ESL 33C Advanced English for Academic Purposes

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CREATING A REALIA
PORTFOLIO
Carleen Curley Velez, Ph.D.
UCLA Center for World Langauges
OVERVIEW
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Introductions
Ice Breaker
What is “realia”?
Why is realia important?
What can be done with realia?
Group project
ICE BREAKER
STAND UP IF YOU…
1. …know more than 3 languages.
2. …have children.
3. …are an only child.
4. …have more than 5 siblings.
5. …visited the USA before this trip.
6. …teach at a college or university.
7. …play an instrument.
8. …drive in your home country.
9. …like pizza.
10.…enjoy teaching English!
WHAT IS REALIA?
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Newspapers
Magazine pictures
Advertisements
Schedules
Vacation fliers
Forms
Maps
WHY IS REALIA
IMPORTANT?
WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH REALIA?
Newspapers
• Expand headlines
(adding articles
and/or auxiliary
verbs)
• Creating or locating
passive sentences
• Using present
perfect to present
current events
WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH REALIA?
Magazine Pictures
• Comparative/superla
tive adjectives
• “going to” or “about
to” to describe
imminent action
• Past progressive to
describe past
situation
• Past tense (turn
picture into story)
WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH REALIA?
Advertisements
• Comparative/superla
tive adjectives
• Comparative/superla
tive adjectives in
questions
• a/an/some/any in
shopping lists
• Yes/no questions
• Verbs of sensing +
adjective
WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH REALIA?
Schedule
• “Going to” to
express future plans
WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH REALIA?
Vacation Flyer
• “Going to” or “will”
to express future
plans
• Giving and
understanding
directions
• Reading and using
numbers
WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH REALIA?
Forms
• Interrogatives
in the present
WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH REALIA?
Maps
• Prepositions
of place or
directions
GROUP PROJECT
Instructions
Using the assigned realia from your folder, create a
way to use it for a beginning, intermediate, and
advanced level ESL activity.
Groups
1. Newspaper
2. Advertisement
3. Map
4. Coupons
5. Tourist information
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