Lexical Notebook
(Barbara Sargent)
Instructions

You will need seven (7) sections in your notebook.  Mark the sections with the following tabs:

  1. FIXED EXPRESSIONS
  1. SEMI-FIXED EXPRESSIONS
  1. COLLOCATIONS
  1. IDIOMS
  1. PREFIXES, ROOTS, SUFFIXES
  1. WORD FORM CHARTS
  1. MISCELLANEOUS
  

 

Examples:

  1. Fixed Expressions:   
     
    What's the matter? What's wrong?
    What's going on? I'd be happy to.
    It's as easy as 1, 2, 3. Please help yourself.

     

  2. Semi-fixed Expressions:
     
    Would you like some more ...?
    There's a very nice ... restaurant near here.
    We were interested in the fact that ....

     

  3. Collocations:
     
    junk food a jar of jam
    watering can salad bar
    snack bar candy bar

     

  4. Idioms:
     
    There's something fishy going on here.
    It's a piece of cake.
    Hold your horses.

     

  5. Prefixes/roots/suffixes:
    Prefixes Meaning

    Examples

    Explanation

    pre-

    before

    preheat

    heat (the oven) before adding the dish

     

    		      
           

     

Roots

 Meaning Examples

Explanation

nav-

 ship navigate

travel by ship
       

 

Suffixes

 Meaning Examples

-ful

full of

flavorful

-less

lacking in

flavorless

© 2006: Christine Bauer-Ramazani; last updated: July 09, 2017; posted with author's permission