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ESP – improving Business English Learners BEL vocabulary based 7

Grammatical feature:  noun + noun; adjective + noun; verb + noun; adverb + adjective.
For example: Dictionary-tablet 1 to 5 according to the grammatical principle.

VERB+NOUN

apply for a
find a
lose a
resign from a
take on a
do odd

job 
jobs




ADJECTIVE + NOUN

decent
a dream
a well-paid/a low-paid
a challenge
a part-time/full-time

job

Keyword:  do, make, get, speak etc.
For example:

speak

speak out
speak your mind
speak in favor of
speak up
generally(broadly) speaking

Topics:  holidays, travel, work, etc.
For example:

holiday

have/take a holiday
a family holiday
the school/summer/Christmas holidays
go on holiday
a holiday destination/resort

Jimmy Hill recommends spending more time on de-lexicalized verbs: get, put, do, make, take, have, keep, etc.
A student who knows 2000 words and 5-7 collocations with each of these words knows about 12000 expressions.
For example:  turn
turn up (turn down) /take a turn/ on the turn/ out of turn /turn on (turn off)/ in turn /turn out of the blue
2.2  Applying the lexical approach when working with text
Taking into account the recommendations of linguists,  successful practices for maintaining lexical dictionaries have been developed. It is most convenient to use a notebook with multi-colored removable blocks for a dictionary.
1st block. Thematic.  Phrases, set expressions and idioms are written according to the thematic principle. 
*All phrases are written in context. If necessary, a translation is written on L1 or an image (drawing) is attached
For example: "Spotlight 10 cells." Module 1a Text “Teenagers”, vocabulary related to “teens activities 
There are only two exercises for vocabulary on the topic “ teens activities " in the Module: exercise N1A with a grammatical component (most, a few, some, not many) and exercise N5 from the Everyday English section with a grammatical component (using the suffix -ing- after expressions of preference).
Word combinations and collocations on the topic “teens activities” from the text remain practically without processing and special attention.
When working with text, it is necessary to pay students' attention to phrases and collocations in the text. It can be pair or group work. AF texts from Module 1A are distributed among pairs or groups. The students choose and discuss the most interesting phrases and collocations to write in the dictionary.
Today much attention is given to the use of information communication technologies in ESP teaching. Computer assisted language learning (CALL) has got a new dimension due to the rapid development of new up-to-date technologies. M-learning, e-learning, u-learning are getting more and more popular because they provide access to authentic language environment 24 hours a day. Educative platforms, all sorts of dictionaries and thesauruses, international tests training programs have become available to everybody anytime. CALL seems to be a powerful tool for self-dependent learning first of all. The crucial role of language instructor is not being to be diminished at all.
Today ESP courses are gaining more and more popularity in Ukrainian educational paradigm. The generally accepted definition determines English for Specific Purposes as «the branch of English language education which focuses on training in specific domains of English to accomplish specific academic or workplace tasks» [8, p. 9]. One of the branches of ESP is English for Science and Technology, or EST. It is just the compulsory course taught in Ukrainian Technical Universities at the Bachelor level, and as such it is further subdivided into English for Computing, Mechanical, Power, Civil Engineering etc. It takes 182 academic hours and depending on the University lasts either four or eight semesters.
The course is aimed at developing students' competence in all kinds of reading research literature specific to their major fields, communication (including writing) with colleagues all over the world. To achieve the goal students are supposed to learn the appropriate grammar, vocabulary and pragmalinguistic or rhetorical elements. The focus is on recognition, identifying and understanding the English language discourse of science and technology through developing and enhancing comprehension of the materials published in the most popular and important journals and other scientific and technological editions.
The first stumbling block English teachers encounter starting their EST course is the inappropriate extremely low level of language competences of their first-year students. Presumably since 2015 Ukrainian school leavers' language proficiency should meet B1 requirements, but actually most students possess elementary language skills, the poorest among them being in grammar.
The results of diagnostic testing carried out at the Foreign Language Chair of VNTU at the beginning of each academic year show that only 12-15 % of first year students have acquired the school curriculum satisfactorily. This figure tends to fall down with every upcoming year. The situation is approximately the same in the majority of Ukrainian Technical Universities [1, p. 185]. Leaving the reasons for such situation at that English teachers have to take into account the low language level of most freshmen and manage their multi-level groups.
In most cases the approach is based on the thorough selection of authentic (sometimes adapted) reading materials that are relevant to students majoring in a certain technical area, interesting and at the right language level. Reading (all kinds of it) is combined with activities that explain specific rhetorical and discourse characteristics in order to facilitate comprehension. Such activities and supporting materials «serve as scaffold that builds on students' existing language and content knowledge to enable them to comprehend increasingly more complex research in science and engineering journals»
In addition to working with stable phrases in the text, it is recommended to perform different types of exercises on the compatibility of words.
There are different types of tasks and exercises for working with set phrases.


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