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How to look up a word in a bilingual dictionary (English- Spanish)

Aim:
The aim of this task is for the students to see that  grammar class and general meaning of a sentence are crucial before looking up words in the dictionary. Even then choosing the correct word can be difficult. Students need an English/Spanish dictionary. Ideally they should do the following exercise in the computer room using the dictionary in www.wordreference.com


Download the documents  from this link: HERE 

You will need:
  • Answer Sheet for the Teacher 
  • Tasks for the students. 
You need not make photocopies. Just project the document on your whiteboard.



Download the documents  from this link: HERE

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello! I agree with you that it is not enough to watch the meaning of the words in the dictionary, the whole context should be taken into consideration. Thank you also for providing such useful tasks! They helped me a lot in studying Spanish.
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Maria Zabala Peña said...

Thanks for your comment! Online translators can do an OK job if you write very simple sentences in your language and if you use very basic vocabulary. Your punctuation should be correct and in Spanish your accents too. The word "tenía" (with accent on the "i") is the past of the verb "have", the word "tenia" (without accent) is the "tapeworm". An online dictionary will translate wrong if you accents are not properly written. In this case for exameple, nobody would understand your sentence.

Tenia un perro = * tapeworm a dog!"!