Vocabulary Flashcards
Almost every reading lesson includes a stage where the teacher will assist students with (?)
Vocabulary
Vocabulary refers to the (?) of words a student knows in the target language.
Number
A students (?) vocabulary refers to all the words he/she has been taught.
Passive
The key to building a students passive vocabulary is to get them to practice (?), (?), (?), and (?) a new word.
Hearing
Speaking
Seeing
Writing
An active vocabulary encompasses all the words that a student can (?) draw on for use in language production. It refers to words that students can (?) “of the top of their heads”
Actively
Recall
When learning a second language a student is bombarded with new words, but only the ones with which he/she has a (?) connection and a specific reason to use become part of their (?) vocabulary.
Personal
Active
A group of words that have some common function or place in language, is known as a ?
I.e
A list of different types of fruit or animals, or
A list of irregular past verbs
Lexical Set
The most effective way to present new (?) is to provide examples of the language in (?)
Vocabulary
Context
True / False
The attitude of “let the student guess the meaning” from the context of the sentence, over “immediately look up the dictionary” , should be adopted in a English Vocabulary Lesson.
True
Students should be given the opportunity to (?) a words meaning before being (?) with its meaning.
Infer
Presented
As with grammar rules and structures, it’s best to (?) (?) language from students at every opportunity.
Elicit target
True / False
Translating a new word from English to the students L1, is helpful for them to connect the word in the students mind.
False
You should continually draw students attention to (?), (?) and (?)
suffixes, prefixes and roots.
By getting students into the habit of looking at words as (?), it allows them to better predict meaning.
Constructions
When you discuss vocabulary, it is important to consider what it means to (?) a (?)
Know a word
True or false
A good passive vocabulary test is to give students a list of words to memorize which they must recall on a test.
True
True or False:
When you allow students to engage with the target vocabulary thru each of the four skills, they have a very high chance of adding it to their passive vocabularies.
True
True or false:
When vocabulary is given focus in a lesson, opportunities must exist for students to produce the language in a meaningful way. This requires greater creativity by the teacher than mere listen and repeat or lists of words to memories tasks.
True
True or false:
To completely add a new word to their active vocabulary, a longer period of time should be spent practicing the word.
True
True or False:
Vocabulary (or lexis) is often taught in lexical sets
True
True or False:
A lexical set is list of unrelated words
False
Yes / no:
Could a list of different animals or fruit be considered a lexical set
Yes
Yes / No:
Could a list of irregular past verbs be considered a lexical set.
Yes
True or False:
Vocabulary is almost always taught as lexical sets:
True
True or false:
The most effective way to teach vocabulary is not to look up the meaning of a word straight away, but to guess its meaning from the context of the sentence.
True
True or false:
When Vocabulary is presented on the board, students need to be shown the “part of speech”. The word “digging” for example could be used as a noun (gerund), a continuous verb or an adjective, depending on context.
True
