Use implicit grammatical knowledge to translate examples of infant speech into complete sentences.
(For older students) use explicit grammatical knowledge to identify the types of changes that have been made in translating from the original examples.
Lesson Plan
The teacher explains that today, we will look at some real examples of English spoken by infants, and translate it into adult speech.
Exploring how different clause types help to construct social meaning
The four clause types are a central part of English grammar. An understanding of declarative, imperative, interrogative and exclamative clause types can help students recognise how writers use these structures to create meaning in different ways, and can help them develop a better repertoire of structures in their own writing.
Examine a poem as a corpus, like a body of linguistic data.
Linguistically analyse the words used in a poem.
Create a word list based on a poem.
Present linguistic findings visually using Wordle.
Lesson Plan
Wordle is a simple corpus tool which allows you to paste in text and create a ‘word cloud’ that displays the frequency of words by their relative size in a cloud.
This activity involves working with nonfiniteclauses to do some sentence-splitting and sentence-joining. The purpose is to develop your awareness of the different kinds of structures that are available to you as a writer.
Many writers of fiction use adjectives as a quick way of telling us what a character is like: how they appear, how they feel, how we should view them. Look at the following examples of how adjectives are used to provide a basic description:
In this activity, you will write a brief entry advertisement that describes a product and makes it sound as attractive as possible.
Goals
Identify the adjectives in an online advertisement.
Write an original advertisement using an array of descriptive and effective adjectives.
Lesson Plan
The teacher explains that today, we will write Ebay advertisements to sell products. To make your item sound attractive you will need to describe it in detail, using a range of adjectives.
