Brenda Wong discusses lexical sets and how they can be analyzed and used in linguistics tasks and language learning. Some key points: - A lexical set is a group of words that are related or similar in meaning. - Lexical sets can be analyzed through sorting words, categorizing activities, brainstorming, graphic organizers, and semantic maps/webs. - Examples are provided of lexical sets that include phrasal verbs, adverbs, categories like household care activities, and online resources for further information on lexical sets.

1. Brenda Wong
Fifth Course – Linguistics
School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Guayaquil - Ecuador
E-mail: bwongcorrea@hotmail.com
Blog: linguistics-ugye-torresywong.tumblr.com

2. Lexical Sets

3. Questions and answers
True or False
Multiple-choice
Matching

4. What is a Lexical Set?

5. Which are uses of lexical sets?
• Various lingüistics tasks.
• Conversational or languages models
applied as artificial intelligence.
• Scientific observation of use human
language.

6. How does a lexical set can be analyzed?
Some ways to analize a lexical set are
through:

9. WHICH LEXICAL SETS INCLUDE
PHRASAL VERBS?
Be, has, have, had, shall, will, may, should, would, do
Ask out, call back, cross out, fill in, grow up, hand out
Is going, might be count, may have been injured, can try
To accept, to collect, to count, to pour, to wish, to refuse
None

10. WHICH LEXICAL SETS INCLUDE
ADVERBS?
teachers, students, headmaster, secretary
liberty, joy, health, misery, loneliness
I, he, she, it, we, you, are
Outdoors, upstairs, here, soon, today, slowly, north, young
None

11. Sort words into lexical sets
DAYS OF THE WEEK
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday WEIGHT LIFTING
APPLIACES
Iron, vacuum cleaner, blender ASTROLOGY
ESOTERIC TERMS
Horoscope, prediction, cosmos SATURDAY
ENDAGERED SPECIES
Sea turtles, parrots, the mountain HAIR DRYER
gorilla, the giant pandas
WHITE AND BLACK
SPORTS RHINOCEROS
VOLLEYBALL, AEROBICS,
SOCCER,JOGGING

12. Brainstorming
Categorizing activities
Graphic organizers
Semantic maps/webs

13. BRAINSTORMING
• Show pupils a picture of a messy house. Elicit from pupils vocabulary to describe ways
to clean up the house (e.g. wipe the table, sweep the floor, hang the clothes, pack
the toys). Help them generate more ideas by encouraging them to explore possible
combinations of the verbs with relevant nouns.

14. GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
• Introduce the super ordinates, ‘tidy up’, ‘clean up’ and ‘prepare meals’ and ask pupils
to put the verb phrases into the appropriate categories to form a lexical set on
‘Household Care’

15. CATEGORIZING ACTIVITIES
• To expand pupils’ ideas on household care, guide them to enter the new vocabulary
items into the appropriate categories of the tree diagram of ‘Household Care’.

16. WORD SEMANTIC MAPPING
• This activity builds vocabulary by categorizing thematically recalled words. It also helps
students to make connections between new vocabulary and prior knowledge and to see
relationships among conceptual ideas. Before reading a text or studying a subject, build
a word map.

17. On line resources:
• http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/knowledge-database/lexical-set
• http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-lexical-set.htm
• http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/classroom/terms.htm
• http://buddies.org/articles/Voc2.html
• http://cd1.edb.hkedcity.net/cd/eng/vocab09/ch2_mod5_proc_t3a.

18. CONCLUSION:
• In the classroom a lexical set serves to learn or reinforce
vocabulary and help the students to understand the
interrelationships between words, it is therefore
important to implement appropriate strategies to work in
the development and reinforcement of the meaning of
the word throughout the work unit.
THANK YOU.