The purpose of this unit of work is to provide the teacher participant with some useful guidelines for evaluating and adapting written materials for specific English as a second language (ESL) classes. There is pre- and post-assessment of specific learning tasks relevant to evaluating and adapting materials as well as learning activities, which are presented in outline form. Given this series of activities on evaluating and adapting written materials for ESL, the participant should be able to evaluate any portion of written material in terms of: (a) specific guidelines for relevance, (b) specific guidelines for content, and (c) specific guidelines for the achievement of teaching aims. Specific reading assignments are noted for various activities. (JA)