Links -- Relevant Sites and Student Blogs

Vocabulary games: http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/games/w/
Fourteen Words Key to 100,00 Words: http://people.ucsc.edu/~pmmckerc/vocab14.html
Pronouns: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns1.htm
Joey's Blog for IEP: http://joey4iep.blogspot.com/
Josh's Blog: http://koreajosh.blogspot.com/2006/09/blog-post.html

Josh's Homework -- Vocab Chapter One

BASIC VOCABULARY
Talking about language
Parts of Speech
noun
a person, place, or thing
Mary, China, pen
singular
one noun
book, house, child
plural
more than one noun
books, houses, children
possessive
verb
something we do
do, read, write
adjective
describes a noun
good, bad, happy, long
adverb
describes a verb
slowly, badly
preposition
use it before a noun or pronoun
in, on, by, at, through
conjunction
joins items
and, but, or, nor
pronoun
personal, impersonal, relexive, etc.
I, he, she, it, they . . .
interjection
exclamation
Oh, ouch, . . .
Instructions used in this book
sentence
an idea that begins with a capital letter and ends with a period; a sentence usually has a subject and a verb.
The man went into the room and closed the door.
question
a group of words that begin with a capital letter and end with a question mark
What time is it? Do you speak Spanish?
paragraph
one or more sentences about the same topic, beginning on a new line
This book has 60 units. Each unit has 2 pages.
Learning strategies
Write down words that go together (collocations).
Learn words in families.
Word Family
Some words in the family
temperature
hot, warm, cool, cold
travel
tivket, passport, suitcase

Vocabulary -- Where do you stand?

Where do you stand?

FEET: What do I stand for as a foundation of vocabulary?
Vocabulary is basic. We inhabit a world of words for ideas and actions and things

STOMACH: What upsets me about vocabulary?

HEART: What do I love about vocabulary?
HANDS: What do I feel about vocabulary?
EARS: What do I hear about vocabulary?
EYES: What do I see about vocabulary?
BRAIN: What do I think about vocabulary?

Syllabus

Intensive English Program Vocabulary study.

Required text:

McCarthy, Michael and Felicity O'Dell with Ellen Shaw. Basic Vocabulary in Use. Los Angelos, CA: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 052178865-x.

Weeks/Units/Items
1. Learner training 1-2
2-3 Everyday verbs 3-14
4-5 Words and grammar 15-27
6-7 People 28-35
8-9 The world 36-42
10-11 At home 43-46
12-13 School and workplace 47-49
14-15 Leisure 50-56
16-17 Social issues 57-60

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