<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>2:02 okay quiet now please thank you <,,><&>3 right face the front no talking <,> that's all of you <,,><&>4 right good morning now today i'm just going to go briefly over the um research assignment that we are going to do um we have a couple of periods in the library we can't get in there today groans because of cricket thank you gaelene <&>class laughs i will be able to send probably um about two or four of you up at ONCE if you're working for about twenty minutes and we could take turns that way and so we'll talk a bit about it now and i'm going to write up what you have to do and how you have to do it on the board so i want you to copy that down first and then i'm going to EXPLAIN it to you just do that quickly and quietly please <&>2:52 <&>five minutes forty eight seconds not transcribed while teacher writes on board and class copies <&>8:46 right we're going to learn about RESEARCH that's important to know <,,> in this world especially these days when there's so much information around <,> it's not necessary to be a walking encyclopedia like you might <&>9:00 think some of these people are who are on these game shows what IS important is that you understand <,,> um how things WORK and WHERE YOU CAN FIND out what you want to know when you want to know it this is why we teach you research process how to go about it how to FIND information and what to do with it when you've found it that's important because there are always times in our lives when we want to know things <,,><&>4 and if you don't learn anything else while you're at school this is something very important <,,> right <.>you your um topic is you are to research EITHER a hero from the past OR a hero from the present now it needs to be someone you've never researched before if you <,> researched these <.>people florence nightingale or whoever at um PRIMARY school intermediate as you probably have done <&>10:00 then you're not to do those people again all right we want you to learn some new information at the same time <,,><&>3 and it all adds to your general knowledge so for example ettie rout and te puea had quite a um effect on new zealand word yes yes it must be someone who is real life no one from t v no character um no myths someone in myths <,> or whatever <,,><&>6 now you do EITHER OR that means you don't do both you don't do both a hero from the past AND a hero from the present either or now when you present your research you must have a title page and some kind of appropriate image <,> what do i mean by <&>11:00 that <,,><&>3 terrence <,,><&>4 <{><[>what's an image matthew what's an image <[>word oh um <,,> <.>it <,,><&>6 um <,,> it's sort of like <.>a like a thing that's THERE is it well yes you're on the right track but we just need to narrow <.>it good something like a picture or photo so it could be something that you have DRAWN or copied or something or a picture of <,> whatever so it MIGHT be a picture of the person or it might be for instance if you are doing louis pasteur you might have um <,> a picture of some chemical tubes or something a petri dish <,,> that's something that's appropriate you should have the TITLE who you <.>ar who are you um word <,> the person that you are researching you should certainly have your name on it <&>12:00 printed at my initials <,> now at least TWO appropriate pictures now if you're doing something on louis pasteur and um and you have a motor car on the front it probably isn't an appropriate thing <.>to <,,><&>4 so two appropriate pictures somewhere in your research which of course will be labelled with a caption <,> what's a caption darryl word yeah good TABLE of CONTENTS that's important and it's a word um thing for you to get into using and now <.>here's who's er written a table of contents in research at sometime <.>befor in the past right one of you two of you good word okay um jeremy what is a table of contents where you write down what is IN the rest of it good and what kind of information <.>tha do you find <&>13:00 there word yes good and sometimes if it was in a book you would find ? pages right page numbers beside it i think someone called out then right thank you now a time line and you've probably seen time lines in <.>you um social studies and we can talk a bit more about those later in one to three pages tell us about the hero's life and deeds we want to know why they're a hero and all about their life history when they were born where they were born <,> whatever is relevant <,> now <.>i'd most of you i'd expect would <.>write you'd be able to write about three pages for six tell us WHY they're heroes i mean some people have done lots of things but what is it particularly that they have done that makes them seem heroes at least to you seven and a half page approximately why YOU admire this person yes word word yes it will be done on refill you make your working <&>14:00 notes in your book and while you're in the library <.>you you look into encyclopedias and books just note your notes down in <.>the on your PAGE <,,> but when we're in the um but when you hand it in you'll be doing it <.>on on pad paper how long will they be about a week or so oh gee <{><[><&>class groans and complains <[>you'll have class time <&>class continue to groan and complain we'll MAKE you <{><[>do a bit of HARD WORK i mean you haven't done a lot of homework for a while how many have done their reading half an hour reading every night since the beginning of this year <&>class comments <[>oh who can HONESTLY say they've read a book for at least HALF an hour every day <&>class laughs and comments atawhai <,> one person maybe so you've got a lot of catching up to do haven't you half page approximately <&>15:00 explaining what you did when you were researching how you went about it that's important to what we consider to be RESEARCH PROCESS talk a little bit more about that NOW before we go any further i think we really need to clarify WHO these people are <,,> people like <,> okay jot down now i know you've done this sort of thing before jot down REAL people who's past or present who um are famous in one way for <.>the <,> for good deeds or because they're heroic they might have saved someone er they might have done <.>something invented something found something out for science <,,><&>5 yes now tarzan and superman of course won't <,> qualify for this bit this is a list of real people see if you can read four names out right now begin <&>15:54 <&>four minutes thirty eight seconds not transcribed while class talks while jotting down names and occasionally asking the teacher questions <&>20:32 okay quiet now please face the front pens down <,,><&>3 no sound emanating from anywhere <,,><&>4 right good okay you're now starting to get some good names down let's go round the room tim <&>20:50 <&>eight minutes five seconds not transcribed while class suggests names of possible heroes <&>29:35 right thank you <,> what we're going to do now i want in the mean time for you to think tonight about who you might do <,,> um ask your parents if they can think of someone who was a hero that you perhaps could study and we'll talk some more about this tomorrow in the mean time we're going to write up a piece of writing we've got to do on the board a piece of imaginative writing <,,><&>3 right take about half an hour <&>30:04