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USINGTHEIN
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RDISTY FSCH1
11DECEM
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In smaall groups, share the
e main thi ngs you do on the Internet inn English (i) For pleasure (ii) For finding mateerial for yo
our classes (iii) To practisse/check/learn morre about EEnglish. ACTIV
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NYOUFIN
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A. Here are eeight words. Six of tthem are words. Tw
wo are invvented. Which two? hactivist ssnood CAP
PTCHA po urblack diingbat nyb
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n are wordds, pourblaack is not! Comm
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SINGGOO
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NCTIONS
SDEFINEANDDEFFINE:WH
HAT
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Google forr the meanning of the
e words, a
and some exampless in Now search in G
contexxt. Type ee.g. DEFINE hactivistt DEFINEE: hactivist What iis the diffeerence be
etween DEEFINE and DEFINE:
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SEYOUREYESG
GOOGLEIIMAGES
Select Images. SSearch for DISC thenn DISK. What differe
ences can you see in the imagess (if any)? And haave a lookk at SNOOD. (cf. meeasles v. chicken po
ox v. Germ
man measle
es v. mum
mps) VITY5SP
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Type ccientific w
what happ
pens? Weell we kno
ow but justt to compplete this…
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SINGQUO
OTATION
NMARKS(““)
Type ““The”. Now
w many hiits do you get? Type
e “The tea
acher” How
w many? Game:: Keep add
ding one w
word to “TThe teache
er”, makin
ng a legitim
mate senttence as you go along.. See how the numbber of hitss goes dow
wn, and seee how lon
ng you can maake the seentence an
nd still fin d a hit! Comm
ment: You jjust prove
ed languagge is generative cf C
CHOMSKY demolishing SKINNER and BEEHAVIOUR
RISM in 19960. VITY7TH
HEIMPOR
RTANCEOFQUOT
TATIONM
MARKS
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Type TThe Univerrsity of Lissbon and ““The Univversity of LLisbon” i.ee. with and
d withou
ut the quo
otation maarks. Any ddifference
e? Compaare “The U
University of Lisbon ” v. “Lisbon Univerrsity” Repeat with “Th
he Universsity of Lonndon ” v. ““London U
University”” onclusionss? Any co
Comm
ment: One of the tricckiest deciisions whe
en writing
g, especial ly techniccal English
h, is betweeen “ The A of B” v.. B A . Som
metimes both are poossible, sometimes just one. VITY8TH
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OFTHEASSTERISK*The“UTTERLY AMAZING”
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A. What wou
uld you pu
ut in the space: She
e has * going? Now Try ssearching for “She hhas * going” What are the m
most popullar hits? u”, “speakk * you”, “say * you””, “tell * yyou”. Find B. Now try ““talk * you
exampless of prepossitions andd see how
w many DIFFERENT pprepositio
ons you can fiind. wn five ad
djectives/aadjectival phrases th
hat you caan find witth C. Write dow
Totally *, absolutely *, utterlly *, comp
pletely * 2 UniversidadeN
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TYLE–NU
UMBERS,,TIMES,D
DATES,C
CURRENC
CY,
TEMP
PERATUR
RE
What iis the datee today? H
How do yoou write itt/teach yo
our studennts how to
o write it? Aree there maany ways?? One “besst” way?
What ttime was tthis sessio
on scheduuled for? P
Please writte in numbbers. Guess the temperature in
n this room
m and writte it in numbers. numbers aand symbools the cosst of four‐bedroomeed house in Write down in n
end too loong thinking! central Lisbon –– don’t spe
om? Write
e in numbbers and per… What iis the perccentage of females in this roo
Now search for “ENGLISH
H STYLE GU
UIDE” in G
Google and
d make suure it is http:///ec.europa.eu/translation/w riting/style_guides//english/sstyle_guide_en.p
df http:///ec.europa.eu/translation/ennglish/guid
delines/do
ocuments/
s/whats_new_st
yle_gu
uide_en.pd
df Comm
ment: The EEuropean Union Styyle Guide for English
h has madde a lot of
changees in this aarea in the
e last coupple of years. ACTIV
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STYLENE
EWWORD
DS
Go toh
http://styleguide.yaahoo.com//word‐list If we h
have lots o
of computters, each group will be given
n a letter (A
A, B and C
C…). Go to tthat page and choo
ose a wordd you do n
not know tthat you liike and waant to share w
with other groups. Comm
ment: Go to
o the # page. What do THEY d
do with ºC
C ? ACTIV
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YAHOOLISTOFNEWWOR
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RMINGP OSSESSIV
VES
http:///styleguide.yahoo.ccom/editinng/punctu
uate‐proficciently/appostrophes Serious information for ‘ss v. s’ v. s’ss (Oh and
d is it 3 CD’s or 3 CD s ?) 3CDss 3 UniversidadeN
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VITY12STYLEPARAGRA
APHS
Have yyou ever taught parragraph w riting with
h the idea of the “toopic sente
ence”? We will look brieefly (togetther to savve you typ
ping the links in) at http:///www.nyttimes.com
m/2010/122/09/techn
nology/09
9net.html??_r=1&nl=
=today
sheadllines&emcc=a2 http:///www.guaardian.co.uk/media /2010/dec/09/operation‐payyback‐wikkileaks‐
anonymous http:///www.bbcc.co.uk/ne
ews/technnology‐119
971259 What d
do you no
otice about typical pparagraphs/sentencces? Comm
ment: Mostt BBC new
ws articles just use ssingle senttence paraagraphs m
most of the tim
me. VITY13W
WORDSINUSEG
GOOGLET
TRENDS
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Go to G
Google an
nd Type Go
oogle Trennds and G
Go to the G
Google Treends Site. Type u
up to five iitems, sep
parated byy commas e.g. pupills, studentts Comm
ment: This is last beccause I spooke aboutt it last yea
ar, but to me it is fascinaating. If yo
ou are reading this aand we arre stuck on
n an earlieer activity and there aare fifteen
n minutes to go, tell me to jump to herre! Try cab
b, taxi. Plaay around with the regions off the world, especiaally UK and
d the USA. N
Notice the words vary from toown to tow
wn. Try pupils, studeents. Whaat do you nnotice? uese. Try Wiikileaks. Recession. OR crise i n Portugu
And lookk at http://w
www.google.org/about/fllutrends/how
w.html 4