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dmb
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 Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject: Lists |
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Lists are cool. I like lists. I am constantly making lists. So here is a list I thought I'd share with you
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| This is an irregular verb list a little unlike those you could easily get hold of at your own school. They are listed in order of how often they appear in real English as shown by the famous Lancaster-Bergen corpus. These 50 in this order represent an incredible 87% of irregular verb occurrence in English. The other 80 irregular verbs in English make up the other 13%. If you tell your students that learning by heart merely the first eleven will equip them to deal with fully 50% of the usage of irregulars in English, they may react very positively. |
My students were chuffed on hearing the above
you can find the whole list at
http://www.esl-lounge.com/phprint.php |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject: Re: Lists |
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| dmb wrote: |
Lists are cool. I like lists. I am constantly making lists. So here is a list I thought I'd share with you
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| This is an irregular verb list a little unlike those you could easily get hold of at your own school. They are listed in order of how often they appear in real English as shown by the famous Lancaster-Bergen corpus. These 50 in this order represent an incredible 87% of irregular verb occurrence in English. The other 80 irregular verbs in English make up the other 13%. If you tell your students that learning by heart merely the first eleven will equip them to deal with fully 50% of the usage of irregulars in English, they may react very positively. |
My students were chuffed on hearing the above
you can find the whole list at
http://www.esl-lounge.com/phprint.php |
Corpuses (corpi?) are cool. Students, and also many teachers, are always suprised when they realise that many phrasal verbs are high frequency, and much more usefull to study than say - invertions. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| inversions? |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 6:54 am Post subject: |
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Yes you're both right.
I'm a nidiot. |
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