You are an English as a second language (ESL) teacher working at
a community center. You are teaching a class to adults with a low level of
English skills.
You found an interesting article in the local newspaper
that you would like to use for the reading portion of your class, but the
level of the article is too high for the reading level of your students.
You
need to adapt the article for upper-beginner students. This means that you
need to use a lower level of vocabulary, sentence structure and fewer idioms
(expressions that may not make sense if you read them literally).
You
can still leave some words as target vocabulary -- new words that you would
like to teach your students in that lesson.
"Communication is crucial
for the profession - this is what the profession is about," says Branka Jankovic.
She's an English language instructor at a college.
Here is the article
as it appeared in the newspaper:
It all boiled down to the
last meeting of the Crows and the Tigers on Friday night.
The
Crows were up 3-2 in a best-of-seven series. They could take it at home,
or the Tigers could steal the win and push it to game seven.
Under
the glare of the lights, the Crows took the ice and turned out an amazing
performance, scoring early on a breakaway. The Tigers tried to come back
and hurled shot after shot, peppering goalie Jack Jones.
Despite
the barrage, Jones stood on his head and got a shutout victory for his team.
The Crows will advance to the conference final.