Project 522 . PodCast Lessons
Once PodCast technology -- Project 221 is accomplished, we can start with a sample Lesson.
Scope
1. Introduce two characters, Jim and Carrie (Dick and Jane-like) with
picture and name.
a few objects -- box, table, seat, cart. . .
action/verbs: put-take, go-come, see, say, keep-let
Exercise using the few above.
Jim see Carrie
Carrie say, "Hello."
Carrie come
Carrie put box
Jim take box.
Jim keep box.
Carrie let box
Carrie say "good bye".
Jim go
2 . Introduce
the , a and sometimes "an"
Directions (preposition) for objects "to-from" "on-off",
Nouns: ball, book, food, tree
Exercise: Repeat with articles and prepositions.
3. Introduce
And
Pronouns : I, you, we, you.
Nouns : dog, cat, horse, cow, bird, fish
Characters : Fido and Kitty ?
Verbs that take objects: give-get, send-keep
Directions (preposition) for direction "in, by, with, etc.
4. Introduce
Verb : "is" with "be" and derivatives
Adjectives:
red, green, blue, yellow, brown, black, white, gray
great, common, small,
Gender : he, she, it
Nouns : man, woman, boy, girl
5. Introduce
pronouns : he, they.
nouns : family, father, mother, brother, sister
rest of operators: have, make, do, seem
adjectives: long-normal-short old-new - young
Plural ; -s, and often -es
Future:
operators: cause, because
nouns : persons, picture, paper, food, drink, machine, bed
pronouns of ???: me, my, our, us, them
possessive 's
possessives : mine, ours, yours, theirs
Introduce a / "an"
Introduce preposition (of for at from as)
Introduce tense: -ed, will
Conjunctives: but, or
nouns: body, head, eye, face, side, back, arm, heart, hair
nouns: earth, water, air, fire, sky, space
nouns: building, house, church, station,
street, way, river, sea
room, door, window, floor
year, week, month, minute, hour, century, minute, second
train, ship, plane, car/cart/carriage
Ogden, Richards
Negation : un-
Tense : -ing
Doer : -er
Adverbs : -ly
Question: Reverse order, "W" words.
Most Frequent Words in English
40 words/derivatives = 40% of all usage.
Articles a/an,the, Verb "be", prepositions "of, in" and "and" make up 20%.
Articles : the, a/an
Verbs: be, have, do, say future: will
Prepositions : (of in to for with on by at from as)
Conjunctives: and, but, or
Pronouns: he, him, his, it, its, I, me, my , they, them, their
you, your, she, her , we, us, our
that, this, these, those, which
Negation : No, not
Possessive: 's
Tense: -ed, will,
Nouns : none make top 40 words, few in top 500.
pictureables : body parts; earth,water,air ; buildings,town,street,river ; train,ship,plane,; room,window,floor ; family
persons, book, table, picture, paper, horse, food, machine, tree, dog, bed
Status
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