1. Today’s Goal: You should know and be able to explain some of the different functions in a monolingual dictionary

2. Explorative Task O In pairs: have a look in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Discuss: 1. Besides the explanation of a word, what information can you gather from the dictionary? 2. Look up the word ”realize”. Which information do you get about this specific word? 3. Look up the word ”drink”. Which information do you get about this specific word?

3. Dictionaries Online O Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: O http://www.ldoceonline.com/ http://www.ldoceonline.com/ O Macmillan Dictionary: O http://www.macmillandictionary.com/ http://www.macmillandictionary.com/ O Norstedts Sve-Eng, Eng-Sve: O www.ord.se www.ord.se

4. How is the Word Used? O Synonyms, antonyms, and related words O Synonyms [SYN], antonyms [OPP], and related words are shown after the definition. O Collocation O Collocations are words that are often used with a particular word. Collocations are shown in bold. If a word has a lot of collocations, they are listed in a box at the end of the entry. O Thesaurus Notes O Thesaurus Notes explain the differences between words which are similar in meaning and give examples that show how they are used differently.

5. Phonetics /pr ɪˈ f ɜː (r)/ How is this word pronounced? Which word is it?

6. Phonetics /pr ɪˈ f ɜː (r)/ Prefer ɪ Indicates a short vowel of the letter ’i’ ˈ Indicates that the stress is on the nextcoming syllable ɜ ː Indicates a long vowel of the letter ’i’ (r)Indicates a variety of pronounciation, American accent

7. Wednesday September 11 O Anders substitute teacher O Individual assignments on dictionary use and phonetics

8. Today’s Goal: You should know and be able to explain some of the different functions in a monolingual dictionary