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TEFL Program - Having fun with vocabulary

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on May 2, 2011 at 11:26:49 am
 

Great Vocabulary Activities

 

There are many ways of practising new words, so students are able to recall and use them later. These activities can also be a lot of fun, and bring a great energy into the classroom. 

 

Please write down 5 vocabualry practice activities you use in your classrooms.

 

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Of these 5, which is your favourite and why? And which is your least favourite and why?

 

 

 

 

Here are some vocabulary activities, at least some of which will be familiar to you.

 

  • Match pictures with words, then contextualise the words (eg. in simple sentences or dialogues)
  • Match parts of words to other parts (prefixes and suffixes)
  • Matching words to other words (opposites, synonyms, collocation, lexical sets, etc.)
  • Classifying (eg. different words into particular lists)
  • Cloze exercises with particular words
  • Crosswords
  • Crossword jigsaw (in pairs - describe own words for partner to complete crossword with and vice-versa)
  • Mini-crosswords - put a word vertically on board - students in teams write related words horizontally using letters from the original
  • Word grids - find words from within, create own
  • Complete diagrams
  • Memory games (with objects or words)
  • Definition exercises - you define sth - students guess what/who it is, then do the same
  • Back to the board (‘hotseat´) - one student has back to board on which several words are written - teacher selects word and team defines it for student to say what it is
  • Categories (orally - each student has 5 seconds to think of new word in given category - or on paper - words in given categories starting with given letters)
  • Category list - say 10 words - students say the connection - then do own lists
  • Anagrams - individual words or sentences (could be several individual words but in incorrect order)
  • Rearrange jumbled sentences - can be done by giving each student a word, then calling one to the front, where others have to join him/her with their words in order to create a sentence
  • Creating dialogues using specific vocab
  • Creating stories using specific vocab

 

  • Bingo - with new words, irregular nouns, opposites, etc.
  • Examine word families (hot-hotter-hottest-heat-heating-heater-to heat)
  • Brainstorm words - give one word, eg. school, get students to volunteer related vocab
  • Vocab chains - he went to the shop and bought a banana, he went to the shop and bought a banana and an orange, he went to .
  • Odd man out - meaning, pronunciation, spelling, etc.
  • Read story/description - at the end, students draw what they see
  • 'Simon Says'
  • Find words, eg. from international´ (in, on, at, ten, etc.)
  • Board Race - 2/3 teams - have to race to the board to write up specific lexical set

 

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