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Activity 2, Handout 1
VOCABULARY LEARNING ACTIVITIES
In your group do the given vocabulary learning activities and answer the following questions:
- What is the teaching point in each of these activities?
- What principles of vocabulary teaching does it reflect?
Activity A
Match each word on the left with the correct definition on the right:
a) implication
b) grammar
c) context
d) vocabulary
e) metaphor
1) all the words a person knows or uses
2) the words that come just before or after a word or phrase and help you to understand its meaning
3) the system of structures at word, sentence and text level in a language
4) a word or phrase used in an imaginative way to describe something else to show that the two things have the same qualities
5) something that is suggested or indirectly stated
Activity B
Read the text below. In your group discuss and explain the meaning of the underlined words and phrases.
“Two gentlemen in black came in. They had a cheap and quiet lunch, and one of them paid for it and went out. The other was just going out to join him when I looked at my change again and found that he’d paid me more than three times too much. ‘Here,’ I say to the chap who was nearly out of the door, ‘you’ve paid too much.’ ‘Oh,’ he says, very cool, ‘have we?’ ‘Yes,’ I say and pick up the bill to show him. The man at the door says, all serene, ‘Sorry to confuse your accounts, but it’ll pay for the window.’ ‘What window?’ I say. ‘The one I’m going to break,’ he says, and smashed that beautiful window with his umbrella.
[Adapted from G. K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross]
Activity C
Explain the difference between the sentences in each pair. How do different words change the meaning of the sentences? Add a sentence of your own to provide an appropriate context. Discuss the sentences in your group.
1. a) When I turned back I noticed that her eyes were shining in the dark, full with a strange feeling that I found difficult to describe.
b) When I turned back I noticed that her eyes were glistening in the dark, full with that weird feeling that I found difficult to describe.
2. a) John looked through the door thinking that he’d heard Simon’s low voice and said: ‘Are you talking to anyone, Simon?’
b) John peered through the door thinking that he’d heard Simon whispering and blurted out: ‘Are you talking to someone there, Simon?’
3. a) Then that damned bell rang, and I thought for one long, mortal minute that I couldn’t get out of that chair – just literally, physically, muscularly couldn’t.
b) Then the bell rang loudly and I thought for a couple of minutes that I couldn’t physically get out of the chair.