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11/29/2010 1 Sofia Funenga Lisbon, 26th November Class: 4th year 9 / 10 years old (English language learners from the age of 3) A2 / B1 level Topic: Dinosaurs Language focus: Vocabulary and chunks related to dinosaurs

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Sofia Funenga

Lisbon, 26th November

Class:  ‐ 4th year ‐ 9 / 10 years old

(English language learners from the age of 3)

‐ A2 / B1 level 

Topic:   ‐ Dinosaurs

Language focus:   ‐ Vocabulary and chunks related to dinosaurs

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‐ In pairs, try to find 10 words related to dinosaurs

‐Words can be or

‐Write the words next to the puzzle

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1. In pairs, read the text and then decide whether eachsentence is true or false.

2. You have 5 minutes to complete this task.

Timeis counting…

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1. Listen to a news report about Jurassic Park and fill in the gaps.

2. You can only write one word in each gap. 

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Now, to complete each sentence, choose the correct option.

Off you go, now!You did really good today!

At home, you can go to 

the Natural History Museum site 

and find out much more about dinosaurs. 

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/kids‐only/dinosaurs/

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‐ Very appealing topic for children 

Motivation enhances learning

‐ Provides opportunity to teach vocabulary and grammar at the same time

‐ young learners teaching should focus on vocabulary and chunks, rather than explicit grammar (McKay 2006) 

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‐ “The instant availability of searchable online corpora has much to offer to the teacher of English in both first and second language contexts.” (Anderson 2009)

‐ Real and authentic language

‐ Young Learners – “The searching task from a corpus may be too overwhelming for beginners or young learners” (Chen 2004)

Corpus based exercises and materials 

‐ BNC – British National Corpus‐ COCA – Corpus of Contemporary American English

‐ Time Magazine Corpus‐ Business Letter Corpus ‐ Compara

‐Micase ‐ Sacodeyl  

‐ Europarl‐ Open Subtitles

Written and spoken language

Written language

Spoken language

Transcriptions

BNC COCA

Business 

Letter 

Corpus

Time 

MagazineMicase Sacodeyl Compara Europarl

Open 

Subtitles

dinosaur 294 2241 ‐ 401 ‐ ‐ ‐ 7 59

dinosaurs 458 2301 ‐ 446 5 ‐ 2 25 52

highest number of hits for both words : Corpus of Contemporary American English

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1. Use of COCA to find out which words are more commonly related to dinosaur

2. Selection of the words

3. Design the word search puzzle using the

1 – BONES (97 hits)

2 ‐MONUMENT (55 hits)

3 – FOSSILS (52 hits)

4 ‐ EGGS (41 hits)

10 ‐MUSEUM (23 hits)

19 – SKELETON (18 hits)

20 – PALEONTOLOGISTS (15 hits) 

21 – JURASSIC (15 hits)

22 – DIG (15 hits)

32 – FOOTPRINTS (12 hits)

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1. Selection of the text: finding a real text

2. Check the level of the text – Oxford 3000 

- “in a typical lower intermediate text close to 100% of the words will be Oxford 3000 keywords” ( http://www.oup.com/oald-bin/oxfordProfiler.pl)

‐ 96 % of the words of this text are part of the Oxford 3000

suitable text for A2 learners 

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3. Design the true / false exercise

‐ use of 

‐ on‐line exercise: enhancing motivation

‐ time limit: more challenging

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1. Selection of the text

‐ BNC – British National Corpus‐ Oxford 3000 to check the level of the text

2. Preparation of the text

‐ text read by another teacher / student

‐ text recorded using 

“Teachers can design a gap filling task for students to do in pairs. (...) Teachers can use the authentic contexts searched from corpora to compose a gap‐filling sheet for students to work on.” (Chen 2004)

3. Design exercise

‐ use of 

‐ short‐answer exercise – allows students to practice listenning and writing

‐ on‐line exercise: motivating 

‐ clues and hints: opportunity for weaker students to succeed 

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1. Selection of the sentences

‐ corpus based exercise

‐ real sentences from very different contexts

‐ focus on  vocabulary and grammar structures at the same time 

‐ opportunity to analyse unfamiliar / curious structures or words

• based on the most frequentcollocates for the word dinosaur

•93% of the words are part of theOxford 3000

sentences takenfrom:• COCA• BNC• Time Magazine• Open Subtitles

2. Design the exercise

‐ use of 

‐multiple choice exercise

‐ focus on  the meaning of words related to dinosaurs 

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Suggestion of visiting the website of the

Natural History Museum of London

‐ content aimed at the students’ age

‐ simple but real language aiming at native speakers

‐ informal and motivational task for students to play outsidethe classroom with the class language and content

‐ opportunity to relate the class topic to the cultural aspectof the Museum

This lesson will only be possible if:

‐Each student (or pair of students) has access to a computer

‐Internet is available

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‐ICT helps creating appealing activities for students ‐“ICT is motivating both for students and for teachers. It makes the learning process more enjoyable” (Davies 2010)

‐ Corpus‐based materials provide several opportunities for contact with real / authentic language

‐ All taks can be put online (blog, moodle, Twiducate, e‐mail) 

‐ Teacher can use this presentation with more than one class

‐ Anderson, W & Corbett, J (2009) Exploring English with Online Corpora, London: Palgrave MacMillan Davies. ‐ British National Corpus <http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/x.asp> (accessed 19 November 2010).‐ Business Letter Corpus <http://www.someya‐net.com/concordancer/index.html> (accessed 19 November 2010).‐ Chen, (2004) “The Use of Corpora in the Vocabulary Classroom”, The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. 10, 9.‐ Compara < http://www.linguateca.pt/COMPARA/index.php> (accessed 19 November 2010).‐ Corpus of Contemporary American English <http://www.americancorpus.org/> (accessed 19 November 2010).‐ Davies G. & Hewer S. (2010) Introduction to new technologies and how they can contribute to language learning and teaching. Module 1.1 in Davies G. (ed.) Information and Communications Technology for Language Teachers (ICT4LT), Slough, Thames Valley University.‐Europarl En < http://urd.let.rug.nl/tiedeman/OPUS/bin/opuscqp.pl?corpus=Europarl3;lang=en> (accessed 19 November 2010).‐ First News <www.firstnews.co.uk> (accessed 19 November 2010).‐McCarthy, M. (2004) From Corpus to Course Book, Cambridge University Press.‐McKay, P. (2006) Assessing Young Learners, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.‐Micase < http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/> (accessed 19 November 2010).‐ Natural History Museum < http://www.nhm.ac.uk/kids‐only/dinosaurs > (accessed 20 November 2010).‐ OpenSubtitles < http://urd.let.rug.nl/tiedeman/OPUS/bin/opuscqp.pl?corpus=OpenSubtitles;lang=eng> (accessed 19 November2010).‐ Oxford 3000 http://www.oup.com/oald‐bin/oxfordProfiler.pl (accessed 21 November 2010)‐ Sacodeyl < http://sacodeyl.inf.um.es/sacodeyl‐search2/> (accessed 19 November 2010).‐ Time Corpus < http://corpus.byu.edu/time/x.asp> (accessed 19 November2010).