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Activity 2 Tasks using concordances

Objective: to give students an opportunity to explore tasks based on concordances.

Time: 45 minutes

Materials: Handouts 2 and 3

Procedure:

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  Tell participants that now they will try out some more tasks using concordances.
  
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  Write the words “idle’ and ‘lazy on the board. And students the following questions:
  

~ What do these words mean?

~ What are the similarities and differences between these words?

~ Can you give examples?

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  Elicit any random answers. Then distribute handout 2.
  
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  Ask students to do task 2 individually.
  
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  Elicit responses and discuss answers for Task 2.
  

As we can see from the concordances for the words ‘lazy’ and ‘idle’:

1. ‘idle’ means not spent or filled with activity (idle time, idle days), not working (he stands idle), not in use (let the engine idle), having no basis, groundless (idle threats), frivolous, vain (it is idle to think of liberation). ‘lazy’ means not wishing to work, to do anything, not spent of filled with

activity (lazy day)

2. Yes, both words can be used in relation to humans (he is lazy, stand idle) and objects (idle time, lazy day).

3. Lazy is usually used as a negative description, the words coming next to it proves this ‘mediocre and lazy’, ‘lazy, spoiled, a little querulous’.

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  Ask students to do task 3 individually.
  
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  Elicit responses and discuss answers for Task 4.
  

Answer: the word is jam.

Besides the meaning of a preserve of whole fruit, slightly crushed, boiled with sugar:

apricot jam, it might mean to make something unworkable - ‘to jam the radar’.

jam session - a meeting of a group of musicians, especially jazz musicians, to play for their own enjoyment.

a log jam; a traffic jam - a mass of objects, vehicles, etc., jammed together or otherwise unable to move except slowly.

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  Ask students now they will look at the word “agree”. Write down these sentences on the board:
  

I agree with you. OR I agree to you OR I am agree with you.

I agree with your suggestion. OR I agree to your suggestion OR I am agree with your suggestion.

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  Ask the following question:
  

~ Are these sentences correct?

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  Ask students to do task 4 individually and check their answers.
  
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  Elicit responses and discuss answers for Task 4.
  

Answers:

Agree in the meaning of to be of the same opinion; concur is usually followed by the particle with’ – I agree with you. I am agree is not correct as the verb is “to agree” not “to be agree”.

In the meaning - to give consent is often followed by ‘to’ - she agreed to go home, I'll agree to that.

Thus I agree with you and I agree to your suggestion are correct.