Saturday, 27 December 2014

Games in Vocabulary

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           Vocabulary is a basic foundation of learning new language but sometime memorizing vocabulary is such pain in the ass, quite hard to remember it wont stay in our brain forever.
          In this case many researchers try many methods and technique and the most suggested is using GAME that can stimulate our LONG TERM MEMORY in other word the words that we learned will stay for good.
I will will write down some of games relate how to improve your vocabularies.
Suggested games:
Ambiguous picture:draw a small part of a picture. Ask the students what it is going to be. Encourage different opinions. Do not confirm or reject their ideas. Add a little more to the drawing and ask the question again. Build your picture in about four stages.

Association:start by suggesting an evocative word:" storm", for example. A student says what the word suggests to him or her-it might be "dark", and so on round the class. You might start with any other word or use an item of vocabulary the class has recently learnt.
 
Crosswords:ask a student to write a word of not more than five letters in the middle  of the board, for example, "melon". The letters should be written clearly and separately. Now think of a word which shares one letter with the word on board. Give students a clue to your word. For example," I like reading them". If somebody guesses: books" he or she writes the word soit crosses the first word and shares a letter. The students now take over.
 
Favorite words:write on the board one of your favorite words. Tell the class it is one of your favorite words and explain why. Tell students to write down some of their favorite words and then give their reasons for choosing them to their neighbor.
 
Feel the object:collect various objects from the students and from around the room. Put the objects in a bag. Hold the bag and then ask students to feel the objects and try to identify them.
 
How many things can you think of that….?In groups, students try to think of and note down as many things as they can that fit a given definition and that they know in English. For example, you might tell them to think of as many items as they can that work on electricity. After two or three minutes have a competition to see which group can think of the most items.
 
Invisible elephant:tell the students that you are going to draw a picture for them. Draw the outline of an elephant, a car, a man, a bird… in the air with your finger. Ask them what you have drawn. Encourage different interpretations.
 
Jumbled words:write on the board words the students have recently learnt, with the letters in jumbled order. It is best to have the words all associated with one given theme; otherwise the task of working them out can be too difficult and timeconsuming. For example, you can give an elementary class a set of words like: (gdo, sumoe, owc, knymoe, tac, tnhpeeal, ibdr). Tell them these words are all animals.
 
Match the adjectives:write three adjectives on the board. For example: important, dangerous, heavy. Ask students to suggest things which can be described by all three adjectives.
 
Match the people: write a list of about ten jobs on the board. Each student writes down a list of ten ideas, feelings, memories, etc. he or she associates with one of the jobs listed. The students then work in pairs, and each student studies his or her neighbors' list and tries to guess which job the list refers to. The students then confirm or reject the guess and explain why he or she put each word in the list.
 
Recalling words:write on board between 15 and 20 words the students have recently learnt, or that you think they know. Make sure all the words are understood. Give a minute for everyone to look at them, then erase conceal them. Individually, or in pairs or groups, the students try to recall as many as they can and write them down. 

Vocabulary steps: draw a series of steps on the board. Take any set of concepts which can be graded objectively. For example, metals can be graded according to value. Animals can be graded to how dangerous they are. 

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