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School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Guayaquil - Ecuador

Fifth Course – Linguistics

Lexical Sets

Questions and answers

Multiple-choice

True or False

Matching

What is a Lexical Set?

Which are uses of lexical sets?

• Various lingüistics tasks.• Conversational or languages

models applied as artificial intelligence.

• Scientific observation of use human language.

How does a lexical set can be analyzed?

Some ways to analize a lexical set are through:

WHICH LEXICAL SETS INCLUDE PHRASAL VERBS?

None

Be, has, have, had, shall, will, may, should, would, do

Ask out, call back, cross out, fill in, grow up, hand out

Is going, might be count, may have been injured, can try

To accept, to collect, to count, to pour, to wish, to refuse

WHICH LEXICAL SETS INCLUDE ADVERBS?

None

teachers, students, headmaster, secretary

liberty, joy, health, misery, loneliness

I, he, she, it, we, you, are

Outdoors, upstairs, here, soon, today, slowly, north, young

Sort words into lexical setsDAYS OF THE WEEKMonday, Tuesday,

Wednesday

APPLIACESIron, vacuum cleaner,

blender

ESOTERIC TERMS Horoscope, prediction,

cosmos

ENDAGERED SPECIESSea turtles, parrots, the mountain gorilla, the giant

pandas

SPORTSVOLLEYBALL, AEROBICS,

SOCCER,JOGGING

WEIGHT LIFTING

ASTROLOGY

SATURDAY

HAIR DRYER

WHITE AND BLACK RHINOCEROS

Brainstorming

Graphic organizers

Semantic maps/webs

Categorizing activities

• Show pupils a picture of a messy house. Elicit from pupils vocabulary to describe ways to clean up the house (e.g. wipe the table, sweep the floor, hang the clothes, pack the toys). Help them generate more ideas by encouraging them to explore possible combinations of the verbs with relevant nouns.

BRAINSTORMING

• Introduce the super ordinates, ‘tidy up’, ‘clean up’ and ‘prepare meals’ and ask pupils to put the verb phrases into the appropriate categories to form a lexical set on ‘Household Care’ 

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

• To expand pupils’ ideas on household care, guide them to enter the new vocabulary items into the appropriate categories of the tree diagram of ‘Household Care’.

CATEGORIZING ACTIVITIES

• This activity builds vocabulary by categorizing thematically recalled words. It also helps students to make connections between new vocabulary and prior knowledge and to see relationships among conceptual ideas. Before reading a text or studying a subject, build a word map.

WORD SEMANTIC MAPPING

• http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/knowledge-database/lexical-set

• http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-lexical-set.htm• http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/classroom/terms.htm• http://buddies.org/articles/Voc2.html• http://cd1.edb.hkedcity.net/cd/eng/vocab09/

ch2_mod5_proc_t3a.htm

On line resources:

• In the classroom a lexical set serves to learn or reinforce vocabulary and help the students to understand the interrelationships between words, it is therefore important to implement appropriate strategies to work in the development and reinforcement of the meaning of the word throughout the work unit.

THANK YOU.

CONCLUSION: