::My five frequent words::

WORD: But
MEANING: Used to give force to a statement
GR. INFO: used to emphasize that something will happen even if the person you are talking to does not want it to.
COLLOCATIONS: Anything, for, last one, nothing, etc
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): This car has been nothing but trouble - it's always breaking down!
MY EXAMPLE: I think it would be ok but I prefer ice cream.
OTHER: I was sick but now I'm ok.


WORD: Think
MEANING: To believe something or have an opinion or idea
GR. INFO: To use the brain to decide to do something
COLLOCATIONS: That, About,
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): You think too much - that's your problem.
MY EXAMPLE: I think it was awesome.
OTHER: I think that's the best.


WORD: Thing
MEANING: Used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid naming it
GR. INFO: That was an unkind thing to say.
COLLOCATIONS: like, that, the
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): That was an unkind thing to say.
MY EXAMPLE: The thing is that is not cool at all
OTHER: The little thing over there.


WORD: Like
MEANING: To enjoy or approve of something or someone
GR. INFO: Comparisons too
COLLOCATIONS: To, should, would, just, feel,
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): Do you like fish?
MY EXAMPLE: Would you like to go out with him?
OTHER: That's like kind of fun.


WORD: Beacuse
MEANING: For the reason that
GR. INFO: To give reazons
COLLOCATIONS: of
EXAMPLE (From the dictionary): "Why did you do it?" "Because Carlos told me to".
MY EXAMPLE: Because I don't want to
OTHER: Because she said that

::Corpus::

A collection of texts, especially if complete and self-contained: the corpus of Anglo-Saxon verse. Plural also corpuses. In linguistics and lexicography, a body of texts, utterances, or other specimens considered more or less representative of a language, and usually stored as an electronic database. Currently, computer corpora may store many millions of running words, whose features can be analysed by means of tagging (the addition of identifying and classifying tags to words and other formations) and the use of concordancing programs. Corpus linguistics studies data in any such corpus.

If a texbook is Corpus based, we can already know that it is a good texbook. The thing is that Corpus is very important because it gives us a lot of information like frecuency. So, it means that the texbook have informationaccording to the current language. Usefull language, that the native speakers are using.

I think that it is very important for us as future teachers know about Corpus. We can see at school how children are learning things that are not useful at all. So, we can not make the same mistake with our future students, we have to teach frecuent language. We can ot teach "bathroom" anymore! beacuse native speakers don't use that word.

To sum up, I think that it is very important to learn about Corpus. Every teacher in the world have to know about this. I think that if we don't learn about how the word is changing every day we are going to make the same mistakes that our teachers at school. So, this is the time to change the world, and chilean education