Focus on Vocabulary

Objectives Understand the meaningConnotationCollocationRegister

Warm-up

One technique to help you to learn new vocabulary.

Activity 1 How Do We Learn Vocabulary?

Task 1 “Knowing a Word”

A definition

Task 2

How to define “active” and “passive” knowledge of vocabulary?

Task 3 Memorize Word Field

Task 4 Learning New Words

from a Context

Task 1 Different Ways

Task 2 Which Technique to Use?

Task 3 Information-gap

Activity 3 Work out Words from Context

Task 1 Using Word Fields

Task 2 Connotation

Task 3 Register01

Task 4 Collocation

Activity 5 Recording

What Do We Need to Record?

Task 2 Efficient Recording Strategies

Task 3 Using Word Tables

Task 4 Collecting Examples of the Word

Task 1 Reviewing Words

Task 2 Using Mnemonics

Task 3Student Quiz

Task 4Information-gap Crossword

Summary