Week7

🎈Corpus-based Activities and Ideas for Material Design🎈

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

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.