Lexical Resource: How to increase your word power

1. Lexical Resource:How to increase your word power Masters Degree in Translation and Interpreting Week 5

2. review hedging • review Fluency and Coherence • examine IELTS levels 6 & 7 for Lexical Resource • build vocabulary replacements for ‘nice and ‘delicious’ Today we will:

3. Hedging: • What • Why • 2 parts • Fluency: • My Targets are to: • …… and • ……. Review

4. Oral English Progress Sheet - Fluency & Coherence Level 6

5. Lexical Resource is NOT just vocabulary. It is vocabulary and: • How you use your words • accurately • flexibly • Idioms, metaphors, similes • Paraphrasing Lexical Resource

6. Descriptor/ Learning Objective Learning Outcome Evidence in Guided & Free Practice a)Can produce vocabulary for most topics in some detail Evidence of student being able to use vocabulary for a 5 common subjects  1  2  3  4  5 b) Can explain 'vocabulary gaps' by using other words Evidence of student explaining a 'vocabulary gap' in 'natural speech' c) Most vocabulary used correctly. 80% of all vocabulary used correctly / accurately. d) Meaning is clear. Student able to clearly convey meaning in a range of contexts. Level 6

7. Descriptor/ Learning Objective Learning Outcome Evidence in Guided & Free Practice a)Uses vocabulary resource flexibly to discuss a variety of topics Evidence of flexibility in using vocabulary to describe 5 less common topics b)Uses some less common and idiomatic vocabulary Student uses less common vocabulary and some idioms mostly accurately c) shows some awareness of style and collocation, with some inappropriate choices Evidence of student adapting vocabulary to suit a style and using collocation d) Uses paraphrases effectively Evidence of accurate paraphrasing Level 7

8. Cloze activity: A cloze activity is one where there are missing words or words that have to be replaced. Today we are going to do some cloze activities to replace some words which are over used. We will start with the words ‘nice’ and ‘delicious’… Don’t use over-used words!

9. A nice man and a nice woman got into their nice car to go to a nice restaurant for a nice meal. The woman asked her husband ‘How do I look?’ ‘You look very nice.’ he replied. ‘That was very nice of you to say that.’ she said. They walk into the restaurant. ‘Ohh this looks nice ‘ said the man, ‘Yes it was a nice idea to come here’ replied the woman. They sat at a nice table and a nice waiter came over to their table. ‘Not nice’

10. ‘What do you want to eat?’ asked the waiter. ‘Something delicious, can you recommend anything delicious?’ asked the man. ‘ The fish is delicious’ said the waiter. ‘Fish is not delicious to me.’ said the woman, have you got any other delicious food?’ The beef is quite delicious ‘ said the waiter. I like my beef cooked rare said the woman – that is the a delicious wayto cook it. ‘not delicious’

11. Collocations and Style When words are used together regularly, rules are formed about their use not for grammatical reasons, but because of the association. 'Black and white' appear in that order because of collocation; they are always in that order and to put them the other way around seems wrong. For the same reason we 'make a mistake' when we 'do a test'. The reason for using these verbs with these is that we always do; this is collocation.

12. Ways to increase your word power • read widely • learn a few words everyday • build up words on topics • when you find a new word look it up and look at it’s root: • http://www.macroevolution.net/root-word-dictionary.html • http://en.wiktionary.org • www.morewords.com • http://www.macroevolution.net/root-word-dictionary.html

13. Word roots - Microphone Micros (small) phone (sound) 12/10/11 • Microscope • microbe • microbiology • microcapsule • microfilm • micron • ultramicroscopic • anglophone • megaphone • headphone • homophone • heterophone • phonetic • saxophone • xylophone

14. Word roots - Origins 12/10/11