Fossilisation Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Learners need complete sentences/formulaic language/ language in chunks/ collocations - AnswerGives learners confidence when speaking/ helps with fluency/ helps with accuracy/ increases confidence in receptive skills Students need a focus on features above sentence level - Answer-May be different from their cultures/ successful language use requires attention to level features/ can focus on staging, not just language Students need to be sensitive to the style of a text - Answer-Level of for...

Carbon Cycle -Answer Largest Carbon Store = Lithosphere/ Sedimentary (100,000,000 PgC) Largest yearly flux = Photosynthesis (103 PgC from Atmosphere 560 to Biosphere 2,060) Smallest Carbon Store = Atmosphere/ Plants (both 560 PgC) Smallest yearly flux = Sedimentation/ fossilisation (0.2 PgC from Deep Oceans 38,000 to Fossil Fuels 4,000) Geological carbon formation -Answer 1. Coal = duration and heat intensity influences %C 2. Limestone = compaction/cementing of shells 3. Crude Oil =...

fossilisation - The premature stabilisation of a learner's interlanguage modal verbs/modality - Used to indicate ones attitude or judgement towards the message at hand. Often used with an interpersonal function in conversation - to soften one's language and avoid any loss of face in either speaker or listener. deixis - can be personal, temporal or spatial, used to refer to immediate context. e.g you, we; now, next week, here, there. delexical verbs - those verbs where the main meaning is...

Lectures 1/4 summarized including pictures

Detailed notes on the processes of fossilisation, the fossil record, and the fossil groups. Includes labelled diagrams.