Transcript Vocabulary Review

Vocabulary Review
More ideas
• How many can you recall?
• New words / pics / translations scattered on the
board – identify (point, identify number)
• Flash cards
• You-tube with sound turned down
• Vocabulary boxes
• Given list: students self-test by writing in
translations
• Given list: students self-test by marking , , ?
• Contextualize words in a story (written or
spoken)
• Words + translations: then delete words, Only
L1 left on the board, students say or write in
translations
• Recall all those they can remember
• Pass it round
• Bingo
• Rewrite with substitute words: then
reconstruct original
• Working in pairs to match
• Open-books gapfills
• Tic-tac-toe, and other games
• Crossword puzzles (using translation, and
with a word bank)
• Identify the right word of two options in a
sentence
• Rewriting a text with different words, then
reconstructing the original
• ‘Crossing the river’
• In pairs, matching words with translations
Deepening knowledge of items
Further aspects of form, meaning, and use, e.g.
collocation, connotation, appropriateness.
Should display features of quantity, successorientation, heterogeneity, interest, simplicity.
Important: deep processing.
Sample procedures
• ‘Google it’
• Look it up in the dictionary! (sample sentences,
other combinations, pronunciation)
• What’s the best translation (in context)?
• Translate chunks and collocations
• How else could you say it? Paraphrasing, finding
synonyms
• Word-family tables
• Notice its use/collocational links when you come
across it again
Tips to maximize learning time
• Minimize time spent on organizing the activity
• Puzzles: minimize time spent ‘not knowing’
• Involve as many students as possible
simultaneously
• Use time-limits:
– You have exactly (n) minutes. Ready?.... GO!
OR
– Let’s see how long it takes you to do this.
– Follow-up: let’s see if you can break your previous
record)
What’s the best translation?
The phrase ‘a born teacher’ is not usually meant to
be taken literally. People who use it do not
seriously mean that someone is born with a certain
teaching DNA configuration in their genes. They
are, rather, referring to stable personality
characteristics, resulting from a combination of
innate and environmental influences, that the
teacher brings to their professional practice and
that produce something that looks like a natural
bent for teaching.
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Word-family table
Noun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
general
dictate
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basis
preferably
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