English vocabulary - Martin Hunt 2016

1 Language to learn language

In this unit you will learn

✵ words to talk about language

✵ words to talk about learning

✵ how to use this book

Basics

Do you know these words? Check in a dictionary.

1 Verb   Action (go, have...)

2 Adverb  How we do a verb (quickly, often...)

3 Noun  Thing/object/person (table, Peter...)

4 Adjective  What a thing/person is like (big, old...)

5 Article  A, an, the

6 Preposition Small words for extra information, usually about direction or position (of, on ...)

7 Pronunciation How to say a word

8 Spelling  The letters that make a word

9 Meaning  What we understand from the word

Test your basics

Cover the words above so you can’t see them. Then write the English word in the space provided.

1 The letters that make a word

2 Small words for extra information

(of, on...)

3 Thing/object/person (table, Peter...)

4 Action (go, have...)

5 A, an, the

6 How we do a verb (quickly, often...)

7 What a thing/person is like (big, old...)

8 What I understand from the word

9 How to say a word

spelling

...

Extension

More words - grammar

✵ When we talk about grammar, we talk about the rules of a language; when we talk about vocabulary, we talk about the words in a language.

✵ Word order is which comes first, second, third... For example: An old man (word order ✓) old man-an (word order X)

Language of instruction

✵ A question asks you something (What’s your name?).

✵ An answer gives a reply to a question (My name is Martin).

✵ An exercise is a group of questions.

✵ To mark your answers is to check which ones are correct (*X) and which are wrong (X).

There are many types of exercises in this book:

Listening

✵ There are also two cassettes or CDs with this book.

✵ When you listen, don’t say anything! What can you hear?

✵ When you repeat, listen first, then say what is on the recording.

✵ Each listening exercise will have a recording number so you know where you are (for example, Unit 1, recording 1.1).

✵ A transcript is a written copy of the words you hear on listening.

In the classroom

✵ Work you do in class is called classwork; extra work you do at home is called homework.

✵ If you check your homework, you see how good it is, how many answers are correct.

✵ A class will usually have one teacher and many students.

✵ To help explain things to a class, many teachers will write on a whiteboard or a blackboard.

✵ If a teacher asks you to work on your own, then you work alone, without anyone to help.

✵ Teachers also often ask their students to work in pairs, two students together; if three or more students work together, we call this working in a group.

Practice

Exercise 1 Look at the words below and put them into the correct box.

go

big

a

of

quickly

table

on

Peter

often

old

have

fat

an

France

be

by

the

happily

Exercise 2 Answer the questions with the correct word.

What do you call...

1 the way we say a word?

2 where words go in a sentence?

3 when you say what you hear on a recording?

4 a group of questions together?

pronunciation ...

Exercise 3 Find five words from this unit in the word square below.

Now check your answers.

▶ Exercise 4 (Recordings 1.1,1.2,1.3) Pronunciation practice. Listen and repeat the words on the recording. Use the transcript at the back of the book to help you if necessary.

In use

Reading

Before you start, check you know this word: opposite

Readings 1 & 2 Look at the test paper below. First put in all the missing information. Then see how many of the questions you can do.

▶Listening

Before you start, check you know these words:

mistake

whiteboard

You will hear four short conversations at the Duvall School of English taken from different parts of a lesson (grammar, listening, vocabulary, etc.).

Listening 1 (Recording 1.4) Listen and put the parts of the lesson in the correct order. Be careful! One part is not used.

Listening 2 (Recording 1.4) Listen again and match the instruction to the part of the lesson it is taken from. One instruction and one part of the lesson are not used.

Now check your answers.

Recap

Here are the words we learned in this unit. Do you know them all? Write down the translations if you need to.

Language

verb  adverb   noun

adjective article   preposition

spelling  meaning  grammar

vocabulary word order

Instructions

question exercise  answer

mark  fill the gap  correct

match  listen   repeat

choose the correct answer

Listening

Cassette CD   recording

transcript

In the classroom

classwork homework  check

teacher  student  whiteboard

blackboard on your own in pairs

group

What to do next

✵ If you go to a class, listen carefully to your teacher’s instructions.

✵ Look at any books you use. Look at the instructions.

Why not try this unit next?

✵ Ideas for learning vocabulary

Answer key for this unit

Test your basics

1 spelling

2 preposition

3 noun

4 verb

5 article

7 adjective

8 meaning

9 pronunciation

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

1 pronunciation

2 word order

3 repeat

4 exercise

Exercise 3

Reading

Readings 1 & 2

Listening

Listening 1

Listening 2