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Activity 1 Introducing concordances

Objective: to introduce concordances to students

Time: 10 minutes

Materials: Handout 1

Procedure:

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  Distribute Handout 1 to students. Ask them to read it and do task 1.
  
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  Check students’ understanding of the terms ‘corpus’, ‘concordance’.
  
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  Elicit responses and discuss answers for Task 1.
  

Answers:

From the given concordances for the word ‘waste’ we can learn that ‘waste’ is often used with ‘time ‘and ‘money’; that most often it is said as ‘a’ waste of… ‘waste’ can be noun as in the words ‘waste of time’ , ‘a waste’, but also can be used as an adjective in ‘a waste lot’.