Category Archives: word lists

Strategies for listening, note taking and discussion

These notes are based on a presentation given by Theresa Doğuelli University. The presentation was after sales service from Oxford University Press on the Lecture Ready series of academic English text books. The aim of the book is strategy training and this was where Teresa began her presentation. The differences between a strategy, skill, plan and [...]
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Activity: vocabulary tennis

This is an activity that requires no setting up and can be done at the drop of a hat just the kind of activity that I love to have in my toolbox! Essentially, the idea is to promote automatization through quick responses, under moderately stressful conditions. Aim: learners will recycle vocabulary and/or create short sentences under [...]
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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 [...]
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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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