Teaching Vocabulary

Choose the appropriate alternative for each statement below

Really knowing a word means knowing _____.

• denotation meaning and imaginative meaning

• imaginative meaning

• denotation meaning

Knowing a word involves understand its forms distinguished by _____.

• what part of speech the word is

• how the word is Pronounced and spelt

• Both are correct.

Meaning of some vocabulary items is created by.......

• adding prefixes of suffixes

• making compound words

• All are correct.

• words that often occur together

To distinguish the meaning of words, items can be grouped into _____.

• synonyms (words with similar meaning)

• antonyms (words with opposite meaning)

• lexical sets ( words that belongs to the same topic)

• all of them

When we focus on the form of language we _____.

• talk with classmate

• listen to video and audio cassettes

• pay attention to accuracy and use

Only difficult and formal words used in written language are worth teaching.

• True

• False

Mime is very useful for teaching action verbs and it can help to keep students engaged and retain new words.

• True

• False

Substitution works best with concrete words that can be easily seen or touched.

• True

• False

Substitution can also work well with beginner-level students.

• True

• False

Students need to learn words in context and encounter new words multiple times to effectively acquire them.

• True

• False