Vocabulary Expansion

Last week  I started a new course in Matera - The course is named "Percorsi di formazione linguistica e metodologica". There are all kinds of teachers on this course: primary, middle and secondary school teachers. Most of them are language teachers, mainly English language teachers but there are also some subject teachers who are strongly interested in acquiring new teaching strategies.

The first lesson was quite a practical one - participants were involved in carrying out activities aimed at promoting speaking and listening  activities

a) "meet the teacher" through photos ‘WH’ QUESTIONS – Asking and Answering Questions / Speaking and Listening Skills / Getting to Know the teacher

b) Vocabulary reinforcement - Participants were asked to write down adjectives which would fit the the given definition. This was followed by a speaking activity with a funny roleplay: Hello I am Mrs reliable 

c) Dictogloss

d) Lead-in vocabulary before presenting a new topic - Sit down when you hear your word

Activities for Gruppo di ricerca autogestito

Think about one of your techniques which is really successful in your class when you want to work on vocabulary expansion - Share it with your group to see if it can be adapted  or have some changes made to it - Describe your activity in the comment area - If you produce anything as a group - please write down the names of those teachers who took part in the activity