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According to function: Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions School, sleep, happy, quickly, and, on According to word structure: Roots, prefixes, suffixes Auto-bio-graph-y Cv: curriculum vitae
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Teaching Vocabulary Antar Abdellah
Skills: Listening – Speaking- Reading – Writing
Elements: vocabulary – grammar- pronunciation – culture;
-adults: placement test “all levels test”… reading, grammar, writing, listening,… Scope and sequence
Language skills & language elements
Types of vocabulary According to function: Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,
conjunctions, prepositions School, sleep, happy, quickly, and, on According to word structure: Roots, prefixes, suffixes Auto-bio-graph-y Cv: curriculum vitae
Common prefixes Mal- Anti Mis- Non- Pseudo Contra, contro Dis Micro- Macro- Semi-,hemi-
Bi- Du- Mono- Multi- Tri- Pre- Post- Bene- Hydro- Hyper Hypo-
Common suffixes
nouns adjectives
-tion, sion, ion -age -ance,ence -cy -ism -ment -tude -ness -ity -ary,ory -ship -hood -dom -ery
-able,ible -ic -ern -ish -al,ial -y,ly -an -ive -ous,ious -less -ate -ful
Familiarize Ss with teaching techniques Enabling Ss to select teaching techniques Encouraging Ss to participate in vocabulary
activities Encouraging Ss to infer meaning of new
vocabulary Training Ss on using drills in teaching
vocabulary
Objectives of vocabulary instruction
1- point to the object, 2- pronounce the word 3- Ss repeat 4- use different techniques 5- write the word 6- Ss read the word 7- use the word in a sentence 8- Ss use the word in sentences of their own
Procedures in teaching vocabulary
The meaning The pronunciation The spelling The use The Derivations special connotations Collocations Synonyms and antonyms
Context: Through a senetnce Especially with abstract words Ex: the doctor asked her to stay in bed for a
week because she was very ill yesterday.
Techniques in presenting vocabulary
Describing out-of-reach concrete objects that are hard to draw quickly
Ex: a giraffe is an animal with a long neck, and dark brown spots on its yellow skin.
Description or definition
Effective especially in a place full of objects like a farm or zoo (animals), museum (artifacts), laboratory (chemical substances).
Objects; especially concrete things Drawings; tree, flower, ladder Mime; action verbs; sleep, run, eat
Educational trips
Words that have similar, but not exact, meanings;
Costly, expensive Film, movie Gift, present
Antonyms Words that are opposite in meaning; strong,
weak, happy, sad Gradability of opposites; hot and cold.
Synonyms
His wife likes nobody Nobody likes his wife
Especially used with things that are hard to draw quickly
Or that include many items that can be taught in one lesson
Pictures
Used for showing differences among abstract words or data
Wall Charts
Last resort Only when Ss do not understand after using
some of the previous techniques Elicit the Arabic word from the Ss, do not
say it your self. Ali’s brother is naughty; he does not do his
homework, he makes a noise What is the meaning of naughty? شقي That’s right, repeat “naughty”.
Translation
Odd one out Blank is blank Error categorization Discrimination task Segmenting Correct me Sentence sense Ranking
preferences
Semantic clues Proofreading Sentence formation Multiple choice Word jumbles Related words Vocabulary quiz Crossword puzzle Either-or questions pp. 132-142
Vocabulary activities