This document discusses the usage of dictionaries. It defines lexicology and lexicography as the study of vocabulary and dictionaries. It describes dictionaries as references that list words alphabetically and provide meanings and other information. The document outlines the macrostructure and microstructure of dictionaries, including sections, headwords, definitions, and other elements. It also discusses different types of dictionaries for topics, languages, themes, and educational levels. Finally, it provides examples of tasks for using dictionaries, such as finding words, translations, and definitions.

1. THE USAGE OF
DICTIONARIES
A N D R E Y K U Z N E T S O V
1 - T E A C H E R S ’ G R O U P 5 T H C O U R S E

2. CONTENT
• Lexics
• Dictionary as an object of lexicography.
• Macrostructure of dictionary
• Microstructure of dictionary
• The peculiarities of educational dictionaries
• Types of dictionaries
• Wordlist as a type of a dictionary.
• Workbooks as a dictionary
• Tasks for working with dictionaries.

3. LEXICS
• Lexics(from greek. Lexicos- lexicographic) –is a set
of all the words of a particular language.
(vocabulary). A part of Linguistic science, exploring
language vocabulary, calls lexicology.

4. DICTIONARY AS AN OBJECT OF
LEXICOGRAPHY
• Dictionary is a collection of words usually in
alphabetical order (Ozhegov’s dictionary).
• Dictionary - A book or electronic resource that lists
the words of a language (typically in alphabetical
order) and gives their meaning, or gives the
equivalent words in a different language, often also
providing information about pronunciation, origin,
and usage (Oxford Dictionary online)

5. MACROSTRUCTURE OF DICTIONARY
• Foreword
• Guide to the use of the dictionary
• Key to pronounciation
• Abbreviation and symbols in this dictionary
• Dictionary
• Supplements

6. MICROSTRUCTURE OF DICTIONARY
• Headword
• Description of stylistic and grammar features of the
headword.
• Illustrations and quotations with the headword

7. THE PECULIARITIES OF EDUCATIONAL
DICTIONARIES
• The main aim of educational dictionaries is to teach
their users.
• 1) to find necessary words
• 2) the level of dictionary language should
correspond to the level of its users
• 3) The definition of the headword should be
formulated on elementary words-senses

8. TYPES OF DICTIONARIES
• Object of description
• Content of dictionary
• Description of words in dictionary (monolingual,
bilingual, multilingual)
• Thematic focus (architecture, literature)
• Style of headword (dictionary of antonymes and
synonymes, phrasal verbs)
• Feature of headwords (orphographical, phonetic,
pronounciation)
• Order of words in dictionary

9. WORDLIST AS A TYPE OF A
DICTIONARY
• Topic dictionaries (vocabulairies) a set of words
which are united by a particular topic

10. TASKS FOR WORKING WITH
DICTIONARIES.
• 1) Find the word with the first letter B
• 2)Connect word with pictures
• 3) Put the words in alphabetical order
• 4) Find the right translation of the word
• 5) Find in the dictionary the definition of phrasal
verb or collocation
• 6) Tasks for bilingual dictionaries
• 7) Find lexical units in dictionary (their graphic forms
and their transcriptions)
• 8)Find the right translation of necessary word
according to the context