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Adjective binomials 1

Join Julie and Ludwig on their Eurovision journey, securing Malta's spot in the finals. Witness Ukraine's victory and the electrifying performance that rocked the stage. Experience the highs and lows of competition in this thrilling tale.

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Adjective binomials 1

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  1. Adjective binomials 1 • alive and kicking/well • black and blue/white • clean and tidy • high and • dry/mighty

  2. Adjective binomials 2 • loud and clear • pure and simple • said and done • sick and tired • thick and thin

  3. Some noun binomials • Bits and pieces/bobs • Fingers and thumbs • Flesh and blood • Pros and cons • All or nothing

  4. Some trinomials • Cool, calm and collected • Here, there and everywhere • Hook, line and sinker • Ready, willing and able • Way, shape or manner

  5. LEXIS • Notice

  6. Record • and store

  7. Retrieve • and use

  8. NOTICE RECORD & STORE RETRIEVE & USE

  9. Eurovision predictions Julie and Ludwig yesterday secured a place for Malta in the finals of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest after scraping through to 12th position in a festival which saw Ukraine emerge as the overall winner with 280 points. The Maltese delegation heaved a ________ of _________. Ukraine’s Ruslana was the star of the _________ after clinching the coveted ________. Coming in at second __________ was Serbia and Montenegro. Greece’s contestant, who was hotly _______ to win the show, came in third. Julie and Ludwig have taken the result in their _______. “We had a lot of energy on stage and we gave it our ________.” There was an electrifying ________ as Ruslana took to the ______ a second time and danced wildly to loud _______. Julie and Ludwig are _________ back in Malta ________ tomorrow morning. The Sunday Times 16.05.04

  10. Collocations • Before you go to bed you should brush your…. • teeth • Prisons are full of people who have committed a … • crime • Thank you for your generous… • donation/hospitality • Her argument is fundamentally….. • flawed

  11. What’s the collocation? • belt house fingers tea party • GREEN • club mark cover ends exercise • BOOK • body work alarm in out grandfather • CLOCK • horse sack track relations • RACE • the shopping married a letter smart • GET • a habit the ice a promise the law • BREAK

  12. Lexical chunks • It's an absolute ….. • outrage! • at no extra … • cost/charge • I look forward to… • seeing you/meeting you/hearing from you • it never ceases to ….. • amaze/astound me

  13. Lexical chunks: degrees of fixedness • Have you ever …..? been seen had heard tried In fact, these five verbs account for more than half of all occurrences of Have you ever… in the British National Corpus.

  14. How fixed (frozen) are these lexical chunks? • Pass the exam • Fail / take / enter / revise for /study for • It’s up to you • It’s all the same to me • What on earth …? • Minding my own business • Funny you should say that … • Sorry I’m late … • Wouldn’t you rather …? • It’ll do

  15. Lexical chunks • Undoubtedly, there are thousands of chunks (just like there are hundreds of grammar rules) and even if learning them is taxing on the brain it certainly pays off in terms of fluency when you retrieve from memory whole phrases rather than stringing words together from scratch every time you want to say something.

  16. Lexical chunks • Native and fluent speakers take for granted their ability to retrieve from memory lexical chunks as individual wholes when speaking and writing, for example: • Whether you like it … • or not • I’ve been working here for ten years … • now (colligation) • On the stroke of … • midnight

  17. Lexical chunks • Here it comes ……. • Wait for it …… • It’s coming ….. • Almost there … • One … • Two… • Three…

  18. Lexical chunks • By some estimates, anywhere between 55% and 80% of native speaker English, depending on the genre, consists of routines and patterns that are in some way prefabricated. In fact, fluency would not be possible without recourse to a large stock of prefabricated chunks and expressions. • Lexical Chunks Texts from • Leo Selivan: Why has the lexical approach been so long in coming? • http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/mar/26/lexical-approach-revolutionRetrieved 14th May 2015

  19. Lexical chunks: how many can you see? • By some estimates, anywhere between 55% and 80% of native speaker English, depending on the genre, consists of routines and patterns that are in some way prefabricated. In fact, fluency would not be possible without recourse to a large stock of prefabricated chunks and expressions.

  20. Prefabs: how many can you see? • By some estimates, anywhere between 55% and 80% ofnative speakerEnglish, depending on the genre, consists of routines and patterns that are in some way prefabricated. In fact, fluency would not be possiblewithout recourse toa large stock of prefabricated chunks and expressions. • 45 words. • 30 form part of a prefab

  21. Prefabs, collocations etc: moral of the story? • As far as vocabulary is concerned, new vocabulary items should be presented "in company" with other words that frequently co-occur with them: • brush your teeth • commit a crime • generous donation • fundamentally flawed

  22. And now for the teaching ideas …. • How can we help them to ‘notice’ lexical chunks / prefabs / collocations? • Here are some suggestions….. • …. to help learners to ‘notice the gap’ between what they say, write and know and what fluent speakers say, write and know

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