Effective ways of teaching English to prepare the students for the State Final Examination

Effective ways of teaching English to prepare the students for the State Final Examination

• Without grammar very little can be conveyed ,without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.
• David Wilkins, British linguist

How to teach vocabulary

• Teaching Tips:

• Step One : presenting new words Step Two : helping students remember new words Step Three : making sure students make the new words their own
• Step One : presenting new words
• Step Two : helping students remember new words
• Step Three : making sure students make the new words their own

Using visual images

Using gestures and actions

Other techniques

Step One: presenting new words

Words in context

Showing lexicial relations

Guessing/predicting

using visual images

• realia
• pictures
• masking
• drawing
• scales

showing lexical relations

• synonyms
• antonyms
• collocation
• prefixes and suffixes

words in context

• dialogues
• role play
• drama
• stories
• songs
• rhymes & poems
• videos

Other techniques

• Using a dictionary
• Explaining
• Describing
• Defining the context
• Translating

Using memorizing games & activities

Step Two: helping students remember new words

Using review games

Learning with friends

Using memorizing games and activities

• giving directions
• picture dictation
• labeling words
• searching words
• sequencing words
• guessing words
• eliminating words
• classifying words
• Matching words

Review Games

• Word search games
• picture labeling
• Bingo
• dominoes
• puzzles
• charts or survey for their peers
• crosswords

Socio-affectively, students can

• practice words with a classmate or in a group
• teach a word to a member of the family or peer
• make and play word game with friends
• peer test

Vocabulary record system

Step Three: making sure students make the new words their own

Personalizing the new words

Vocabulary record system-1

• Vocabulary books

• in an alphabetical order by topic or situation by grammatical groups by color sets by story features
• in an alphabetical order
• by topic or situation
• by grammatical groups
• by color sets
• by story features

Vocabulary record system -2

• personal dictionary (word notebooks)

• marking word stress adding pictures putting an L1 translation putting the word into context adding a synonym mapping a word family
• marking word stress
• adding pictures
• putting an L1 translation
• putting the word into context
• adding a synonym
• mapping a word family

personalize the new words

• Keeping a learning log (blogs)
• Keeping a diary (blogs)
• Creative writing by using newly-learned words or phrases
• Looking for recently learned words in storybooks, the Internet, the newspapers, etc., and noticing how they are used.

• Strategies
• There are some useful strategies for teaching vocabulary without adding extra work and time, illustrated by practical examples.
• Strategy 1: Make students responsible:Tell students that they’ll need to work on vocabulary expansion themselves outside the lessons: there’s simply no time during lessons to teach them all the vocabulary they need .
• Strategy 2: Use quick, five-minute vocabulary activities every lesson.
• Ask students to call out all the items they’ve learnt in the last two weeks, write them up as fast as you can. Add any they’ve forgotten

• Strategy 3: Combine fluency exercises in the four skills with a focus on vocabulary:

• Listening vocabulary:  the words we need to know to understand what we hear
• Speaking vocabulary:  the words we use when we speak
• Reading vocabulary:  the words we need to know to understand what we read
• Writing vocabulary : the words we use in writing

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• Vocabulary is also very important to reading comprehension. Readers cannot understand what they are reading without knowing what most of the words mean. As children learn to read more advanced texts, they must learn the meaning of new words that are not part of their oral vocabulary.

• Making Meaning
• DIRECTIONS: Write the vocabulary terms in the ‘new words’ column. Next, brainstorm what you already know about the word in the ‘before reading’ column. Finally, after you have read the text, complete the ‘after reading’ column with new information you obtained from the reading .

• NEW WORDS BEFORE READING AFTER READING

Syntagmatic approach

Topic: Jobs

E.g. Chefs cook meals in restaurants.

PEOPLE

ACTIONS

chef

OBJECTS

teacher

cook

PLACE

singer

meals

pilot

restaurant

Some word parts and their meaning

Reference: www.prefixsuffix.com

re-

pre-

inter-

omni-

-cede

-tain

-vene

con-

-fit

sub-

How many words can you make?

bene-

-scribe

-scient

How can students recognise and remember the words more easily?

How can students learn vocabulary to improve their reading?

Vocab Dice Game - examples

• 1 word about yourself
• 2 words about your family
• 3 words about your best friend
• 4 words about your hobbies
• 5 words you wish you had
• 6 of your favorite movies
• 4 words about money, food, restaurants, things you like to do
• Adjectives that describe you
• Your favorite website
• Reasons why you like Facebook
• How you plan to make money
• Favorite childhood memories
• What are you good at 

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• Learning Vocabulary by the Mind Map
• Put a word into connection with a Phrase, a group or a sentence

+ Gives us more information

+ Extra- information helps us easily to remember.

+ Learn grammar too.

+ Full of information .

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Mind Map

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