The purposes underlying this study are: 1) to analyze to what extent the textbook of “Pathway To English for Grade X Senior High School” develop communicative exercises and 2) to analyze to what extent the exercises in “Pathway To English for Grade X Senior High School” use the types of CLT materials.

This study uses descriptive method, which refers to content analysis or documentary analysis. The research data collection is conducted by listing the kinds of exercises and types of CLT materials, finding out the kinds of exercises and types of CLT materials, classifying them based on the kinds of exercises and types of CLT materials, and giving codes to each material based on the kinds of exercises and types of CLT materials. The steps in analyzing data are collecting data, reducing data, displaying data and drawing general conclusion. The source of data in this research is the English textbook entitled “Pathway to English for Senior High School Grade X” in revised edition written by Th. M. Sudarwati and Eudia Grace and published by Erlangga. In collecting data, this study took six out of the eleven chapters of the textbook.

The result of the study shows that: 1) there are seven kinds of communicative exercises developed in the textbook consisting information gap principle, task continuity principle, information transfer principle, authenticity principle, problem solving principle and opinion-sharing information. The result of the research shows that the percentage of developing the communicative exercises in the textbook is 70% which means good in developing the communicative exercises. 2) there are all types of CLT materials developed in the textbook which are text-based materials, task-based materials and realia. The result of the research shows that the percentage of developing the types of CLT materials in the textbook is 100% which means very good in developing the communicative materials. It means that the textbook can be used in teaching and learning English. Moreover, teachers look for other exercises which are not available in the textbook in other sources such as internet, other textbooks etc to fulfill students’ need in communication.

Keywords: content analysis, textbook, CLT, communicative exercises, types of CLT materials.