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English Language Learners Week 9 Class
Week 8 Assignment due Tuesday, November 2 by 4 p.m.
Class Opener: English Language Learners In Schools
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How long would you be interested in trying to understand this language? Try it!
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1. After experiencing how John Cleese explains the brain, what have you learned about understanding ideas in a new language if you don't speak or understand the language?
2. If you recognize John Cleese as a famous actor and writer in MONTY PYTHON, the British comedy group, you will experience viewing this video differently from someone who does not recognize John Cleese and does not know he IS CREATING this language AS HE IS SPEAKING.
How do you think the two experiences would feel different?
Workshop 1: Where Do English Words Come From? Who Creates Them?
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Loan Words come to English from everywhere. We speak them not knowing their origins.
3. GUESS the LANGUAGES that LOANED WORDS to English.
Write your guesses in the learning log.
A.
alligator
canyon
rodeo
stampede
mosquito
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B.
chandelier
garage
attorney
fee
inherit
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C.
dinosaur
center
photo
amazon
geography
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D.
chipmunk
woodchuck
moose
quahog
squash
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E.
algebra
admiral
jar
coffee
cotton
giraffe
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F.
ballerina
volcano
piano
balcony
umbrella
gondola
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G.
kindergarten
melancholy
pretzel
blitz
wanderlust
neanderthal
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H.
origami
tycoon
futon
emoji
tsunami
rickshaw
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Read this information to answer question 4.
PEOPLE COIN (create) new words. WE ARE ALWAYS learning words.
- Active Vocabulary: Words learned and can use in a sentence.
- Passive Vocabulary: Words recognized but not able to use in a sentence.
A Native English Speaker at age 20 has 20,000 words in Active Vocabulary.
- (40,000 in passive vocabulary)
- Learns a word a day till middle age
Growth of Native Speakers' Vocabulary is determined by reading habits between ages 4 & 15.
- Those who read a lot learn 4 new words a day.
- Those who read not much learn 1.5 new words a day.
Read
Shakespeare invented 1700 words
4. Choose & list 5 words in your ACTIVE vocabulary you would NOT have thought Shakespeare coined or used in new ways to mean what they mean today.
SWITCH FROM SHAKESPEARE TO THE DICTIONARY!
According to the Merriam-Webster website, to be included in the dictionary, a word must “be used in a substantial number of citations that come from a wide range of publications over a considerable period of time.”
CHOOSE 3 words from the chart THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW.
5. Write your own definition by guessing what THEY MIGHT mean.
Then write the dictionary definitions below yours.
Workshop 2: Create a Frayer Model
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MAKE a Frayer Model WITH the person you are tutoring!
Draw or use an online template to illustrate a word, idea, concept that might help whoever you are tutoring.
Insert photos, background, write a comic in the model or other eye catching ways to add interest to the words.
Insert it or a photo of it into your learning log.
- Example using the word Argument from Rhode Island Department of Education
Big Idea Closer: English Expands Including Words of Other Languages & New Words of Popular Culture
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We are ALL English Language Learners as our language is constantly invented and reinvented.
Everything we learn NEW has its own vocabulary that we need to know.
GOLF is a new language;
BIOLOGY is a new language;
PHYSICS is a new language;
DANCE is a new language.
Smartphone became a prominent word beginning in 1997 AND entered the dictionary:
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mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded applications.
Tutors and teachers support students to develop expanded ACTIVE vocabularies
BY USING MANY WORDS, PLAYING WITH WORDS, WRITING POETRY and identifying students as language creators using language in new ways in their writing and conversations.
6. What 2 or 3 new words are you using in conversations, texts, classes that you were NOT saying in high school?
What is the NEWEST word or phrase you have learned lately?
NOT part of the assignment.
Link here for state and national results: What Language Does Your State Speak?
What languages do we speak and hear in the U.S.?
- Most commonly spoken language in the United States and in Massachusetts other than English?
- Most commonly spoken language in the United States and in Massachusetts other than Spanish or English?
- Most commonly spoken language Native American language in the United States and in Massachusetts?
- Most commonly spoken language Scandinavian language in the United States and in Massachusetts?
- Most commonly spoken Indo-Aryan language in the United States and in Massachusetts?
- Most commonly spoken African language in the United States and in Massachusetts?
Link here for state and national results: What Language Does Your State Speak?
Words from Native American Languages
raccoon |
Powhattan language |
Virginia |
chocolate |
Nahuatl language |
Central Mexico |
toboggan |
Malisset |
Canada |
caucus |
Algonguin
(from caucauasu meaning counselor, elder advisor)
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New England |
kayak |
Inuit |
Canada, Alaska, Greenland |
bayou |
Choctaw |
Louisiana |
Sasquatch |
Hackomelem |
Pacific Northwest |
woodchuck |
Algonguin
(Narragansett peoples)
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Rhode Island |
Online Tools for Interactive Vocabulary Learning |
Dictionaries
Younger Students' Resources
Older Students' Resources
Thesaurus and Grammar Checkers
Math and Science Resources
What languages gave these words to English? Try your guesses! Check here for the answers.
Spanish
alligator
canyon
rodeo
stampede
mosquito
French
chandelier
garage
attorney
fee
inherit
Greek
dinosaur
center
photo
amazon
geography
American Indian (North America)
chipmunk
woodchuck
moose
quahog
squash
Arabic
algebra
admiral
jar
coffee
cotton
giraffe
Italian
ballerina
piano
balcony
umbrella
gondola
German
kindergarten
melancholy
pretzel
blitz
wanderlust
neanderthal
Japanese
origami
tycoon
futon
emoji
tsunami
rickshaw
Hella
tmi
word salad
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What has been happening in tutoring during the past two weeks?
In 1-2 paragraphs describe actions you are using to tutor others that reflect your learning from TEAMS' discussions & assignments.
In 1-2 paragraphs describe actions that you are using in self tutoring that reflect your learning from TEAMS' discussions & assignments.
Specify the vocabulary you say, games you play, multimodal resources you use and ways you make your tutoring interesting.
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