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EVALUATION AND
MATERIAL DESIGN
Using coursebooks
Evaluating coursebooks
Supplementing coursebooks
Adapting authentic texts
Creating own materials
Main language
children use
Main vocabulary
Main receptive
language
Numbers 1-10
Red, yellow, green, blue,
pink, purple...
Evaluating coursebooks
Learner factors
Teacher factors
food
Up came a grasshopper who said: I am so hungry. Please will you give me some
of your grain?
One of the ants stopped working for a moment and replied:
Why should we? What has happened to your own store of food for the winter?
any
I have not got a store said the grasshopper. I did not have time to collect any
food last summer because I spent the whole time singing.
The ant laughed and all the others joined in.
If you spent the summer singing, you will have to spend the winter dancing for
One winter day the grasshopper met and ant. The ant was eating some nice food. The
grasshopper said: I am so hungry, can you give me some food, please?
The ant said:I worked hard all summer. What did you do in the summer, grasshopper?
I was singing and dancing.
The ant shook her head and did not give him any food.
The grasshopper was very sad and hungry. He met another ant.
The grasshopper said:I am so hungry. Can you give me some food, please?
The ant said:I worked hard all summer. What did you do in the summer, grasshopper?
I was singing and dancing.
The ant shook her head and did not give him any food.
The grasshopper was sad and hungry when he met a third ant.
The grasshopper said:I am so hungry. Can you give me some food, please?
The ant said: I worked hard all summer. What did you do in the summer, grasshopper?
I was singing and dancing.
The ant shook her head and did not give him any food.
The grasshopper was sad and hungry when he met the queen of the ants.
The grasshopper said:I am so hungry. Can you give me some food, please?
The queen said: I worked hard all summer. What did you do in the summer,
grasshopper?
I was singing and dancing.
The queen said: I see. We will give you some food but you have to promise to help us
next summer and play music for us all year around.
The grasshopper was happy and he promised to help and play music for them.
He had a nice dinner with his new friends
Adaptation of The grasshopper and the Ants for
storytelling
Dear Mr Wolf,
We are writing to you on behalf of your client, Miss Riding-Hood, concerning
her grandma. Miss Hood tells us that you are presently occupying her grandmas
cottage and wearing her grandmas clothes without this ladys permission.
Please understand that if this harassment does not cease, we will call in the
Official Woodcutter, and if neccessary- all the Kings horses and all the
Kings men.
On a separate matter, we must inform you that Messrs. Three Little Pigs Ltd.
are now firmly resolved to sue for damages.
Your offer of shares in a turnip or apple-picking business is declined, and all
this huffing and puffing will get you nowhere.
Yours sincerely
Harold Meeny
H Meeny
Lesson planning
1. Do the lessons fit together well? (is there a logical progression from one
lesson to the next? Does my second lesson build on my first lesson? )
2. Do the lessons look balanced in teems of variety of activities, skills,
interaction patterns? (is there a range of activities, are both listening
and speaking practised and is there any group or pair work?)
3. Do I have a progression from receptive to productive practice (listen
first and then speak?)
4. Are the activites meaningful for the children? Why will they want to do
them?
5. Is the language outcome real, natural? Is the simple language planned
for activities real and meaningful? Would children use the language like
this in the real world?
6. Are all the activities different? Check that no two activities do exactly
the same thing.
7. Have I thought of optional activities for those pairs/groups or
individuals who finish early?
8. Have I included my usual warmers/closing activities such as homework
check?
9. Have I included timing for each activity?