Teacher in charge: Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, MTESOL SEMANTIC – CHAPTER CHAPTER 1: WORD MEANING REVISION a b c d e What semantic feature(s) the words in each group share? engineer, teacher, driver, girl, uncle ice cream, avocado, soup, corn, beef tigress, doe, girl, actress, debutante man, woman, mare, bull, ewe poodle, Alsatian, Labrador, collie, dachshund Identify the semantic properties of the following words: a b c d e Soldier Girl Man Mare Rose f g h i j Spinster Home Stallion Kitten Plod 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 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