週7 - ECA (Reading) I (Super A) - コロケーション

Hello to all my Super A reading students,

Image "Buy Tickets Words with fireworks" courtesy of Stuart Miles/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

How are you? Here is another word learning technique for you - seeing collocations.

Look at the picture above - buy tickets. "Buy" and "tickets" come together so often that we can think of them as a unit. This kind of unit is called a collocation - a word combination where one word often comes with another word in a pattern.

Ticket is a noun (名詞). Let's look at some more examples with ticket:

VERB [動詞] + ticket 

sell a ticket

lose a ticket

punch a ticket

give away a ticket

purchase a ticket

(purchase = 購入する)

ADJECTIVE [形容詞] + ticket 

cheap ticket(s)

expensive ticket(s)

affordable ticket(s)

discounted tickets

reasonably-priced ticket(s)
hard-to-get ticket(s)

Other NOUN + ticket

Movie ticket

Concert ticket

Parking ticket

Train (Subway) ticket

Dry cleaning ticket

Ticket + other NOUN
Ticket price

Ticket gate

Ticket sales

Ticket taker

Ticket collection

HOMEWORK ACTIVITY

Now look for collocations from the reading about acupuncture. Look for verbs (動詞), adjectives (形容詞), and other nouns (名詞) before or after these words in your reading: 

infection
acupuncture
needle(s)
treatment(s)

Make a list of them for yourself in your notes, and share in the class next week.

See you next time!

週5 - ECA (Reading) I (Super A) - 意味ネットワーク

Hello to all my Super A reading students,

How are you? I will show you a word learning technique called semantic networking (意味ネットワーク). This is a useful method for you to make your own meaning of words in another way without a dictionary. 

Here's an example. Look at the five words in the picture above - cat, pet, fish, food, & people.

These words are not all connected, but some of the words have a kind of connection.

Now I found one connection, and wrote a simple sentence - cats like fish.

Now I found two more connections - cats make good pets, and fish make good pets.

Now I found two more connections to that - people like fish, and people keep pets. 

There are more connections - can you make them yourself? You can try this out with any group of words - so try this with some vocabulary from the next story we'll read in the textbook. 

Homework (for 5/20)

1. Read the next story in our textbook outside of class.

2. Select 5-7 words from the story. Choose words that are a little difficult for you. On a piece of notebook paper, write them in a pattern like in the example pictures. Then try to find connections with them and make your own sentences using them. 

Look at this blogpost as many times as you want to help yourself. Try it out - see how it works for you.

See you next time!

聖学院大学ECAの全生徒達へ - ブログにようこそ！

Hello to all ECA students,

Image "Young Boy Holding Notebook" courtesy of stockimages/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Image "Young Boy Holding Notebook" couresy of stockimages/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

How are you? I'm Lee Arnold. Welcome to my blog! On it I will post videos, pictures and other things for you for our classes. You can write comments here if you have a Gmail or any Google account (英語とか日本語がどちでもいい). 

If you use TypePad, you can also write comments here too. Let's have fun in our classes! 
classes! 
ブログにようこそ！ブログが授業のためにヴィデオ、写真、画像やアップする。もしGmailとか他のGoogleのアカウントがあり、コメントをアップができる。TypePadのアカウントもコメントができる。楽しいクラスしましょう！

Now - I will show you a little bit about myself. 

This picture is of me and my wife's family. We're enjoying hanami. Did you have a hanami party this year?  

I hope I can be your teacher this year! Let me show you some pictures of me and my family. You can ask me about these pictures. I'll be happy to tell you about them. Here's the first picture:

Here's some more. Ask me about these!

Please ask me about these! I have things to tell you - and I hope you can tell me about yourselves.

ができる。楽しいクラスしましょう！

ントができる。楽しいクラスしましょう！

Let's have a great semester together!  

あとでね！See you in class!