Authentic Material 2.0

“The trick, regardless of the text used, is not to edit and grade the text, but to grade the task according to your students' abilities.” Using Authentic Materials by Sam Shepherd



From Lessons to Life: Authentic Materials Bridge the Gap, by Maria Spelleri.

Further reading
Authentic Materials and Cultural Content in EFL Classrooms
Culture in Second Language Teaching,
Developing Listening with Authentic Materials
FORUM: Adapting Authentic Materials for Language Teaching
The Outside World as an Extension of the EFL/ESL Classroom
Selecting Authentic Materials (Reading, Listening, Viewing)
Using Authentic Materials

Resources from Shaping the Way We Teach Module 8 at http://oelp.uoregon.edu/shaping_read.html

Above all, the WWW is an enormous source of authentic material. We need to use our imagination and play with key words in Google (a search engine) to find just what we want, or even more than we expected.

Video: How to Do Better Internet Searches

News
http://cnn.com/video
http://www.comedycentral.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://edition.cnn.com/studentnews/

Official Sites and Trailers
http://www.nightatthemuseum.com/

Video
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.videojug.com/

Other
http://www.imdb.com/
http://www.leonardodicaprio.org/

Activities
Finding something to wear
House and Home II
Sightseeing Tour
Biographies
Song