Word formation

Dear friends!

We  would like to sum up the main points of today's class and provide you with useful information. First off, you will need to thoroughly study units 8, 9 and 10 in the book "English Vocabulary in Use Upper-Intermediate" and accomplish exercises to check your understanding. 

Below, you will find some further information on the current topic.

Check out this site with the ENORMOUS table full of roots, suffixes and prefixes:
http://www.prefixsuffix.com/rootchart.php

Now, what do you think about singing along to this lovely rap song?

Or this one:

Flashcards with prefixes and their meanings: 

• http://quizlet.com/37339051/prefixes-flash-cards/
• http://quizlet.com/40661610/prefixes-flash-cards/
• http://quizlet.com/32188431/prefixes-flash-cards/

Flashcards with suffixes and their meanings:

• http://quizlet.com/48242845/suffixes-flash-cards/
• http://quizlet.com/28757788/english-suffixes-flash-cards/
• http://quizlet.com/26089633/noun-suffixes-flash-cards/

Flashcards with Greek and Latin roots and their meanings:

• http://quizlet.com/2783586/ela-latin-roots-flash-cards/
• http://quizlet.com/2784272/ela-greek-roots-flash-cards/ 

Home assignment:
1. Choose a quote you like that contains a word with a Greek or Latin root.
2. Use one of these sites to create a postcard with the quote of your choice:
http://www.pinwords.com/
http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx
http://quozio.com/
3. Paste the picture you created in your blog.
4. Write a reflection (your thoughts) on the quote using 20 words from Units 8, 9 and 10 ("English Vocabulary in Use Upper-Intermediate") pp. 16-21. You can use words provided or those of your own containing given affixes or roots (which means you have a great choice of words, just remember to highlight them!). Express your thoughts in 180-200 words.


E(xempli) G(ratia) 
(Quozio is used for the picture)

Although this quote might sound quite ironic, the significance of the Latin language shouldn't be underestimated........

Home assignment (15.09.2014)

In your post “Vocabulary Sci-Fi”, you will be addressing your peers from the past (20-30 years ago) explaining to them what opportunities you have today to learn English. Active vocabulary to use: Upstream pp. 10-11. 

Apart from that you will have to incorporate these elements in your story:

- choose a word (from Unit 1 in Upstream) to make a word map and insert the picture in your blogpost

- Use another word to look up the collocations in “just the word”, create a word cloud and insert the picture in your blogpost.


- Choose one expression to find example sentences in fraze.it, limit your search to the topic of “Education”. Choose one sentence to see the source article and copy one paragraph. In this paragraph, highlight several collocations that you found interesting. 


- Choose 10 words/expressions from the text “The theatre for the deaf” (p. 14-15.) to create a flashcard set in Quizlet. Paste the link in your post.

Online tools

Dear friends!

On Monday we'll be exploring online tools that will help you work with vocabulary and boost your digital literacies as well. We have been working on the lesson plan so as to make it beneficial for you in many ways. We always appreciate your feedback to further improve our classes. 

Monday class agenda and instructions:

Online dictionaries

Open these links to online dictionaries and look up the meaning of the same word using both of them:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

–        What do these dictionaries have in common?

–        What are distinguishing features of each of them?

–        Which dictionary do you think you are more likely to use? Why?

Visualising vocabulary

Open the site http://graphwords.com/

–        pick up a word from the list: access, challenge, address, language (or any other from your vocabulary notebook)

–        paste it on the given page

–        observe the wordmap:

o       How many related concepts are there?

o       How many verbs/nouns/adjective are there?

o       How many different meaning fields can you see?

o       Click on one of the related words. What happens?

What is your impression of this site?

In which situations are you likely to use it?

Collocations Quest

1. Go to http://www.netspeak.org/

–        What are some opportunities does this site give?

–        Try each of the options.

–        What feedback would you give after using this site?

–        How useful may it be to you as a language learner?

2. Go to http://www.just-the-word.com/

–        Choose a word to input from the list: language, speak, contact.

–        What types of collocations can you see?

–        How many of them are familiar to you?

–        What happens when you click on a collocation?

–        What happens when you click on “View as a wordle” button?

–        What is your opinion of this tool? Would you use it regularly

It’s all about context

Go to http://fraze.it/

–        Choose a collocation from the previous exercise and enter it on this page

–        What opportunities does this site give you?

–        What additional options can you find in the left side menu?

–        Go to the source of one of the sentences. What is the article about?

–        What is your impression of this tool? How may it be useful for a language learner?

Practice makes perfect

Click on this link:

http://quizlet.com/13494618/multilingual-internet-flash-cards/

–        What method of learning and revising vocabulary is this site based on?

–        What options for studying vocabulary can you find on this site?

Hello Friends! 

It feels as if we're inviting you to a new house, because we're starting a totally new thing in our life - blogging at Blogger. For those of you who have never blogged in their life, we're happy to say, "Let's do this together!" This will be our first successful joint work on English Vocabulary! Let's have fun learning words and completing lots of exciting projects as a small and friendly team! Yay!

Hope you will be having a great time here!!!