LEXIS

LESSON PLANNING
 • N174376 - Duong Man Dao

• N175413 - Nguyen Hai Mi

MEMBER • N176465 - Bui Minh Tam
S • N17L216 - Nguyen Pham Huyen
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PRESENTING LEXICAL
LEXIS PRACTICE ACTIVITI
ES AND GAMES

OVERVIEW
 Presentation techniques for lexis 
A PRESENTATION- PRACTICE ROUTE
 1. Offer some cues, pictures or
information

2. Elicit the words / model them 

Present 3. Check learners' understanding 

a. How words are formed 

b. What words mean 

c. How words are used 

 Get Ss to practice

a.  Repeat items

Practice b.  Use words in short dialogues

 Frightened
Exploitation  Chase 

window ​ Gloves
Put your foot down​
Stapler​​

Café Crossroads
Often 
Contact lens
Hope​​ Disgusting
Swimming  Reduction​
 Gloves

=> Mime
 Disgusting

=> Mime/ facial expression

Swimming  => Translate
 Café
=> Draw / show a
flashcard or picture
 Often 
=> Draw
=> act out Chase 
 Frightened

=> Tell a story

 Crossroads

=> Build a model 

window​

=> Point
 Exploitation 
Railway development in
West Virginia has been
due to the exploitation of
the coal resources of the
state.

=> examples
 : to want something to 
happen or to be true, and
usually have a good 
reason to think that it
Hope​​ might

=> dictionary definition​

Stapler​

=> real items

Put your
foot down
​
=> Act out
 Contact lens

=> learn from each other

Reduction

=> Draw
 Gloves  Mime putting them on
Disgusting Mime (eg smelling old food) and make a facial expression

Swimming Translate it
Cafe Draw a quick sketch on the board or show a flashcard or picture in a book

Often Draw a line. Mark never at one end and always at the other. Mark points
along it: usually, rarely, etc

Chase Get two or three students to act it out

Frightened Tell a personal anecdote

Crossroads Build a model with rods or toy constructions bricks
 Window  Point to the object
Exploitation Explain the meaning (with examples)

Hope Read out the dictionary definition

Put it up Tell a short story that includes it

Stapler Bring one into class to show them

Put your foot down Act out a short conversation

Contact lens Students who know explain to those who don't

Reduction Draw a diagram or graph

Teaching ideas for lexis
Teaching ideas for lexis
• Beginner level
 Book

• Advanced level
 To do sth by the book

 Bookworm

 Bookish

 Little black book

The list of teaching ideas for ​swimming​
 Draw a circle with the word swimming in the centre. Add lines
leading from this word to a variety of collocations or phrases
    => ~pool, ~lesson, ~trunks, Shall we go ~, etc​.

 Use swimming as starting point and collect a number of connected

lexical items, 
    => water polo, diving board, deep end, crawl, etc.​

 Collect grammatical variations on swimming

   => swim, swam, swum, swimmer, swimmers

LEXICAL PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND GAMES
Matching lexical items to
Matching parts of lexical others Using prefixes and suffixes
Matching pictures to lexical
items to other parts (collocations, synonyms, to build new lexical items
items
(beginnings & endings) opposites, sets of related from given words 
words, etc.)

Using given lexical items to Filling in crosswords, grids

Classifying items into lists Filling in gaps in sentences
complete a specific task  or diagrams

Memory games
Task 8.4. Using lexical practice exercises in class
 1 2 3 4
Ask Ss to do Work in pairs Work in the Make teams
on his/her own or small groups whole class  and run as a
competition 
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Match work Look up lexical Explain lexical Do in pairs Check and Write questions Use between
groups with the items items to other Ss compare answers in the same style questions as a
pictures quiz
 Task 8.5 Lexical items in a practice task
Here are two exercises from a higher-level lexis book. List ten or more items of lexis that
students will practice when they do these exercises. ​

Write or discuss the answers to these questions ​ You are an astronaut reporting back to Earth from
outer space. ​Describe what you can see as you float
1. How much do you know about each of the planets through space. 
in our system?​

2. How far do you think man will get in space

discovery in the next hundred years?​

3. Do we really need to know what other planets and

systems are like?​
Planet, solar system, Earth, Mars,

Jupiter, Saturn, Sun, star, galaxy, UFO, SOME

POSSIBLE
comet, spaceship, satellite, moon,
LEXIS
rocket, alien, black hole, rings,

asteroids, speed of light, ET, etc. 

Task 8.6. Designing a task for specific lexical items

• Look at the picture and lexical items below. Design a task that will give
students written or oral practice in using a number of these lexical items:
cash register, shop assistant, trolley, credit card, expensive, thief , purse, change,
shopping bag, receipt, customer, pay, paid, shopping (noun).