Students are asked to communicate using a bank of nouns - and nothing else.
Goals
Communicate with a partner using only nouns.
Discuss what can and can't be easily expressed using only nouns.
Determine which other types of words are useful for expressing complex ideas.
Lesson Plan
The teacher explains that this activity will involve you trying to express progressively more complicated concepts and actions to a partner using only these words, your own body language and imagination.
Show the leaners the the list of nouns. After hearing their ideas, explain what concrete nouns are, and ask leaners if they can see or find any other examples in the classroom. Explain what abstract nouns are and ask for any other examples.
Next, ask the learners to work in pairs and small groups. Copy down the table and decide which nouns are concrete or abstract. Check the answers as a whole class.
To understand how prepositions construct meaning in a non-fiction text.
For students to apply this to their own writing.
What and how do prepositions mean?
Begin by showing your class a list of prepositions (or - even better - ask them to generate the list themselves). Display the list on the board, and ask: what do prepositions do and how do they do it? The discussion should arrive at the following conclusions:
This activity involves working with nonfiniteclauses to do some sentence-splitting and sentence-joining. The purpose is to develop your awareness of the different kinds of structures that are available to you as a writer.
Consonants are produced by pushing air up from the lungs and out through the mouth and/or nose. Airflow is disrupted by obstructions made by various combinations of vocal articulator movements, so that audible friction is produced.
They are described in terms of (1) voicing, (2) place of articulation and (3) manner of articulation.
A series of activities and content for exploring the sounds of English
Goals
Understand the difference between phonetics and phonology
Explore the ways that we can write sounds down, using the phonetic alphabet
Apply this knowledge to a text and consider some of the stylistic effects of sound choices
Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is split into sections, and includes enough material for around 3 hours of teaching: (1) a starter activity (group discussion); (2) an explanation of phonetics and phonology; (3) vowels; (4) consonants; (5) a transcripti
Phonetics and phonology are the branches of linguistics that deals with speech sounds. This broad ranging definition is indicative of the broad type of work that phoneticians/phonologists do:
Looking at the importance of sound in a literary text
Sound patterns in poetry
Here are two extracts from the poem Digging by Seamus Heaney. In the poem, a son talks openly about his perceived failures in following in his father's footsteps, namely because of his lack of skill with a spade and as a farmer.
Read them out loud:
Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down
In this activity, you'll be using your knowledge of articulatory phonetics to transcribe spoken language. To do so, you'll be using the phonetic alphabet - a system designed by linguists to represent speech sounds on the page.
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