Recipes Tagged ‘vocabulary’
Drawing and Vocabulary
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16 Aug 2009
Kids love to draw! Use that interest to develop their English.
This lesson recipe is my "go to" lesson. An idea which you can use at the last minute for almost any children's class. Also a good lesson when unprepared or just plain tired/hungover! (it happens).
Give each student a blank A4 piece of paper. Draw a large rectangle on the board. Give the chalk…
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Guessing games are a standard way to play and practice/learn vocabulary.
Simply generate with the class your vocabulary list. It can be recent vocabulary from your book/lesson/unit.
Then, the teacher describes one thing/place/person on the board and students try to guess. Only one guess / student or team ( or you will have some students just saying a hundred guesses!). Erase or mark out each…
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Talking about your family
In: Advanced| Elementary| False Beginner| High School| Intermediate| Middle School| Recipe| University
12 Aug 2009
This generates a lot of talk and students are always very interested in each other's lives.
Write down on the board some of your own (the teacher) family names. Underneath write;
A. Who is .......................?
B. ........ is ...........'s ................
A. .................................?
Students ask the teacher about the family members on the board. The teacher replies, using "B" and writing more information on the board. The student then… » Click here to read the rest of ‘Talking about your family’…
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Guess the Wordle – a vocab. game
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11 Aug 2009
Wordle is a wonderful tool for teaching English!
You can put in groups of words and then display them in a "cool" fashion. Your teenagers especially will love this personalization.
I designed a quick game of random wordles - What The Wordle?!. Students make guesses and if correct get points. If they add more words to the wordle, they even… » Click here to read the rest of ‘Guess the Wordle - a vocab. game’…
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This is an excellent way to get students speaking and to practice "home" related vocabulary and prepositions.
1. Warm up by quizzing students about prepositions. Take a pen and place it around your body. Ask, "Where's the pen?". Place it in some funny places!
2. In pairs with a pen, students practice and do the same as modeled by the teacher.
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This is a variation of the 20 questions game but can also be a way to learn/produce/practice all lesson vocabulary.
Give all students post it notes. ( I like using the small ones, the really tiny ones). Students choose a famous person to write on the note OR a vocabulary item that you've studied/learned (maybe from a list on the board).
They put the…
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Top 5 was the first game I developed and the positive feedback I got from it, really keep me motivated to make more games. Teachers loved its simplicity and students loved the competitive aspect. It also has a neat creative thinking skill aspect.
1. Hand out the worksheet for each student. Put them in groups of 3/4.Name one scorekeeper for each group.
2. Show…
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Short videos like those on Youtube or EFL Classroiom, are perfect "engaging" starters for great language learning. Here are some suggestions on how to use videos which have vocabulary in them, like this favorite, the Elephant Song.
Play the video and give students a task. This is so important! The task must be VERY simple but keep them focused. Like, "write down 3 things you see" or as in the case…
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What’s the first word you think of when I say…….?
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