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Blog · January 8, 2009

Simple Vocabulary Review Technique スミス英会話大津

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Easy planning, Quick set-up, Great lesson: Reviewing Vocabulary.

Reviewing an old vocabulary lesson or a set of previously learned vおcabulary is an easy to plan, quick to set-up and important lesson for language students of all levels. Teachers who keep good files should have no problem doing vocabulary review regularly. Here is a simple technique for quick (or not-so-quick!) vocabulary review:

…. Before the lesson, look up synonyms for all of the vocabulary words in the set you will be reviewing (hereafter called “the set”). Write “Review: Vocabulary ??” on the board and the list of synonyms (but NOT the set). Have students try to figure out the words in the set.
*To make this easier: write the set on the board in order, and the synonyms out of order, and have students draw lines to match them.
** To make this harder, write antonyms on the board instead.
HW Assign the words in the set as homework. 1 sentence each, or 1 question each.

Try it!

Edward, SSE Ohtsu

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  1. Ken says

    January 8, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    Hi Edward, What a great idea not only will it review the prior vocabulary lesson but it will also enable us to build new vocabulary lessons. I love the antonym suggestion as well. In essence your review process could produce around 24 additional words but if you include each word’s families then it will be a lot more. Another side benefit is that it will also help us to increase our own list of Japanese words(tango)which is really something for us to dance about.

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  2. Al Bartle says

    February 13, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Great idea! I have a thesaurus in my room which I have used from time to time to show students that there are so many synonyms for the words and the antonym is also given. I will try your technique. Maybe the most important thing you mentioned in your post is the word “review”. The students really need this as it takes a lot of practice to make the words stick and become readily usable. Let’s keep making the Smith’s School of English curriculum better through such cooperation and joint effort! Great school! Great teachers! Great curriculum that is spot on for Japanese students! What could be better?

    Al, SSE Okamoto

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