Units

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Units are sets of Resources on the same theme.

Clauses in writing Goals Identify sentence structures and clauses in example texts. Describe and evaluate the effects of the clause and sentence structure choices in the examples. Lesson Plan Looking at clauses and sentences in linguistic detail can give you an extra level of analysis that can be used to open up a text’s depths. The slides in the Activity page in the right hand menu present some examples. The examples include interesting clause structures, all of which seem to be designed to create effects. » Read more	Contractions Words like I'm, don't, and should've, which involve two words being joined together, are often called contractions. This lesson explores the many different types of words in this category, and the similarities and differences between them. Goals Describe examples of contractions. Categorise a set of contractions. Identify the differences between categories of contractions. Lesson Plan The teacher explains that today, we will study contractions. » Read more
Collectives Objective To explore collective nouns. Nouns usually refer to one thing, person or animal. If we want to indicate that there are more than one, we use the plural form: books, pupils, horses. But some nouns mean already more than one and therefore they have no plural form. Can you guess the nouns from the description? » Read more	Corpora A corpus is ‘a collection of pieces of language, selected and ordered according to explicit linguistic criteria in order to be used as a sample of language’ (Sinclair, 1996). » Read more
Comparing different modes Students compare examples of English in use, including various written and spoken examples, and analyse them according to a scale. » Read more	Deixis in drama Exploring how deixis works in dramatic texts Deixis is a word of Greek origin meaning 'pointing'. Thus, words which are deictic 'point' to different times, spaces and people. The meaning of these words is dependent upon the context in which they are used. For example: if a teacher stands at the front of a room, at 9.13am on Wednesday 28 June and says to a student 'I want you to come here now', then the following deictic words mean: » Read more
Compound word creation An interactive activity to explore how compounds are made In this activity, students work with an interactive smart board display to build compound words. The Activity pages for this starter can be found in the menu entitled 'This Unit' in the upper right corner of this page. Each Activity page contains slides that can be displayed using a projector or smart board. » Read more	Derived nouns and composition In this activity we will look at suffixes that can change adjectives and verbs into nouns. » Read more
Conjunctions Conjunctions are words that link linguistic units such as words, phrases or clauses. We distinguish coordinating conjunctions such as and, or and but from subordinating conjunctions such as because, since, when, while, etc. Examples of coordinating conjunctions are: » Read more	Determiners Determiners form a class of words that occur in the left-most position inside noun phrases. They thus precede nouns, as well as any adjectives that may be present. The most common determiners are the and a/an (these are also called the definite aticle and indefinite article). Here are some more determiners: » Read more

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