Seminar ELEC

Vocabulary and a few other things

To find out how big your vocabulary is go to this site:-

http://testyourvocab.com/

To find the meaning of words, to hear the word pronounced in UK and US accents, go to:-

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

To see some lists which are based on how often a word is used, go to:-

http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/flists.html

Here is an example of using metaphors and analogies to teach a difficult concept.

Organism

Materials & Energy

New Materials & Energy

Inputs Outputs

System

Environment

Feedback

Information &

Processes

General scheme of a system

Organism(Chemical Factory)

Pollution & other Materials & Energy

Waste Materials & Energy & More Organisms

Inputs Outputs

System

Environment

Feedback(CO2 or CH4 )

etc.)

DNA, RNA &

Enzymes +

metabolism

General scheme of waste treatment

Organisms are chemical factories. Label this diagram of the chemical factories.

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Academic Words

Some words are used often in English-language academic texts. You can find lists of these here:-

http://web.uvic.ca/~gluton/awl/ )

We can analyze the text by ourselves or use a computer.Put the text through a text analyzer.This can be found at http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/

Look at the Red Words• do not be a braggart in korea refraining from

bragging and boasting is part of korean culture because korean culture is a group oriented society but that is a different notion than being proud generally speaking koreans are a very proud people they love to tell others about their sons who go to ivy league schools they love to talk to others about their daughters who work in the most prestigious hospitals but when it comes to themselves most koreans will try to deflect praise and try to humble themselves

1000 most common families: a, about, and, are, be, because, being, but, comes, daughters, different, do, from, generally, go, group, in, is, it, love, most, not, of, others, part, people, schools, society, sons, speaking, talk, tell, than, that, the, their, themselves, they, to, try, very, when, who, will, work,

2k types: boasting, hospitals, humble, praise, proud,

AWL types: culture, notion, oriented,

Special words: braggart, bragging, deflect, ivy, korea, korean, koreans, league, prestigious, refraining,

Test the reading level of material.Choose two or three 100 word samples of the

text.Put them through a reading level test.For instance go to:-http://www.interventioncentral.org/tools/reading-fluency-passage-generator

For a different method of analysing the text try VocabGrabber•http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/#

If you want a fun game way to learn words, go to:-

http://www.memrise.com/beta

Use the internet to help teach and develop multiple exposures to wordshttp://www.studystack.com/

If you want to use thinking maps. http://www.hallym.ac.kr/~colinbrowne/Thinking%20Maps.htm

Suggestions on how to teach using Marzano’s strategies can be found at http://www.netc.org/focus/strategies/iden.php

Making sense of spellinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mbuwZK0lr8

Azur grammarhttp://www.azargrammar.com/materials/index.html

thehttp://spelling.phanfare.com/

Coversations in English

http://elllo.org/

The Mixxer - a free educational website for language exchanges via Skype

http://www.language-exchanges.org/