The document discusses various methods for expanding one's vocabulary, including: 1. Understanding how words can have multiple meanings depending on context. 2. Common words like "come" and "go" can have many definitions. Vocabulary expands through patterns, word families, reading, word games, and associations. 3. Idioms and phrasal verbs are multi-word expressions with meanings that differ from the individual words. Examples are given. 4. Confusable words like "affect" and "effect" should be clearly understood. Maintaining a vocabulary notebook can help with revision.

1. Enriching
Basic Building
Blocks

2. VOCABULARY ACQUISITION

3. Nature of Words
 Words convey their meaning in context.
Consider the word dog and see how it changes
its meaning in these expressions-dog
days(hottest part of year), lead a dog’s life( be
worried), go to the dogs( be ruined)
 Words have more than one meaning.
It may surprise the reader that the word come
has 69 meanings; go 94,make 97, take 91; set as
a verb has 126 meanings and 47as a noun.

4. HOW TO EXPAND VOCAB?
 Expansion through the same pattern of
form.(care- careful)
 Expansion through families of
words.(reason , reasonable,
unreasonable, reasonably)
 Expansion through reading.
 Expansion through word games.
 Expansion through association.( school)

5. How to keep building
vocabulary?

6. Importance of teaching
collocations

7. Fixed expressions

8. IDIOMS
 An idiom is an expression which means
something different from the meanings of
the separate words.
1.The acid test
2.Be alive and well
3.A different ball game
4. Add insult to injury
5.Behind sb‟s back
6.Give someone a hand.

9. Phrasal verbs
 In English, there are many verbs which are
made up of two or three words. These are
called phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs may
have a completely different meaning
from the main verb.
 1. They will cut off the telephone if you
don‟t pay the bill.
 2. I‟ve filled up the membership form.
 3. Can you look after the car please?

10. Confusable Words
 Try to show how confusable words differ in
their meanings.
 Examples of these confusables include affect,
effect, implicit, explicit.economic,
economical etc.
Hard is an adjective or adverb: a hard surface,
a hard question, to work hard, to think hard.
Hardly is an adverb meaning „only just‟: „almost
not‟.
He worked hard.( NOT He worked hardly.)
He hardly worked.

11. Revise or recycle
vocabulary?

12. Vocabulary notebook

13. Dictionary A-Z
 Check the spelling of a word.
 Find the meaning of a word.
 Find how to use a word in a sentence.
 Find when and where to use a word
correctly.
 Find the correct pronunciation of a
word.
Fall in Love With A good Dictionary to Enrich
the Basic Building Blocks!

14. ONE WORD EVERYDAY
Teach students how to chase words.
Puzzle out the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Words convey their meaning in context.
Inculcate good study habits in students to
enrich the basic building blocks.

15. THANK YOU
“Thanks to words, we have been able
to rise above brutes, and thanks to
words , we have often sunk to the
level of demons.”
Aldous Huxley ( 1894-1963)
British Novelist and essayist.