We are presenting the project “How to use a dictionary”.
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ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВО САНКТ – ПЕТЕРБУРГА
КОМИТЕТ ПО ОБРАЗОВАНИЮ
Государственное бюджетное общеобразовательное учреждение средняя общеобразовательная школа № 490 Красногвардейского административного района г. Санкт – Петербурга
Адрес: Новочеркасский проспект, дом 50, корпус 3
телефон/факс )(812 )444-43-42, e-mail: sc490krasnogvard@mail.ru
ПРОЕКТНО – ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬСКАЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ
ТЕМА ПРОЕКТА
How to use a dictionary
Руководитель проекта:
Храброва Елена Николаевна
Должность:
учитель английского языка высшей категории
Работу выполнили:
Воробьев Сергей, Мишко Георгий,
Тарасов Артем, Федотов Василий
5 класс
Санкт – Петербург,2015
CONTENTS
Introduction………………………………………………………………….3
Acknowledgements
Thank you to our parents for support and buying dictionaries, Natalya from Pearson for fantastic workshop and our teacher Mrs. E.N. Khrabrova for help in project.
Introduction
We are pupils of the fifth grade and study at the school # 490 of Krasnogvardeyskiy district of Saint- Petersburg.
We are presenting the project “How to use a dictionary”.
We have chosen this research theme because we want to travel all around the world and feel comfortable speaking English.
How to speak English successfully?
We found three general ideas about it:
We asked teachers, parents and friends:
-How do you think, is it real goal for a pupil from Russia to know 60,000 English words?
Some people think to know 60,000 words is unreal, other people say, it is real.
Ok, we will test the last idea! We understand that we need a good friend to reach this goal. This friend is a Dictionary. We asked our parents to buy dictionary and they did it. Ok, let us open a dictionary!
Oh, here are 38,000 words, phrases & meanings, some abbreviations and some marked words! It is challenging!
Sure, we need to explore dictionary and make up some tips for us and other pupils!
So, we have started our project. The start was on 4 December 2014.
1. Types of dictionaries
On the 1-st day we came to the library.
We asked our librarian:
She answered:
-There are many types of dictionaries. There are language dictionaries, technical dictionaries, rhymes, crossword, subject dictionaries (for example, for math, chemistry, biology, culture, etc.), illustrated dictionaries (excellent for learning another language or for technical knowledge), slang and idioms, etc.
-We need a dictionary to learn about meanings of English words.
- To learn about meanings of English words pupil can use English-Russian dictionary or English- English dictionary! What dictionary do you have?
- We have English- English dictionary.
- Ok, you can search Internet and find recommendations.
2. Understanding your dictionary
We went to the sites http://www.wikihow.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch and learnt a lot of new and interesting rules.
First we read and listened difficult texts in Internet, translated them into Russian and remade it into easy one for children. These are our tips.
2.1.Read the introduction.
The best way to learn how to use your dictionary effectively is to read its introduction.
It has got important information about
- It is not correct to read the dictionary but do not learn the pronunciation. You can make a mistake and people do not understand you.
- Learn symbols of pronunciation.
- Read the pronunciation of a word. They place it between virgules (\ \) and print in italics.
3.1. Find the section of the dictionary with first letter of your word.
Dictionaries follow alphabetical order. For example, "dog" begins with "d" and it will be after "c" and before "e".
- Don't forget the possible spellings for trickier words, such as "gnome" begins with a "g" or "knock" begins with a "k", etc.
- Some words sound alike but spelled very differently. For example, "throne" (a luxury chair for the King) and "thrown" (when thing is pushed, moved or sent somewhere) are spelled differently and mean very different things. So be careful that you end up with the correct word.
3.2. Read the guide words.
These are words at the top of the page. They tell what types of words are on the page. These words will help you find the word you are looking for.
This is an example. You look for the word «build". Begin in the "B" section. Find the section with guide word “bun” .This tells you that word “built” on this page. The dictionary goes in alphabetical order, so built (b-u-i) comes after Brussel sprout (b-r-) but before bun (b-u-n).
3.3.Scan down the page for your word
If you look for the word "futile," for example, you move past "furry», «fuse», and "fuss". This word begins with "f-u-t", go past all the "f-u-r" and "f-u-s" words and you reach the "f-u-t" area. Scan through "futh» to the “futi” and you will find "futile” .It means “useless”, “not serious”.
3.4 Read the definition and you will learn about:
- meaning or meanings, how to pronounce it, what part of speech it is;
- example sentences;
- synonyms and antonyms of a word ( sharp- blank);
- is it noun, adjective, verb,adverb, pronoun;
- history of the word. You don't know Latin or Ancient Greek but information helps you to remember or understand the word;
- spelling.
We went to a special dictionary workshop. This workshop did Natalya from Pearson Publishing. There we got this information:
Longman Wordwise Dictionary is a British and American English dictionary for young learners.
Here you will find 38,000 words, phrases & meanings, all in easy-to-understand explanations.
Students learn the meanings, phrases, grammar and collocations of the most important words in English.
We did many activities with the help of Wordwise dictionary.
We played dictionary games and made up own mini English-English dictionary. It was fun!
5. Using your dictionary further
We learnt that we can have fun with dictionaries!
CONCLUSION
On the 30 th of January our research has got these results:
REFERENCES
1. Англо-русский и русско-английский словарь школьника М, Эксмо, 2013
2. Баранова К., Дули Дж. Звездный английский-5класс М, Просвещение-Экспресс Паблишинг, 2014
3. Longman Word Wise Dictionary 2-nd edition, Pearson Education Limited Edinburgh , 2014
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYTdJcA4_vk
APPENDIX 1.
Interesting and useful training tasks from WordWise dictionary we used to study English words
Avoiding mistakes. Избегаем ошибки
A. Correct spelling mistakes. Исправьте ошибки в правописании. Use your WordWise dictionary (Spelling boxes).
1. I found it difficult to a) breath.
b) breathe.
2. He’s the man a) whose car I’ve bought.
b) who’s
3. It is my a) dairy. I use it every day.
b) diary.
B. Choose the right sentence. Выберите правильное предложение. Use your WordWise dictionary (Grammar boxes and Word Choice boxes).
1. Look for the word ‘data’.
a) This is a special data.
b) These data are special.
2. Look for the word ‘day’.
a) Tim saw her last Monday.
b) Tim is going to see her on next Monday.
3. Look for the word ‘delicious’.
a) The cake is very delicious.
b) The ice cream was delicious.
4. Look for the word ‘any’.
a) Every parent loves his or her children.
b) Any parents love their children.
5. Look for the word ‘stop’.
a) Stop him to do this!
b) Stop him from leaving!
6. Look for the word ‘tired’.
a) It was a long and tired journey.
b) It was a tiring game.
7. Look for the word ‘silent’.
a) She spoke in a silent voice.
b) He said it in a quiet voice.
Key to Avoiding mistakes page A.1b2a3b B.1b2a3b4a5b6b7b
Know Your Dictionary
B. Match. Соотнесите слова со значением. Два определения лишние. Use your WordWise dictionary.
1 baggy a to say something at the same time as someone else
is speaking
2 exaggerate b a woman or a girl
3 interrupt c big and loose clothes
4 male d an animal with black and white fur that lives under
the ground
5 main e a man or a boy
6 badger f to say that something is better, larger, worse than
it really is
g biggest or most important
h big and noisy cities
Key to Know Your Dictionary. WordWise dictionary.
A.1. weekend 2. both или day, week или 2 3. Pronoun 4. Rhino 5. 3 6. Yes 7. No 8. Flat 9. Yes
10. luggage B. 1с 2f 3a 4e 5g 6d
APPENDIX 2. DICTIONARY GAMES
Here are some examples created by the students of our class:
2. Challenging word: The first player looks up a challenging word and uses it in a sentence. The other players have to guess the word. If a player guesses correctly, he or she does next turn.
Here are our own examples with the words of Unit 3 of the students book Starlight,5th form:
Убунту: я существую, потому что мы существуем
Л. Нечаев. Про желтые груши и красные уши
Астрономический календарь. Январь, 2019 год
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