Name: The Teachers' Room: Introducing new vocabulary
Uploaded: 2020-07-01T16:10:49.000Z
Duration: 7 min 18 s
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So when teaching vocabulary, it's good to use student centered techniques and teach vocab in context, it's much more meaningful for the students.

Meaning creates memory, which means students are more likely to remember their work it out for themselves.

If you got context, promotes, learn independence, which they don't need us anymore, they don't need us kind of shot ourselves in the foot Anyway.

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Okay, what type of wood is it that it's a noun?

So it's, uh, holiday holiday after winning exactly what done.

Sometimes there may be a couple of words two or three words that the teacher needs to introduce before doing an activity, so one way of doing that will be to elicit them from the class.

So don't just say this is what it means exactly and even use lots of different techniques to convey the meaning.

You have to decide on the best technique based on the word your teaching.

One thing you could do is to use re Aaliyah or a really object, for example Riel Monkey can't get it back.

Marry Oh, scenario with very very You could also use mime.

Yes, we have to talk about what about here often.

You can't even give the definition or use a scenario, but it's very important to use concept Checking questions?

Standing cc cues make student fully understands the deeper meaning.

Don't assume that if they say they understand they do.

And also be careful of false friends like, for example, embarrassed in English.

It's very different from in Bad Asada and Spanish.

So the other day I was out walking in the middle of London on my trousers, fell down.

Also, it's not enough just to know the meaning of the words.

There are many other things you may need to know about a words in order to be able to use it effectively.

One of the things that we want to teach is the words that go with the target language publication qualifications.

If you're teaching the word crime, why not teach the verb that goes with it, commits a crime and then they could use it.

Because with O off all very good sentence, I'm afraid off my teacher.

You got spelling and pronunciation, so things like words dress and connected speech.

Yep, synonyms and terms could be useful and, of course, connotation, which is so important because you need to know if the word is positive or negative in the view of society.

You don't want to get your students to accidentally insult someone by, so I think.