2. Agenda
• Introduction to corpus usage for
vocabulary
• Corpus vocabulary activity
• Vocabulary instruction and conversation
starter workshop
• Grammar editing from previous class
3. What is a Corpus?
• A very large collection of spoken and written texts that can be analyzed by
computers to see how people write and speak in the real world.
• The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest
freely-available corpus of English, and the only large and balancedc orpus
of American English. The corpus was created by Mark Davies of Brigham
Young University, and it is used by tens of thousands of users every month
(linguists, teachers, translators, and other researchers).
• The corpus contains more than 450 million words of text and is equally
divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and
academic texts.
5. Individual Vocabulary Study
1.gender (n) - Bora
2.role (n) - Ahmad
3.behavior (n) - Mashari
4.male (adj) – Mohammad
5.characteristic (n) - Hussain
6.female (adj) - Grace
7.reverse (n) - Nehal
8.masculine (adj) - Shaika
9.feminine (adj) - Bayan
10.Generally - Elyas
6. Sharing Vocabulary Knowledge
• Speak loudly and clearly
• Make eye contact
• Check for understanding
• If you read your answers first, explain
what you have said as well.
7. Conversation Starter
Assignment
• Create a conversation starter, using your assigned word. You should share
information from your field, and ask a related question that you think the
class would benefit from discussing. Add your name and field at the end of
your conversation starter.
1. gender (n) - Shaikha
2. role (n) - Ahmad
3. behavior (n) - Mashari
4. male (adj) – Mohammad
5. characteristic (n) - Hussain
6. female (adj) - Grace
7. reverse (n) - Nehal
8. masculine (adj) - Bora
9. feminine (adj) - Bayan
10. Generally - Elyas
9. Example 1
• Many laws state that a person is
responsible for his/her own behavior.
Who is responsible for a pet’s behavior?
If a pet causes injury to a person or thing,
should the owner be responsible for the
pet’s behavior? Why/why not?
• (Law, Mohammed ALBadi)
10. Example 2
In the construction industry in my country,
most of the workers are males because
they are tougher/stronger and it is also
more culturally acceptable for males to do
this type of work. Do you think that females
could/should work in construction like
males? Why/why not?
(Civil Engineering, Medhat)
11. Example 3
• Biomedical Engineering is a major that combines
engineering and medicine. Some typical characteristics
of bioengineers are: 1- being interested in engineering
and medicine, 2- being a creative person, and 3- being
up-to-date with new medical information. What do you
think biomedical engineers actually do?
• (Biomedical Engineering, Maryam Felemban)
