Now, let’s move on to the second part of this presentation: Practising vocabulary

The aim of this activity is to have the student use the words and think about word meaning,
especially in some certain contexts.
In this part, we’re going to show you 5 activities of practising vocabulary. We have Word choice,
Word map, Describe and draw, Desert island word and Writing Poem.
Now let’s move on to the 1st activity: Word choice
The aim of this activity is to have the student make compound word and understand more about
compound word in general. Like what you can see on the screen, the teacher show a wheel of a lot
of words, and the center of the wheel is Book, and TV. In this activity, the students look at the
wheel and try to say which words combine with Book and TV to make compound words.
For example, with the word Book, we have Book binding, but TV binding is not a right word. In the
same way, we have book shelf, book mark, book worm, TV set, TV screen, and so on.
To do this activity, the teacher have to put the students into pair or group and tell them to match
the words as quickly as possible without using dictionaries.
Then the teacher show answers on the board and ask students to check with dictionaries. After all,
the teacher can ask the students to use those compound words in sentences to enhance their
memory about those words.
Now let’s move on the second activity: Word map
In this activity, student have to categorising words to make a word map. It encourages student to
think more about the words to commit the words to memory as well as meeting many new words.
As you can see an example on the screen, in the 1 st picture, students begin with a world map about
aspects of houses and the things in them.
In this activitiy, teacher will put the students in groups, each group will write things about a specific
room. They can look for words in dectionary as well. This activity can be set as a competition to
find out the group that write the most words.
This activity not only help student to find out the words they know but also improve their
knowledge.
The next activity is Descibe and Draw.
In this activity, students have to fill the gap by sharing information to each other. Like you can see
on the screen, there are 2 pictures. The student will sit in pairs: A and B. The teacher will give
student A the 1st paper and give the student B the 2 nd paper. The 1st paper has information about
Fungi and the 2nd one has information about bacteria and viruses.
Each student have to listen to their partner and asking questions about the diagram to draw it.
When finishing it, they can compare theirs versions and describe Fungi, Bacteria and viruses.
Now we move to the next activity: Choosing words.
This activity requires students to choosing the words and remember them.
In more detail, the teacher tell the students to look at the word list that they have been studying,
then tell them that they are going to live on a desert island and they can only take five words with
them. When the student choose the words, the teacher tell them to write sentences saying why
they have chosen them.
This activity can help the student practice using words and commit them to their memory.
The last activity we have is Writing poem.
In this activity, students write a short poem using words related to a certain topic. It is a partway
between a game and a practice exercise.
For example, at the begining, the teacher tell the students to write down as many words as they
can to descibe the things that may finds in a house, then tell them to write a kind of haiku-a kind of
Japaness poem. This doesn’t have to be an authentic haiku but only a short line, a longer line and
a shorter line.
The students work in pair, they have to write their haiku describing the room they choose and take
turn to read out the haiku. The rest of the class must guess what happened.
So we can see that Poetry writing is a wonderful way of getting students to write creatively.
Now, let’s move on to the next part of our presentation: Vocabulary games.
There are many games which are appropriate for use with collections of vocabulary items, but
some games are not. So in this part, we’re going to show you 2 vocabulary games that are helpful
for student
1st, we have the game Got it.
In this game, students have to listen carefully to the words and choose them competitively.
1st, the teacher put the students into groups of four or five, all sitting around the table. Then give
each group a colletion of 20-30 words, written on individual cards or pieces of paper, ensure that
they can see all the words. Then the teacher read out the words one by one and students have to
grab the cards with the word as soon as they hear it, then shout Got it.
At the end of the game, the winner will be the one who has collected the greatest number of
cards.
There are many alternative ways of organising Got it! For example, instead of just calling out the
words, we can give definitions and the students have to grab the matching words. Got it! Is really
an entertaining way of getting a class going.
Now, move to the second game: Backs to the board.
In this game, the students have to explain the meaning of a word or phrase to one of their team
members so that he or she can guess what the word is.
1st, the teacher will put the student into small team. In each team, one member sits with their back
to the board. Then the teacher write a word or phrase on the board. Each team has to explain the
word without using it and the student with their back to the board has to guess the word to get a
point for their team. Then it changes to every new round.
At the end of the game, the team with the most points is the winner. Backs to the board is
especially effective if the teacher puts up words and phrases whichthe students have recently
studied.