Hi, I’m Sujje Sir, and here’s one thing I do with my students to help them enhance their lexical power!
Do you recall acing the in-class dictation and bragging about it all day? Getting the spelling and meaning accurate is one thing to be proud of, but how much of that goes into the long term memory? Do you really know the right context to use the novel words? Are they formal or informal? If you don’t think about these questions, you’re doing it wrong!
Whenever, you learn a new word, it is paramount that you learn its register and contextual use. If not, you can’t really make much use of the word. Thus, I always prefer, contextualised teaching, be it new words or idioms!
I have been teaching ambitious words to my tuition students with the register and contextual examples. To test their understanding, as a post-dictation task, I ask them to use at least 10 words (out of 15) in a continuous writing of their choice.
Last week, one of my very bright kids, wrote the following and below are some of the words/idioms I had given to learn in advance as dictation words. Can you find the meanings of the words and fill up the blanks using the right words?
- fastidious
- byzantine
- gambol
- be all mouth and no trousers
- tenacious
- uncanny
- chef-d’oeuvre
- mettlesome
- clandestine
- fiendish
- indelicate
- unreservedly
- feel the pinch
- propriety
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