Group 1 : Ho Thuy Hang

Group 1 : Ho Thuy Hang

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Assignment 2: Adaptation

Material: Tieng Anh 11 (basic)

Unit 12: Asian Games

Speaking

I.  general evaluation

1. Good points

+ interesting topic: “the Asian Games” à relating to the sports which is the hobbies of many students.

+ there are many useful skills

Ex: reading part, guessing the meaning in the context or scanning for specific information.

Listening: comprehension question

Writing: describing

2.  Bad points

+ Activities are not interesting

Ex: speaking, task 1, just give the table of information and ask the students to make a dialogue but with a frameàit’s mechanical.

+ Not really interactive and creative

In many parts, students work individually.

Ex:

Speaking, task 2, just use one model of sentence to talk about the sport results of the Vietnamese athletes at 14th Asian games

Language focus, pronunciation or grammaràwork individually.

II.  Adaptation

Task 1: add

Aim: to encourage students to express their knowledge of The Asian Games.

To make the task more interesting

Procedure:

+ Teacher sticks a poster on the board including 2 question :

1.  What Asian countries have taken part in the Asian games?

2.  What sports have been introduced in the Asian Games?

+ Teacher asks students to work in group and answer the question above.

+ Teacher delivers each group a sheet of paper to write down

+ Teacher calls some groups to stick on the board.

Suggested answers:

Countries: China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Phillipines, Iran, Japan, South Korean….

Sports: diving, swimming, archery, bodybuilding, basket ball, chess, volley ball, tennis, golf, judo, base ball...

Task 2: replace

Aim: to make the task more interactive

To make the task more interesting

To help students to make Wh- question and answer.

Procedure: role-play

+teacher set the scene”

Supposing that you are a journalist and you have an interview with Ly Duc, an athlete of body building sport, who took part in the 14th Asian Games.”

+ In make a conversation between Ly Duc and the journalist with the cues in the handout

+ Teacher gives handouts

journalist
1. When/ you/ start/ your career?
2. What /medal /you/ get/ at 14th Asian Games?
3. How many/ medal/ your sport/ get?
4. Do you know (remember)/ how many/ medals / the Vietnamese athletes /get/ at 14th Asian Game? / Ly Duc
1. I/ start/ my career/ 1984
2.I/get/ gold medal
3.Our sport/ get/ 2 medals
4. The group of Vietnamese athletes /get/ 10 medals / at 14th the Asian Games.

+ tell rows 1,3,5… are the journalist, rows 2, 4, 6… are Ly Duc and ask student to make a dialogue between the journalist and Ly Duc, then, change role .

+ Teacher model with a student

+ ask student to start

+ When time is up, ask some pairs to stand up and speak out their dialogue in front of the class.

Evaluation Criteria

Criteria / Description
Knowledge & application / Students demonstrate a good knowledge of ELT and a successful application of theory to practice.
Creativity / Students demonstrate a degree of creativity in the application.
Clarity / The assignment is clear and understandable.
Criteria / Score
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Knowledge & Application / ü
Creativity / ü
Clarity / ü
Total score: / 11/15
Comments / The main problem is that the adapted activities are not linked well with the activities in the part. Therefore, the activity would take more time than required. The activity that replaces task 2, does not fit well into the framework of the existent task