Famous Names
Added 1700 words to the English Language.
Who is Shakespeare!
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
What is the longest word in the English language?
26 but used to be 29.
What is the number of letters in the English Language?
Educate, Education, Educated, Miseducate, Educator.
What are examples of Word Families?
1400 years old.
What is the age of the English Language?
Devised theory of Comprehensible Input.
Who is Stephen Krashen?
Official language of airplane travel.
What is English?
2000 word families.
What is the core vocabulary of a language?
Sustained Silent Reading.
What is the best way to build vocabulary in any language?
Made up of Germanic Vocabulary.
Old English
Most quoted figure in the history of the English language.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
'E' and 'Q'
What is the most common letter in English and the least common letter?
1,000,000
What is the number of words in the English Language?
Helping pronunciation, using graphic organizers, creating a word wall.
What are vocabulary before, during and after teaching strategies?
French and Latin.
What two languages most influenced English vocabulary?
The famous Englishman who started the printing press and invented spellings!
Who is William Caxton?
Month, orange, silver, purple.
What are words in English that have to rhyming partners?
80-85%.
What is the percentage of a common text covered by the 2000 word base?
High Frequency, AWL, Technical and Low Frequency
What are the 4 Classifications of Words?
The Renaissance period.
What is the period when most Latin and Greek words entered English vocabulary?
Highest active vocabulary of 38,000 words.
Who is Victor Hugo?
The word "set".
What is the word in English with the most number of definitions?
Between 10,000 and 20,000
What is the number of words an adult native speaker of English knows?
What is the Lexical Frequency Principle?
After the Norman Conquest of 1066.
When did French vocabulary enter the English language?