TASKS

• Throughout this lexico grammar course we will be working with blog entries. Therefore, you will need to create a blog for this course. Every week you will have to respond to different tasks created especially for you to reflect and study the various topics. All these will be due every Wednesday, unless there is an especial circumstance. This task will be divided into three parts. First, you will have to respond to the task. Second, you will work with lexis and grammar as such by correcting one other classmate blog using the following symbols in their comments:

S Incorrect Spelling *I recieved your letter.
W.O Wrong Word Order *We know well this city.
T Wrong Tense *If he will come it will be to late.
C Concord - Subject and Verb do not agree *Two policemen has come.
WF Wrong Form *That table is our.
S/P Singular or plural problem *We need more informations.
SM Something Missing *They said λ was wrong.
( ) Something is not necessary *It was too much difficult.
?M Meaning is not clear *Come and rest with us for a week.
NA Use not appropriate *He requested me to sit down.
P Punctuation *Whats your name.
WE Wrong expression * For one side
WW Wrong word * Where do you guard the dishes?
SS Sentence Structure * I like dancing it is really fun.
L Capitalization * i was in santiago.

After you have received your correction, you will have to rewrite your entry.


• Another task will be vocabulary building. You will have to work on the meaning of 5 words every week. These must be frequent words related to different topics such as Applied Linguistics, Psychology, etc. These shall also be posted on your blog as in the following example:

WORD: Pull (Sentence taken from) After a hard day of cracking jokes, pulling pranks and causing…
MEANING: To succeed in doing something illegal or dishonest or in playing a trick on someone.
GR. INFO: Verb—intransitive—S1—W1—regular
COLLOCATIONS: Pull a stunt/trick/joke/a fast one (deceive)
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): Don’t you ever pull a stunt like that.
MY EXAMPLE: I hoped he was pulling a joke, but he wasn’t.
OTHER: idiom: Pull somebody’s leg: to tell someone something that is not true.
___________________________________________

If there is any question please ask me in class. We will discuss this on Wednesday, August 19th.
The first entries (Response task and vocabulary) will be due on Wednesday, August 26th.


PLEASE BE SURE YOUR BLOG HAS THE DATE ON ITS ENTRY. OTHERWISE, I WON'T BE ABLE TO EVALUATE YOU.