Language Box

These are the materials produced by the Faroes development team for JISC meetings and other dissemination events

Millard, David

Language Box Stuff

a test grouping to make my first  collectio

Borthwick, Kate

first collection

Varella, Stavroula

Pictures of cities

A short dialogue in colloquial German offering computer vocabulary and phrases. Find a word document with transcript, tanslation, vocabulary list and some advice on pronunciation in the 'Associated Activities'

Nalezinski, Sibylle

	Listen to the audio file a couple of times.
	Write down the IT-specific expressions. Write them in your existing vocabulary booklet (or start one), in a text file on your computer, in your PDA ...
	Compare with the resources file, correct and amend.
	Listen again to the sound file.
	Try to memorise phrases and then repeat them aloud. Try to reconstruct as much of the dialogue as possible. 
	Read about the pronunciation hints. Play with the pronunciation.
	If possible, record yourself and listen to your own voice. 
	Learn the vocabulary; revise the next day and again a week later.




English

Ein neuer Mac

1.  	Consider the following text (and guess where it’s from).  Identify co-referential forms and co-referential chains within it.  Are there any other dimensions of cohesion evident?

The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.  
Yossarian was in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of being jaundice.  If it became jaundice they could treat it.  If it didn’t become jaundice and went away they could discharge him.  But this just being short of jaundice all the time confused them.
Each morning they came around, three brisk and serious men with efficient mouths and inefficient eyes, accompanied by brisk and serious Nurse Ducket, one of the ward nurses who didn’t like Yossarian.  They read the chart at the foot of the bed as asked impatiently about the pain.  They seem irritated when he told them it was exactly the same.



2.	Consider the following text (Brown and Yule p.194).  Identify co-referential forms, co-referential chains and any other cohesive elements.

	Lord Melbourne, who was Prime Minister when Victoria became Queen in 1837, did not like birdsong and could not distinguish a woodlark from a nightingale.  He preferred the singing of blackbirds anyway; best of all he liked the cawing of rooks and could watch them for hours as they circled at sunset.  Victoria was surprised by this: she disliked their grating and insistent calling.
(Marina Warner, Queen Victoria’s Sketchbook)



3.	Consider the following text (Brown and Yule p. 202) and analyse it in terms of cohesion.    

	Slice the onion finely, brown in the butter and then place in a small dish.  Put the ground spices into a breakfast cup of water, add to the fat in the pan and cook for 3 minutes, stirring the while.  Now add the chicken, mix well, see that the meat is just covered by water and boil for 20 minutes with the lid on the pan.
		When the liquid has almost evaporated, continue to cook, but stir the chicken till golden brown.  Crush the browned onion with a spoon and add it to the chicken . . .


4.  	Consider the following text in terms of cohesion.

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence : at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.
“Who are you?” said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation.  Alice replied rather shyly, “I – I hardly know, sir, just at present – at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then.”
“What do you mean by that?” said the Caterpillar sternly.  “Explain yourself!”
“I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir,” said Alice, “because I’m not myself, you see.”
(Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)

5.  	Consider the following text in which the order of sentences has been re-arranged.  Identify cohesive elements and comment on whether the text is still coherent.  Rearrange into the order you consider most appropriate and discuss why this should be so.  
(a)  You could say what you liked about the Wolfman, he wasn’t choosy about his turf.
(b)  It was a place where supermarket trolleys came to die . . .
(c)  Not that Flight had ever really thought of the Lea as a ‘river’.
(d)  Looking around him, Detective Inspector George Flight wondered whether the sergeant had been referring to the body or to the surrounding area.
(e)  This time it was a riverpath.
(Ian Rankin, Tooth and Nail)



Cohesion exercises

Said, Muna Adam

Arabic for Beginners

A selection of some videos filmed in Chile (intervies with native speakers of Spanish

Arrebola, Miguel

videos chile

Howard, Yvonne

Spanish Life

Gives an introduction on the use of the perfect tense and how to conjugate it. There are some quizzes down the side to practice it. The website in general is useful for different grammar points

Kibbey, Victoria-Rose

Pefect Tense in Spanish

choose the tense you want to practice

then choose a verb- or it can select one at random

conjugate the verb and press correc