Unit 4 - Lesson 8 Wednesday, November 19
Today's Goals:
To practice speaking about current events; To review/practice a strategy for small talk; To preview Chapter 10 of the Goon Squad; To learn to use corpora to answer vocabulary and grammar questions.
Agenda:
1. Practice news/current events vocabulary by reading and discussing NY Times headlines.
2. Practice small talk and keeping the conversation by examining conversation strategies and doing a role-play.
3. Preview Chapter 10 of the Goon Squad and practice figuring out vocabulary from context by discussing “key quotes” from Chapter 10
4. Practice using corpora to answer vocabulary and grammar questions
Activity #1 - Headline Chats
Instructions:
1. In pairs, look at today's front page headlines from The New York Times.
2. Discuss the following questions together:
Activity #2 - Small Talk and Keeping the Conversation Going
1. Break up into Group A & Group B
2. Follow the instructions on your worksheets
To practice speaking about current events; To review/practice a strategy for small talk; To preview Chapter 10 of the Goon Squad; To learn to use corpora to answer vocabulary and grammar questions.
Agenda:
1. Practice news/current events vocabulary by reading and discussing NY Times headlines.
2. Practice small talk and keeping the conversation by examining conversation strategies and doing a role-play.
3. Preview Chapter 10 of the Goon Squad and practice figuring out vocabulary from context by discussing “key quotes” from Chapter 10
4. Practice using corpora to answer vocabulary and grammar questions
Activity #1 - Headline Chats
Instructions:
1. In pairs, look at today's front page headlines from The New York Times.
2. Discuss the following questions together:
- Which headlines are you confident you know about?
- Which ones do you maybe know about?
- Which ones are you unfamiliar with?
Activity #2 - Small Talk and Keeping the Conversation Going
1. Break up into Group A & Group B
2. Follow the instructions on your worksheets
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Activity #3 - A Visit from the Goon Squad Chapter 10 Quote Predictions
1. Look at the pictures below. Discuss with your partner (5 min):
a. Do you know these places? Where do you think they are?
b. Based on the pictures, who do you think we may be learning more about in this chapter? Why?
c. The title of this chapter is "Out of Body." What do you think that could mean?
a. Do you know these places? Where do you think they are?
b. Based on the pictures, who do you think we may be learning more about in this chapter? Why?
c. The title of this chapter is "Out of Body." What do you think that could mean?
2. Chose a slip of paper with your partner. There is an "important quote" from The Goon Squad Chapter 10 on the paper. Work with your partner to guess the meaning of the underlined words (use context clues from the sentence and from what you already know about the book) and make predictions about what the quote might mean and what the chapter may be about. (15 mins)
3. Share some of your ideas and questions on the doc cam. (5 mins)
3. Share some of your ideas and questions on the doc cam. (5 mins)
ch10quotes.docx | |
File Size: | 138 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Activity #4 - Corpora Strategies
1. What is a collocation? With a partner, create a list of five common collocations in English. Do you think these are difficult to learn? Why or why not?
2. We have discussed using "Google" to figure out collocations when writing. A more sophisticated version of this strategy is using "corpora", or formal, searchable compilations of English language. Two major online corpora:
The Corpus of Contemporary American English
http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/c/corpus/corpus?c=micase;page=simple
3. Open the Corpus of Contemporary American English on your computer. You can search for words and collocates, and select which types of English you would like to search, i.e. formal English only. The results will give you frequency counts for words and sample sentences from real sources.
4. Complete the worksheet using the corpus to help you.
5. Compare answers with someone from the other group.
6. Follow-up Discussion: With a partner, make a list of five other ways you could use a corpus search.
2. We have discussed using "Google" to figure out collocations when writing. A more sophisticated version of this strategy is using "corpora", or formal, searchable compilations of English language. Two major online corpora:
The Corpus of Contemporary American English
http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/c/corpus/corpus?c=micase;page=simple
3. Open the Corpus of Contemporary American English on your computer. You can search for words and collocates, and select which types of English you would like to search, i.e. formal English only. The results will give you frequency counts for words and sample sentences from real sources.
4. Complete the worksheet using the corpus to help you.
5. Compare answers with someone from the other group.
6. Follow-up Discussion: With a partner, make a list of five other ways you could use a corpus search.
strong_collocations_worksheet.docx | |
File Size: | 55 kb |
File Type: | docx |