WorksheetsTKT Unit 2 Lexis
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 50mins
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
Words with the same or similiar meaning.
lexical set
idioms
synonyms
They are words with opposite meanings.
antonyms
collocations
synonyms
These are groups of words that belong to the same area.
Example; family, furniture, food.
word family
collocations
lexical set
These are words that come from affixation from the same base word.
Example: real, really, realistic, unreal
lexical set
word family
compound phrases
The word "embarazado" is an example of a :
false friend
untrue set
lexical word
These are words with the same pronunciation but different meaning or spelling.
homonyms
homophones
antonyms
These are words with the same spelling and pronunciation as another word, but has a different meaning.
homonyms
antonyms
homophones
Words with opposite meaning.
homophones
homonyms
antonyms
know - no
weather - whether
knight - night
Are examples of:
homophones
homonyms
antonyms
