Peculiarities of teaching potential vocabulary in secondary school

In the system of linguistic means vocabulary is one of the most important components of linguistic competence. Knowing a word is the key to understanding and being understood. This proves the urgency of the topic given above. The importance of the lexis has been emphasized and the problem of its acquisition has been surveyed in the works of leading methodologists, scientists and teachers such as I.S.P. Nation, S. Thornbury, I. Beck, M. McKeown, A. Vermeer, J.C. Richards, B. D. Seal and others.