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.