Tonight’s class was fun. I like Stephanie and Rachel‘s presentation. Before the class started, I knew Stephanie was excited to give her presentation, and she couldn’t wait it. How positive she is. During the presentation, I like the way she showed her warmth to the class. I’m sure her students must like her very much. In addition, the two vocabulary activities which were engaged during the class were quite interesting to me. The word bubble activity was using your prior knowledge about the words to see how you associate with it. Another activity (I forget the name) was to make a guess of the words’ meanings from its context even though you don’t know the words beforehand. Both vocab approaches definitely can be used in my future classroom.
After moving to Global Learning classroom, I found that these websites of corpus or concordances useful for my future learning or teaching of English. I think they are good resources to look up the uses of words and to explore the words’ collocations. I would like to keep these website links on my blog, and they are:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/c/corpus/corpus?c=micase;page=simpleAfter moving to Global Learning classroom, I found that these websites of corpus or concordances useful for my future learning or teaching of English. I think they are good resources to look up the uses of words and to explore the words’ collocations. I would like to keep these website links on my blog, and they are:
http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html
http://www.someya-net.com/concordancer/index.html
you are very right. these corpus are the best sources to use whenever you want to know the pragmatic or athentic meaning use and form of a word expresion or idiom. I like it very much.
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