Teaching Vocabulary
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
Word Families
Compounds
Blend
• infotainment
Conversion
Clipping
• Let’s brunch
• dorm
Types of Nouns
Homonyms
Synonyms
Superordinates
Hyponyms
Antonyms
Other considerations
Style
Variety
Connotation
Register
Meaning
Collocations
Frequency
What
needs to
be
taught?
Derivations
Grammatical
Behaviour
Spoken Form
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 -tion
-able -ing -ed
-ful -less -ant
-ly
-ive -ist