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Preparing/modifying materials for lesson plans. Grammar examples. General reasons for modifying materials. fail to fulfill the goals and objectives specified by national curricula fail to fulfill the goals and objectives of schools cannot be finished in the time available
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Preparing/modifying materials for lesson plans Grammar examples
General reasons for modifying materials • fail to fulfill the goals and objectives specified by national curricula • fail to fulfill the goals and objectives of schools • cannot be finished in the time available • require facilities or equipment that are not available • not engaging the learners’ personality
Principles of materials adaptation • Making activities communicative • Making learning activities relevant and purposeful • Meet your learners’ needs • Use models of real, authentic language
Become a scriptwriter • Students are provided with a list of phrasal verbs • Teacher asks the students to write a script using as many phrasal verbs from the list as possible (in groups of 4) • The script closest to the original (video) and with most number of verbs is the winner
What if…... • Students watch a brief video “what if wild animals ate fast food” • Then students are asked to work in pairs and write a number of sentences starting “if wild animals ate fast food they would……”
The longest sentence • Look at the sentence below. Add words to the sentence to make it longer. Rules: • The sentence must be grammatically correct The boy found a kitten in the street