Vocabulary

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This title includes the following features: Looks at the process of vocabulary learning and proposes practical classroom activities to help learners acquire vocabulary.; Sets out the exercises clearly in the form of lesson plans with sample material.; Covers all areas of language learning: texts, aural comprehension, written and oral practice.; Can be used alone or in conjunction with the teacher's own materials or a textbook.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• The summary below aims to give a general idea of the book'sorganization
• The authors and series editor
• Foreword
• Introduction
• How to use this book
• Section A Pre-text activities (9 activities)
• Ways of treating vocabulary before students meet it in a reading text
• Section B Working with texts (18 activities)
• Vocabulary exercises to be done in the course of reading
• Section C Pictures and mime (15 activities)
• Explores the imagery of words
• Section D
• Looks at the ways we categorize words internally
• Section E
• Activities to explore personal! responses to words
• Section F Dictionary exercises and word games (16 activities)
• Suggests ways in which the dictionary (and other reference books) can be used as a creative learning aid
• Section G Revision exercises (17 exercises)
• Proposes many ways in which students can usefully store wordsin their vocabulary books, and offers both novel and traditional ways of coping with vocabulary revision