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IO330T The English Language
IO330T The English Language
5. Keeping the students in their pairs, ask them to turn over their copies of Worksheet B or to
hand them back to you temporarily. Hand out Worksheet C, which contains mistakes that the
students have to find and correct. There is one mistake on every line. Point out that the
mistakes are all grammatical or lexical, and that most corrections only require the students to
change a word. No correction requires them to write more than three words.
6. Check answers in open class.
Answers: See Worksheet D.
If you wish, hand out copies of Worksheet D to the students after you have identified the
mistakes on Worksheet C.
2. Related Websites
Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.
http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/home.htm
The website of the new Macmillan English Dictionaries. Features include interactive
activities and games, e-lessons and useful glossaries.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7149519.stm
BBC article (December 2007) on the challenges of learning a foreign language. The piece
refers to the recently-appointed Italian coach of the English national football team, Fabio
Capello.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_vocabulary#English_as_a_global_language
‘English Language’entry from Wikipedia.