Seminar ELEC

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Seminar ELEC

• Vocabulary and a few other things

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• To find out how big your vocabulary is go to this
  site-
• http//testyourvocab.com/

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• To find the meaning of words, to hear the word
  pronounced in UK and US accents, go to-
• http//www.thefreedictionary.com/

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• To see some lists which are based on how often a
  word is used, go to-
• http//ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/flists.html

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

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System
Organism
Inputs
Outputs
Information Processes
Materials Energy
New Materials Energy
Feedback
Environment
General scheme of a system
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System
Organism (Chemical Factory)
Inputs
Outputs
DNA, RNA Enzymes metabolism
Pollution other Materials Energy
Waste Materials Energy More Organisms
Feedback (CO2 or CH4 ) etc.)
Environment
General scheme of waste treatment
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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/ )

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• 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
  /

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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

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• 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,

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• 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-f
  luency-passage-generator

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

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• If you want a fun game way to learn words, go
  to-
• http//www.memrise.com/beta

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• Use the internet to help teach and develop
  multiple exposures to words
• http//www.studystack.com/

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• If you want to use thinking maps.
• http//www.hallym.ac.kr/colinbrowne/Thinking20M
  aps.htm

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• Suggestions on how to teach using Marzanos
  strategies can be found at
• http//www.netc.org/focus/strategies/iden.php

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• Making sense of spelling
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v0mbuwZK0lr8

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• Azur grammar
• http//www.azargrammar.com/materials/index.html

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• the
• http//spelling.phanfare.com/

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• Coversations in English
• http//elllo.org/

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• The Mixxer - a free educational website for
  language exchanges via Skype
• http//www.language-exchanges.org/