Namangan davlat universiteti ingliz filologiyasi fakulteti amaliy ingliz tili kafedrasi

LESSON 9: TEACHING VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT


Aim: To focus on student’s vocabulary learning experiences to presenting new words or phrases in the classroom.


Objectives:

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  To raise participants’ awareness of different ways of introducing vocabulary
  
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  To get participants involved in the process of teaching new vocabulary
  
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  To let participants discuss, analyze and practice the techniques for presenting vocabulary
  

Warm-up (10 min)
Ask participants to write down three or more words that they have recently learnt or that they remember learning in a particular situation in the past.
Also, ask the participants to think of reasons why they learnt those particular words and perhaps not others which were presented to them. What made the experience memorable and effective?
Invite participants to share their words and phrases that they learnt and discuss their reasons for learning them


Activity 1 (30 min)
Ask participants to relate their vocabulary learning experiences to presenting new words or phrases in the classroom.
Invite participants to make a list of five techniques for presenting new vocabulary in groups of three.
Distribute a handout with eleven different techniques with examples for presenting new vocabulary. Let participants to look at all the techniques and ask them to answer the following questions.

1. 
   Which four techniques do you personally prefer? Why?
   
2. 
   Which one technique do you consider the least effective? Why?
   
3. 
   Are there techniques that are particularly appropriate for the presentation of certain types of words?
   
4. 
   Are there techniques which are likely to be more, or less appropriate for particular learners(young/adult, beginner/advanced, different background cultures)