Building word power through free association

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Building word power through free association

• By Joyce Lee

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• What is free association?
• A thought process in which ideas (focus
  words) suggest other ideas (phrases) in a
  sequence

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Rationale

• focus word
• ? useful expressions
• point
• ? chunks
• short, familiar words
• ? verb phrases
• ? noun compounds

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Free association by focus word

• Why?
• When?
• How?
• 1. Weekly words
• as focus word
• free association
• 2. Individual students
• volunteer to explain
• different items
• 3. Brainstorming
• 4. Group competition
• 5. Worksheet

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Possible focus words
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1. Body parts head, face, hand, mouth, eye,
back, lip
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• 2.
• Common
• nouns
• as
• focus
• word

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Home
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On the house
Bring down the house
House-sit
(Pets) be housebroken
HOUSE
Under house arrest
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Double
Double-cross
On the double
Double play
Double-parking
Double standard
Double scoop
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3. Animals pig, beef, horse, bird, fish
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4. Common actionstalk, walk, watch , fly, watch,
eat
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• 5.
• VERB
• AS
• FOCUS
• WORD

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Make
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keep
Keep up the good work
Keep up with the Joneses
Keep out of the reach of children.
Keep ones fingers crossed
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Go
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Take
Take charge of
Take after
Take to
Take effect
Take it out on
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Come
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Turn
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Get
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CALL
Be on call
Call the roll
Call it a day
A close call
Call sb. names
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• 6.
• Color words as focus

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Red
Red meat
Paint the town red
A red-carpet welcome
See red
In the red
A red-eye flight
Red-light district
Red tape
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White
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Black
black coffee
black sheep
black comedy
a blackout
put sth. down in black and white
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pink
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Blue
out of the blue
blue movie
navy blue
blue joke
blue-sky thinking
Monday blue
once in a blue moon
a bolt from the blue
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THANK YOU!