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Lesson
Plan: Proper Nouns & Proper Adjectives (Religions) Ron
Grove PP104 October
2005 level: advanced
(academic preparation) time: (online)
depends on learner aims:
to introduce and practice names of religions and their associated
proper adjectives--In my experience, these words are seldom used
consistently by Japanese college students. The equivalent terms in
Japanese being much simpler to form, remember, and use. Japanese
learners often produce utterances like "I am Buddha but you are
Christ" or "Why does Islam hate Jewish?" procedure: This
is intended as an online self-study unit. The materials follow. Proper
Nouns & Proper Adjectives: Religions In
English, you have to learn several different words to talk about
countries, their people, etc. This is more complicated than Japanese, as
in the example below.
The
same challenge exists in speaking about religions. Like words for
nations and nationalities, names of religions and the adjectives taken
from them are proper nouns and proper adjectives, so they always begin
with a capital letter. Because some of them come from other languages
and keep some of their original grammatical forms even in English, these
words about religions are often different from typical English words. First,
see how many words you know already. Use the exercise below. cloze-religions.htm (You
probably have to click the attached file above, not this apparent link.) Next,
see if you can fill in the table below.
If
you would like some more challenging work, find out what the words below
mean. 1)
Islamist 2)
Jewy 3)
Fundamentalism 4)
orthodoxy 5)
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