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Activity 2 Exploring vocabulary learning activities
Objective: to explore some vocabulary learning activities
Time: 25 min
Materials: handout 1, board, markers
►Procedure:
-☺☺☺ (5 min) Put participants in groups of four and remind them of the tasks they examined in Teaching Vocabulary. Ask them to refer back to ‘Some principles of vocabulary teaching’ which they received as a handout at the end of the session. Ask groups to brainstorm different types of vocabulary learning activities.
- ☺ (5 min) Take feedback from groups and write participants’ ideas on the board.
Suggested answers:
• open/banked gap-filling exercises
• comparing synonyms in context,
• replacing nonsense words in a text
• multiple matching
• analysis of words and word combinations in a text
• using word combinations and phrases
• labelling and describing objects in a picture
• using texts with thinking questions
Say that the principles on the handout should be considered when teachers develop and/or give their students certain vocabulary learning activities.
- ☺☺☺ (10 min) Ask participants to work in groups. Distribute handout 1 to each participant. Tell groups to do these three activities as learners and identify the teaching points in each of them.
Suggested answers:
Activity A is a matching exercise: a5; b3; c2; d1; e4. It deals with definitions of new words out of context. Its main focus is expansion of passive vocabulary.
Activity B focuses on eliciting the meaning of words and phrases in a certain context and allows some space for the use of these words and phrases in discussion. It also touches upon words having different meanings, e. g. change as ‘transformation’ and ‘money you get back’ which you have to deduce from the context.
Activity C focuses on inferring and creating possible contexts for isolated sentences and on comparing differences in meaning in the use of synonyms.
- ☺ (5 min) Elicit groups’ responses to the activities and discuss them with the whole group. Refer to the principles of vocabulary teaching and the sessions on Teaching Vocabulary and Authenticity. Say that you would like participants to put these ideas into practice by designing a few vocabulary tasks.