AbraVocabra

AbraVocabra

Kateryna ProtsenkoInternational House Kyiv

19 TESOL – Ukraine International Conference:The Global English Teacher: Improving What Works and Fixing What Doesn’t

April 25 – 26, 2014

‘Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed’ David Wilkins

What is it about?

girl forestmammoth

girl see mammothgirl scared

girl rungirl tree

girl shoutdad hear

dad take speardad kill mammoth

girl safe

A girl was walking in the forestThere was a mammoth

The girl saw the mammothAnd got scared

She started to runThe girl saw a tree and climbed up this tree

She started to shout Her dad heard

He took a spearAnd killed the mammoth

The girl was safe

Teaching Personality Adjectives

Can you think of any personality adjectives starting from A?

Aggressive? Ambitious?

Can you think of any personality adjectives starting from C?

Creative? Charming?

How can we help our students remember this?

Modals of Deduction: the scope

Modal verbs: must, may, might, could, can’t for present and past deductionEpistemic modality (deduction)

NOT:• Deontic modality (permission, obligation,etc)• Future (might, may can be used for talking about future

possibility)• Should• Will

Work in pairs and discuss with your partner:What are the people in the pictures doing? Which

activity is the strangest?

• How sure are we?

• They are campaigning against drug abuse• They are students• He is crazy• They are pulling a prank.

100%

50 %

0%

• How sure are we?

• They are campaigning against drug abuse• They are students• He is crazy• They are pulling a prank.

Subject

100% must

50 % mightmaycould

0% can’t

• How sure are we?

• They are might be campaigning against drug abuse• They are might be students• He is might be crazy• They are might be making a practical joke

Subject

100% must

50 % mightmaycould

0% can’t

• Is he a teacher?

Subject

100% must + state verb

50 % mightmaycould

0% can’t

• What are they doing?

Subject

100% must + State verb

50 % mightmaycould

+ be+V+ing

0% can’t

• What has he been doing?

Subject

100% must + State verb

50 % mightmaycould

+ be+V+ing

0% can’t +have+been+Ving

• What has he been doing?

• What has he done?

Subject

100% must + State verb

50 % mightmaycould

+ be+V+ing

+have+P2

0% can’t +have+been+Ving

Work in pairs and discuss with your partner:What are the people in the pictures doing? Which

activity is the strangest?

What are the stages?1. Task performance2. Students’ language analysis and elicitation of

the target structure.3. Elicitation of the structure + State verb4. Elicitation of the structure +be+doing5. Controlled practice6. Elicitation of the structures +have+been+doing

and +have+done7. Task repetitionWould you add any other stages depending on your students’ needs?

DICTOGLOSS: STAGES

• Stage 1I read at a normal pace – you make notes. Compare with your partner.• Stage 2I read at a normal pace – you complete your notes. • Stage 3Work with a partner. Reconstruct my text• Stage 4I’ll show you my text. Compare your text to the original.

Exploiting Reading or Listening texts

A final common thread in philosophical accounts of friendship is shared activity. The background intuition is this: never to share activity with someone and in this way to interact with him is not to have the kind of relationship with him that could be called friendship, even if you each care for the other for his sake. Rather, friends engage in joint pursuits, in part motivated by the friendship itself. These joint pursuits can include not only such things as making something together, playing together, and talking together, but also pursuits that essentially involve shared experiences, such as going to the opera together.

Exploiting Reading or Listening texts

A final common thread in philosophical accounts of friendship is shared activity. The background intuition is this: never to share activity with someone and in this way to interact with him is not to have the kind of relationship with him that could be called friendship, even if you each care for the other for his sake. Rather, friends engage in joint pursuits, in part motivated by the friendship itself. These joint pursuits can include not only such things as making something together, playing together, and talking together, but also pursuits that essentially involve shared experiences, such as going to the opera together.

Concordances

A good way for looking at how words collocate. They present students with data to analyse, they can work out patterns and regularities associated with selected words.

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ADJECTIVES AND DEPENDENT PREPOSITIONS

• What are you interested__? • Which of your friends do you depend on __• What things are you afraid __? • Are you allergic __anything? • What are you looking forward __?

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