This document discusses ways to enrich students' vocabularies. It notes that vocabulary is fundamental to communication and knowledge acquisition. It then lists several reasons why students should increase their vocabularies, including better expression, reading comprehension, thinking, and how others perceive them. The document provides tips for teachers to help students build vocabulary, such as encouraging reading, looking up unknown words, using words in examples, and using puzzles, synonyms, bulletin boards, and sentences. It includes vocabulary exercises using prefixes, suffixes, roots, and random words.

1. Vocabulary Verbosity!!

2. Vocabulary is a set of familiar words within a
person's language.
Vocabulary, usually developed with age, serves as a useful
and fundamental tool for communication and acquiring
knowledge.
Acquiring an extensive vocabulary is one of the largest
challenges in learning a second language.

3. What is the need to enrich the Vocabulary of
a student?
1. An extensive vocabulary aids expression and
communication.
2. Vocabulary size has been directly linked to
reading comprehension.
3. Linguistic vocabulary is synonymous with
thinking vocabulary.
4. A person may be judged by others based on
his or her vocabulary.
5. Wilkins (1972) once said, "Without grammar,
very little can be conveyed; without vocabulary,
nothing can be conveyed.”

4. Tips to Enrich the Vocabulary of the
Students
1. Read - first enrich yourself, newspapers, novels, self
help books are excellent tools to build up your
vocabulary.
2. Encourage them to Read.
3. Look up words that you don’t know- Don’t gloss over.
4. Use new words- definition and example in
context(prefer personal examples)- study vocabulary
in context.
5. Try teaching origin or roots of certain words from
Class VI.

5. Tips to Enrich the Vocabulary of the
Students
6. Try using self developed word puzzles occasionally.
7. Try using synonyms/alternative words.
Example- This is a ………………………. garden.
8. Utilize Bulletin Board. Pin 5 new words per week.
Discuss them.
9. Tell me once, tell me twice
10. Use it or lose it: Create sentences with them, say it
out aloud, repeat, ask.

6. Read the context; make them write the words;
have them figure out what each word means and
write.
Some ways to enrich Vocabulary
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7. 1. We wished the tone of Irwin’s words would have a more pleasing
cadence,but he spoke in a dull monotone.
2. On the twentieth day of the strike, the workers capitulated and went back to
work without a new contract.
3. Stephen debilitated Adam by hitting on his head with a skillet.
4. We were given the onerous task of cleaning the Carnival Ground after the
farewell.
5. Mrs. Rodgers never formally asked us to kidnap her husband, but we truly
believed that we were acting with her tacit consent.
6. Spencer looked forward to the spring break as a welcome hiatus from the
rigors of campus parties.
7. The senator’s political ideas were moribund, no one thinks that way
anymore.

8. Exercises using prefix/suffix
Some ways to enrich Vocabulary
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Common Prefixes
pre-
un-
dis-
re-
mis-
im-
bi-
de-

9. Exercises using prefix/suffix
Some ways to enrich Vocabulary
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Common Suffixes
-er
-able
ous
–ness
-ful
-ly or y
-ment

10. Random Vocabulary Exercises
Some ways to enrich Vocabulary
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11. Choose a root and write other forms and frame
sentences.
Some ways to enrich Vocabulary
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