Group 6:
Võ Thị Kim Chung
Trần Thị Kiều Dung
ASSIGNMENT 2
MATERIAL ADAPTATION
Material: Writing, Unit 13, Tieng Anh 11 (basic)
The Task:
D.WRITING
Write about your collection, real or imaginary, following these guidelines.
 Name of your collection
 How you collect them
 How you keep them
 When you started
 How you classify them
Why you collect them
 Your plan for the future
I. Evaluation
1. Good points:
-Gets students to practice writing about collection
- Give essential guidelines to write with direction
2. Shortcoming:
- It’s difficult because there is no model, clear steps to instruct students’
writing.
- It’s non-interactive because students do individually all their writing
while it is necessary for Ss to exchange ideas..
II. Adaptation
1. Aims: - To get students work in interaction
- To guide students go through necessary steps to be easier in
writing the paragraph of collection
2 Technique : Change
3. Procedure:
Task 1:
- Gives reading paragraph of Mary’s collection about kinds of postcards
for the group of advanced students.
When Mary was young, she was really interested in seeing
postcards, which all members of her family usually received on holidays.
They were so beautiful with varied kinds of forms, colors…Therefore;
collecting postcard has become Mary unchanged hobby till now. Her family
knew my interest, so they sometimes they want to make her get happiness by
help her in collecting postcards. They give all postcards to Mary when they
get them. Also, Mary really likes to buy some special ones in bookstores
with many new and beautiful kinds. Mary’s friends also give many postcards
to her on holidays such as birthday, Christmas, Women’s day… Gradually,
she gets lots of postcards and sees them over in a big cell of the bookshelf.
In pleasure time, Mary enjoys classifying the postcards alone in her room.
Excitingly, she puts the same kinds of postcards in separated albums and
names them. Presently, Mary has 4 albums of postcards; they are love
postcard, landscape postcards, Christmas postcards, birthday postcards.
Mary’s mother asked her why she collected postcards; Mary just smiled and
told that: “I love the postcards because they take happiness to every body”.
Mary loves to collect all kinds of postcards all over the world till she can
not.
- Gives another sample paragraph for the group of the rest of the class:
Mary’s interest is collecting postcards. There are many ways she collects
postcards. Mary always collects them for their relatives and friends.
Sometimes, she buys them from bookstores if she like. Mary classifies them
into separated albums for each theme such as love, Christmas, New Year…
and put them in a corner of her bookshelf. She started collecting postcards
when she received a lovely postcard from her close friend 5 years ago. From
that until now, collecting postcards has become her interest because them
keep her cheer up and remember the friend. Mary will collect more
postcards to send them to people around her.
- Gets students to work in pairs, read the passages carefully and then
answer the questions below:
1. What does Mary collect for?
2. How does Mary collect them?
3. How does Mary keep them?
4. When did Mary start collecting?
5. How does Mary classify them?
6. Why does Mary collect them?
7. What will Mary do?
- Checks the answers from students.
- Underlines the answers from the passage in order that students can
identify them clearly.
Task 2:
- Gets students to work in groups of 4
- Asks them to share and discuss about their collection
- Goes around and monitors, sometimes participates.
- Gets some groups to show their discussion.
- Gives feedback.
Task 3 :
-Gets students to write a paragraph about their own collection (Real or
imaginary) basing on using useful language:
+ My collection is…………..
+ I often collect them from…………..
+ I always classify them in………
+ I like collecting them because…………..
+ In the future, I will / I like to/ I am going to……
……………………………..
-Gets SS to compare with their friends.