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Teaching Vocabulary
1. What do you need to learn & to teach?
1 How many words are there in English? At least:
a) 10,000 b) 100,000 c) 250,000 d) 500,000
2 Winston Churchill was famous for his particularly large vocabulary. How many words did he use in his writing?
a) 10,000 b) 60,000 c) 100,000 d) 120,000
3 How many words does the average native English speaker use in his/her everyday speech?
a) 2,500 b) 5,000 c) 7,500 d) 10,000
4 How many words make up 45% of everything written in English?
a) 50 b) 250 c) 1,000 d) 2,500
5 What do you think are the most common 20 words in English?
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On average, every 100 sentences have up to 300 prepositions, 200 pronouns and about a hundred of other words of this category – structural and functional words (auxiliary verbs, modal verbs, conjunctions) – they should be introduced at an early stage and worked out systematically.
2. Eliciting, focus on criteria for selecting vocabulary. Share your attitude to learning and teaching vocabulary: How many words provide a working vocabulary in a foreign language? (Active vocabulary - speaking & writing) What are the best words to learn first? In the early stages of learning a second or foreign language, are some words more useful to the learner than others? Are some words more difficult to learn than others? Can words be grated for ease of learning?
What are the (main) best means of retaining new words? Is it most practical to learn words as single items in a list, in pairs (for example, as translation equivalents, synonyms or opposites) or in context?
Make a list of words young learners have already known at the beginning of the course.
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3. Brainstorm. In groups decide what it means to know a word.
4. Summary and input on the nature of lexical competence (HO1)
5. Analysis of exercises for different aspects of lexical competence (HO2)
6. Summary (HO3)
What does knowing a new word mean?
1 How could you write these words in phrases to help you remember them?
a) royal b) dissuade c) king d) up to my ears e) independent f) get married
2 What grammatical notes would you make beside the following words?
a) scissors b) weather c) teach d) advice e) lose f) trousers
3 What might you note beside the following words?
a) subtle b) catastrophe c) photograph/photographer d) answer
4 What might you note beside the following words about their register?
a) guys b) persons c) people
5 What phrases could you pick out of the text about vocabulary that could be useful to learn?
English vocabulary has a remarkable range, flexibility and adaptability. Thanks to the periods of contact with foreign languages and its readiness to coin new words out of old elements English seems to have far more words in its core vocabulary than other languages. For example, alongside kingly (from Anglo-Saxon) we find royal (from French) and regal (from Latin). There are many such sets of words which add greatly to our opportunities to express subtle shades of meaning at various levels of style.
7. Eliciting different techniques of presenting vocabulary. (Visual Techniques & Verbal Techniques) What techniques do you personally prefer to present vocabulary and why.
8. Feedback on ways of presenting vocabulary (HO4)
9. Practice in appropriate presentation techniques. Choose presentation technique appropriate for the level of students. Role play your presentations and discuss their effectiveness.
Group 1 - tiger, handbag, August, medicine (primary level)
Group 2 - wonderful, yell, ignorant, skinny (pre-intermediate level)
Group 3 - vote, strenuous, thatch, disappear (intermediate level)
Vocabulary HO1
Components of Knowing a Word
W
ORD
USE
MEANING
FORM
METAPHOR, IDIOM
a real know-all
to be in a black mood
CO LLOCATION
to ride a bike/horse
to drive a car/train
REGISTER & STYLE
FORMAL
offsprings
NEUTRAL
children
INFORMAL
kids
DENOTATION
a brick - a hard block of baked clay (direct meaning)
CONNOTATION
a brick - a good person who you can depend on when you are in trouble
HYPONYMY
furniture: a sofa, a table
POLYSEMY
a book to book
HOMONYMY
right rite write
SYNONYMY
sofa - divan
cheerful - happy
ANTONYMY
good - bad
sad – unhappy
GRAMMAR
Nouns Verbs Adjectives etc.
PRONUNCIATION
SPELLING
WORD-BUILDING
Vocabulary HO2
The Nature of Lexical Competence
Study the tasks below and identify which aspect of lexical competence is being developed.
1. In the following lists of words, three words rhyme and one does not. The two vowel sounds are given to help you. Example
[i:] or [e]
mean weak head sea
2. Look at the list of sports and leisure activities below. Insert to go, to do or to play.
__________basketball
__________skating
__________fishing
__________exercises
__________athletics
3. Look at the nouns in the box below and write them in the correct column.
movie |
brush |
artist |
writer |
piano |
actor |
novel |
composer |
ART MUSIC LITERATURE CINEMA
4. Complete the charts with the different parts of speech. Mark the stress. Use your dictionary to help you with the pronunciation.
VERB |
NOUN |
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ar'rangement |
'practise |
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ad'vice |
ac'cept |
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5. Look at the words on the board: good-looking, guy, sociable, loyal.
Read the text in your books and try to find synonyms to the words on the blackboard.
6. Where can you see or hear the following? Match column A with column B.
A |
B |
1. Is service included? 2. Yours faithfully, Valentina Bykova 3. Don't forget to give my love to children 4. No, I'm just looking, thank you |
a) Informal letter b) Shop c) Formal letter d) Restaurant |
7. In the following pairs of sentences one meaning of the multi-word verb is literal and the other one is idiomatic. Say which is which.
Example: The plane to Kyiv has taken off. (idiomatic)
Take the lamp off the table. (literal)
8. What is the opposite of each of the following adjectives?
Sociable, tidy, reserved, mean, moody, talkative, reliable, lazy, pessimistic.
9. Rephrase the following sentences without using get.
a) If I got a job, I wouldn't have enough time for my hobby.
b) I've got a cat.
c) They got in through a window.
d) If you don’t hurry, you won't get the train.
e) The prisoners got away at night.
10. Here are two jumbled letters. One is written to a bank manager, and the other to a friend. Work in pairs. Decide which sentences go with which letter, and put them in the right order.
11. There are many silent letters in English words. Cross out the silent letters in the following words.
a) talk d) receipt
b) listen e) iron
c) knee f) whistle
12. Rewrite the sentences, using the word in italics in a different word class.
Example
We had a lot of difficulty in doing the exercise.
It was difficult to do the exercise.
13. Look at the following lists of words. Which three words in each list cannot go with the noun that starts the list?
People |
Food |
Towns |
crowded |
vegetarian |
exciting |
young |
disgusting |
old |
antique |
tasteful |
young |
tall |
wealthy |
antique |
high |
starving |
capital |
rude |
fast |
modern |
hilarious |
unsafe |
crowded |
14. Match an adjective in column A with a strong adjective in column B.
A |
B |
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1. |
cold |
a) |
superb |
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2. |
hot |
b) |
brilliant |
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3. |
good |
c) |
awful |
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4. |
dirty |
d) |
freezing |
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5. |
bad |
e) |
hilarious |
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6. |
clever |
f) |
boiling |
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7. |
funny |
g) |
revolting |
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8. |
unpleasant |
h) |
filthy |
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Vocabulary HO3