Evaluating and adapting esp teaching materials

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Full name: Turgunboev Bobur
EVALUATING AND ADAPTING ESP TEACHING MATERIALS

To fulfill the assignment, you will choose one unit of an ESP course book. The task is to describe each of the activity given in that resource, to evaluate their efficiency and to suggest some ideas to adapt that material to one specialty suggested to you by the teacher.

Criteria for assessment:

Content (grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, speaking, listening, cultural content, specific content)	20%
Text (authentic, non-authentic)	10%
Clarity of instructions (short and clear instructions, no language mistakes)	10%
Mode of interaction (individual, pair work, group work)	10%
Activities (communicative tasks, logical order of tasks, easy or difficult to level)	20%
Layout and design (pictures, tables)	10%
Appropriateness of material for ESP learners	20%

1. 
   Description of the activities:
   

ESP coursebook that I chosen to scrutinize is called Universal English from Cambridge Proficient English volumes distributed by Nil Fuller and Mary J. The extend of exercises that are utilized in this book is totally fitting to law specialists locks in them distinctive viewpoints of dialect generally counting perusing, talking, composing and tuning in exercises. In each unit, understudies are as a rule required to urge presented with a perusing entry which contains a group of new vocabulary for the subject and after that fulfilling follow-up works out with respect to the content. These follow-up exercises are within the frame of replying the questions, True/False articulations. Talking exercises of this coursebook empower understudies to be inventive and generally encourage them examine curiously lawful cases inside table or gather talks. Tuning in exercises majorly center on sorting out the data input concurring to the audiotape that understudies are around to tune in.

Evaluation of the material from the point of view of appropriateness to intermediate level students

In spite of the fact that all the materials counting perusing entries, sound tapes, the subjects for talk and composing tests were taken from bona fide sources, they were all suitable to middle level law specialists. The creators considered understudies level within the alternative of modern lexicon extend in each unit and encouraging them to utilize those modern words afterward in intelligently group building exercises. Besides, the level of comprehensibility of perusing sections was too worthy to target level of understudies reflecting smoothly explained legitimate things within the scope of these writings. In expansion, in spite of the truth that the speakers of audiotapes were local and these audios were taken from bona fide sources, they were apprehensible sufficient not illustrating any kind of argument emphasizes. Chosen materials for improving understudies composing abilities were moreover appropriate to the middle level generally centering on sorts of letters that are utilized in legitimate methods.__________________________________________________________________

2. 
   Suggestions to adapt the material to ESP
   

for Business English

For ESP teachers it can be suggested to alter this coursebook to commerce English as a few terms can be watched in both these areas. As a basic pith, the terms as contract, claim and others can be valuable run of terms for both law and trade professionals. In any case, a few materials cannot be embraced specifically as they negate common things of commerce. ESP educates, in this way, ought to evoke a few parts, include something unused or make the movement utilizing the conspire of the genuine content. Any adjusted or balanced portion of the course reading ought to give learners with a clear set of objectives and a clear sequencing of materials outlined to reach those objectives. What’s more in the event that educates utilize a well-constructed reading material within the classroom for businessmen, their claim course arrangement time can be significantly diminished permitting them more time to culminate their conveyance of the fabric and address their person learner issues. The coach ought to too include more bona fide materials from commerce circle