Ideas on how to adapt (or create) materials for ESP by María Soledad Loutayf

Ideas on how to adapt (or create) materials for ESP by María Soledad Loutayf https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f Materials are every resource you use in the class to help students acquire linguistic skills whether they are commercial materials, texts you choose or realia you bring to the classroom. Adapting or creating materials should be a principled practice that meets a pedagogical aim. The aim of this Padlet is to share how you adapt or design for ESP and the principle or objective behind that adaptation. Examples are more than welcome. en-us 2021-06-28 17:48:58 UTC 2023-04-30 17:33:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png Get students to lengthen a summary soleloutayf1 https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1628753104 Sts listen and work with listening activities. Then, they are given a summary of the listening text and are asked to complete it with details... lengthen the summary.
Pple: sts recall details and use their intralanguage to report what they have understood. ]]> 2021-06-28 17:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1628753104 How to adapt textbooks for EFL BY RORY O'KANE at the EFL magazine online soleloutayf1 https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1628758464 2021-06-28 17:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1628758464 Marcela Mora https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1635006594 When I choose the materials for my Land Surveying Engineering students, I choose topics they have already studied in previous subjects, for example Topography. So, first they read the text I chose and then they have to compare the content presented with what they already know to find similarities and differences. There are some instruments for measuring that may be used in USA that are not used in San Juan, for example. And some steps in the measuring processes are different so they need to really understand the English text and recall what they already know. Of course, it is crucial to work with a specialist in the field and prepare the class as full as posible. All the same, students always have something to teach the teacher as regards content and their previous experience. ]]> 2021-07-02 14:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1635006594 Articulating with L1 materials and knowledge Teacher_Juan https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1636256156 As for the design of materials, I take the time to read the anual plannings of the curricula of both primary and secondary schools of the grades and courses I teach in. I select materials from varied sources and create my own, so it ends up being a blending of both authentic and non-authentic input, having their previous knowledge in L1 as an irrefutable advantage. This does not only bring a certain balance to the activities carried out in the classes but it also enhances specific content, which is contextualised as much as possible in the quest of meaningful learning.

Juan Ignacio.- ]]> 2021-07-04 15:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1636256156 Get students to review grammar milagromedaa https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1636340479 Students are asked to make a compilation of all the grammar we have studied in class. They can use any APP they want or even a DIY.
Objective: to study the details of the grammar structures in order to be ble to use them in with different content.
Photo: CANVA designed by a student]]> 2021-07-04 19:05:53 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1636340479 Listening for specif puposes milagromedaa https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1636346013 Students listen to a song and have to count the exact number of times they listen to a word.

*Songs:
Memories by Maroon 5 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlPhMPnQ58k // Students count different words
Lucky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acvIVA9-FMQ // Students count different words and have to find nature-related words.
Objective: to be able to identify specific words. Practise for futute questions, where they find the answer in the same question.]]> 2021-07-04 19:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1636346013 Material for the Winemaking Industry aniraferrara https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1636355824 English is included in three modules where I have to collaborate with other teachers from different areas (Maths, Chemistry, Laboratory Practices, ICT,etc). The modules are:
- Análisis de productos enológicos
- Gestión de maquinarias agroindustriales
- Gestión de emprendimientos
It has been a real challenge for me to prepare materials since there are no coursebooks related to teaching English for the winemaking industry, and it is even more difficult to find material integrating the other subjects.
So I prepare my own booklets where I provide the explanations and activities using different sources, such as websites from different wineries, videos from youtube, instruction manuals from different machines, etc.

]]> 2021-07-04 19:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1636355824 Storytelling https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1636396642 Review of Grammar
Sts are asked to watch a storytelling video in which the teacher uses the Present Perfect in order to describe different experiences she has had in Salta. The images are selected by the teacher and it is a short video with recorded voice (teacher´s voice) and background music.
Finally the sts are required to make similar written sentences telling what they have/haven´t done in Salta and also to recall information and tell what the teacher has/hasn´t done (use the 3rd person sing).
Objectives:

to practise listening, reading, writing and speaking(if they are asked to read their sentences aloud)
to review the Present Perfect tense.

I made it for my secondary students who are in their last course, but I believe it could also be adapted to a tourism course.

https://youtu.be/m9MN1Tn0jkw Ana Iriarte

]]> 2021-07-04 21:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1636396642 DEVELOPING TEACHING MATERIALS FOR ESPCOURSES:THE LAST OPTION MANY ESP TEACHERSRESORT TO doris3m https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637179947 This paper offers an insight into the key aspects as well as the sequence of ESP materials design. It outlines the main beliefs and principles which constitute the general framework for teaching materials development and summarizes the major explicit and implicit teachers’ beliefs which inevitably reflect on the process of materials design. This paper also tackles the issues of assumed abilities and training for developing and/or adapting teaching materials offered to ESP teachers in the attempt to answer the everlasting question whether being a good ESP teacher automatically implies being a good materials designer. ]]> 2021-07-05 10:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637179947 Posters and infographics for Peace doris3m https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637206585 Posters for Peace was the final project for students of my Graphic Design Class. They were supposed to design a poster to promote peace. Some of them worked on their own and some of them worked in groups. All of the posters were posted in their scoops and also in different social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and also in the virtual world of Second Life.

Students presented their works in class, where they explained how they did their work. They focus on the use of the language and the design techniques they applied in their posters. A group of educators from around the world were invited to comment on the work of the students allowing to get critics on their work.]]> 2021-07-05 11:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637206585 Creative Writing and Contextualizing https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637320310 One of my favorite activities to complement the material is to have my students do a short creative writing activity as a follow-up. For example, I taught Imagism last month and we used content from a textbook that featured Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro". The idea of the activity was to try to recreate this short poem by changing the setting to Tucuman, and depicting the traditional problems my students encounter with the means of transport they use everyday. I generally name this activity "Tucumanize it" and students love it.
Ignacio Lau

]]> 2021-07-05 13:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637320310 GIVING DIRECTIONS elibethchocobar https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637828369 Students will learn how to teach instructions through a video of a place.
First of all, the lesson will start talking about the most important places the town has and then making a review of vocabulary of buildings and road signs.
Then, i will provide them a video and some pictures of the town and flashcards of imperatives in order to practice.

Objectives:
* to be able to give instructions.
* to be able to practice the four skills especially listening and speaking.
* to review imperative, prepositions, connectors.
* to review specific vocabulary, the names of buildings, the names of street, etc.

]]> 2021-07-05 23:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637828369 Listening for details and hypothesizing. https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637844666 Real radiotelephony communications between pilots and ATCOs are used to develop listening skills. Students are asked to listen to the recordings and take down notes (another skill that they must develop) of what they hear. They must be ready to answer questions about specific information orally. Later, in a group discussion, they hypothesize what they could have done or said in that situation. In pairs, they prepare a dialogue and role-play it. They can even record it and send it through Whatsapp to check pronunciation.

Lorena García. ]]> 2021-07-05 23:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637844666 Acrostics and Lie detector cinmonteleone https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637847880 This task is useful for all levels and for all types of courses. Students will have an acrostic with my name and I will write some words related to my personal information.

CINTIA

BUENOS AIRES

JANUARY

THIRTY-NINE

CHILDREN

MARRIED

a. Students will have to do their own acrostics with their names and complete it using words related to their personal information. We can use Padlet, Jamboard, the whiteboard for this activity.

b. Post-writing activity. Students will have to read their classmates’ acrostics to know some information about their classmates. These activities will be helpful to get to know each other.

c. Listening activity. Game: “Lie Detector” Students will watch a video with my acrostic and personal information but this time I will include three statements that are true and 2 statements that are false and they must detect the lies. We can also use the LMS or a resource such as Jamboard or Padlet for this task.

Here I include the link with the video:

https://youtu.be/JonnP8EpcIM

Students will have to detect the lies and post their responses. At the end of the week I will include my answers.

Students will have to do the same. They will provide personal information about them and they must include some false information. For instance, they may mention two statements that are not true, and their classmates will have to detect the lies. In the acrostics, learners may write words as I did and record themselves giving the information. If we have used the acrostics with personal information before they would have to remember what the students have mentioned to detect the lies. Students will be invited to record a video and provide the link or include a file. I may use a forum discussion or Padlet. Structures suggested for this activity are: I’m…. I’m…..years old. I’m from….. I have….I’m married/single. Students will have to post a response to at least one classmate mentioning the lies they could detect. Students will have to answer the posts at the end of the week and mention what information is true and false. They will have to write the full sentences this time.
The example I provided was acrostics with names to work personal information but we can work with acrostics with other words. For instance, we can adapt this activity and use it in ESP too. We could work with the word ENGINEERING or with anything that we want and we can brainstorm vocabulary or to summarize information about any topic. Depending on the level of our students we may ask them to write words or sentences.
Students enjoy working with acrostics. I use them a lot!

]]> 2021-07-05 23:43:23 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637847880 Speaking https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637882186 In the secondary schools where I work, there is a book we use for a certain period of time. The teachers make a selection of units and book sections for each year, from 1st to 5th year. Then, I make a selection of activities and texts which may be more useful for my students. I use the pictures in the students' book or print larger ones, for a clearer view. I use activities like picture description, role play and storytelling based on the pictures. Also, I ask students to make dramatizations with the dialogues from the book. I prepare skeaking cards and games based on the book's topics. I found out my students get engaged with speaking activities in pair or group work. I uploaded a picture from Salta to Explore. I sometimes use materials from other books, too.
María Araya ]]> 2021-07-06 00:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637882186 THE POWER OF WORDS https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637923195
Jesica Veliz]]> 2021-07-06 00:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1637923195 reinforce four skills in children ibamer64 https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1638044528 This activity is very funny and at the same time reinforces the four skills: speaking, writing, listening and reading in elementary school students. The activity is carried out as a review and to consolidate the vocabulary after the students have studied in previous classes topics related to different foods, colors, animals, means of transport among others. The teacher writes the categories on the blackboard and tells a student to write, for example, animals that begin with the letter C. The student must write the animal that he/she remembers with that letter, then read aloud. After that, Then the student chooses a classmate and indicates another category and the game continuous. In order to become the class more enjoyable is appropriate to reward the student has written and listened more words. At the same time, Students feel self- confidence and motivated. I always try to encourge my students and say them: make mistake is good because they have an chance to learn better.

]]> 2021-07-06 01:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1638044528 karenesaiquita https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1638253508 2021-07-06 04:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1638253508 Using authentic material estebanalfaro27zx https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1639238968 Finding appropriate material for an ESP course tend to be difficult, that is why most teachers tend to design their own. When designing material for an ESP course one good idea is to adapt authentic material, such as videos or articles, in order to develop different activities.
For example, if we are going to teach the language to people that need it for business meetings or interviews, a good activity could be to look for a video where topics related to the students’ work field are discussed. We as teachers can use the video plus some questions designed by ourselves to practice their listening. In addition, we can then give them a transcription of the video so they can look for the vocabulary they don´t understand. Lastly, students can use the transcription to read it out loud. ]]> 2021-07-06 20:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1639238968 Designing worksheets for students to work about a reading article maryangieyanez https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1644560312 An example:
After selecting a piece of reading material related to the topic, prepare a worksheet for students to work .
.- Check understanding by asking questions, eliciting ideas. It's good to discuss about the topic. This makes students to use their speaking skills .
.- Analyze vocabulary : Find transparent words , underline unknown words/ phrases, highlight linking words.
.- Identify referents, and say what they refer to in the different paragraphs.
.- Write the most important ideas from the reading.
.- Summarize the reading in own words.

.- ]]> 2021-07-11 14:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1644560312 Reading the Arts aliciaassad2 https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1645112851 When it comes to choosing material for the classroom, I try to use authentic material that is parallel to the students’ main subject courses , but is not actually part of them; i.e. topics that could have been included in the main course, but were not (Aslrasouli, 2012) At the beginning of the course, for example, we work with titles of paintings by artists students study in other courses.

]]> 2021-07-12 02:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1645112851 English for Cooking marilenaslzr https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1645283542 I have never been in charge of teaching a course related to English for Cooking (chefs and catering). However, if I had the opportunity, I would use everything I could get my hands on. Preparing tailor-made instructional material is worthwhile, but time-consuming. I deem, balanced use of both readily available textbooks and tailor-made material would be the golden mean. The formers help the teacher not feel adrift from the contents and timetable they aimed at the beginning of the course. As Polona Vicic (2.011) argues in the paper Preparing material for ESP teachers,

" A final but significant factor is that psychologically a textbook represents something concrete and thus gives a measure of progress and achievement throughout the course (Haycraft, 1987). Consequently, when designing materials teachers should bear this in mind and prepare materials that present a logical whole and in which the sequence of units is logical and enables the students to see and evaluate their progress. "

The latter, helps the teachers to suit their students' needs taking into consideration their culture and the level of linguistic proficiency required. In addition to this, when there is not much material available, teachers should be ready to "set to" it.

When it comes to design some lessons, I could look for videos in which the cooks follow some recipes. There are great examples on YouTube. I could also elicit my Sts to listen to some fixed expressions such as "we need" or "you need to" the use of sequencing words, for example, "first, second, then, after that, finally" and logically, food-related vocabulary and
cooking techniques. I could provide the learners with interesting texts that present quantifiers, countable and uncountable nouns, and containers.
Secondly, I would teach them the classification of ingredients into subsets (Picture 1). Next, I would use activities to match cooking techniques to illustrative pictures (Picture 2). After that, I would let them speak about regional food or favorite dishes to foster their speaking skills. Finally, I would teach them how to write a process and the use of
commands.
This way, vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills are revised. The teacher's intervention within subjects that have particularities and specificities is crucial. It is
essential to clarify that this content could take a couple of lessons.
Marilena Salazar

Reference of pictures:
Flash on english for Cooking, Catering & Reception - by Catrin E. Morris - ESP Series - ELI Publishing.
Reference:
Vičič, P. (2011). Preparing materials for ESP teaching. Inter Alia, 2, 107-120.

]]> 2021-07-12 03:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1645283542 English for Software Developers gusnat1514 https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1648383619 I wirk with software developers who either own their own start-up in Argentina, the US, or the UK; or work for an IT company abroad.
The course level is C1 and the aim at learning business and area related content. We use a book they consider essential for Coders Professional Development called A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship by Martin, 2008.
As I read the chapters, I identify the main topics, area-related problems, and even the problems professionals have had in the area throughout time, to choose the week's activities. I choose two main aspects to develop and select the material.
First, I look for authentic websites which discuss the main topics of the lesson.
Second, I take all the pictures from the authentic source and highlight / summarize in one paragraph the main ideas which show the main content / topics.
Third, students look for the new items, or the main idea of the paragraph, they talk about what might be new and then I introduce the grammar or vocabulary topics -it also works for listening and writing skills.
To conclude, we work with the authentic text and they produce a text containing the topics and the purpose of the source in a situation similar to one at work.]]> 2021-07-14 01:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/soleloutayf1/5959r9owg512xd2f/wish/1648383619