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English for Academic Skills Independence [EASI] Session 3 Vocabulary A quick review From Session 2 on formal vs informal language. We should avoid using informal language in academic writing. Share with a partner some examples for each of these types of informal language: • • • • • • • Informal/slang words Contractions Personal pronouns Generalisations Vague language Phrasal verbs Incomplete sentences (fragments) By the end of this session you will be able to … • list the nine parts of speech and give examples of each • locate a word family on the Academic Word List (AWL) & Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) Parts of speech • For example: nouns, verbs… • There are how many parts of speech ? nine • The 9 parts of speech are: nouns verbs adjectives adverbs conjunctions prepositions determiners pronouns interjections Which part of speech? Facebook has become enormously popular throughout the world. adverb noun verb preposition adjective noun determiner Which part of speech? Facebook has become enormously popular throughout the world adverb noun verb preposition adjective determiner and it offers numerous social opportunities, OMG! conjunction verb pronoun adjective adjective noun noun interjection Part of Speech Function Examples noun a person, place, thing, quality, or act teacher, Manukau, table, kindness, swimming verb indicates doing, sensing, thinking, saying, being, or having study, hear, believe, argue, seem, own adjective describes a noun studious, difficult, peculiar adverb describes a verb, adjective, or adverb quickly, completely, very conjunction joins words, phrases, or clauses and, but, because preposition describes a relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence of, to, from determiner refers to someone or something a, an, the, his, her, this, that pronoun replaces a noun or noun phrase he, she, it, him, her, this, that, who interjection describes a sudden spoken statement ouch! wow! sheesh! lol! Academic Word List (AWL) • List of words - appear with high frequency in English-language academic texts • 570 word families divided into 10 sublists • - Sublist 1 - 60 most common words • - Sublist 2 - next most frequently used words etc • AWL words occur frequently in a range of academic subjects (Arts, Commerce, Law and Sciences) Communicate • From AWL Sublist 4 • How many words in this family? – Visit the EASI webpage and locate the AWL sublists in the Learning resources area – Session 3 Vocabulary • communicate: communicable, communicated, communicates, communicating, communication, communications, communicative, communicatively, uncommunicative Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) • New list based on the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) • Shows the 20 most frequent collocates (nearby words) • Has 200 examples of each word used in sentences AVL Task Google: “wordandphrase.info” Look up the word communicate What are three synonyms? Which prepositions are often used after this word? Which subject discipline uses this word the most? http://www.wordandphrase.info/academic/frequencyLi st.asp What are the missing parts of speech? noun verb • In conclusion, this essay has identified that Facebook noun adverb potentially offers interesting innovations for learning and teaching at tertiary level, although it also verb adjective involves particular inherent issues for both students and teachers. Vocabulary size • If are interested in finding out the approximate size of your vocabulary: – http://my.vocabularysize.com – http://www.lextutor.ca/tests/ – http://www.lextutor.ca/tests/levels/productive/ Vocabulary exercises • Vocabulary Exercises for the Academic Word List • Vocabulary learning – http://www.vocabulary.com/ • If you need more information about parts of speech: – Parts of speech 1 – Parts of speech 2 Reading • Extensive reading helps vocabulary development – AUT library and Auckland libraries have graded readers to 3000 word level at 428.64 Auckland libraries are free to join and use: http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/ They have a growing collection of ebooks. Find books that are interesting for you and read as much as possible. Read a book before you go to sleep!