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:
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What
do these dictionaries have in common?
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What
are distinguishing features of each of them?
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Which
dictionary do you think you are more likely to use? Why?
Visualising vocabulary
Open the
site http://graphwords.com/
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pick
up a word from the list: access, challenge, address, language (or any other
from your vocabulary notebook)
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paste
it on the given page
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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/
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What
are some opportunities does this site give?
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Try
each of the options.
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What
feedback would you give after using this site?
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How
useful may it be to you as a language learner?
2. Go to http://www.just-the-word.com/
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Choose
a word to input from the list: language, speak, contact.
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What
types of collocations can you see?
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How
many of them are familiar to you?
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What
happens when you click on a collocation?
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What
happens when you click on “View as a wordle” button?
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What
is your opinion of this tool? Would you use it regularly
It’s all about context
Go to http://fraze.it/
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Choose
a collocation from the previous exercise and enter it on this page
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What
opportunities does this site give you?
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What
additional options can you find in the left side menu?
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Go
to the source of one of the sentences. What is the article about?
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What
is your impression of this tool? How may it be useful for a language learner?
Practice makes perfect
Click on
this link:
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What
method of learning and revising vocabulary is this site based on?
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What
options for studying vocabulary can you find on this site?
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