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   Vocabulary learning has always been challenging for most of the students. They are given a long list full of irrelevant words and they are expected to memorize all the words with their meanings in L1. If this is the way how we teach vocabulary, of course it will be a torture for our students. Why do we make this process so difficult? It is very simple to teach vocabulary by using some techniques. Today, I'll share those techniques, Dos and Don'ts with you. Let's dive into the subject!   First thing to be careful about teaching vocabulary is to provide a written or audio context . We should get students to spot unknown words in the text and tell them to guess the meanings from the context. While teaching action verbs like 'walk', 'run' and some adjectives, we can make use of facial expressions, actions and mimics.    It is the best to use real life objects, if possible, to point out the object but if it is not, we should draw on the board or bring some

   WHAT IS A LEXICAL SET?     A lexical set (sometimes called a word set) is a cluster or group of related words. Words can be related in several differebt ways, for example: By topic:  furniture, clothes, family relationships, animals By similarity of meaning or synonyms: gorilla, chimpanzee, orang-urang, ape In pairs; a) Opposites in pairs: hot/cold, old/new, hard/soft b) Synonyms in pairs: slip/slide, rough/harsh, booklet/brochure Idioms:  black and white; black and blue In series of a scale: boiling, hot, warm, cool, cold, freezing By subordinates and hyponyms: Supeeordinate: fruit Hyponyms: orange, apple, pinapple, banana, strawberry By activity or process: steps in making a cake or building a bookcase Word families: paint, painter, painting, paint work OR know, knowledge, knowing, knowledgeable, known     WHY ARE LEXICAL SETS IMPORTANT?         We probably don't store words in our brains in alphabetical order like a dictionary does. Research into memory has