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Today. Listening test Corpus linguistics talk, Part 3 News task NEOs Life on Mars. The coloured pens method. 1 political association 4 person in an agreement/dispute 2 social event 5 to be party to something... 3 group of people. Age 2 : limitations

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  1. Today • Listening test • Corpus linguistics talk, Part 3 • News task • NEOs • Life on Mars

  2. The coloured pens method 1political association 4 person in an agreement/dispute 2 social event 5 to be party to something... 3 group of people Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing

  3. Age 2: limitations as corpora get bigger: too much data • 50 lines for a word: read all • 500 lines: could read all, takes a long time • 5000 lines: impossible Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing

  4. Why do corpora keep getting bigger? (anyone?) • Improvements in technology • Price of storage is going down • Speed of access is going up • Representativeness • Small corpus  many examples of common words, maybe • But not enough examples of unusual words

  5. Lexical distribution • What’s the most common word in English? • What % does it make up of a whole corpus? • The 100 most common words make up __% of all the words in a corpus? • The 7500 most common words make up __% • Answers: • The, 5%, 45% and 90% • So: • you need massive corpora, if you want to really represent rare words properly

  6. Limitation of KWIC analysis • As corpora get bigger: too much data • 50 lines for a word: read all • 500 lines: could read all, takes a long time • 5000 lines: no • Instead, look at a Word Sketch from Sketch Engine • a statistical summary of word usage • shows most common collocates

  7. Functions of SkE • KWIC concordance • Sorting, filtering etc • Word sketch • Automatic thesaurus • Sketch difference • discriminate near-synonyms

  8. Lexical approach to language learning • Lewis (1993) and Schmitt (2000) say • the vocab is stored in the brain in collocations • Bacon is stored near eggs • 蛋 is stored near 炒飯 • scotch is stored with whisky • Saying strong car or powerful tea or broken house seems very “foreign”

  9. From www.teachingenglish.org - a lexical approach activity, based on a story text

  10. SkE homework this week • Choose 5 words from either source • Check the words in the Thesaurus of Sketch Engine • Look at the top 4 “synonyms” and try to answer: • Are the 4 words • Really synonyms? • Antonyms (=opposites)? • Near synonyms • Some other relationship? • No relationship? • Why has Sketch Engine selected these words, do you think? (2 or 3 sentences altogether) • Email your answers to simon.tuesday9@gmail.com before Sunday

  11. News task • Write in your exercise book • Write 3/4 paragraphs (NOT numbered) • Introduction • Body • Conclusion • You should include the answers to the following questions: • Where? When? What? Who? Why? • But DO NOT only give direct answers!

  12. Recipes • Dictation • Chicken Kiev • In groups: either • Find a recipe you like, on the web • Or make your own recipe and write it down

  13. Planets • How many are there? • http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system • Groups: p137 questions

  14. NEO questions • What does NEO stand for? • What damage do you think a large NEO would cause if it collided with Earth? • What happened in the two previous hits (mentioned in the article)? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UElKiKVfpA

  15. NEOs • What can scientists do to prevent an NEO disaster? • What can governments do?

  16. Vocabulary: pairs • Students A • p138 • Students B • p139

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