corpus for classroom
5 ways to use the corpora for classroom activities
1. Have students guess the top collocates of a word
Going back to the previously-used example of the word ‘boost’, what do you think might be the top object nouns that collocate with the word .
2. Categorise the collocations
Going back to the object nouns that collocate with ‘boost’, could you put them into categories
3. Show the collocates and have students guess the word
Reveal the collocates of a word one by one.
In competitive groups, students have to guess what the word might be.
The fewer the collocates needed to get the correct answer, the more points the group gets.
4. Play ‘Explain/Draw/Act’ with the top 10 collocates of a word
Again in competitive teams, students have to guess the collocations by having one of their team members explain, draw or act out the collocation.
Say, the word is ‘house’.
Team A sends a representative to explain the collocation ‘publishing house’.
Next, Team B sends a representative to draw a ‘country house’.
Following that, Team C sends a representative to act out a ‘doll house’.
The teams are given a point for each correct answer.
Alternatively, one could use variations on ‘Explain/Draw/Act’ such as the common TEFL games ‘Back to Board’, ‘Board Rush’ or ‘Fastest buzzer first’.
5. Have students guess the top suffixes of a word
In the BYU-BNC corpus, one can search for suffixes by using the asterix.
(Note that different concordancing software might have different rules for usage)
By typing
*organised, I can get the prefixes of the word ‘organised’ listed in order of frequency, e.g. ‘reorganized’, ‘well-organized’, ‘disorganized’, etc.
By typing sleep*, I can get the suffixes of the word ‘sleep’, including its morphological inflections, e.g. ‘sleeping’, ‘sleepy’, ‘sleeps’, ‘sleepless’, etc.
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