مادة دراسية
Vocabulary 119 NAJD
Vocabulary skills to be mastered:
- Pronunciation: silent letters, hidden consonants, double letters, spelling changes, words with the same vowel but different pronunciation and words with different vowels but same pronunciation, syllabication and stress.
- Words commonly mispronounced.
- Homonyms and homophones.
- Spelling changes and spelling variants..
- Part of speech, abstract/concrete, collective nouns, singular & plural forms, Words that only occur in the plural.
- Word synonyms and antonyms.
- English and Arabic meanings.
- Word formation: prefixes, suffixes, roots, derivatives, word families and compounds.
- Idioms describing people, feelings or mood; Idioms connected with praise and criticism; Idioms connected with using language; Miscellaneous Idioms.
- Expressions with do and make, bring and take, get, set and put, come and go.
- Acronyms and abbreviations.
- New words in English.
- American vs British usage.
- Formal and informal words.
- Similes.
- Binomials.
- Linguistic features of Headlines, signs and notices.
- Using words, idioms, phrases in sentences.