Task 2. EP.

English profile is about different groups working all together in order to understand what the Common European Framework really means for English. EP tries to develop or describe all the levels that the Common European Framework has (a1-a2 b1-b2 c1-c2). It also investigates what learning English really means by different groups in different levels of aptitude. EP wants to make or have a more concrete or more objective criteria about English in different levels and people as well.
I do think that EP should be adopted in learning English in Chile, because in that way, people would be learning not just English, since they would be learning it in a real way, which means, in the way that native speakers really use that language. I believe the same with the Common European Framework. Children nowadays are learning English in a way that is not really useful for them. And teachers also teach things that sometimes are not very common in those countries. So, when we speak with native speakers, we obviously sound far away from being native-speakers-like.

word list

WORD: Language
MEANING: referring to the same concept. Like a noun. : A system of communication consisting of sounds
GR. INFO: noun. uncountable and countable
COLLOCATIONS: same, foreign, acquire.
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): she does research into how children acquire language.
MY EXAMPLE: Learning a foreign language is very important nowadays.
OTHER: you have to use proper language.


WORD: Thing
MEANING: Used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid naming it
GR. INFO: noun, countable.
COLLOCATIONS: that, like, the
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): People say things they don't mean when they are angry. .
MY EXAMPLE: that was the worst thing I have seen.
OTHER: that is the main thing..


WORD: King
MEANING: used to name the man in charge of his place. A man ruler of a country
GR. INFO:.noun, countable.
COLLOCATIONS: the, of, and.
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): the kind is the most important piece on the board..
MY EXAMPLE: the king has to escape from there.
OTHER: this king is very unfair with people.


WORD: very
MEANING: used to emphasize an adjective, adverb, or phrase
GR. INFO: adverb, adjective.
COLLOCATIONS: much, good, much so.
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): The fishing industry is very important to the area.
MY EXAMPLE: the test is very stressful.
OTHER: this is very unpleasant for me.


WORD: together.
MEANING: For the reason that
GR. INFO: adverb, adjective, verb, noun.
COLLOCATIONS: get, go, keep, back.
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): They've decided to spend more time together.
MY EXAMPLE: we need to get together to discuss the topics.
OTHER: together we will work better.

task 1

Corpus is about an important collection of texts, especially if complete and self-contained: the corpus of Anglo-Saxon verse. Plural also corpuses. In linguistics and lexicography, a body of texts, utterances, or other specimens considered more or less representative of a language, and usually stored as an electronic database. At this time, computer corpora may store millions of running words, whose features can be analyzed by means of tagging (the addition of identifying and classifying tags to words and other formations) and the use of concordancing programs. Corpus linguistics studies data in any such corpus.

If a textbook is Corpus based, we know that it is a good textbook. The importance is that Corpus gives lots of information like frequency. So, it means that the textbook has information related to the current language, language that native speakers use.

In my opinion, corpus is really important for us as future teachers because that can help us know what to teach in terms of being natural, being in a real world, it is about teaching frequent words. Most of the schools show the way that children are learning many things that are not useful for them. The thing is that we, as future teachers, have to be responsible with our job without making the same.