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I didn’t know much about methods and approaches when I first started so the course book did everything. However, after teaching for some time, you start making changes to the activities and make them more suitable for your specific context and you finally end up developing your own material from scratch. Coursebooks didn’t use to be as abundant as they are now. The choices were very limited and you just had a couple of them to work on. A lot has changed in the world of material development and new books are being published rapidly and you always have a list of books to choose from no matter how specialist the area you are planning to work on is. When it comes to coursebooks, I usually have to ask myself one of the following questions before the course begins: If I am free to decide what coursebook to work on, what criteria should I be checking the books against, in order to make my final decision? If I am forced to teach a specific coursebook and it doesn’t seem to the best option, how can I adapt things in it?
