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1. Module 1 : Language and background to language learning and teaching
Part 1 : Describing language and language skills
Unit 1 : Grammar
Jose Andres Lopez

2. Grammar
• It is the way how we combine , organize and change parts of words , or
groups of words to make meaning
• We use grammar all the time we want to express something

3. What are grammatical forms
Where can we identify ?
Grammatical forms are how words are presented in speech or writing .

4. • Parts of speech (Nouns , verbs , adjectives ,adverbs , determiners
,prepositions , pronouns , conjunctions and exclamations )
• Words that contain prefixes or suffixes
• Phrases , clauses
Where can we identify ?

5. WHAT ARE GRAMMATICAL USES
Grammatical uses are used to convey the meaning
EXAMPLE : She is doing her homework

6. Grammar rules
-The way that language works
-Are not fixed

7. UNIT 2
LEXIS
Lexis refers to individual words or sets of words.

8. What kinds of meaning can words have ?
• Describes the things or ideas behind the vocabulary ( Denotation )
• Context ( The situation )
• Form , prefixes , suffixes , compound
• The are also words that occur together (Collocations )
• Idioms ( Fixed expressions )
• Words with different relation with others (Synonyms ,antonyms )
• False Friends , Homophones ,honomys , varieties of englsih

9. • Affixation (The process of adding affixes)
• Compound nouns (Get their meaning from being together)

10. • Collocations (Are words that often occur together)
• Idioms (Are a kind of fixed expression as they cannot be changed)

11. • Words with different relation with others (Synonyms ,antonyms )
• Word family (Words that come through affixation from the same base word)
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• Lexical set (Groups of words that belong to the same topic area.)