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Lab lesson, 21st May 2009 - Student directed learning
Work at your own pace. Ask for help if you need it. To get permission to join the blog, you need to send Vivienne an e-mail. You also need to check your e-mail to get the link that allows you to log in to the blog. However, once you have permission, work only on the blog and the concordancing site. This is not an appropriate time to chat to friends online, or do personal e-mail.

If you want to open a link in a different window, right-click on the link and select "open in new window" or "open in new tab".

Tasks:
1) Sign up to the RV521 blog. Send an e-mail to vjteacher (at) gmail (dot) com to get permission. [|rv521.blogspot.com]

You will need to make a Google ID in order to use this blog, so if you don't use Google or Gmail, you need to create a Google ID as the first step in joining the blog.

2) Look at the concordancing tool on the website "The Compleat Lexical Tutor" []

You can click the "concordances" link on the site, or just [|click here] Then click the first link that says [|"English"] Enter a word. You can then choose where to look for example text, including spoken English, or "Focus on Vocab". These choices are in a drop-down menu on the top right of the page after the words "in corpus". After you have chosen the settings you want, click the yellow "Get Concordance" button.

Have fun exploring the site. It is a very useful tool for looking at context for words.