LEARNING VOCABULARY

LEARNING VOCABULARY

I get my students to write personalised sentences using new language because it is often more memorable when it’s related to your own life than that of Tim or Tammy or whoever features in a lot of textbook. Why? Because it shows that they have understood how to use it and also encourages experimenting with the different forms and often the grammar. I go around and check in class where possible and ask them to bring examples for next time then go over anything they weren’t sure about.

For example, I taught some proverbs yesterday and have asked that class to write their own example sehtences for homework to help them remember at least 3 of them, after we looked at meaning (example stories and a matching exercise) form and pronunciation (proverbial summarisers and intonation used) reviewed the vocab itself (finishing each other’s chosen proverb with a pack of Uno cards) and having them create and act out conversations where the proverbs could be used.

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  1. Daniel GintingNovember 9, 2017 at 6:51 AM

    Great, thanks for your explanation.

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  2. Hannah McCullochNovember 9, 2017 at 7:13 AM

    danielmachung You’re welcome!

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  3. Sun ShineNovember 9, 2017 at 7:45 AM

    Great idea, Hannah. :)

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  4. Claudie GNovember 24, 2017 at 4:35 AM

    I love the idea of having students act out proverbs. Aesop's fables are quite well known. There is an article gapfill in one of my favourite books "Intermediate Interactive Gramma" by Irene McKay.(Doesn't the title just say it all - the story is "The Fox and the Crow") After this the students write a fable from their culture....In the past we created photocopied books of the stories to share. Today post in a wiki or a blog. I didn't think of having them acting out the stories....maybe I will try this. Thanks.

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