IdiomaticExpression:WordCollocationUnit3
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Classroomteachingiscompletelypresupposedonpre-readingthetextoutsideclassroom.I.Lead-inDoyouknowhowwordsinEnglishareusedtoconstructmeaningthroughwriting?First,wordsinEnglisharenotusedalonewithoutconnectionwithotherwordsbuttoformdifferentgroupsinasentence.e.g.,nounphrases,verbphrases,prepositionalphrases,etc.Second,generally,wordsofsuchphrasesarelooselyconnectedinthesensethattheyareformedaccordingtogrammaticalrules.Butsomegroupsofwordsarerelativelyfixedexpressions,andothersareexpressionsboundtogether.Wecallgroupsofwordsregularlyoridiomaticallygoingtogetherwordcollocations.WordcollocationsareessentialtolearnEnglishbecauseyouwillneverhaveamasteryofEnglishwithoutknowinghowsomewordsarecollatedwithotherwordsaccuratelyandappropriatelyinactualuse.
Whatdoyouknowaboutwordcollocations?Givesomeexamplesfromthetext.Lookatthecollocationstakenfromthetext:holdonto,falloff,strugglefor,fixup,agreeto,getoff,turnout.Makeupsentenceswiththesewordcollocations.Takeagreetoasanexample:Wrong:Iabsolutelyagreetoyou.(usuallyagreetoone’sproposal)Right:Iabsolutelyagreewithyou.(agreewithsb.)Inthisunit,wewilllearnhowtousewordcollocationsaccuratelyandappropriatelyinwriting.I.Lead-in
Activatingknowledgemeansmakingwordknowledgelyinginthemindsofstudentsstartworking.II.ActivatingKnowledgeTherearedifferenttypesofwordcollocationsinEnglish,namely,grammaticalcollocation,lexicalcollocationandidiomaticcollocation.G