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TEACHING LEXIS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - *I made the exam.
        
        You can say: I took the exam, I failed the exam, I passed the exam.
- - - - Keeping in storage
      - Putting into storage
      - Retrieving
      - Using
- - - - understanding
      - attitude
      - approach
    - - corpora
        
        large computarised databases of analysable real conversations and other text
      - dictionaries
      - grammar books
      - other resources
    - - Vocabulary
        
        Single words
        
        Tightly linked two- or three-word combinations
      - Lexis
        
        Single-word vocabulary items
        
        Collocations
        
        Chunks
        
        Multiword items
      - Grammar
        
        Patterns of language
        
        Construction of phrases and sentences
  - - - Meeting new lexical items and understanding them and their use
      - Practising using them
      - Memorising them
      - Recalling and using them
    - - When lexical items become part of the learners' everyday English
    - - Lexical items that we recognise and understand, but tend not to use ourselves in everyday speech
    - - It is important
      - Students need to practice
      - Using English-English dictionaries
      - Distinguish between productive use and receprive recognition
      - We need to deal wit single-word and multiword items
- - - - shop words
      - wedding words
    - - adjectives to describe people
      - movement verbs
    - - persuading a foreign friend to visit your town
    - - present
      - practice
    - - Mime
      - Translate
      - Draw
      - Act it out
      - Tell an anecdote
      - Cuisenaire rods
      - Point to the object
      - Explain (using examples)
      - Read out the definition
      - Tell a short story
      - Bring one into class
    - - get to hear lexical items
      - use them in realistic sentences
    - - Draw a circle with the word swimming in the centre
        
        pool
        
        lesson
      - Collect a number of connected lexical items
        
        water polo
        
        diving board
      - Collect grammatical variations on swimming
        
        swim
        
        swam
        
        swimmer
  - - - Discussions
      - Communicative activities
      - Role plays
    - - Matching pictures to lexical items
      - Using prefixes and suffixes
      - Classifying items into lists
      - Filling in crosswords, grids or diagrams
      - Memory games