THE TKT COURSEMODULE 1

Unit 2 LexisKey concepts & For example

DENOTATION ---DESCRIPTION

*Tree

e.g. A tree is large plant with a wooden trunk,

branches and leaves

FIGURATIVE---IMAGINATIVE MEANING

*Family tree

e.g. ‘the tree of life’

or ‘a family tree’

CONTEXT ---THE MEANING WE GET FROM THE SITUA-TION

*house for the trees

*telephone box

Compound nouns

* bookshop

*Watch out=strong Watch the dog=weak

Collocations

*Green thumb

Idioms

Fixed Expressions

to tell you the

turth

it’s up to you

new born

*neat-tidyprecisely-exactly

*old-youngloud-quiet

Synonyms Antonyms

*animals

Lexical Set

Word family

base word

happy unhappy happiness happily

real really realistic unreal

*Embarazado/embarrassed

False friend

*their/there

Homaphones

*bank(bank for money/bank of a river)

Homonyms

*boot/trunk

Varieties of English

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