genre/'ʒɒnrə/ /ˈʒɒ̃rə/ The type and style of discourse (spoken or written), e.g., a letter of complaint, a romantic novel, a business email, newspaper article, promotional material, etc. |
gerundA gerund is the -ing form of a verb when it acts as a noun as in 'I love dancing,' and 'Studying grammar is enormously good fun.' |
Getting-to-know-you activitiesThese activities are used at the start of a course to help the students and teacher get to know about each other. They are also called icebreakers. |
gistIt is the general meaning of a text. |
glottal stopThis sound /ʔ/ is common in spoken English though it is not included in the phonetic chart used in English language teaching. Most obviously it is used when /t/ sounds are 'dropped' in words, such as 'bottle' or 'what,' but also occurs in other locations, e.g., something /'sʌʔmθɪŋ/. |
gradingSee language grading. |
grammarGrammar refers to the rules which govern the way the words in a language change and how they are combined with other words in sentences. |
Grammar-translationIt is a traditional approach to language teaching which focuses on learning grammar rules and applying them in order to translate texts from one language to another. |
grammatical categoriesAlso referred to a parts of speech. These are the names for the different classes to which words are assigned depending on their function in a sentence. The parts of speech in English are the verb, noun, adjective, adverb, determiner, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. |
grammatical cohesionThe different kinds of referencing, such as using pronouns, possessives
and demonstratives, and the use of conjunctions are types of grammatical
cohesion. |