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Friday 20 February 2015
Thursday 19 February 2015
CFE word formation links and tips
WORD FORMATION – USE OF
ENGLISH FOR FIRST CERTIFICATE
Recommendations for doing these exercises at
home.
Don’t worry if you make many mistakes in your
first attempt. You get better by repeating and repeating, but first, make sure you
understand what you’re reading as well as any attempt at producing the word. Two of the objectives are to help you become
familiar with words you didn’t know and to develop an intuition how to create
derivatives.
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Read
the whole text once or twice and identify words you don’t understand.
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Use
google images or a dictionary to find out what the words are or mean.
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Read
text a second time, ensuring that you understand the meaning of words and
identify what word type you need in each gap (noun, adjective, verb, adverb,
opposite adjective?)
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Do the exercise and check the answers.
- Added value: Cut
and paste the text onto google translate or reverso and listen to it. Make you know how to pronounce words and sentences.
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Do
it all over again, two or three times.
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Go
back to this text in a few days’ time and do it over again.
Further exploitation of the text: Do you understand the suffixes? Does it make sense? Do you have an equivalent for such and such word? If not, what helps you identify the idea/meaning?
If you translated the text, how different would it be from the English version? Would sentences be considerably different?
Further exploitation of the text: Do you understand the suffixes? Does it make sense? Do you have an equivalent for such and such word? If not, what helps you identify the idea/meaning?
If you translated the text, how different would it be from the English version? Would sentences be considerably different?
A number of
exercises FCE level:
many (18)
exercises FCE-like:
more:
http://www.autoenglish.org/FCEUse/FCEUsePart3.htm
Upper intermediate lesson:
Lots of ways you can tackle this issue:
Compile photos of hinglish, chinglish, etc and give one sheet each with each variety of English. Elicit what this is, discuss mistranslations, etc. Show each other theirs.
Face2face upper unit 1
Jay Walker: the world's English mania
http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania#t-250418
REmember you can activate subtitles and find the transcription of the whole video. Buttons are underneath the screen, on the right hand side.
2009 talk!
Who owns English?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVZpMR1QaZU
over to you
Watch the videos again and feel free to email me your conclusions of who owns English: is it native speakers, is it the BBC and the Queen or is it the millions and millions of learners?
What is "speaking a language" for you? What level of fluency or accuracy does one to have to say that "you speak a language"?
Elaborate on your answer as much or as little as you like! :-)
Vocabulary seen in class:
Drill a sentence= repeat
outnumber = be more than (in numbers)
outlive = live longer than (in number of years)
advantages outweigh ...
note that not all the words which begin with out- refer to the idea of "more than"...For example outreach, outbreak, nor outdated
Hinglish
chinglish
Manglish = malaysian + english
spanglish
...
Compile photos of hinglish, chinglish, etc and give one sheet each with each variety of English. Elicit what this is, discuss mistranslations, etc. Show each other theirs.
Face2face upper unit 1
Jay Walker: the world's English mania
http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania#t-250418
REmember you can activate subtitles and find the transcription of the whole video. Buttons are underneath the screen, on the right hand side.
2009 talk!
Who owns English?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVZpMR1QaZU
over to you
Watch the videos again and feel free to email me your conclusions of who owns English: is it native speakers, is it the BBC and the Queen or is it the millions and millions of learners?
What is "speaking a language" for you? What level of fluency or accuracy does one to have to say that "you speak a language"?
Elaborate on your answer as much or as little as you like! :-)
Vocabulary seen in class:
Drill a sentence= repeat
outnumber = be more than (in numbers)
outlive = live longer than (in number of years)
advantages outweigh ...
note that not all the words which begin with out- refer to the idea of "more than"...For example outreach, outbreak, nor outdated
Hinglish
chinglish
Manglish = malaysian + english
spanglish
...
Wednesday 18 February 2015
Reading: pdf readers, different levels and tips
I found this for my low-resources. Thanks whoever posted the books on their website.
http://english-4u.net/online/Biblioteca-virtual.php
Imma and Martin have read the three easy elem ... not the one in past tense Rich Man Poor Man.
books all levels +audios! excellent
http://minhateca.com.br/pamqueiroz/audiobooks+in+english/starters
book ideas: http://english-phonics.blogspot.com.es/2011/07/rich-man-poor-man-by-tc-jupp.html
elementary: http://vk.com/doc-55395457_244503319 The New Yorkers
elementaryies: http://vk.com/pages?oid=-55395457&p=Elementary_7
Easy for beginners
http://www.bestofthereader.ca/Ebooks/EasyStories-People.pdf
For those of you with with the audio and the book, I recommend:
1- Listening to the audio of a chapter, three times (if your level or above). Focus on understanding more on every go.
2. Read and listen at the same time. Notice words that you had not understood earlier, words or expressions that you had misunderstood. Is what hear what you see? Pay close attention to pronunciation of little words, of longer words, the weak forms of be and have, for example. Look up words you don't know.
3. Try to translate a paragraph and make it sound natural in your language. You many have to make considerable changes in sentence order! You can get it corrected by the teacher or someone who can help you.
4. Listen again, a couple of times. This will help you retain vocabulary and you'll be able to understand all the text without written help!
It's a lot work and discipline but students who do that really report improving in their overall learning process.
Alternatively if you don't have the audio:
1. REad each chapter once,
2. look up words, using a dictionary and google images (can help!)
3. re read text a couple of time to make sure the translation of words makes sense and
4. translate a few paragrpahs (get it corrected by the teacher or someone who can help you).
http://english-4u.net/online/Biblioteca-virtual.php
Imma and Martin have read the three easy elem ... not the one in past tense Rich Man Poor Man.
books all levels +audios! excellent
http://minhateca.com.br/pamqueiroz/audiobooks+in+english/starters
book ideas: http://english-phonics.blogspot.com.es/2011/07/rich-man-poor-man-by-tc-jupp.html
elementary: http://vk.com/doc-55395457_244503319 The New Yorkers
elementaryies: http://vk.com/pages?oid=-55395457&p=Elementary_7
Easy for beginners
http://www.bestofthereader.ca/Ebooks/EasyStories-People.pdf
For those of you with with the audio and the book, I recommend:
1- Listening to the audio of a chapter, three times (if your level or above). Focus on understanding more on every go.
2. Read and listen at the same time. Notice words that you had not understood earlier, words or expressions that you had misunderstood. Is what hear what you see? Pay close attention to pronunciation of little words, of longer words, the weak forms of be and have, for example. Look up words you don't know.
3. Try to translate a paragraph and make it sound natural in your language. You many have to make considerable changes in sentence order! You can get it corrected by the teacher or someone who can help you.
4. Listen again, a couple of times. This will help you retain vocabulary and you'll be able to understand all the text without written help!
It's a lot work and discipline but students who do that really report improving in their overall learning process.
Alternatively if you don't have the audio:
1. REad each chapter once,
2. look up words, using a dictionary and google images (can help!)
3. re read text a couple of time to make sure the translation of words makes sense and
4. translate a few paragrpahs (get it corrected by the teacher or someone who can help you).
Pronunciation: -ture, -dure, -sure
Most -ture endings are prononounced as -cher/-cha. Please notice it's and ending, not the adjective 'sure' as in I am sure.
Future /ˈfjuːtʃəʳ/
structure /ˈstrʌk tʃəʳ/
literature /ˈlɪtərɪ tʃəʳ/
architecture /ˈɑːkɪtek tʃəʳ/
nature /ˈneɪ tʃəʳ/
You can listen to the words in www.howjsay.com or wordreference.com.
Do notice that the phonetic transcription is how the words sounds. Notice that there is no u sound in the symbols, so please don't say / tur/ when saying the word.
The stressed syllable is usually the one before the tʃə sound, as the little apostrophe placed before the stressed syllable indicates.
Future /ˈfjuːtʃəʳ/
structure /ˈstrʌk tʃəʳ/
literature /ˈlɪtərɪ tʃəʳ/
architecture /ˈɑːkɪtek tʃəʳ/
nature /ˈneɪ tʃəʳ/
You can listen to the words in www.howjsay.com or wordreference.com.
Do notice that the phonetic transcription is how the words sounds. Notice that there is no u sound in the symbols, so please don't say / tur/ when saying the word.
The stressed syllable is usually the one before the tʃə sound, as the little apostrophe placed before the stressed syllable indicates.
The same thing applies for -dure, -sure,
Procedures is pronounced like pro- Sitges, those Catalan speakers will know Sitges being a nice seaside town.
Measure, pleasure, treasure, etc... The sure is pronounced as ge...as in genetics, je in French.
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