Module 7

Module 7 is focused on extending textbook activities.

After reading all the articles, watching all the videos, and searching all the suggested websites, create a page Module 7 in your portfolio, double click anywhere on the page, choose T to add text, and post the following on the page:

CREATE: an adapted textbook lesson/activity. Choose a lesson (or a part of a lesson) that you would like to adapt from your textbook. Describe your learner characteristics and teaching context. Which lesson/activity would you adapt? Why? Present your newly adapted lesson/activity. Suggestions for activity adaptation:

• Make it into a role play

• Make it into a pair/group work

• Make it into a team quiz

• Simplify the language

• Replace with a jigsaw reading

• Use an information gap activity

• Gallery walk, reflect, and comment

• What else? What has worked for you in the past?

Are there any new activities you have learned in this module (or learned recently) that you would like to use in this textbook adaptation task?

See example for a model:

Activity Name: Stop the Bus (the link)

Grade level / Unit: Grade 5, 6, 7, 8

Activity Purpose:

• to learn to collaborate and communicate in the team on tasks.

• to repeat and enhance vocabulary.

• to practice and increase speaking, writing skills in the English language.

Activity description: One of the best activities I read in this module is “Stop the bus” presented by British Council (the link). This activity might be implemented in the middle classes. This exercise might be added to every class as the Wrap-up activity. At the end of each class (last 15 minutes), the teacher might share prepared papers with the tables for the game among three or four groups.

Step 1: Dividing students into small groups.

Step 2: Sharing prepared in ahead tables like in the following example with clue words.

Step 3: Asking students in small groups to choose an alphabet letter and fill the table. The first team to finish says, 'Stop the bus!'

Step 4: Checking words and writing them on the board. Let the game continue for another few minutes.

Step 5: After two rounds of the activity, asking students to vote and grade the teams. Announce the list of letters that will be played at the end of the next class.

Module 7 is focused on extending textbook activities.

After reading all the articles, watching all the videos, and searching all the suggested websites, create a page Module 7 in your portfolio, double click anywhere on the page, choose T to add text, and post the following on the page:

REFLECT: Type in 1-2 paragraphs to reflect on Module 7 (300-500 words). You may use what you have created, shared, and applied in the previous tasks.

See example for a model:

In this module, I learned about adapting textbooks to provide a student-centered learning environment. I think it is a crucial issue nowadays. Because we have students with different cultural, linguistic, and knowledge backgrounds and abilities, lack of necessary equipment might create challenging and boring educational environments. Therefore, I found it useful to investigate all materials questioning: Are they interactive enough? What texts/tasks/activities are more age-appropriate? Are they motivating students to communicate?

In the module's resources section, I found several links to the websites with different tasks, exercises, and activity examples. One of these sources was the "Stop the bus" activity, which in my opinion, might be implemented in every grade class as an interactive wrap-up, enhancing students' English language vocabulary and knowledge. Also, in one of the articles I read about using idiomatic expressions. I think it would be great to translate and implement Uzbek proverbs as well. Culturally familiar contexts might increase students' interest and knowledge in practicing and learning English words.