Teaching vocabulary

USING VERBAL CONTEXTS CONT.

• B- Synonyms i.e. words of the same meaning. For example, if the word 'glad' is familiar to Ss, for teaching the word 'pleased' T may say." pleased means glad". In fact, many linguists will argue that that are no two words that are identical in meaning. In other words, true synonyms do not exist in any language. The reason behind that assumption is that words are created to help man express a certain meaning. Once this need is satisfied, man will not think of another word to express the same meaning. This idea seems scientifically correct. So what we may have are just words that have 'approximately' similar meanings
• C -Antonyms i.e. words that have opposite meanings For example, if Ss already know the word ' pleased', the teacher may teach the word ' angry' by saying ," 'angry' means 'not pleased'".

• 05/04/20

• Dr. Hanaa El-Baz