gcse english vocabulary lesson - snow

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Wordle by Louise Armstrong

You get a lot of marks for having a good vocabulary!

You can take a list of words into the exam.

8 ways to increase your vocabulary.

Vocabulary

Eskimo words for snowBoas Introduction to HAIL (1911: 21-22) : aput - snow on the ground qana - falling snow piqsirpoq - drifting snow qimuqsuq - snowdrift

But English has many ways to talk about snow...

SnowSnowflakeSnowdrift

Nouns and Snow

Avalanche Ice Arctic

Related Nouns

Describing words that tell us more about snow, such as glittering white snow.

Adjectives

WetFrenchWhiteHeapedNewBigUglySnow

Put these adjectives in order!

Tell us more about the snow: Opinion or judgment -- beautiful, ugly, cold,

unnecessary Size -- small, tall, short, big Age -- young, old, new, historic, ancient Shape -- round, square, rectangular Colour -- white, black, green, purple Nationality -- French, Swiss, American, Canadian,

Japanese Material -- wooden, metallic, plastic, glass, paper Purpose or Qualifier -- foldout sofa, fishing boat,

racing car

Adjective Order

What is the snow doing?

Drifting... Blowing... Falling...

Verbs

What is the snow doing to us?

Blinding... Blocking... Terrifying...

Verbs

Tell us how the snow is doing what it’s doing.

Falling... Quickly Slowly Gently Fast

Adverbs

Technical Vocabulary

Stellar Plate Crystal Stellar Dendrite Crystal

Crystalline water ice

Mechanical Connections

Snow Plough Snow Cannon

Animal Connections

Snow geese Snow tracks

What do people do with Snow?

Snowman Snowball

How do People Feel about Snow?

Love it? Hate it?

1. Collect related nouns.2. Make a list of adjectives.3. List verbs...4. ...and adverbs.5. Research technical vocabulary.6. Look for mechanical/animal

connections.7. How do humans use this thing?8. Find emotive language.

8 Ways to Increase your Vocabulary

Collect the biggest list of words connected to your topic that you can.

Paste the list into http://www.wordle.net/

Change the colour and font until you are happy with it.

Take a screen shot. Paste into Word & edit. Paste into the PowerPoint presentation.

How to Make a Wordle

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