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Answers:
As we can see from the concordances for the words ‘lazy’ and ‘idle’:
‘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)
Yes, both words can be used in relation to humans (he is lazy, stand idle) and objects (idle time, lazy day).
Lazy is usually used as a negative description, the words coming next to it proves this ‘mediocre and lazy’, ‘lazy, spoiled, a little querulous’.
Ask students to do task 3 individually.
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.
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.
Ask the following question:
~ Are these sentences correct?
Ask students to do task 4 individually and check their answers.
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.
Activity 3 Benefits of concordances
Objective: to let students reflect on the use of corpus analysis.
Time: 20 minutes Materials:
Procedure:
Ask students now reflect on the tasks and summarise how corpus analysis can be useful.
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Establish that corpus analysis is useful to see how words are used in real life contexts, to discover different meanings and uses of common words, useful phrases and typical collocations, analyse usage, for example, when is it appropriate to use lazy rather than idle, compare similar words.
Tell students they can use corpora on their own.
As home assignment ask students to go to http://www.lextutor.ca/ and search for a word of their choice. Then write a short report on what word(s) have they searched, what have they learnt, what they found interesting etc.
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Vocabulary in context II
Concordances in learning vocabulary
Handout 1, Activity 1
What is a corpus?
A collection or body of texts in electronic form. The plural is corpora. A corpus is assembled by collecting texts in electronic form. The texts are usually chosen to represent different genres (letters, newspaper articles, fiction, conversations etc.).
A corpus may contain texts in a single language (monolingual corpus) or text data in multiple languages (multilingual corpus).
Some notable text corpora in English:
~ Google N-Grams Corpus
~ American National Corpus
~ Bank of English
~ British National Corpus
~ Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) 425 million words
~ International Corpus of English
What is a concordance?
The lines of text illustrating the search word.
Study the concordances for the word "waste”.
diterranean holiday!" " WASTE of time!" Dad had said. "No one ever wins those .
as they sit around a WASTE lot passing muscatel which warms each in his sour shea And so it was a WASTE crying over spilled milk." "I think this is where we c he thought it was a WASTE of light to have both eyes open; why not save the ligh doing this, then it is a WASTE of money to install it, no matter what attractive indu "As it was such a WASTE of time, you presumably won't want to come," because it would be a WASTE of public money to put him on probation. No wonder misunderstood is a WASTE of time. Until our Moscow experience, I had not inevitably leads to a WASTE of nursing resources. The Auditor General's criticism That's silly!" "That's a WASTE, sure it is, dad?" "Both. But the people had done it t
What words does ‘waste’ usually come with?
What part of speech is ‘waste’? Noun? Adjective?
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Handout 2, Activity 2
Task 1.
Study the concordances for the words idle and lazy and note the differences in their use.
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