ADAPTING MATERIALS 1 Nature 2 Principles 3 Techniques

ADAPTING MATERIALS 1. Nature 2. Principles 3. Techniques

NATURE OF ADAPTATION True or False? - Adoption comes after adaptation. - Adoption involves the whole while adaptation involves the parts. - Adaptation means matching.

NATURE OF ADAPTATION 1. Adoption is before adaptation and leads to acceptance 2. Adoption is related to evaluation & adaptation is related to changing or adjusting various parts 3. Adaptation matches internal to external factors 4. Adaptation: making materials appropriate to contexts

PRINCIPLES OF ADAPTATION Matching

TECHNIQUES

TECHNIQUES Exercise 1: Put each of these adverbs of frequency in its appropriate place in the sentences below: always, usually, sometimes, as a rule, never, often, normally, occasionally He gets up early. She is late for school. Lan practises speaking English. Thao is a hard-working student.

TECHNIQUES Aims: - to practise asking and answering about routine activities - to practise adverbs of frequency in a meaningful way - to encourage student interactions & communications

TECHNIQUES Procedure: 1. Get students to have a piece of paper ready and to draw a three-column table.

TECHNIQUES 2. Ask them to write four to five activities in the first column and their frequency in the second column. 3. Ask one of the students the following questions as a model. T: Do you ever do exercise? S: Yes, a lot. T: How often do you do exercise? S: Four times a week.

TECHNIQUES 4. Tell students they ask their partners and then record their information in the third column. 5. When they finish, they can compare and find things in common. 6. Get them in groups and tell the groups about things in common. 7. (Optional) They can write about their similar routine activities.