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TEACHING VOCABULARY-LESSON PLAN

1 WARMER AS A STUDENT: Think of 2 English words that you have learnt

in the classroom.

HOW did you learn them?

HOW made you remember them?

AS A TEACHER: How can you teach difficult words before the students try speaking or reading or listening?

TALK TO A PARTNER

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2 WAYS TO PRESENT VOCABULARY Look at the 6 techniques on handout

Make an AB pair

Which ones have you used before?

Which one is the best/worst? Why?

Do you know any other ways to present vocabulary? 3 WHERE WOULD YOU TEACH VOCABULARY?

Imagine that your students are going to read something about television

The new words are ‘channel’ & ‘program’

Where would you put the vocabulary techniques?

What would your students do before and after? The vocabulary technique?

Demonstrate with the words reading and vocabulary: here or maybe here etc.

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4 LINKING VOCABULARY TO THE TECHNIQUES

Look at the worksheet and the vocabulary below, which techniques would you use for each word?

Elicit example from a student

AB pair matching

5 CONCEPT CHECKING p.28 Use pictures and words to explain CC

Ask if they know the words, and then show the pictures to check the meaning

Ask: Have you ever been arrested? Who do the police usually arrest?

Have you ever been a patient in a hospital? Have you ever visited a patient in a hospital?

Then students take two words each (the same words are okay) and write 3 concept checking questions-see worksheet

Then the students try them on another AB pair

Everybody give your opinions.

Nb. If they can answer, then they have probably understood the word

6 Ways to present techniques Read through or draw attention to page

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WARMER AS A STUDENT: Think of 2 English words that you have learnt

in the classroom.

HOW did you learn them?

HOW made you remember them?

AS A TEACHER: How can you teach difficult words before the students try speaking or reading or listening?

TALK TO A PARTNER

VOCABULARY TECHNIQUES

Which vocabulary techniques have you used before?

Which one is the best/worst? Explain why.

Do you know any other ways to present vocabulary?

CONCEPT CHECKING

On your own write take two words (the same words are okay) and write 3 concept checking questions

Then make a small group and try them out

Everybody give your opinions. THESE ARE THE WORDS: Team fashionable picnic kangaroo UFO float glasses

Words Concept checking questions

1 2 3

1 2 3

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Imagine that you will teach a group of teenagers. Which of the techniques would you use for these words….. (a) vote (b) disappear (c) tiger (d) skinny) (e) wonderfully (f) medicine (g) handbag (h) strenuous (i) August YOU CAN USE OTHER TECHNIQUES AS WELL

WORD TECHNIQUE (a) vote Technique 5-Demonstrating. The teacher could mime voting

by putting a piece of folded paper into a box

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1. RELIA-show real objects or pictures to your students

The topic is cooking. A teacher brings the following kitchen tools into the class and show them to your students.

bowl fork spoon knife spatula The teacher then cooks something using the items and repeat the new words as much as possible.

2. WORD BUILDING-Use parts of words to help students build

words or guess their meaning

Example: Prefixes We can change the meaning of adjectives by putting a prefix in front of it. Add the prefix un-,in- OR im- to these adjectives. You put these in front of most adjectives beginning with m or p Tidy dependent safe exciting mature Happy precise adequate Friendly expensive realistic

3. MATCHING-students match words to words (e.g. words to synonyms or words to opposites) or sentences (e.g. to words to definitions), or words to pictures Find these nouns in the reading and match them with the definitions below. 1 ghetto blaster ____ a large piece of material. 2 raids __1___ a radio-cassette player with built in speakers. 3 banner ______ a surprise attack

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4. DICTIONARIES-the students use dictionaries to check the meaning of words.

Example: Adjective-Adverb link Can you find the adverbs which come from these adjectives? You can use your dictionary to help you. ADJECTIVE ADVERB useful fantastic fast quick

5. DEMONSTRATING-act, mime or demonstrate words Example: The class is going to listen to a song, and they have to act out these verbs:

clap shake snap stamp swing wiggle

As an introduction the teacher acts out the words and asks the students to act out the words a well

6. LEXICAL SETS- a set of related words

Examples: topics (clothes/animals/family) similarity of meaning (gorilla/chimpanzee/orang-utan) scale (boiling/hot/warm/cool/cold/freezing) The teacher is going to teach about animals in Africa and Alaska, and the students have to find pictures around the room which are either African animals OR Alaskan animals.

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10 ways to make an effective VOCABULARY presentation. Effective presentations should/could ...

● not be too long

● include examples

● include interesting visuals

● use drama

● include explanations

● include JAPANESE

● link to previously learnt material

● include the students

● include practice

● include a check of the understanding

● be funny, interesting

● hold attention

● be memorable, dramatic

● link to students’ present knowledge

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WHERE WOULD YOU TEACH VOCABULARY?

Imagine that your students are going to read something about television

The new words are ‘channel’ & ‘program’

Where would you put the vocabulary techniques?

What would your students do before and after the reading/vocabulary technique?