English for Academic Teaching Purposes
Compiled entries due weekly on Fridays
This is a collaborative assignment to which all class participants will contribute at some point. Each week, the responsibility for collecting and recording the entries will be passed on to one or two class members (see the course syllabus for your assigned week). DOD ENTRIES SHOULD BE TO ee.tu|relhu#REFINNEJ EVERY FRIDAY. It is important that this deadline be met so that the entries can be posted on our website and your classmates can review the entries over the weekend in case they should wish to study for our weekly vocabulary discussions on Monday.
What constitutes an entry?
- Words
- Phrases
- Idioms
Sample Entries:
| Word and Part of Speech | Definition | Special Notes or Context |
|---|---|---|
| Mingle (v.) | to mix, to be mixed | mingling at a cocktail party |
| Gap (n.) | a break or open space; a break in time; an interval; a difference or disparity. | For example gender gap, generation gap, time gap etc. |
| Thee (n.) | An old word meaning you | Used in religious texts |
Gather items from conversations you have with your classmates, with professionals you must deal with (i.e., students, colleagues, administrators, associates, contacts made during travel, etc.), your English class, and especially other English-speaking faculty and students at the University of Tartu. Entries can be informal or formal, long or short, spoken by either native or non-native speakers of English—I only ask that you make entries which you feel will be useful for both you and your classmates.
If you think you know the meaning, definition, or use of the item you have entered, please describe it for us as well as you can. If it is something you heard, but don’t understand, we will discuss it in class together. Please do not copy dictionary definitions word-for-word. Paraphrase the new meaning for us and perhaps illustrate its meaning in a sentence or with other contextual clues. All new entries will be briefly discussed in class every Monday (approximately 5-10 minutes of the class period).
DOD Gatherers and recorders, when you have collected all entries, simply send them to ee.tu|relhu#refinneJ so that she can upload them to our DOD collection. In the subject line of your post, please write “DOD” and the date of your submission. The dictionary does not need to be alphabetized or grouped in any way. Closer to the end of the course, we will look at the list as a whole and collaborate on a way to group the vocabulary items.
