MFP
Meaning, form, pronunciation
Word meaning
M
When it comes to vocabulary, monolingual dictionaries are a reliable source of meaning.
What is M?
One way of expressing meaning of grammar structures is describing what they are used for in the context given
Grammar
Examples
Table - a piece of furniture with a flat top and one or more legs, providing a level surface for eating, writing, or working at.
Look at the words in italic below, and think about how you would define them, remembering that your definition needs to be very clear and simple:
Task
a rare steak
a genius
an antique
to stroll
oxygen
Keys
- a rare steak – when meat is cooked only a little bit. It is usually very pink in colour and you may be able to see blood coming from it.
- a genius – a person who is a lot more intelligent than everyone else. For example, Einstein.
- an antique – an object often found in a house such as a piece of furniture, that is more than about one-hundred years old.
- to stroll – to walk in a slow and relaxed way.
- oxygen – what we breathe in to live.
Form
F
Form basically refers to how a meaning is written or spoken. When it comes to learning new words, it is important for students to know their spelling, plural form (if applicable), collocations and its grammatical behavior, among other things.
Grammar
regarding grammar, it is useful for students to understand how that particular structure is formed, the order in which its components appear, how negative statements and questions are formed, as well as variations that occur because of changes in the subject or the time reference.
What is it?
Pronunciation refers to aspects of phonology related to individual sounds (phonemes), sounds at word level (e.g. word stress), or in connected speech (e.g. intonation and sentence stress).