Session 3 Vocabulary

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1 English for Academic Skills Independence [EASI] Session 3 Vocabulary

2 A quick review From Session 2 on formal vs informal language. We should avoid using informal language in academic writing. Share with a partner some examples for each of these types of informal language: Informal/slang words Contractions Personal pros Generalisations Vague language Phrasal verbs Incomplete sentences (fragments)

3 By the end of this session you will be able to list the nine parts of speech and give examples of each locate a word family on the Academic Word List (AWL) & Academic Vocabulary List (AVL)

4 Parts of speech For example: s, verbs There are how nine many parts of speech? The 9 parts of speech are: s verbs adjectives adverbs conjunctions prepositions determiners pros interjections

5 Which part of speech? Facebook has become enormously popular throughout the world. adverb preposition verb adjective determiner

6 Which part of speech? Facebook has become enormously popular throughout the world adverb preposition verb adjective determiner and it offers numerous social opportunities, OMG! conjunction verb pro adjective adjective interjection

7 Part of Speech Function Examples verb adjective a person, place, thing, quality, or act indicates doing, sensing, thinking, saying, being, or having describes a teacher, Manukau, table, kindness, swimming study, hear, believe, argue, seem, own studious, difficult, peculiar adverb describes a verb, adjective, or adverb quickly, completely, very conjunction joins words, phrases, or clauses and, but, because preposition determiner describes a relationship between a or pro and other words in a sentence refers to someone or something of, to, from a, an, the, his, her, this, that pro replaces a or phrase he, she, it, him, her, this, that, who interjection describes a sudden spoken statement ouch! wow! sheesh! lol!

8 Academic Word List (AWL) List of words - appear with high frequency in English-language academic texts 570 word families divided into 10 sublists - Sublist 1-60 most common words - Sublist 2 - next most frequently used words etc AWL words occur frequently in a range of academic subjects (Arts, Commerce, Law and Sciences)

9 From AWL Sublist 4 Communicate How many words in this family? Visit the EASI webpage and locate the AWL sublists in the Learning resources area Session 3 Vocabulary communicate: communicable, communicated, communicates, communicating, communication, communications, communicative, communicatively, uncommunicative

10 Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) New list based on the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) Shows the 20 most frequent collocates (nearby words) Has 200 examples of each word used in sentences

11 AVL Task Google: wordandphrase.info Look up the word communicate What are three synonyms? Which prepositions are often used after this word? Which subject discipline uses this word the most? st.asp

12 What are the missing parts of speech? In conclusion, this essay has identified that Facebook adverb potentially offers interesting and teaching at tertiary level, although it also verb involves particular and teachers. adjective inherent verb innovations for learning issues for both students

13 Vocabulary size If are interested in finding out the approximate size of your vocabulary:

14 Vocabulary exercises Vocabulary Exercises for the Academic Word List Vocabulary learning If you need more information about parts of speech: Parts of speech 1 Parts of speech 2

15 Reading Extensive reading helps vocabulary development AUT library and Auckland libraries have graded readers to 3000 word level at Auckland libraries are free to join and use: They have a growing collection of ebooks. Find books that are interesting for you and read as much as possible. Read a book before you go to sleep!