The first questions

Dear Students:

You can create your blog or post on mine, but you have to answer these questions:
1. Who are you?
2. How old are you?
3. Where are you from?
4. What number one school do you study at?
5. Where do you study? (regular school)
6. What grade are you in?
7. What extra courses do you take?
8. What do you usually do on weekdays?

That's it for now!

Kisses,

Marlei

My students should create a blog!

The thing is:
- first: let's know more about what a blog is, the origin of the word blog, the reasons why we need a blog, if they are public or not, if they can be individual or collective...
- post a text with the results of this research on my blog and then... you are going to create a blog or use mine...

Kisses,

Marlei

Corpus Linguistics

A Corpus Linguistics is a ruge compilation of ocurrences put together to display, at any moment, several samples of sentences. When someone enter a word, the corpus lists all the sentences that carry it, so one is able to exercise their relying on the observation of sentence features like word order, punctuation and, ultimately, one can try to absorb the meaning of the word by examining the context. It is a very useful tool, specially when the user is concerned with studying the language without resorting to translation all the time.

These are some examples of eletronic corpora:

Movie: Overboard

Joanna Staiton had a very rich vocabulary. When she was called to the kids' school she demonstrated once more that she knew how to express herself. Watch the excerpt of that movie and pay attention to the following words or expressions: