ways whereby we can adapt this material to suit the
needs of our students:
adding, deleting, modifying, simpli- fying and
reordering .
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Adding : Whenever we want our students to practise
certain grammatical structures, items of vocabulary or min-
imal pairs that are not found in their L1, and the authentic
material we want to use does not provide enough examples,
we can supply the text with further examples of any of these
linguistic exponents.
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Deleting : Textbooks are prepared for an international
public with various needs. We must not feel guilty if we have
to omit two or three exercises in one unit, if we feel that they
are not relevant, or even the whole unit, if our students will
not learn anything from it.
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Modifying : There are two main techniques to modify
a text: rewrite it and restructure it. Furthermore, we can also
adapt a text for our students to read aloud or for us to dictate
it to the students, if we want them to practise certain features.
