Your assignment for the next class is connected with you studying one of the online dictionaries located at http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/germanic.html#english.
This is what you should do:
1. Go to the site the link to which you can see above.
2. Choose a specific dictionary (choose it based on your current needs, i.e. some dictionary that you think you might use in your daily activities or based on something that made you interested).
3. Study a number of entries in the dictionary of your choice to see if it provides the information that satisfies you: for example,if it's easy to search, if it provides pronunciation, grammatical information, examples of words in context, something else.
4. Write a journal entry in which you need to include the following information:
a) dictionary address
b) dictionary type
c) description of a typical entry
d) your assessment of how useful the dictionary is for the purposes you would like to use it
e) (optional) recommendation for your peers about whether to use it or not
You should complete this assignment by Wd. and bring it typed to class.
Let me know if you have any further questions and/or need help with this task.
The other assignment for Wd is for ONE of you to prepare a presentation of your favorite dictionary (information similar to that above should be provided). In addition, you should make up an exercise to accompany your presentation the purpose of which is to show some distinguishing feature(s) of the dictionary you are presenting. Here are some ideas for exercises (it's just a suggestion in case you run out of ideas:)):
a) a fill-in exercise
b) a circle-a-word exercise
c) a crossword puzzle
d) a substitution exercise
e) a matching exercise
f) a set of open-ended questions
The purpose of any of these is for you to demonstrate a distinguishing feature of your dictionary.
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