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Verb patterns (1)

Verbs with two objects; verb + object + adjective;
verb reflexive pronoun; verb + each other / one another

Context listening

PEI You are going to listen to part of an introductory lecture in a
course on first language learning. Do you know what your first words
were? Or the first words of a child you know?

m OR The lecturer tells the students about the first five
lectures in the course. Here are the titles of these lectures. Listen and
number them in the order they will take place.
Language learning problems: what and why?
Listening and learning; the interrelationships
Early communication: parents and play
Patterns of communication: learned behaviour?
Private conversations: talking to toys 1

CH Listen again and fill in the gaps.
bought my two-year-old claughtex a cudolliA elePhant
I recently (1)
and it has become the 'person she talks to each morning lying in bed.
The first stage of interactive play might be a child (2)
or (3)
A broken toy handed to a parent with an 'Aaa' might mean

(4) '

(5) is a similarly important part of this process
of listening and understanding.
Dr Jackman will be (6) in detail in later talks.
1.4 Which of the following patterns do the phrases you have written have?
1
a verb + person/people + thing(s)
and

and

b + person/people
for
verb + thing(s)+
and
verb + thing(s) + to + person/people
1111 Decide whether the phrases in 1.3 could be rewritten using the other patterns.
1 a daughter a. cucLcllid elephant
=bought my two-year
b / =bought a cuddly elephanit for my two-yeov-okt. daughter
c
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X
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