Authentic Materials

Materials used in the target culture for

actual communicative needs. It enables
the learner to hear, read, and produce
language as it is used in the target
culture.

PREPARATION STAGE:
Advantages.
1. Authentic materials bring learners
into direct contact with a reality
level of everyday English.
2. Authentic materials drawn from
newspapers,magezines and
periodicals are always up-to-date
and constantly being updated.

3. Authentic materials from a particular

source, such as The Dawn, The News etc
tend to work in consistent areas of
language, so, after a while, students who
practice reading The Dawn or some other
paper will become experts in reading
English language print media publications.
4. Authentic materials provide us with a
source of up-to-date materials that can be
directly relevant to EFL learners needs.

Authentic materials are

designed for native speakers of English and used in
the classroom in the same way they were designed
for. For instance,
A TV news report, a movie, a newspaper, a
magazine article, pictures, and so on used as a
basis for discussion. To get your mind thinking of all
the possibilities, authentic materials can include:
Listening: TV shows, radio, commercials, news
broadcasts, documentaries, movies, phone
messages, etc.
Visual: photographs, art works, signs with symbols,
postcards, picture books, etc.
Printed: restaurant menus, newspaper articles,
bulletin board advertisements, company websites,
coupons,
sales catalogues, travel brochures, maps, telephone
books, signs, blogs, movie posters, food labels, etc.

SKILL :READING COMPREHENSION

BA
ANNUAL 2011
New ideas also make for conflict. Old chiefs
hated roads and railway: they said they brought
in strangers who corrupted the young people
with new ideas and made them rebellious. They
were quite right. It is far easier to rule a primitive
tribe than a modern democracy where every
individual is ready to criticize the government
where everyone has his own ideas about politics
and religion and where dozens of societies,
unions, religious sects claim independence and
support ambitious leaders who are ready to fight
at any time for their right. The more education a
man has the more likely he is to be independent
in his views and obstinate in sticking to them. A
committee of professors is much harder to
manage than a council of African Chiefs.

And this throws light on another argument

brought forward to prove that individuality is
vanishing from the world the enormous increase
of rules and regulations, the growing power of
police. In my primitive African tribe, law
enforcement was in hands of village chiefs.
There was very little theft. I could leave my
Bungalow wide open and unguarded for three
weeks at a time and nothing was ever taken. We
had crimes of passion and crimes of witchcraft
but no criminal class, no anarchists so we did not
require elaborate structure of law.

Que: Why did the African chiefs object to

the construction of new roads and
railways?
Que: Why is it easier to rule a tribe than a
democracy ?
Que: Why is a committee of Professors is
difficult to manage?
Que: What types of crimes were present
in the tribal society?
Que: Why was in the tribal setup no
need for expanded legal system?

PRACTICE STAGE:VOCABULARY
Words
Meanings

Conflict
Rebellious
Primitive
Sect
Obstinate
Stick
Individuality
Law Enforcement
Passion
Witch Craft
Anarchist
Elaborate

Quarrel, Opposition
Non conferment to laws
Very old
A segment of different
ideology
Stubborn
Rigidly fixed
Singularity
Application of Law
Strong Emotion
Magic
One who disrupts order
Detailed

SENTENCES
Conflict:
Kashmir is an old conflict between Pakistan and India.

Rebellious:
No government ignores rebellious activities against it.

Primitive:
Primitive societies hunted animals for food.

Sect:
Muslims in the world have two sects 1.Sunni 2. Shea

Obstinate:
Nobody likes obstinate children.

Stick:
Sticking to principles is quality of great leaders.

PRODUCTION STAGE:
Que: Keeping in view the
sentences made try to make
self explanatory sentences of
other words?
Que :Give a suitable title to the
paragraph?
Que: Write answers of above
given paragraph?

FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

When questions were asked from students of BA
about the lesson delivered to them. They all
replied that they have never been taught like this
way before. The teachers never directed them to
use any authentic materials. The teachers never
brought any authentic material in class for
practice. It is a question of 20 marks in English
paper B at BA level examination. Almost 90%
students dont try to attempt it.
I recommend that such type of practice must be
given to students but for it the teachers have to
take pain.