From the 'A to Z of Methodology' in the Cambridge English for Schools Teacher's Books.

Andrew Littlejohn and Diana Hicks
Copyright Cambridge University Press
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Ideas List

What and why?
In CES, the Ideas List is a list of types of exercises (at the back of the Students Book.) The list is intended to help the students design their own practice exercises for themselves or for the exercise box. Designing exercises increases the amount of student involvement with the course and their own learning, supports a general movement towards autonomy and promotes deeper levels of understanding. The exercise box is introduced in the Supplementary Unit B and, with it, the Ideas List.
Practical ideas
  • Students can also use the Ideas List if they have time to spare.
  • You can encourage the students to bring in their own examples of English. They can then use the Ideas List to make some exercises for themselves and other students.
  • The Ideas List is fairly short. Students may be able to add more examples to the list. (These can perhaps be put on the wall.) For example, students may be able to think of ideas to use with pictures, objects, listening passages, or writing.