary
school or the series of textbooks you have used and this new series.

- In 7 minutes, list some outstanding differences between them that you find. You
can focus on: their contents, topics, activities, layout… Write your answers in the
table.

Old New
Contents - Focus on 04 skills - The new textbooks are
based on a multi-component
approach. Especially, focus
on listening and speaking
skills

- Open and flexible

- Changeable
- Adaptable
- communicative

Topics Themes -close to real-life

Topics -familiar to the Vietnamese

students and are suited to
their age
Activities variety of activities: sing,
chant, games

Layout Boring - specific and clear

- eye-catching, high quality

images and is printed in four
colors
Other (s) - Pictures are beautiful and
colorful

When you finish, please go to the video lectures to watch them or read the texts in
the reading section. Do the lectures or reading texts mention any of the differences
you have listed?