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- 1. Describing language and language skills Nicole Campusano Hi! Hello!TKT-Module 1
- 2. —Federico Fellini A different language is a different vision of life.
- 3. What is grammar? ● It refers to the way in which we combine or organize a group of words to create meaning. ● We use grammar unconsciously when we speak, listen, read and write. ● Grammar includes many forms and uses.
- 4. Grammatical forms It refers to how words are made up in a speech or writing way. For example: • Form of the plural of regular nouns base word + s • Form of the gerund base word + ing • Prefixes Underwater • Suffixes Playful
- 5. Grammatical forms are found in: • Parts of speech • Grammatical structure • Words with suffixes and Preffixes
- 6. How many parts of speech are there?
- 7. Parts of speech Nouns Prepositions Determiners Adjectives Adverbs Pronouns Conjuctions Excalamations Verbs There are 9 parts of speech:
- 8. What are parts of speech? It describes how words behave in a sentence. The tall boy ran very fast Tall ran very fast Adjective Verb For example: Noun Verb
- 9. • Parts of speech varies according to the function Part of speech Examples Function Subcategories Noun Book Milk to name people, things and activities Contable, Uncontable, Proper Adjective Easygoing Friendly To describe a noun Comparative, Superlative Example:
- 10. What is grammatical structure? It is the arrangement of words into patterns which have meaning. I was playing the guitar Past Progressive
- 12. Structure Uses Example Present Progressive • To talk about what is happening now • To talk about something will happen in the future - I’m studying TKT. What are you doing tomorrow? -I’m buying a new camera. Present Simple • To talk about facts • To talk habitual actions - I live in Ecuador - I read newspapers and books. Hello! For example: It refers to how grammatical structures are used to communicate meaning. Grammatical Uses
- 13. Grammar and the language teaching classroom -Tips Language change over time. Accuracy in form and use. Focus on language skills. Focus on form, structure and use.
- 14. LEXIS It refers to individual words or set of words. Example: Tree, get up What is lexis?
- 15. What kinds of meaning can words have? Denotation Denotative meaning Hello! Figurative meaning Tree.- a tree is a large plant with a wooden trunk. EXAMPLE “a family tree” EXAMPLE Lexical Features
- 16. Lexical Features Preffixes For example: Unsafe (opposite meaning) Suffixes For example: Easy-Easier (comparative meaning) Collocations For example: arrive at, depend on Compounds nouns For example: book+shop= bookshop Idioms For example: “To have green fingers”CHUNKS The meaning can also comes from:
- 17. Antonyms Words with opposite meaning. Lexical set Words that belong to the same topic area. For example: family, food, furniture Synoyms Words with the same meaning. Lexical Features Words have different relationships with one another:
- 18. False friends For example: Embarazado- Spanish Embarrased- English
- 19. Homophones For example: there-their Homonyms For example: • They sat on the river bank. • He put all his savings into the bank. *the land alongside a river. *a place where people keep money. • Other ways in which words can relate to one another
- 20. Vocabulary extensions activities To use the relationships in meaning between words Vocabulary records Lexis and language teaching classroom -Tips
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