Vocabulary activities

Vocabulary Activities

Teacher Methodology

February 29, 2016

1.       Quick Bingo

            1.  Write 15-20 words you want to review on the board in a scatter pattern.

            2.  Tell students to copy down 4 of these words into their notebook at random.

            3.  Teacher calls out the definitions of each of these words (or the translation) randomly.

            4.  Any student that has the word that you define can cross the word the word off their                            list.  The first student to cross off all of four words calls out bingo and is the first                                  winner.

            5.  Continue until all the items have been crossed off.

2.       Simon Says

            1.  Tell students that you will give directions for them to follow.

            2.  If you say "Simon says" first, they should do it.

            3.  If you do not say "Simon says" first, they should not do it.

            4.  Tell the students to listen carefully and follow directions. 

            5.  This is a good game for practicing verbs.

3.       Words from Letters

            1.  Divide the learners into teams of 3 or more. Each team has secretary whose job it is to              write down the words.

            2.  Tell the groups that you will write down 12 letters (at least 3 are vowels and 5                                      consonants) on the board and that the learners have to find and get their                                         secretary to write down as many 3 or more letter words. As they can from these                                    letters within 4 minutes. 

            3.  Ts say go and stop after4 minutes.

            4.  Invite the first group to call out a word. Any other group who has this word then says              so and all groups tick it off. The second group does this the same and so on. The                    group with the most words that no other group has thought of is the winner.

4.       Relay Race

            1.  Students are divided into teams, each team is given only one marker/piece of chalk/

            2.  Teacher establishes how the marker/chalk is to be passed from student to student

                        during the game.

                        For example: student A writes a letter then passes the chalk to student

                        B, who writes a letter and passes the chalk to student C, and so on.

            3.  The teacher says a word and students take turns writing the word letter by letter on

                        the board.

            4. The team who completes the word correctly first is the winner.

5.       Pass it around

            1.   Divide the learners into teams of 3 or more.

            2.   Ts give papers with verbs related to topic to the teams.

            3.  The teams write and connect the suitable words with the verbs.

            4.   The Teams pass this paper around to other teams. And the teams white words that                               no other group has thought. The papers must be passed around the all teams.

            5.   After the papers have been passed around all team, they call out the connected                                    verbs and words