Enriching

Basic Building

Blocks

VOCABULARY ACQUISITION

Nature of Words Words convey their meaning in context.

Consider the word dog and see how it changes its meaning in these expressions-dog days(hottest part of year), lead a dog’s life( be worried), go to the dogs( be ruined)

Words have more than one meaning.

It may surprise the reader that the word comehas 69 meanings; go 94,make 97, take 91; set as a verb has 126 meanings and 47as a noun.

HOW TO EXPAND VOCAB?

Expansion through the same pattern of

form.(care- careful)

Expansion through families of

words.(reason , reasonable,

unreasonable, reasonably)

Expansion through reading.

Expansion through word games.

Expansion through association.( school)

How to keep building

vocabulary?

Importance of teaching

collocations

Fixed expressions

IDIOMS

An idiom is an expression which means something different from the meanings of the separate words.

1.The acid test

2.Be alive and well

3.A different ball game

4. Add insult to injury

5.Behind sb‟s back

6.Give someone a hand.

Phrasal verbs

In English, there are many verbs which are made up of two or three words. These are called phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs may have a completely different meaning from the main verb.

1. They will cut off the telephone if you don‟t pay the bill.

2. I‟ve filled up the membership form.

3. Can you look after the car please?

Confusable Words

Try to show how confusable words differ in their meanings.

Examples of these confusables include affect, effect, implicit, explicit.economic, economical etc.

Hard is an adjective or adverb: a hard surface, a hard question, to work hard, to think hard.

Hardly is an adverb meaning „only just‟: „almost not‟.

He worked hard.( NOT He worked hardly.)

He hardly worked.

Revise or recycle

vocabulary?

Vocabulary notebook

Dictionary A-Z

Check the spelling of a word.

Find the meaning of a word.

Find how to use a word in a sentence.

Find when and where to use a word correctly.

Find the correct pronunciation of a word.

Fall in Love With A good Dictionary to Enrich the Basic Building Blocks!

ONE WORD EVERYDAY

Teach students how to chase words.

Puzzle out the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Words convey their meaning in context.

Inculcate good study habits in students to

enrich the basic building blocks.

THANK YOU

“Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above brutes, and thanks to words , we have often sunk to the level of demons.”

Aldous Huxley ( 1894-1963)

British Novelist and essayist.