How-To-Teach-Vocabulary-Like-A-Pro
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CONTENTS PAGE 1 HOW TO TEACH VOCABULARY Webster Didn’t Get It: Together Nations 5 Important Words Your 4 TIPS AND TRICKS: Students Won’t Find in 29 ART & CULTURE: Let’s What Do You See? 8 the Dictionary Be P.C. Four Important Steps to Teaching Basic Tips for Teaching Vocabulary 16 TIPS AND TRICKS: Etiquette and Cultural Digging Deep: Fresh Differences 5 TIPS AND TRICKS: & Creative Tips for 10 Out of the Ordinary Teaching Word Roots 30 BODY: Simon Says Places Your Students You’ll Love these Games can Pick up New 17 TIPS AND TRICKS: for Teaching Anatomy Vocabulary Riddle Me This: Word- Vocabulary based Conundrums for 6 TIPS AND TRICKS: 4 Your ESL Classroom 31 CLOTHES & Fresh Ways to Introduce SHOPPING: Get Up, New Vocabulary 18 TIPS AND TRICKS: 14 Get Dressed, Get Going: Quick Tips for Teaching ESL Activities for a Unit 7 TIPS AND TRICKS: 5 Homophones on Clothing Best Ways to Introduce New Vocabulary 19-20 TIPS AND TRICKS: 32 FEELINGS & Don’t Get Stuck in a EMOTIONS: How Do You 8 TIPS AND TRICKS: 6 Vocabulary Rut: 8 Fresh, Feel Today? Teaching Absolutely Essential ESL Fun Ideas for Words and Emotions in Your ESL Games for Vocabulary Post-It Notes Classroom Review 21 TIPS AND TRICKS: Mind 33 FOOD / DRINGS / 9 TIPS AND TRICKS: How the Gap! 10 Fun Fill in COOKING: Eat Up: to Elicit Vocabulary: Top the Blanks Activities for Activities You Can Use 6 Techniques Any ESL Class for a Cross-Curricular ESL Unit on Food 10 TIPS AND TRICKS: I 22 ANIMALS: Creating Left the Thing Early to a Paper Zoo in Your 34 FOOD / DRINGS / Do the Other Thing with Classroom COOKING: Fill Your a Bunch of You Know: Plate with these Food Helping Students Build 23 ANIMALS: Twittering in Themed ESL Activities Their Specific Academic Class: Feather Friendly Vocabulary Activities for the ESL 35 FOOD / DRINGS / Classroom COOKING: Help Yourself 11 TIPS AND TRICKS: to Seconds: More Ideas Prodigious Stratagems 24 ANIMALS: The Wild for Teaching a Cross- for Escalating World Around Us: Curricular ESL Unit on Vocabulary Bringing Nature’s Food Treasures Into the ESL 12 TIPS AND TRICKS: Classroom 36 FOOD / DRINGS / Teaching English COOKING: Cook Up Vocabulary – 10 25 ANIMALS: Underwater Some Fun: How to Teach Fabulous Ways to Teach and Under Earth ESL with Cooking New Words Adventures 37 FOOD / DRINGS / 13 TIPS AND TRICKS: 26 ART & CULTURE: Is COOKING: I Scream, The Power of Words: Anybody Home? How You Scream, ESL 5 Easy Tools to Help to Teach the Culture of Classes Scream for Ice Your Students Learn Families Cream Vocabulary 27 ART & CULTURE: Art in 38 FOOD / DRINGS / 14 TIPS AND TRICKS: Your Classroom: Shoot COOKING: No Junk Vocabulary Makeover: for the Stars With These Here: Fun Food How to Help Your ESL Activities Activities for the ESL Students Camouflage Classroom Common Words 28 ART & CULTURE: It’s a Small World: Language 15 TIPS AND TRICKS: Activities to Bring CONTENTS PAGE 2 HOW TO TEACH VOCABULARY 49 TRAVELLING: Oh 39 FOOD / DRINGS / the Places You’ll Go: 65-66 SPORTS & GAMES: COOKING: You’ll Find Geography Based ESL Hold Your Own Linguistic Sugar, Spice and Lessons Olympic Games: 10 Everything Nice in These ESL Activities for the Language Activities 50 TRAVELLING: Up, Up Olympics and Away: Aviation 40 FOOD / DRINGS / Themed Language 67 SPORTS & GAMES: COOKING: Ridiculous Activities It’s All in How You Play Recipes - Giving the Game: Fun ESL Instructions for Crazy 51-52 WEATHER: 5 Fun Activities With a Sports Concoctions Games that Teach the Theme Weather 41 FAMILY & FRIENDS: 68-69 SPORTS & GAMES: Mama’s House: An 53-54 WEATHER: Extreme Ready, Set, Go! - ESL Interdisciplinary ESL Weather: Be Prepared Activities about the Unit on the Family with These Cool ESL Olympics Activities 42 HOLIDAYS & 70 SPORTS & GAMES: CELEBRATIONS: 55 WEATHER: How to Would You Play? You’ll Have Reason to Teach Weather Weighing In Opinions on Celebrate with These Extreme Sports ESL Activities 56 WEATHER: Ice, Ice, Baby 71 SPORTS & GAMES: 43 HOLIDAYS & 5 Roller Skates: Move CELEBRATIONS: Is 57 WEATHER: New Ideas Right Along with these Christmas in April? for Teaching the Weather Fantastic ESL Activities Tips for Crafting Unforgettable Calendar 58 WEATHER: When It 72 SPORTS & GAMES: Lessons Rains, It Pours: A Cross- Play Ball! Bringing Curricular ESL Unit on Summer Sports into the 44 HOLIDAYS & the Weather ESL Classroom CELEBRATIONS: Let’s Party! But Let’s 59 WEATHER: Weather 73 INVENTIONS: Invent Learn, Too: Facilitating Caster for a Day Something Out of the Productive Parties Ordinary for Your ESL 60 MONEY: Cash and Class 45 TRAVELLING: Are You Carry: Money Fun for the Packed Yet? A Cross- ESL Classroom 74 INVENTIONS: Inventive Curricular ESL Unit on Language Ideas for the Vacation 61 SPACE: 5 Out of This ESL Classroom World Ideas for Teaching 46 TRAVELLING: About Space Exploration Exploits: 75 MAGIC: Magical Mystery Activities to Take Your 62 SPORTS & GAMES: Tour Students Around the At the Top of Their World Game: How To Teach an ESL Lesson with the 47 TRAVELLING: Guinness Book of World How to Teach an Records Interdisciplinary ESL Unit on Transportation 63 SPORTS & GAMES: and Travel Award Worthy ESL Activities 48 TRAVELLING: Top Activities to Take 64 SPORTS & GAMES: Your Students Across Batter Up! Fun Ways to the Country: No Bring Baseball into Your Transportation Required! ESL Classroom What Do You See? 8 Steps to Teaching Basic Vocabulary Picture books are a useful tool for his animal is speaking. Have your WHAT DO YOU SEE? the ESL teacher, especially when students sit down again when the next 7 she is teaching younger students. animal speaks. After you read the Tell your students that now entire book, say each animal again you are going to play a game. You Picture books can be a great help in and have your students stand for their will say their name and ask them what reading and writing lessons and can animal. they see. They should respond by even be the basis of a conversation naming an object in the room as well class. For vocabulary lessons, simple REVIEW THE ROLES as its color. For example: books with repeating phrases are par- ticularly useful. One such book is Bill 4 On the following day, repeat the “Hyun, Hyun, what do you see?” Martin’s Brown Bear, Brown Bear, activity. Then have student exchange “I see a brown desk looking at What do You See? which teaches masks and read the story again. They me.” basic colors and animal vocabulary. should stand when the animal on their mask is speaking. If any of your stu- Give each of your students at least one If you have beginning students who dents have learned the chant, encour- turn. need a lesson or a review on colors age them to say it along with you. and animals, here are some activities A CLASS COLLAGE you can try. Your kids will have fun, LOOK AND SEE 8 and they will learn as they play with 5 Then, make available to your Martin’s prose. Then rearrange your students students some old magazines. Tell so they are sitting in the same order each person that she should find one HOW TO TEACH as the animals in the book. Starting picture among the magazines for BASIC VOCABULARY at the beginning of the line, ask each each of the animals, and the color of student what he sees. “Sam, what do the object should match the color of you see?” for example. The student the animal. When a student finds an GET READY should answer with the name of the appropriate picture, have her come animal next to him. He can say either to the front of the room and point out 1 Start by reading the book to the animal’s name (e.g. red bird) or the poster where her picture belongs. your class. It is best if you can intro- the entire phrase (I see a red bird She should also tell you the color of her duce the book before you plan to do looking at me). object. Then have her glue her picture the rest of the activities so your stu- to the correct poster. dents have some familiarity with it. To make sure everyone has prac- tice with more than one animal, have Give your class enough time so every- MAKE MASKS your students exchange masks and one can find one picture for each of the 2 repeat the activity. Continue until every animals. When you finish, you should On the day you plan to start student has had the opportunity to be have a collage of magazine pictures for the activities, read the book to your each of the animals in the book. each color in the book. You should also class again. After you read, give each have a good read on how well your stu- student a picture of one of the animals REVIEW dents have learned their colors. in the book, and ask them to color the animal like the one in the book. 6 On the third day, prepare for THESE ARE SIMPLE ACTIVITIES THAT Make sure you have at least one of your color and animal lesson by TEACH SIMPLE VOCABULARY, BUT each animal represented in your class, hanging poster paper in the front IF YOU ARE TEACHING YOUNG ESL and having multiples of the animals is of your room, one page for each of STUDENTS, YOUR CLASS WILL LOVE okay, too. Have each student cut out the animals, and glue a picture of IT.