TESL - 0130 Adapting a Text
Unit 2 - Adapting a Text As to get into the spirit of Halloween, I decided to look at a text relating to this celebration. I am not teaching at the moment; However, I’ll would be adapting this text for mainly ESL classes for high school students, ages between 16 -18 at the advanced level. The course stated that there are three criteria’s for selecting a text: Suitability, Exploitability, and Readability. Suitability : Is this text interesting and appropriate for my class? Yes, I believe it is. The students are at the age in which the dilemma of the article states. I also believe it would be interesting for all English Language Learners to know the customs of the Country they are staying in and the fact that their fellow student/friends and school will be experiencing these customs. Therefore it is relevant and they could easily relate to the issue at hand. Is this text challenging? Yes, but in a good way. There will be new words that they will experience as they