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Group 19:
Nguyễn Ngọc Bảo Châu
Hoàng Thị Hoài Giang
Mai Thị Thắm
Lê Thị Anh Thư
Assignment 2: Adaptation
Material chosen for Adaptation: Tieng Anh 10, Unit 14: The World Cup
I. GENERAL EVALUATION:
1. Good points:
• Topic: As of the current time of adaptation is in 2010, the topic “World Cup” is a hot
and interesting topic
• There are a variety of effective activities to teach different sub-skills:
o Reading: used variety of tasks (matching, gap-fill, T/F) to help students
practice the sub-skill: scanning for specific information.
o Listening: helps students practice the sub-skill: listening for specific
information and listening for gist.
2. Bad points:
• Activities are not communicative and interactive enough:
o Example: Speaking – Task 1: Teacher asks which football teams are in the
pictures and students answer. There is no interaction amongst students.
o Speaking – Task 2: Students talk to each other but it is not communicative, all
they do is mechanically following a set framework.
• Activities are too difficult for students to do:
o Speaking – Task 1: the pictures are too general, it is hard for students to
recognize the football teams
o Listening – Before you listen: the average students, especially students who are
not keen on sports, would not know who each players are just by looking at the
pictures given
=> These activities require students to have background knowledge on football.
Students may be sufficient in language ability but would not be able to do these tasks if they
lack this background knowledge. Hence, the exercises are too difficult and become

uninteresting.
• Activities are not interesting:
o Speaking – Task 2: Students only use the information in the table to replace the
information in the example dialogue. There is no personalization. In addition,
the information for students to talk about is quite dry.
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II. ADAPTATION:
1. Speaking - Task 1:
• Method of adaptation: Replace
• Aims:
o to increase interaction amongst students
o make students more interested in the activity
o provide an activity that is not too difficult for students to do
• Procedure: Survey:
o Elicit the topic of the activity.
o Ask students to do a “World Cup 2010” survey on three of their friends.
o Give handouts to students
Names
Questions
1. How many/ match/ you/ watch?
2. Which team/ you/ think/ champion?
3. Why/ you/ think so?
4. Who/ you/ think/ score/ most?
5. Which player/ you/ like/ most?
6. Why/ you/ like/ him?
*Note: If the lesson is carried out AFTER World Cup 2010 has finished, use the following
survey:
Names
Questions
1. How many/ match/ you/ watch?

2. Which team/ champion?
3. Why/ you/ think/ they/ won ?
4. Who/ score/ most?
5. Which player/ you/ like/ most?
6. Why/ you/ like/ him?
o Give instructions: Tell students to go around the class, find 3 friends to ask the
survey questions and fill in the table. Tell students to make sure not to ask
questions with someone sitting next to them.
o Check instructions.
o Model with a student.
o Give the time limit: 5m.
o Ask students to do the task and goes around to monitor.
o After the time is over, ask students to return to their sit.
o Ask students to take turns reporting their survey to the person sitting next to
them.
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2. Speaking – Task 2:
• Method of adaptation: Replace
• Aims:
o Help students produce their own language, not just following a set framework
o Make students more interested in the activity when they are able to personalize
their dialogues
• Procedure: Cued – Dialogue:
o Divide students into pairs
o Set the scene: In your pair, imagine that one of you is a sports journalist. You
have the chance of going to South Africa to do news coverage of the World
Cup 2010. Here, you meet the famous legendary football player, Ronaldo, and
you get the chance to interview him.
o Give the handout:
Journalist Ronaldo

- what team/ you/ play for? - Brazil
- first time/ you/ join/ World Cup? - 1994/America
- last time/ Brazil/ champion? - in 2002
- score/ final match? - 2-0
- host country? - South Korea &Japan
- how many goals/ you/ scored/ final match? - 2
- what/ your/ feelings/ you/ help/ Brazil/ win? -
o Give instruction: Tell students to make a dialogue with the given cues.
Emphasize that these are only cues and that students should add more to the
dialogue to make it natural. Tell students to swap roles after they have finished
the first time.
o Model with a student.
o Give the time limit: 6m
o Ask students to start working.
o When time is up, ask for some pairs to volunteer to act out their dialogue in
front of the class.
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