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What is a morpheme?
The smallest unit of meaning in a language. Can be single words and endings.
What is a phrase?
A groups of words acting as a unit.
What is a vowel?
Phoneme pronounced with a free passage of the airstream through the mouth. A - e - i - o - u.
What are multi-word units?
Combinations of words that often appear together.
What is an action verb?
Verbs that show what someone is doing or what is happening. Things you physically do.
What is a grapheme?
The smallest unit in writing (letters). There are 25 alphabet letters used to represent the phonemes.
What is a clause?
A clause is a unit that has its own verb. We put together phrases together to make clauses.
What is a consonant?
Phonemes pronounced by blocking the airflow in some way.
What is an imperative clause?
What is a stative verb?
Verbs that show a state of being that someone or something is in.
What is a phoneme?
The smallest unit in speech (a speech sound). There are roughly 44 phonemes in the English language, represented by phonemic symbols.
What is a syllable?
A unit of pronunciation that consists of one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonant sounds. Clapping is often used to reinforce the presentation of syllabic structure to students. The natural beat of the word.
What is stress?
Where you put emphasis (energy) in a word or a sentence. We alternate between stressed and unstressed syllables. Lexical words are typically stressed in a sentence.
What is a declarative clause?
Type of clause used to make a statement or give information. They have a subject in addition to the verbal and often an object.
What is the schwa?
The only phoneme with a specific name. Only appears in unstressed syllables. Can be spelt by any vowel letter. Upside-down e!
What is the difference between concrete and abstract nouns?
Concrete nouns are words that are tangible (that we can touch).
Abstract nouns are words that name concepts, ideas, qualities, states and events (things we cannot touch).
What are minimal pairs?
Words that have one different phoneme and get a new meaning. Can differ in vowels or consonants.
What is a diphthong?
A vowel where the tongue glides from one position to another. You get two speech sounds (vowel sounds) in one syllable.
What is implicit learning?
What is the difference between depth and breadth of vocabulary?
The breadth of ones vocabulary is the "amount" of words one knows.
The depth of ones vocabulary is how well you know the form, meaning and use of words. You can use them in combination with other words and know the similar/opposite meanings. Deeper word knowledge.
Verb - words that express actions or states of being.
Noun - words that name a person, place, thing or idea.
Adjective - words that describe nouns.
Adverb - words that describe how an action is done.
What is the difference between intransitive and transitive verbs?
What is a monophthong?
Vowel pronounced with little or no tongue movement (a single vowel).
What is explicit learning?
Drawing attention to specific words and patters. Deliberately learning the language/working with the language.
Receptive vocabulary refers to the words that a person can recognize and understand when they hear or read them.
Productive vocabulary refers to the words that a person can actively use when speaking or writing.