TKT Unit 2 Lexis

It refers to individual words or sets of words.

• base words

• lexis

• collocations

The meaning of some vocabulary items can also come from their:

• form

• grammar

• phonology

We add prefixes and suffixes to:

• collocations

• base words

• idioms

They get their meaning from being together and have different meaning from the individual words they are made up of.

• word family

• chunks of words

• compound nouns

These are words that regularly occur together:

• prefixes, sufixes and compounds

• collocations, fixed expressions and idioms

• superlatives, collocations and compounds

These are an example of ________.

to take a holiday, heavy rain, arrive at, depend on

• base words

• compounds

• collocations

They are expressions that can't be changed.

Example;

to tell you the truth, new born, it's up to you

• fixed expressions

• lexical set

• context phrases

To be under the weather, to have green fingers, once in a blue moon- are examples of:

• fixed expressions

• idioms

• collocations

_____ refers to language that occurs in (semi)- fixed units and that we usually learn as one piece.

• chunks

• collocations

• idioms

I'd like to, how about, My name's - are example of:

• idioms

• chunks

• collocations