A Fresh Look at Teaching Vocabulary
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A Fresh Look at Teaching Vocabulary David Fay Director, Regional English Language Office U.S. Embassy, Lima, Peru [email protected] http://reloandes.com http://lima.usembassy.gov/relo2.html
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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.
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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
Language Learning Skills: Focus on Vocabulary
Nature of Words: • Vast, Alive & AccessibleApproaches to New Words: • Discovery StrategiesRemembering New Words: • Consolidation Strategies
600,000
25,000 - 30,000
2,000 – 3,000
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
Can you find the opposite of…
• Dry• Strong• Rough• White• Bad• Single• thick
• Wine• Cigarette• Sea• Collar• Dude• Ticket• Person
Guessing words from context…
Have you seen my shrumpf?
It must have fallen from my nose while I was cooking soup!
• 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.”
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.
Word Pictures (J. Hadfield)
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
