Your Property Investment Business Case

Explore word origins

Investigate the etymology of words and help students make connections within and between words. Understanding of common word parts helps learners to grasp meanings, even of words they have not encountered before.Create word families based on a particular etymological feature.

Explain the word’s connotation

This is the relationship between the word and the feelings about it, whether positive, neutral or negative. Understanding how words can be interpreted enables students to use them with greater precision.

Explaining where and when the word is or isn’t used

This can be anything from a word’s formality to its datedness. You might use ‘loo’ at home, ‘toilet’ in public or ‘lavatory’ at the Mayor’s Ball, and ‘ball’ would be outdated.

Building the relationship from words to other words

This is how students understand what words have the same, similar, opposite or related meanings.

Showing what words occur together

This is called ‘collocation’ – it’s why we say ‘see the big picture’ instead of ‘see the tall picture’ or 10 apples is fewer than 15 apples rather than less.

How affixes change meaning

Most words can be changed by adding affixes – prefixes before the word and suffixes after the word.