1. Introduction
1.1 Research Background
English courses have been important parts of teaching in论文代写 China's middles schoolsfor a long time, and teaching materials play essential roles in English teaching as theyreflect the teaching objectives，teaching important points and guide teachers in practicalteaching activities. Generally speaking, teachers give students tests to check whether theyhave grasped tiie main points of teaching materials to judge tiieir learning results.Therefore, research on teaching materials is helpful to improve quality of teachingmaterials and teaching effects.New Curriculum is a series of education standards for English teaching establishedby the Ministry of Education on the base of educational reform. In order to guaranteehigher education quality and improve students' practical application ability of English，Ministry of Education formulates the standard according to the English level of Chinesestudents. By referring to innovative teaching concepts and experts' group discussion, theNew Curriculum is an approximately perfect evaluating standard for many aspects ofEnglish teaching surely including English teaching materials.At present, there are many kinds of teaching materials published by differentpublishers; their purpose surely contains making benefits from selling textbooks, so theyonly refer to the advantages of their textbooks and avoiding the shortages on purpose,which may result in the non-ideal learning results，while many schools choose theteaching materials published by famous publishers or publishers who are major ineducation.
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1.2 Research purpose and significance
This research aims to describe characteristics of tasks in Go for it，and evaluatesthese aspects. Tasks are main body of Go for it as it declares that it adapts task-basedlanguage teaching theory in it and implements adaptation according to New Curriculum.Commonly used in China, the teaching materials have great influences on teachingquality all over China, so attempting to improve its quality is necessary. As NewCurriculum sets up principles for language teaching in middle school，all textbooksshould be compiled according to these principles, evaluation of tasks in Go for it can helpto assess whether the teaching materials confirm to the standards given by Ministry ofEducation, the assessing results may have influence on the fame of the teaching materialsand affect their application situation in middle schools.At present, teachers in schools still take great importance to textbooks, and organizeteaching activities on the basis of the textbooks schools hand out most of the time，so thearrangement of tasks in Go for it may affect the teaching sequence and organization to agreat extent. Furthermore, teaching materials should arouse learners' interest, and thenthey can be absorbed in the tasks and teaching processes in classroom，which concernsmuch with the learning motivation and affects learning effects greatly. Accordingly，fromperspectives of teachers and students, the evaluation of tasks in Go for it is essential inimproving practical teaching effects.
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2. Literature Review
2.1 New Curriculum and ELT in Secondary School
With the development of culture and economy in China, education faces challengebecause the past curriculum cannot satisfy the needs of the new age. The knowledgeorientation and subject orientation should be transformed thoroughly; they had profoundand lasting influences to Chinese students but they do not accord with needs of this age.There has been growing concern that heavily examination-centered education is not onlyharmful to student's well-being, leading to undue psychological burdens and alienationfrom schooling，but is also ineffective in cultivating the skills and dispositions that arenecessary for competition in the global information society (Ministry of Education, 2002).Accordingly, China sets a series of new standards for the courses in basic education,which is called New Curriculum.New Curriculum is a set of principles for composing teaching materials, teachingmethods, and evaluating teaching processes and results. It also means that basiceducation reform in China welcomes a new stage.
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2.2 Evaluation of Teaching Materials
Tasks are closely related to the concept of task-based language teaching ortask-based instruction, which originated in communicative language teaching. Richardset.al (1986) defines a pedagogical task as an activity or action which is carried out as theresult of processing or understanding language. They consider that the use of a variety ofdifferent kinds of tasks in language teaching is said to make language teaching morecommunicative since it provides a purpose for a classroom activity which goes beyondthe practice of language for its own sake. Breen (1987) offers another definition that'task' is assumed to refer to a range of workplans which have the overall purposes offacilitating language learning from the simple and brief exercise type, to more complexand lengthy activities such as group problem-solving or simulations and decision-making.And Nunan (2004) gives his definition that a pedagogical task is a piece of classroomwork that involves learners in comprehending，manipulating, producing or interacting inthe target language while their attention is focused on mobilizing their grammaticalknowledge in order to express meaning，and in which the intention is to convey meaningrather than to manipulate form.
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3. Methodology.......... 17
3.1 Research question......... 17
3.2 Research objects......... 17
3.3 Research subjects......... 18
3.4 Research instruments......... 18
3.4.1 The questionnaire......... 18
3.4.2 The interviews .........19
4. Description of Tasks in Go for it from the Perspective .........20
3.1 Description of task types .........21
3.2 Description of tasks based on task difficulty......... 23
3.3 Description of task distribution......... 25
5. Evaluation of Tasks in Go for it.......... 28
5.1 Merits of tasks in Go for it......... 28
5.2 Demerits of tasks in Go for it ......... 31
6. Improvement Suggestions and Pedagogical Implications
6.1 Suggestions for Improving tasks in Go for it
Compilation of tasks in Go for it is by and large in accordance with the standardsand principles of ideology， interestingness, scientificity and flexibility in NewCurriculum on the basis of analysis and evaluation of tasks in them. Though there aresome shortcomings still，compilers can perfect them in the future. In ideal condition,tasks in the teaching materials should meet students' interests and broaden their horizons.Meanwhile, the tasks also should focus on their individual differences. As for teachers，tasks should give spaces to teachers playing their teaching experiences and teachingstyles. Here are some suggestions for improving tasks in Go for it in detail. With economic development in China, Chinese people are increasingly having morecommunicating and cooperating opportunities with foreign countries, but thiscommunication does not mean we have to accept all. The content chosen in teachingmaterials should compare local culture with foreign cultures. Making students know offoreign cultures should not substitute helping them understand our own culture. Studentswho are learning Go for it are teenagers in the initial process of forming their own worldview, so the content in textbooks has great influence on their cognition.
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Conclusion
After the analysis of data and evaluation of tasks in Go for it，the thesis can come tosome major findings as follows:
1) The tasks in Go for it are in accordance with the compiling principles for teachingmaterials in New Curriculum on the whole.
2) There are some aspects keeping to be improved such as the task sequence，cultural contents, and reflective links.
3) Teachers have to re-understand their roles in classes，they should be givenautonomous rights to rearrange tasks, task contents and make research on learners' needs，and then they can really change textbook-centered to learner-centered.
4) Teachers should come to know of more about students in future teaching bycommunicating with them, observing their performance carefully in class and makingmore reflections to them.
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