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Vocabulary - Coggle Diagram

- - - - random collection of words, hard to organise into a coherent shape
        
        tell a short story
  - - - pre-teaching lexis
      - written practice of lexis
      - oral practice of lexis
      - reading to find specific information
      - further lexis work
      - communicative activity (an opportunity to use lexis learned)
  - - - there are some problems with it
        
        the items on the list seem to have no connection
        
        some words are very low frequency
        
        How are they pronounced? Where is the stress?
        
        There are no examples of the words in use, in sentence
        
        What collocations are common?
    - - lexical item lists
      - labelling
      - word or topic web
      - word page: collocations and chunks
      - lexical item page: lexical item collector
- - - - e.g blonde hair
    - - e.g someone you can talk to
    - - meeting new lexical items and understanding them and their use
      - practicing using them
      - memorising them
      - recalling and using them
    - - draw a circle with the word 'swimming', add lines leading from this word to a variety of collocations and phrases
    - - receptive lexis: the set of lexical items that we recognise and understand but tend not to use ourselves in everyday speech
      - most new lexical items learned by students have obvious immediate practical uses; they quickly become part of the learner's everyday English