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THE 5TH VTTN CONFERENCE
CHALLENGES and CHANGE
in ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
Hanoi – Saturday, January 17th 2009
HOW TO MAKE
VOCABULARY LEARNING FUN
FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS
A WORKSHOPBy
NGUYEN NGOC MINH TRANGJANUARY 2009
Problems
Students need lots of vocabulary, especially in the early stages of learning English, to increase their
ability and confidence in communicating in English. However, learning vocabulary is never easy for learners. Teachers who motivate the students
learning English need to make learning vocabulary a fun, involving and active process.
OBJECTIVES
The workshop aims to:
•Provide participants with the process of young learners acquiring vocabulary.
•Provide participants with motivating techniques and practical classroom ideas for practicing and reviewing vocabulary.
Outline
1.What young learners learn vocabulary
2.Techniques and practical classroom ideas for practicing and reviewing vocabulary
What young learners learn
Learning vocabulary
vocabulary
Meaning of the word (what it means)
Form of the word (how it is pronounced)
Contextualizing of the word(When it is used)
Expanding the word(vocabulary development)
recycling the word
Techniques and classroom ideas for practicing and reviewing vocabulary
Games
Activities
Games and Activities
• Card passing
• Concentration
• Bingo
• Finding places
• Word games
• Story
• Scramble
• Spelling check
• Listening and writing
Ice breaker games
And we walk to the left
And we walk to the right
And we walk(2 times)
And we walk all night
With the heel and the toe
And the half turn around
With the heel and the toe
And the good friend found.
1. Card passing
Before class: prepare some teacher’s cards
In class:
Revise the words
Have sts read and pass the cards
Extension:
The game can be changed into competition one
2. Concentration
Before class: make a set of picture cards and word cards for each group
In class:
Sts are in groups of six
Ts give two sets of picture cards to each group and place them facedown in random order on the desk
Sts turn over two cards and find two identical cards( st read the word whenever st turn over the card)
3. Bingo
Before class: Prepare some picture cards
In class:
Have sts make three rows of three sts each
Give the card to each st
The volunteer in each group call the number and say the word
The first sts to cover three squares across, down, or diagonally wins the game
4. Finding places
Before class: - Prepare the dices with picture of places on each side of the dice.
- Prepare 6 bowls of beads
In class:
Divide the class into group of six, have each group stand under the name of the group(at the bus stop, at the bakery,…)
Each group throws the dice and moves to another place. In each place, sts need to pick up some beads( Sts repeat the words while moving)
Where are you?
At the bus stop : green
At the train station : yellow
At the airport : white
At the bakery :pink
At the bookstore :blue
At the factory :purple
5.Word games
Food Places Sports Activities
6. Story
It was Sunday. Emily didn’t go to school. She called her friend, Jenny but Jenny wasn’t at home. She was ____. She watched TV. The film was boring. Then she took a long nap. When she woke up, she had a cough…hm…hm and a run nose. She was _____ and ____. There was a bell ring at the door. Matt, Jenny came. Emily met her friends. She was ______.
How do you feel?
SadTiredSickBoredTired
7. Scramble
Before class: prepare some word cards
In class:
Work in the whole class
Revise the words of weekend activities
Have sts make a big circle in which there is one st (the caller) in the center
The caller calls out two or three words of weekend activities at random
Sts stand and exchange seats, they have to race with the st in the center to get a seat
Weekend activities
Play basketball
Walk the dog
Go fishing
Listen to music
Go out to eat
Make a cake
Draw pictures
Plant flowers
Go swimming
Read a book
Play soccer
Make dinner
Go shopping
Vacuum the carpet
Watch TV
eat out
8. Spelling check
Before class: Prepare the paper of word cards
In class:
Work in groups of 6
One st will be a caller. He/ She calls a word and the others will point. The next caller is the person who catches the word first
9. Listening and writing
Before class: Paper A4, wordcards
In class:
Work in groups of 6
Listen to music and pass the paper around the group.
When teacher stops music, Sts stop passing, hear the word from the teacher and then write down.
Thank you
Games for teachers
A E F H I L M N O P S T U W Y
P L E A S E A L W A Y S S M I L E W I T H
L I F E S O I T w I L L S M I L E
W I T H Y O U
W I S H Y O U H A P P I N E S S
References
The TKT course book
Let’s go teacher book
Primary English Language Teaching Training course
Teach English - Trainer’s handbook, Adrian Doff
Maths & science workshop in HCM city for games for teachers
Teachers from Nanyang University, Singapore for ice-breaker song.