Integrated task

• Clarify your purpose of teaching the vocabulary

• Describe your teaching situation

• Give a theoretical rationale for teaching vocabulary in your situation

• Design a three-phase activity to teach the vocabulary

• Produce a transcript of how the activity went on in class or with your peers

• Reflect on the procedure

• Draw conclusions.

Answer Keys

Warming-up discussion 1.1

1 D 2T 3T 4T 5T 6F 7D

SAQ 1.1

A 4,5; B 1,2; C 3, 6,7

SAQ 1.2

1J, 2A, 3B, 4D, 5E, 6I, 7G, 8C, 9F, 10H

SAQ 2.1

1B 2C 3D 4C 5B 6A 7A

Exploratory task 1.2

hammer, food, door, poor, soup, table, car

Exploratory task 1.3

1 the entrance hall, 2 opposition, 3 meals three times a day or more, 4 on the ship, 5 departure time for the plane, 6 the lost weight, 7 the reduced price

Exploratory task 1.5

1 silly 2 stupid 3 crazy 4 lovely 5 cuddly

Exploratory task 1.6

A partially melted snow, B partially frozen rain, C the ratio of effective output and the time spent, D the food served and eaten in one sitting E any meat products roasted on the open fire for fun, recreation or entertainment

Exploratory task 1.8

1 b, 2 d, 3 a c e f g

Exploratory task 1.9

“handsome” only furniture, price and man; “charming” only woman, child, dress and voice; “lovely” all the words in the list but “man”

Exploratory task 1.10

1 overgrown garden, 2 overcrowded hospital 3 oversimplified explanation 4 well-balanced diet 5 well-paid job 6 hard-up 7 high-ranking 8 clear-cut 9 up-front 10 far-fetched 11 king-size 12 bed-ridden

Exploratory task 1.11

1 slab 2 slice 3 grain 4 speck 5 swab 6 fragment 7 scrap

Exploratory task 1.12

1 shell, 2 peal, mash, 3 shred, 4 dice, 5 beat, 6 whip up, 7 toss, 8 slice, 9 strain, 10 grate, 11 chop, 12 stir 13 sift, 14 knead

Exploratory task 1.13

1 advised, 2 yelled, 3 muttered, 4 gasped, 5 sighed, 6 shouted, 7 stammered, 8 murmured, 9 groaned

Exploratory task 1.14

1F 2E 3D 4C 5B 6A 7G

Exploratory task 1.15

cry with tears, weep with emotions, sob with noise, wail mournfully, being upset, after withholding emotions

Exploratory task 1.16

A 4, B 5, C 6, D 3, E 8, F 9, G7, H1 L2

Exploratory task 1.17

pain is in part of the body, ache is continuous, agony is intense, souring is on touch, sting is sudden, stiff is when moving

Exploratory task 2.2

List 1 is random. List 2 is made up of the computer-related words

Exploratory task 2.3

eve, new

Exploratory task 2.5

sick, tick, click, stick, thick, brick, kick, pick, quick, lick

Exploratory task 2.7

cut, sprained, fractured, concussion, burnt, bruise, twisted

Exploratory task 2.8

1A, 2B, 3B, 4A, 5B, 6A, 7B, 8B, 9A

Exploratory task 2.10

List of foods: lemon juice, honey, butter, peanuts, olives, bananas, ice cream, yoghurt, fish and chips, beer, Indian curry, grapefruit, peaches, coffee, vinegar, thick onion soup, almonds, sausages, crisps

Glossary

Activation of mental lexicon is arousing a chain reaction in the brain and making the words accessible for communication (usually a lot more words than necessary get activated in the brain)

Allusion is making an indirect reference

Circumlocution is a roundabout expression of meaning

Coinage of words is creation of non-existent words

Collocation is made of two or more words often placed together in oral or written speech

Comprehension of words is understanding the meaning of words

Co-ordinates are words with a meaningful relationship between them e.g. “red + blood”

Derivation is the process of producing words from a stem with the help of affixation and other word-building models (e.g. conversion from nouns to verbs)

Idiom is a figure of speech, the meaning of which cannot be drawn from its elements

Lexical cloze is filling the gaps in the meaningful text with the target words

Lexical competence is the knowledge of how to use vocabulary for communication

Lexical mind-map is a cluster of words that are associated with a central concept

Lexicon is vocabulary that is often specialised and related to a certain field

Mental lexicon is vocabulary in mind

Metaphor is a figure of speech, in which lexical meaning is shifted to a different object and a word is used to denote figuratively a dissimilar thing (often done to add more expression to speech)

Mnemonic exercises are used to facilitate memorisation of words

Phrasal verbs consist of a verb and a preposition/adverb making up an idiomatic expression

Polysemy is the property of many words to have more than one meaning

Register is the choice of vocabulary best suited for a communicative situation (e.g. talking to children requires a special register)

Retrieval of words is accessing the words in the long-term memory for the purposes of using them

Storage of words is keeping words in the long-term memory

Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is a situation when a person has accessed the meaning of the word but is failing to access the word form with many alternative “word candidates” revolving in mind

Vocabulary is the sum of words that have been acquired by a particular person

Word reinforcement is the process of making words stick in memory through meaning interpretation, drill and communicative use

Word-clusters are the words brought together by associations

Word-meaning interpretation is elicitation of lexical meaning for the purpose of comprehending the words

Word-pragmatics is the relationship between the words and intended/comprehended lexical meaning