Study the tasks below and identify which aspect of lexical competence is being developed

1. In the following lists of words, three words rhyme and one does not. The two vowel sounds are given to help you. Example

[i: ] or [e]

mean weak head sea

2. Look at the list of sports and leisure activities below. Insert to go, to do or to play.

__________basketball

__________skating

__________fishing

__________exercises

__________athletics

3. Look at the nouns in the box below and write them in the correct column.

 

movie	brush
artist	writer
piano	actor
novel	composer

 

ART MUSIC LITERATURE CINEMA

 

4. Complete the charts with the different parts of speech. Mark the stress. Use your dictionary to help you with the pronunciation.

 

VERB	NOUN
	ar'rangement
'practise
	ad'vice
ac'cept

 

5. Look at the words on the board: good-looking, guy, sociable, loyal.

Read the text in your books and try to find synonyms to the words on the blackboard.

 

6. Where can you see or hear the following? Match column A with column B.

A	B
1.Is service included? 2. Yours faithfully, Valentina Bykova 3. Don't forget to give my love to children 4. No, I'm just looking, thank you	a) Informal letter b) Shop c) Formal letter d) Restaurant

7. In the following pairs of sentences one meaning of the multi-word verb is literal and the other one is idiomatic. Say which is which.

Example: The plane to Kyiv has taken off. (idiomatic)

Take the lamp off the table. (literal)

 

8. What is the opposite of each of the following adjectives?

Sociable, tidy, reserved, mean, moody, talkative, reliable, lazy, pessimistic.

9. Rephrase the following sentences without using get.

a) If I got a job, I wouldn't have enough time for my hobby.

b) I've got a cat.

c) They got in through a window.

d) If you don’t hurry, you won't get the train.

e) The prisoners got away at night.

10. Here are two jumbled letters. One is written to a bank manager, and the other to a friend. Work in pairs. Decide which sentences go with which letter, and put them in the right order.

 

11. There are many silent letters in English words. Cross out the silent letters in the following words.

a) talk d) receipt

b) listen e) iron

c) knee f) whistle

12. Rewrite the sentences, using the word in italics in a different word class.

Example

We had a lot of difficulty in doing the exercise.

It was difficult to do the exercise.

13. Look at the following lists of words. Which three words in each list cannot go with the noun that starts the list?

People	Food	Towns
crowded	vegetarian	exciting
young	disgusting	old
antique	tasteful	young
tall	wealthy	antique
high	starving	capital
rude	fast	modern
hilarious	unsafe	crowded

14. Match an adjective in column A with a strong adjective in column B.

A	B
1.	cold	a)	superb
2.	hot	b)	brilliant
3.	good	c)	awful
4.	dirty	d)	freezing
5.	bad	e)	hilarious
6.	clever	f)	boiling
7.	funny	g)	revolting
8.	unpleasant	h)	filthy

 

Vocabulary HO₃

Summary: What It Means to Know a Word