Essential Vocabulary Learning Insights
Explore various aspects of teaching vocabulary including word families, compounds, types of nouns, and presenting vocabulary. Understand the importance of word meaning, considerations, and effective practices in vocabulary teaching for language learners.
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1. Nouns bits, pieces, record, player 2. Pronouns I, them 3. Verbs like, looking, doing , to look 4. Adjectives old, second-hand, new 5. Adverbs Up 6. Prepositions for, like 7. Conjunctions and 8. Determiners this
Like looking bits pieces old second-hand record players doing up look new I for and like this this and them to like
Compounds infotainment Blend Let s brunch Conversion dorm Clipping
Types of Nouns Homonyms Synonyms Hyponyms Superordinates Antonyms
Other considerations Style Variety Connotation Register
Meaning Collocations Frequency What needs to be taught? Derivations Spoken Form Grammatical Behaviour Written Form Register Connotations
Presenting Vocabulary How many language items to present? The level of the learners The learner s likely familiarity with the words The difficulty of the items The teachability of the items Whether the items are being learned for production or only recognition
Presenting Vocabulary Means of presentation Translation Realia Pictures Actions/gestures Definitions Situations
Practising Vocabulary Decision Making Tasks Identifying Selecting Matching Sorting Ranking and Sequencing
Word Race 10 things that are green 8 things that melt 6 things that make a lot of noise 4 things that you grow out of 2 things that you use only once Yghrt Tst Cff Mrmld Ppl -Yoghurt Toast Coffee Marmalade Apple -Peter combs his hair -Chips, Chops ,Cream, Ham, Ice, Pies, Meat, Tea, Mash
Contrived Lists What kinds of fruit do you like? When do you eat crisps What are your favourite biscuits? What flavour ice-cream do you like best? When do you eat cereal? What is your favourite kind of pizza? What kind of juice do you like? How often do you eat fish
Practising Vocabulary Production Tasks Completion open/closed gap-fills Text creation
Games Topic Race Stop Board Race Change a word Preposition Race Ring the bell Word Race Contrived Lists
Games Gap words Have you got a ....... ?I m hungry. Have you got a........ ?My car broke down. Have you got some........ For my back?
Warmers Sentence Machine It s got..... You can..... You must..... You shouldn t...
________ is a __________ from __________ name job country s/he eats __________ and drinks ___________ food drink and likes ___________ing in his/her free time. Activity S/he has a ________ __________ as a pet Adjective Animal
Learner Autonomy Recording Vocabulary Recycling Vocabulary Prompt Cards Class Diary
Complain 1. Complains 2. Complaint 3. Complaints 4. Complainant 5. Complainants 6. Complaining 7. Complained 8. Complainer 9. Complainers 10.Uncomplaining 11.Complainingly 12.Uncomplainingly
Suffixes Grid -er -or -ing -less -ant -ive -tion -ed -able -ful -ly -ist