What is vocabulary?

Vocabulary is defined as the words we teach in the foreign language.

3 steps to present a new word:
1. Conveying the meaning.
2. Checking meaning.
3. Consolidating the meaning.

What needs to be taught?

1. Form:
a) Pronunciation: What the word sounds like.
b) Spelling: What the word looks like.

2. Grammar: The grammar of a new item will need to be taught.
a)Teaching a new verb(we give the past form if it is irregular.) e.g. give, gave.

b) Teaching a noun,we may wish to present its plural form if it is irregular. e.g. man, men.

c) Draw students’ attention to the fact it has no plural. e.g. police, people, fish, homework, information, advice,…

d) Teach verbs and adjectives with the preposition after them. e.g. look at, point to, hurry up, arrive at, …

e) Teach verbs with the verb forms that follows them. e.g. want to …
enjoy ….ing. Let’s + bare infinitive.(Let’s take a taxi.)

3. Collocation: It is talking about words that are usually paired.
e.g. do homework, read a newspaper, watch TV, …

4. Aspects of meaning:
a) Synonyms
b) Antonyms
c) Hyponyms
d) Homonyms
e) Super ordinates
f) Translation