a fresh look at teaching vocabulary
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This presentation is meant to support a face-to-face workshop and hopes to give participants a new way of perceiving the teaching of vocabulary in the ELT classroom.TRANSCRIPT
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A Fresh Look at Teaching Vocabulary
David FayDirector, Regional English Language OfficeU.S. Embassy, Lima, Peru
[email protected]://reloandes.com
http://lima.usembassy.gov/relo2.html
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Language Learning Skills: Focus on Vocabulary
Nature of Words: • Vast, Alive & AccessibleApproaches to New Words: • Discovery StrategiesRemembering New Words: • Consolidation Strategies
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Words like to go with other words!• Whistle• Kick• Lick• Tie• Climb• Scratch• Drop• Chew• Hug • Stare
• A ladder• A pile of books• Your head• Out of the window• A toffee• A tune• Your grandmother• A ball• An ice-cream• A knot
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Can you find the opposite of…
• Dry• Strong• Rough• White• Bad• Single• thick
• Wine• Cigarette• Sea• Collar• Dude• Ticket• Person
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Guessing words from context…
Have you seen my shrumpf?
It must have fallen from my nose while I was cooking soup!
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• He has not shaven in a long time. Have you seen how long his “gras beelong fes” has become?
• I would not want my boy to join the Navy. I would be worried if he got assigned to one of those “bottom bottom wata wakas.”
• One of the worst things in life: to be in an elevator when someone “pulls bad briz.”
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Contextualizing word lists…• Where?In the park• When?When you are happy, when you can’t sing.• Who?Almost anyone. You only need lips, teeth and
tongue.• How?With air from your lungs.
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Word Pictures (J. Hadfield)
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A Fresh Look at Teaching Vocabulary
David FayDirector, Regional English Language OfficeU.S. Embassy, Lima, Peru
[email protected]://reloandes.com
http://lima.usembassy.gov/relo2.html