Open Tutoring Sessions: Dictionary Use

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Open Tutoring SessionsDictionary Use

• February, 2006
• 1000 a.m. and 500 p.m.

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OBJECTIVES

• Be familiar with the dictionary as an important
  learning tool.
• Learn how to choose and use a good monolingual
  dictionary.
• Relate the sections from the Expressions book to
  the use of the dictionary.

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DICTIONARY SURVEY

• Do you use a dictionary? How often?
• Do you use a monolingual or bilingual dictionary,
  or both? If you have both a monolingual and
  bilingual dictionary, which do you prefer to use
  and in which situations?
• Do you look at all the meanings of the word or do
  you just look at the first plausible meaning?

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DICTIONARY SURVEY

• Do you use phonological information?
• Do you look at the contextual information the
  dictionary provides? (i.e. examples, phrases or
  idioms, style, register, etc)
• Can you understand the abbreviations and what
  they mean? (i.e. art, def, m/f, n pl, prep, vi,
  etc) Do they help your understanding?

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Characteristics of a good learners dictionary

• Phonetic transcription
• Examples
• Different meanings according to the context.
• Parts of speech
• Information about the register.
• User friendly
• Pictures

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Spelling

• Use your dictionary to correct the following
  words
• Birday Companys
• Inginiering Fortienth

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Grammar categories

• Find the different meanings of the following
  words
• well can
• have pretty

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Building language and dictionary use

• Stress Do not
  stress
• Main and modal verbs Prepositions
• Adjectives Articles
• Nouns Auxiliary
  verbs
• Adverbs Pronouns
• Wh words

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• Book 1, Building Language, Pg. 110
• Identify the stressed words in the following
  sentences
• Great picture. When did you get back?
• So how was your vacation?

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Similar Meanings

• Find differences and similarities in the
  following groups of words, taking into account
  the meaning and the grammar category.
• Big or large? (grande)
• Do or make? (hacer)
• Miss, Ms., Mrs.? (señora)

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Definitions In Bulding Vocabulary

• Word Phonetical transcription
• Grammar category
• Simple definition
• Ecstasy / 'ekst?si/
• Noun
• Feeling of extreme happiness

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Find the definition of the following words

• curly
• eat out
• wildlife
• thriller

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Paragraphs in Writing

• Read the following paragraph. Find the mistakes
  using your dictionary
• Hi
• I am interesting in buy your apartament because
  anybody said me it was in sale. Can I to pass?
• Write me.

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Translation of ideas

• Translate the following expressions
• Enamorarse, tragarse
• Tomar el pelo
• Se puso como un tití
• Talk to a partner about how you did this
  exercise and what the difficulties were.

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EVALUATION

• It is really important for us to know your
  opinion about this session. Please, fill out the
  evaluation format. Thanks.
• Tutoring Committee
• Centro Colombo Americano