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Title: Phrasal Verbs Acquisition through the Analysis of its Particles


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Phrasal Verbs Acquisition through the Analysis of
its Particles
  • Instructional Technologies in Second Language
    Acquisition
  • Universidad de Sevilla
  • May 2009

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INTRODUCTION
  • A Phrasal Verb is a verb consisting of two
    (sometimes three) parts a verb and an adverb or
    preposition. Most are formed from a small number
    of common verbs (such as get, go, come, put and
    set) and a small number of adverbs and
    prepositions (such as away, out, off, up and in).
  • Phrasal verbs sometimes have meanings that can
    easily be guessed (such as sit down or look for).
    But in most cases their meanings are quite
    different from the meaning of the verb they are
    formed from for example hold up can mean 'to
    cause a delay' or 'to try to rob someone' and has
    no obvious connection with the idea of 'holding'
    something.

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  • Our intention is to trigger the productive skills
    of the English learner through the understanding
    of the meanings of the root verb and the
    preposition/adverb, which form an entirely new
    lexical entity. We will complete a series of
    exercises to learn the semantic role of the
    prepositions or adverbs, which will help us to
    unveil the meaning of the phrasal verbs thus
    formed.

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TASK
  • We are going to try and understand the meaning of
    a number of phrasal verbs through the analysis of
    the separate meanings of the root verb and the
    adverb or preposition. In order to do that we
    will follow the following steps
  • We will first look at the common semantic roles
    of the particles that normally follow a root verb
    to form a phrasal verb.
  • Then we will establish the meanings of the root
    verbs.
  • Finally, you will have to complete an exercise to
    enhance the understanding of the meanings of the
    proposed phrasal verbs.

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PROCESS
  • You have already taken a pre-test on phrasal
    verbs. We are trying to learn the meaning of a
    group of phrasal verbs by analysing the separate
    meanings of their particles in order to guess
    their actual meaning.
  • We will first complete Exercise 1 to learn the
    usual meanings of the particles that make up
    phrasal verbs.
  • Secondly, we will check the meaning of the root
    verbs that we are going to study in step 3.
  • Finally, we will do a matching exercise. Here,
    we'll match 20 phrasal verbs with their meanings.
  • In the next slide, we have the exercises and we
    can also see these phrasal verbs in context, in
    order see their meaning even clearer.

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TRAINING
EXERCISES
Exercise 1 meaning of prepositions
Exercise 2 meaning of the root verbs
Exercise 3 meaning of phrasal verbs
Verbs in context
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CONCLUSION
  • We have tried to approach the learning of phrasal
    verbs through the understanding of the separate
    meanings of their particles. This way, we can
    make an educated guess of the aggregate meaning.
  • We can try and use this strategy with all the
    phrasal verbs we may come across.
  • Also, we will see whether the acquisition of such
    vocabulary is different in a classroom
    environment -with a PowerPoint presentation- and
    an autonomous learning environment -using this
    Web Quest-.
  • If you are interested in learning more about
    Phrasal Verbs, please visit the following links
    1 - 2 - 3

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THE END
  • Thanks a lot for your undivided attention!
  • This PowerPoint presentation is available at
    www.rafamoreno.com
  • You can also visit the WebQuest by clicking here.
  • Now it is time for another test!!!
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