An English Learner's Notes

 Hello everyone !  We're back together this semester with new tasks. Our latest task was preparing a corpus-based teaching material. While preparing, my partner Merve and I chose to work with intermediate-advanced level high school students. The topic we chose was differentiating "rise" and "raise". While preparing the material, we used Canva as a tool. We've been using Canva for years and know almost exactly how to use it but integrating corpus was the hard part of this task. Once we figured out what corpus is, how and where to use it, we were ready to prepare the material. It has step-by-step instructions that are clear and easy to understand. By the end of this material, we hope that students will be able to distinguish between the words "raise" and "rise" and use them correctly according to the context.  Thank you for visiting and see you next time !!! You can check out Merve's glamorous blog by clicking HERE  and the material by...

 Hi, world! Our new task was to prepare a corpus-based material. We were supposed to choose a generally confused grammar or vocabulary item from the MEB English coursebook and prepare a worksheet by using corpus-based activities. I worked on the worksheet for hours... I used Canva again for this project. It was hard to choose a worksheet template suitable for the types of exercises I will be creating. Fortunately, I found one and started to prepare activities on the topic I chose from the book. The topic was "few" and "a few". For most of the students who are new to these quantifiers, it is confusing and almost meaningless. I tried to make them understand, practice and create on this topic. It was exhausting trying to find the right sentences while giving examples. I am satisfied with the outline of the worksheet and activities. This task contributed a great deal to my teaching skills. It provided me with the ability to see the activities from the eyes of the studen...