Grammar for Grammar for Interactions 130Interactions 130

IECPIECPFall 2015Fall 2015

Nikki MattsonNikki Mattson

Agenda

• Vocabulary – corpus presentations• Vocabulary and grammar practice

What is a Corpus?• A very large collection of spoken and written texts that can be analyzed by

computers to see how people write and speak in the real world.

• The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest freely-available corpus of English, and the only large and balancedc orpus of American English. The corpus was created by Mark Davies of Brigham Young University, and it is used by tens of thousands of users every month (linguists, teachers, translators, and other researchers).

• The corpus contains more than 450 million words of text and is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts.

Modelling + Handout

Individual Vocabulary Study1.Level (n) - Mashari2.Equal (adj) -Elyas3.Investigate (V) – Nehal4.Conclude (v) - Bayan5.Gap (n) – Mohammad6.Possibly (adv) - Grace7.Assertive (adj) -Ahmad8.Knowledge (n) - Mohammad9.Ability (n) - Grace10.Encourage (v) -Ahmad

Individual Word Study

• Complete the handout and prepare to teach the class what you learn.

Sharing Vocabulary Knowledge

• Speak loudly and clearly• Make eye contact• Check for understanding• If you read your answers first, explain what

you have said as well.

130-B

• Collocation review – Handout• In your groups..• 1. review the meaning of each collocation• 2. write a sentence using each collocation (I will

come around and check these)• 3. Quiz each other on the collocation. (On the test

on Thursday next week, I will give you 10 words and you will need to write a sentence with one of the collocations on this page for each word.

HW

• Test # 1 = Thursday• Grammar = simple verb tense identification

and usage, subject-verb agreement, modal verbs, indefinite pronouns, and inclusive language

• Vocabulary = using Pathways chapter 1 words collocations and word forms.