Vocabulary with YLs

Warmer: Ways you teach 10

1. 3 of your favourite ways to teach vocabulary-brainstorm

2. FSOW doesnt agree with you and concivnce them that you are right!
3. Tutot sets up the IWB etc.
4. Random feedback of ideas

Stage 1: Flashcards 30

1. Mo seomora codalta
2. Eist agus dan (repeat)
3. Slide show w/bedroom furniture
4. Distribute the small flasshcards w/pic&word
5. Fold the word back! Fill ar ais mar seo
6. Students move around the class and elicit CAD E?
7. Students create pelmanism game by separating the word from the pic
8. Cuir s ar an urlr mar seo.
9. An fidir leat cuimhneamh ar an focal?
10. In pairs
11. Fold an A4 piece of paper in half lengthwise and wthen into seven rectangles
12. Number the rectangles on the right (Uimhir a h-aon, a do, a tri, a ceathair, a se agus a seactBB eg)
13. ist agus a tharraingt (draw!)
14. Read though the items as gaeilge
15. Seiceil le do phirt (mimic- check)
16. Agus anois, a scrobh na focail chuimhne (..from memory)

17. Mention MES website here and show samples if possible

18. How could we take this vocabulary further?
19. Brainstorm and random feedback of ideas
20. A3 sheets of paper create your ideal bedroom
21. Dominoes
22. Bingo
23. Wordsearches

Stage 2: Conceptual representation of lexis 30

1. Parts of the body

2. Elicit by touching on body part
3. If having trouble write scrambled word on the board
4. Folded A412 squares
5. Whats this? HEAD
6. How many heads have we got?
7. Write the word HEAD in a rectangle!
8. Whats this? NECK
9. How many have we got?
10. Write the word NECK in a rectangle!
11. Whats this? HAND
12. How many have we got? 2

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 13. How many rectangles for HAND? 2
14. Write the word HAND in two rectangles
15. Whats this? LEG
16. How many have we got? 2
17. How many rectangles for LEG? 2
18. Write the word LEG in two rectangles
19. Tell the participants to continue with the completion of the rectangles based on the examples
provided
20. Separate the rectangles and put them in a pile
21. Turn upside down
22. Spell and partner touches on own body
23. Put in anatomical position
24. Stick to a posteretc.
25. Tell the students about the nations and nationalities lesson here/get a participant to tell if they
taught this in class already!
26. What other groups of words could be represented (meronyms-parts in relation to the whole-
holonyms)
27. Elicit examples and how this could be done in class (labelling diagrams for eg.very CLIL!)
28. Air spelling
29. Mouthing
30. Miming
31. Pictionary
32. Taboo

Roundup: Tried and Tested tools

Communicative crosswords
Picture labelling
Wordsearches

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