The lexical approach in practice

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The lexical approach in practice

• Teaching techniques

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Lexical exercises

• Matching
• Cloze
• Odd-one-out
• Sentence arrangement

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Matching

• Morphology - prefixes
• Prefissi
• Match the prefixes on the left with the right
  words on the right.
• Im - ability
• accessible
• 
  possible
• In - bitter
• compose
• aggregation
• De - compression
• able
• ability
• A - advantage
• moral
• coherent
• accurate
• Dis - mobility
• worthy

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Other matching exercises

• Split idioms or proverbs in two columns and make
  students match them to create the original
  sentence
• Write a list of questions on the left with their
  scrumbled answers on the right. Ask students to
  find the right answer for each question
• Create a list of adverbs and another scrumbled
  list containing more than one word synonym for
  the adverbs. Ask students to find the equivalent
  (ex. quickly in a fast way)

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Cloze or substitution

• Verb use
• Delete the verb to get from the following
  sentences and find right substitutes
• I got it!
• He got annoyed when he heard the bad news
• His movie has got a good review
• I usually get home at 5 p.m.
• Get me those books over there
• I got a fantastic idea!
• The Italian team got 3 goals
• He got a bad cold from Barbara
• My chidren finally got me to buy a computer
• This time I got him

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Cloze 2

• Collocations or fixed expressions.
• Fill in the blanks with the right words
• Every human being on earth has the __________ of
  speech
• Finally we ______ light on the mystery.
• Its high time to put an ______ to our
  relationship.
• Its always the same old __________ !
• Are we going or not? Make up your ______!.
• Two and two __________ four.
• I love ________________ to music. My favourite
  band are The Radiohead.
• Suddenly I ________ a terrible noise and I found
  out that my window had been _________.
• Dont _______ me laugh. You know these are
  serious things.
• I usually ______ my hair _______ on Saturdays.

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Odd-one-out

• One noun in the group does not collocate with the
  adjective on the left.
• BRIGHT percentage, gem, colour, face.
• GREAT novelist, street, loss, occasion.
• MAIN street, entrance, point, fullstop.
• BLACK list, mail, market, chat.
• OLD man, story, alcohol, age

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Odd-one-out

• IDEA good, original, great,
  large, valuable
• EXPERIENCE long, fragile, direct,
• first-hand, learning
• WAY one, shortest, longest,
• wrong, effective
• SHOCK terrible, tremendous, elec-
  tric, electronic, complete
• COFFEE strong, weak, immediate,
  white, instant

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Odd-one-out

• hyde-and-seek, bingo, rule, ring-a-ring-oroses,
  blind mans buff
• rose, orchid, orchard, lily, daffodil
• NATO, UE, EURATOM, VIP, FBI
• bed, lamp, wardrobe, armchair, closet .
• marmoreal, pale, olive, waxen, snow-white.
• Black, dark, shadowy, gloomy, dazzling.

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Sentence arrangement

• Rebuild the following scrumbled proverbs
• bush bird two in the hand is A worth in the
• company A man is by the he keeps known
• cure Prevention better is than
• no like There's place home
• worm The bird catches early the worm
• apple away a keeps An day the doctor
• catches A mouth no flies closed
• well well that All's ends.

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Concept maps
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An example of concept map
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An example of CM
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Another CM