I will have to start posting some of the revamp lessons and games I have used.  but here is the question for all is it an original lesson when you use someone else �s material but you revamp it to fit what your focus point is on?   Like taking Taboo and changing some of the rules and words used to fit the range the students you are teaching?

 

I �ll give you an example.  If you take a game like jeopardy or taboo and use all your own questions there is no need to acknowledge the source of the actual game (unless you want to)  but if you take pictures, sentences and questions from a published article and incorporate them with your own material then you should acknowledge where the original material was adapted from.

 

Please remember though, there are some sites which do not permit their material to be published, even as part of another work.  I know that the illustrations from MES English are fantastic and can be used in lots of different ways, but one condition of this site is that even simple illustrations are not used in other people �s worksheets.

 

If you are adapting an idea from a worksheet published here in ESL printables, it would be considered polite to contact the originator and ask them if what you are doing is not �stealing � their material.  It is okay to adapt and change material, but not just copy it without any original input.

 

Hope this helps

 

With all due respect, I think if one took pictures and sentences and questions from a published source, that is NOT permitted even if you acknowledge the source, and is certainly not what MOST people do. I believe it has been said that taking pictures or a reading text is OK, if we acknowledge the source but THE EXERCISES WITH THE PICTURES or TEXT MUST BE ALL OUR OWN WORK!!

 

Perhaps this is what you meant but it didn`t read that way to me. Or am I the one who is mistaken? 

 

Of course I agree with the rest of your good advice.

 

Cheers all! And a Happy Morning to those waking up!

 

 

 

The copying of a quote or question from a site or other worksheet is not permitted because YOU did not write those exact words.I I think not.

 

Common sense is required here and I stand by my statement that most printables take illustrations from other sources - very few of us are talented enough to create our own drawings, to scan them and produce them as our own.  I notice on your extremely well produced worksheets that you have a large number of pictures and if you drew all these and produced them yourself then I take my hat off to you and apologise.  Sadly, the majority of us are not so talented.

 

I don �t think I implied that the wholesale copying of material is acceptable in my last post and if there is any ambiguity then I apologise

 

I think we are saying more or less the same thing. Of course I do not have the talent to create my own pictures! I wish! I believe I said that pictures and reading texts are acknowledged by all to be permitted, but the exercises that accompany the pictures etc must be our own work. * sigh * I`m so sorry if I have caused any discord. I have the greatest respect for you and your helpful presence in this community. My intention was to be clear about the mention you made of `sentences and questions`. I thought some members may interpret this as `take the exercises of a source as is` and acknowledge the source, which I don`t think would be OK. But perhaps I am wrong about that. And I do agree completely that common sense is required but as you can see from the constant flow of stolen worksheet discussion, not all of our members use theirs.

 

I`m not sure if I have clarified my point, it is difficult to discuss particulars without going into alot of detail. Again sorry for any misunderstanding.

 

Have a great day everyone! I`m off to work!