Monday, June 25, 2012

Teaching Grammar Complete

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Here are the complete teaching grammar activities! We focus in Unit 2 "Technology and technological innovations" and we use different grammar methods to do the activities.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Language Awaress Technique

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The grammar is so structured to teach students, the idea is to build new things that the student will be able to learn with a meaningful learning.


For students of English pedagogy learn new methods and techniques is so necessary because we will be able deliver a good learning when we teach a second language.



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Camila Carvajal
Yessenia Morales

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Lexical Approach activities


Lexical Approach is a very important part of learning a second language, this concept consists students learn grammar through meaningful inputs. In this new post you can see my activities in catedra II about Lexical Approach.


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Friday, June 1, 2012

The Lexical Approach ( summary)



       

Formulaic phrases
Chunks
Frozen expression
Prefabricated phrases
Collocations



  • Input     -> Written: articles, e-mails, letters, brochures, posters

                               ->  Oral: videos, songs, interviews, TV programs, documentaries,movies

  1. Form: spelling, part of speech, word formation

       2.  Meaning:  - Connotation (association) -> Ex: blood->pain                                   

                                                                        Chocolate-> happiness                                  
                                                                        Trip -> adventure
                                  

                      - Denotation (definition)-> head -> Part of the body
                                                                     -> Chief, boss
            


    3. Use: Context clues     -> forms
                                             ->  inform/ colloquial
                                             -> Slang

         Cultural groups    ->   audience