CHAPTER 1 REVISION 1

Teacher in charge: Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, MTESOL SEMANTIC – CHAPTER 1CHAPTER 1: WORD MEANING REVISION 1.. What semantic features do the words in each group share?. engineer, teacher, drive

Teacher in charge: Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, MTESOL SEMANTIC – CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 1: WORD MEANING

REVISION

1. What semantic feature(s) do the words in each group share?

a. engineer, teacher, driver, girl, uncle

b. ice cream, avocado, soup, corn, beef

c. tigress, doe, girl, actress, debutante

d. man, woman, mare, bull, ewe

e. poodle, Alsatian, Labrador, collie, dachshund

2. Identify the semantic properties of the following words:

a. Soldier

b. Girl

c. Man

d. Mare

e. Rose

f. Spinster

g. Home

h. Stallion

i. Kitten

j. Plod

3. Organize the given words into semantic fields:

a. child, actress, doe, oak, plod, stump, elm, ash, ewe, tiptoe, trudge

b. Shirts, end, forwards, new, hats, beginning, lend, borrow, socks, backwards, old

4. Write meaning postulates to account for the sense relations between the following pairs

a. Pass – fail

b. same – different

c. Water – liquid

d. Own – belong to