Tapestry series-Middle East people?

emeraldsuzi · Post by **emeraldsuzi** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:53 pm

Anyone have any experience using the Tapestry series? Please share your pros, cons, etc. Thanks!

jay079 · Post by **jay079** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:40 pm

Hi,
The Tapestry series is very boring. The students found it very boring and I found it very boring. I have spoken to other teachers who are using it and they say the same. You might want to look at using Headway or a different book.

emeraldsuzi · Post by **emeraldsuzi** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:28 pm

Thanks, Jay. It's not often anyone suggests Headway, so I must assume that Tapestry is not that good.

Superhal · Post by **Superhal** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:50 am

I found Tapestry 2, 3 and 4 to work very well in my conversation classes. Tapestry 1, because of the chapters I was assigned (weather and jobs) stank. This is the speaking and listening series. I haven't used the reading or writing series yet, but I found the reading sections to be interminably long for a conversation class.