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Category Archives: vocabulary
Activity: Dicey Questions
Here is a very simple activity that is very useful to have in your toolbox as a no materials (save a die) and no preparation required…
Aims: Question and answer forms, targeted vocabulary recycling.
Skills: Speaking and listening
Materials: Set of dice for learners – or, if you have internet and a large enough screen, why not try [...]
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Fifty Links for learners
Here is a selection of links for learners to use for their own language learning purposes. There are links to resources under the following categories:
language links
topics: Texts to read and listen to, pronunciation practice, spelling practice, …
listening: over 400 activities.
native speaker: VOA Special English – limited to 1500 lexical items.
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Recycling specific vocabulary: the vocabox
The Vocabox
Activities for developing and activating vocabulary in the English classroom (the original idea came from Johanna Stirling July 2000 Bell Teacher Training Summerfest). The original article can be found here: http://www.elgweb.net/articles.html. A review of Johanna’s site can be found on this site, here.
Introduction
One constantly hears of presenting this that and the other. In fact [...]
Drawing dictation
Drawing dictation is an activity adapted from Christopher Sion’s excellent: Recipes for Tired Teachers.
Download the plan here
Download the key here.
Aim: To introduce and recycle simple lexis related to geometry in a project.
Level: Pre-int and higher.
Materials: The plan and key.
Time: For all stages, allow 180 minutes depending on how you exploit [...]
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word lists
In order for learners to achieve the target 2000 words as quickly as possible, they will need a rich and nourishing vocabulary. Some words will be taught by the teacher and other words will be learnt incidentally in extensive reading and listening activities. Many learners prefer a list of target words to learn. How can [...]
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