Teaching Lexis

The text that immediately surrounds a lexical item is called…

• meta-text

• co-text

• co-message

• meta-message

Initial teaching tends to prioritise on core meaning, _________ and pronunciation.

Common pre-teaching tasks include matching words with ________.

Words that are pronounced the same but have a different meaning are called…

• antophones

• homonyms

• homophones

• synonyms

People understand ____ lexical items than they actually use.

We need to distinguish between lexis for productive use and for ____ recognition.

The concept of our internal database is referred to as…

• lexeme

• morpheme

• morphis

• lexis

Possible associations and feelings attached to a word can be referred to as…

• coronation

• connotation

• collocation

• correspondence

The generalisable patterns of our language and our ability to construct new phrases can be called ____.

Words which mean almost precisely the same in another language are called…

• true friends

• false friends

• fake friends

• best friends