Don't forget to bring in texts to analyse for Monday and Tuesday.
Also, before Monday's lesson, please visit the following link and post to your blogs some answers to the questions below (and anything else you notice or can link it to - spend at least an hour reading, thinking and exploring links):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2658589/OED-launches-100-words-commemorate-centenary-First-World-War-including-demob-cushy-tooter-sweeter.html
- What do you learn about the reasons that new words come into the English language and how?
- Which words did you look up and what did they mean? How did they enter the language?
- What do you notice about how the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) editors have organised the list (look at the sub-headings, amount/range of included words etc.)?
- What could you use this corpus (collection of words/texts) to investigate?
- What could you link this to or what did it inspire you to go off and read?
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