1. Lexis and Semantics
It’s only words!

2. Lexis
Lexis means vocabulary

3. Nice!
It was a nice evening so I decided to go for a nice meal with a nice friend. We went to a nice restaurant and chose a nice table in the corner. The waitress was nice. She spoke nicely. The food was nice and my friend told me a nice story about a nice girl he had just met. I had a nice time.
Rewrite the passage replacing the adjectives with:
synonyms
antonyms
any adjectives of your choice

4. Word classes
What word classes do you know?

5. Semantics Semantics is the study of meaning in words.
Meaning can change in different contexts and be interpreted differently by different audiences.

6. Semantic fields Words grouped by topic (eg. Football, team, player…)
Mallet’s mallet game

7. Collocations “a natural combination of words”
More examples:
Take a photo
Pay attention
Teapot
a sense of pride
blissfully unaware

9. Can you think of any more?
Euphemisms
Dysphemisms
He passed away.
Freedom fighter
The government initiated a revenue enhancement.
I’m going to powder my nose .
He kicked the bucket.
Terrorist
The government initiated a tax hike. .
I am sweating like a pig.

10. Unit 6 of the course book covers lexis and semantics in more detail.