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Short activitivity to show how flexibile our language is and how d...

Chris Scaturo

Short activitivity to show how flexibile our language is and how difficult collective learning would have been for our non sapien ancestors.
 
Step 1: As a class, choose 200 random words. (I had 15 kids choose 14 words each)
 
Step 2: Answer the following questions using only the words listed:
 
1. How should we try to kill that mammoth?
2. Explain why you should marry me.
3. Give directions for a simple task.
4. Come up with a plan to improve our cave.
5. Describe a physical landscape.
6. Come up with your own question!

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  • I've also just run across a cultural related vocabulary-based speech "generator" with a relatively small vocabulary that could also particularly be used for an exercise similar to 's. www.crumbles.co/
     
    It takes its vocabulary list and allows the user to pick and choose from the short list of words to create their own sentences. These sentences are then "played" by way of short video clips from relatively popular movies/television shows that are strung together in a near natural way. Meant in some ways as a possible internet meme generator, some may find it an interesting/entertaining tool for such an exercise. They have other alternate "vocabularies", for example a Homer Simpson version in which all of the vocabulary is comprised of video clips taken from Homer Simpson scenes of the cartoon "The Simpsons."
     
    (Do skim through the vocabulary as some may find a few words racier than some classrooms may tolerate.)
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  • I've also just run across a cultural related vocabulary-based speech "generator" with a relatively small vocabulary that could also particularly be used for an exercise similar to 's. www.crumbles.co/
     
    It takes its vocabulary list and allows the user to pick and choose from the short list of words to create their own sentences. These sentences are then "played" by way of short video clips from relatively popular movies/television shows that are strung together in a near natural way. Meant in some ways as a possible internet meme generator, some may find it an interesting/entertaining tool for such an exercise. They have other alternate "vocabularies", for example a Homer Simpson version in which all of the vocabulary is comprised of video clips taken from Homer Simpson scenes of the cartoon "The Simpsons."
     
    (Do skim through the vocabulary as some may find a few words racier than some classrooms may tolerate.)
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