Corpus-based Activities and
Ideas for Material Design written by Neveen Al Saeed & Salma Waly
Elementary student : Collocations: make/do
- Verb pairing game
The teacher
highlights some collocations to the students then students divided into two
groups. Group 1 will have corpus-derived sentences without the verb make anddo. Group
2 will have the verb make and do
Student stand in lines facing
each other the ones carrying verb will take turns trying to pair their verb
with the sentence to other group.
-Computer cloze activity
Examples : The little boy,
Zohair, was sent to______coffee.
-Screen shot analysis
Intermediate students: Modal
verbs
-Contextual Analysis
-Cloze activities
-Spot the error activity
-Multiple-choices
Upper intermediate students:
Phrasal verbs
-Cloze activity
Advanced students: Idiomatic
Expression:
-Concordance Analysis
-Pragmatics: Situation
analysis
Certain point of designing corpus-based tasks
include the ability level of the students, cultural and educational
backgrounds. In class a specialized corpus is needed, EFL instructors and
researchers need to make sure it is available at their institutions.
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