Vocabulary Activities with CD-Rom

Description

The book provides a varied set of vocabulary activities, most of which can be used with whatever vocabulary items you are currently teaching: ones that have come up in a text, for example, or ones connected to a theme or topic you wish to engage with in the classroom. Most of the activities are therefore ‘generic’ rather than limited to a particular set of items. So where there are sample texts or lists of items in a Box, these usually function as examples and illustrations.

The activities are varied also in the kinds of classes or student populations they address: for ages ranging from young children to adults, and levels from beginner to advanced. Many can be adapted for use with a range of different kinds of classes.

The first section is headed Guidelines and provides some useful background information and practical tips relating to the teaching of vocabulary in general and the design and use of the activities in this book in particular. The second and major section, Activities, consists of the vocabulary activities themselves, organized under the headings: Vocabulary expansion; Vocabulary review; Advanced vocabulary study; Vocabulary testing; Mainly for fun.