Databases That You Can Find Every Word!

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 Hello, my dear readers!

    Today, I'm going to talk about how to use a corpus. Corpus is a collection of written texts or spoken texts in written form. You can write a word and see it in hundreds of different sentences. Using corpus in classrooms helps us to activate data-driven learning.

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    Corpus is a great tool because seeing all of the examples provides the student language awareness. For example, based on a preparatory book we prepared a worksheet which is about positive modal verbs. After seeing the verbs in the sentences, the student will have familiarity with the given verb. This will help him/her with future activities. 

    Here are our worksheets which we created on Canva.



    On our worksheet, I and Bengisu first wrote the instruction part. It's important for the students because showing the steps make them eager to start. We chose Skell as our corpus because it's free and easy to use. After visiting the corpus, our students need to complete 2 tasks about modal verbs.

 You can visit my partner Bengisu's post and read the procedure from her perspective.

See you in my next post!

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