Task 4: Thesaurus

Thesaurus provides you all the synonims that your chosen word have in order of relevance, It does the same with its antonyms. Besides, it gives you the origin and history of the word and a lot of examples.

In my case, I have chosen the verb make. I describe it:

• Synonims:

1. Cause, compose, form, generate, manufacture, prepare, produce.
2. Accomplish, adjust, arrange, assemble, beget, brew, conceive, constitute, construct, cook, effect, engender, fabricate, fashion, forge, frame, hatch, initiate, invent, mold, occasion, originate, parent, procreate, secure, shape, spawn, synthesize, whip.
3. Bring about, cook up, dash off, drawn on, dream up, get ready, give rise to, knock off, lead to, put together, tear off, throw together, whip out.

• Antonyms:

1. Break, destroy, neglect, ruin.
2. Confuse, demolish, derange, disarrange, dismantle, disorder, disorganize, disperse, divide, end, fail, finish, give up, ignore, kill, lose, raze, scatter, separate, tell truth, terminate.
3. Calculate, crush, demote, deny, disallow, discourage, dissuade, halt, measure, prevent, refuse, refute, renounce, stop, veto.

We would have the origin and history, and the examples too.

Task 3: Comparison of dictionaries

The word I have chosen is: humble.

Oxford Dictionary: it provides me different definitions as an adjective with possible synonims and examples, also provides differents definitions as a verb with possible synonims and examples. The meaning of English phrases, for example "eat humble pie", "one's humble abode" or "your humble servant". It gives you the origin too, and the pronuntation.

Webster Dictionary: it provides me differents definitions of the word and gives a lot of examples about the word in a text, also gives the pronuntation of humble. Then, explains the word as a transitive verb with examples, giving a lot of synonims too. We have the different explanations of phrases such as "eat humble pie", "from humble origins", "humble oneself" and "of humble origins". At the end, it explains the word humble as a verb and as an adjective, but in two parts: when the interested people are English language learners or, on the other hand, they are kids.

WordReference: in my opinion this is worse than Oxford and Webster Dictionary. It only provides you how it sounds and translate the verb and the adjective to Spanish, giving an example in English. It translates compound forms such as "humble bee", "eat humble pie", "humble pie"or "humble yourself", giving examples too, this time, in Spanish. That's all.

To end, we have the last dictionary to prove, learnersdictionary.com. It clearly distinguishes between humble adjective and humble verb. It provides the pronunciation' sound, the spelling sounds, the different meanings with examples and some indications which you see when you can write the word or not.

They are very complete dictionaries which can help you definitily.

Lesson 2, Task 1: Student's needs

Subject: English Language
Aim: Present Simple tense of regular/irregular verbs (affirmative, negative and interrogative)

Academic English

• Vocabulary:
• Routines (wake up, get up, have breakfast, have a shower...)
• Expressing frequency: always, never, usually...)
• Parts of the day: in the morning, in the evening, at night...)
• Times: six o'clock, half past ten, quarter past three...)
• Warm-up activity: Ask students what they do every day: students say their answers and the teacher writes them on the board.
• What to highlight:
• Underline the verbs
• Mind word order
• Mind where to place the adverbs of frequency
• Elicit that we use present simple to talk about things that are generally true, habits or routines, likes and dislikes.

English for specific purposes

1. Students work in groups of three
• Student A: I get up at seven o'clock
• Student B: Sam gets up at seven o'clock
• Student C: I don't get  up at 7 o'clock. I get up at quarter past 7.
2. Questions:
• A: What time do you get up?
• B: I get up at 7 o'clock. How do you go to school?
• C: I ride my bike to school.
• A: What time does Jack get up?
• B: ...
3. Presentation: the student writes a brief entry of his/her typical Saturday.