PPT On Vocabulary Skills

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1.Vocabulary Skills

2. Definition of Vocabulary Skills
A vocab is defined as
“All the word known and used by a particular person”.
Vocab building is a key reading, writing, to
verbal expression and in many ways, vocabulary
is key to building analytical and critical thinking.

3.Types of Vocabulary                            

4.Reading Vocabulary:
    A person's reading vocabulary is all the words he or she can recognize when reading. This is the largest type of vocabulary simply because it includes the other three.

5.Listening vocabulary:
    A person's listening vocabulary is all the words he or she can recognize when listening to speech. This vocabulary is aided in size by context and tone of voice.

6.Writing vocabulary:
    A person's writing vocabulary is all the words he or she can employ in writing. Contrary to the previous two vocabulary types, the writing vocabulary is stimulated by its user.

7.Speaking vocabulary:
    A person's speaking vocabulary is all the words he or she can use in speech. Due to the spontaneous nature of the speaking vocabulary, words are often misused. This misuse – though slight and unintentional – may be compensated by facial expressions, tone of voice, or hand gestures.

8. How to Improve Vocabulary…?
1-By Reading Newspapers, Magazines, Novels, etc
2-By consulting dictionary 
 3-Associoating with people who have a good spoken vocabulary and writing   vocabulary

9. Synonyms:
1:- Synonyms are different words with almost identical or similar meanings.
2:- Synonyms can be any part of speech (e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs or prepositions)

10. Antonyms (opposite):
    An Antonym is a word that means the opposite
    of another.
   E.G ‘fat’ is an antonym of ‘thin’
   ‘Big’ is an antonym of ‘small’

11.USE OF THEASURUS:
    To find the word you need to express yourself more effectively and more interestingly
To avoid repeating the same words:
    To find the word that suits the genre(type of writing e.g. : a letter), purpose, intended audience and context of what you are writing
Dictionary skills:
    It includes how to make best use of dictionary

12. Definition:
  “A reference book containing an alphabetical
    list of words with information about them”

13. Why Use A Dictionary???
    Dictionaries can be used to check spelling, to
   learn new words, to find or double-check the
   meaning of a word you encounter, or to find
   the right word to use. How to best use a
   dictionary depends on what you are doing with
    words.