building vocabulary

Arise
meaning: come into existence; take on form or shape
example:"a question arose"
Rise
meaning: the amount a salary is increased
example: "he got a 3% raise"

Rise up
meaning: stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
example:"The horse reared in terror"

Raise
meaning:
example:

Achieve
meaning:
example:

The English Profile is an on going proyect that consist on an amount of studies to improve CEF by intitutions (Cambriage Press, ESOl, British Council).
The English Profile should be adopted in learning/teaching English in Chile because it is a useful tool to aproch students knowledge to the native`s writting and speaking skills.

The Common European Framework is a kind of rubric to define the students' leve. It is related to the English Profile because the second one is focus on improving the Common European Framework using corpus to update information about the most used vocabulary by native speakers.

The Common European Framework should be implemented in Chile because there is not a agreement about what words are requiered to be on a specific level. It could be a very good point of reference for teachers and learners.

Vocabulary building

1WORD: forsake/forsook/forsaken
MEANING: To leave someone, speacially when you should stay because they need you.
GR. INFO: Verb—transitive—irregular
COLLOCATIONS:
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): God will never forsake you.
MY EXAMPLE: I will not forsake my students.
OTHER: idiom:

2WORD: forswear/forswore/forsworn
MEANING: To promise that you will not do or possess something.
GR. INFO: Verb—transitive—irregular
COLLOCATIONS:
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): A monk forswearing all possessions
MY EXAMPLE: an alchoholic forswears drinks
OTHER: idiom:

3WORD:down
MEANING: depressed
GR. INFO: adjective
COLLOCATIONS:
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): "prices are down"
MY EXAMPLE: I got down
OTHER: idiom: go down the tubes

4WORD: neck
MEANING: the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body
GR. INFO: noun
COLLOCATIONS:
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): "the horse won by a neck"
MY EXAMPLE: my neck hurts
OTHER: idiom: hang someone by the neck

5WORD: cheat
MEANING: deprive somebody of something by deceit
GR. INFO: verb—transitive-regular
COLLOCATIONS:
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"
MY EXAMPLE: I cheated wy workers
OTHER: idiom: Cheats never prosper

CORPUS/CORPORA

Corpus is an amount of texts-stored on a computer-, which have been taken from the real and commun world by differents institutions like Cambridge University that has its own called Cambridge Coprpus. At the beging, all this texts were compilated by hand, however, nowadays with new technology it is faster and easier.

A "textbook Corpus based" means words used in its composition have been taken from a Corpus, which gives us extra information about uses of that vocabulary by native speakers. So it is very important for language teaching having knowledge about it to comprehend new ways of producing messages.

For the same reason, I think could be so useful for my classes learning words that are frequently used by native speakers due to when students listen to a movie or song they will be able to understand what people are saying and, at the same time, to comunicate eficiently their thoughts and feelings.


To conlude, the main Corpus objective is -qualitative and quantitive-to illustrate and discribe what words, collocations and chunks are most used. For this reason, it selects contents according to their frequency. Chilean English teachers should be using Corpus because if a student knows the most frequent words he or she is going to be more able to understand than a pupil knows the less frequent ones, for example.