How often have you opened a coursebook and thought, "Who wrote this?!" It's easy to deride published teaching materials, but more difficult to know when and how to adapt them.
Many coursebooks and teaching materials are made for a global market. Ross Thorburn and Tracy Yu discuss how you can make a coursebook written for students all over the world relevant to your class, how to adapt EFL teaching materials and when it might be better to just stick with the book.
Read more great teaching tips from Penny Ur in her book,
100 Teaching Tips (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers)