Table of Contents
Thanks and acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Guidelines 3
1 Vocabulary expansion 20
1.1 Building on the individual 21
1.1.1 Classroom language 21
1.1.2 Word of the day 23
1.1.3 Show and tell! 24
1.1.4 How do you say it in English? 25
1.1.5 Areas of expertise 26
1.2 Building on contexts and associations 27
1.2.1 How many more can you think of? 27
1.2.2 Brainstorm round a theme 29
1.2.3 Chain associations round the class 31
1.2.4 Pass it round 32
1.2.5 How else could you say it? 35
1.2.6 Does it have an opposite? 36
1.2.7 Which words do we know? 37
1.2.8 Vocabulary from a picture 38
1.2.9 Abbreviated txt 41
1.2.10 Places and things you do there 43
1.2.11 What other meanings does it have? 45
1.2.12 Same word, different part of speech (1) 47
1.2.13 Same word, different part of speech (2) 52
1.2.14 Words that are the same in my language 53
1.2.15 It's the same in my language - or is it? 56
1.2.16 Woof! Woof! 58
1.3 Focus on word combinations 60
1.3.1 What usually goes with this word? (1) 60
1.3.2 What usually goes with this word? (2) 62
1.3.3 Identifying lexical phrases 64
1.3.4 Paired expressions 66
1.3.5 Comparing proverbs 69
1.3.6 Idioms and their meanings 72
1.3.7 Meanings of phrasal verbs 74
1.3.8 Find a one-word verb that means the same! 76
1.3.9 Book, play or movie titles 78
1.3.10 Creating compound nouns 79
1.4 Building on word structure 81
1.4.1 Suffixes for parts of speech 81
1.4.2 Exploring affixes 85
1.4.3 Find a new word 88
1.4.4 Word families 90
1.4.5 From Greek and Latin (1) 92
1.4.6 From Greek and Latin (2) 94
1.5 Names 96
1.5.1 What would you like to be called? 96
1.5.2 Putting it on the map 99
1.5.3 Nations: what are they good at? 101
1.5.4 How many languages do we speak between us? 103
1.5.5 Special dates 104
2 Vocabulary review 106
2.1 Single items 107
2.1.1 Listing from memory 107
2.1.2 Recall and share 108
2.1.3 Words without vowels 109
2.1.4 Single-word dictation 110
2.1.5 Translation dictation 111
2.1.6 Guessing 112
2.1.7 Draw a word 113
2.1.8 Guess them fast! 114
2.1.9 Quick bingo 119
2.1.10 Remembering pairs 120
2.1.11 Word dominoes 123
2.1.12 Sort them out (1) 126
2.1.13 Sort them out (2) 128
2.1.14 Arrange along a continuum 129
2.1.15 Flexible odd one out 132
2.1.16 Diamante poems 133
2.2 Items in context 135
2.2.1 Search a page 135
2.2.2 Association dominoes 136
2.2.3 Connect two 138
2.2.4 About me 139
2.2.5 True or false 140
2.2.6 Cuckoo 141
2.2.7 Gapfill dictations 142
2.2.8 Easy cloze 143
2.2.9 Finish the sentences 144
2.2.10 Find four collocations 145
2.2.11 Rewrite more simply 149
2.2.12 Which did I erase? 150
2.2.13 Gradual erase 151
2.2.14 Once upon a time 152
2.2.15 Dicto-gloss 153
2.2.16 Rhymes and couplets 154
3 Advanced vocabulary study 155
3.1 Using dictionaries and thesauri 156
3.1.1 What can the dictionary tell me? 156
3.1.2 What can the thesaurus tell me? 158
3.1.3 Looking up words faster 160
3.1.4 Guess it first 161
3.2 Exploring vocabulary items 162
3.2.1 It doesn't mean quite the same thing (1) 162
3.2.2 It doesn't mean quite the same thing (2) 165
3.2.3 Analysing meanings 167
3.2.4 Translation bloopers 170
3.2.5 What's the best way to translate?... 171
3.2.6 Literal or metaphorical? 172
3.2.7 Related words 175
3.2.8 Connotations 177
3.2.9 Is it appropriate? 179
3.2.10 Local Englishes 182
3.2.11 Compare collocations 184
3.2.12 Spelling history 185
3.2.13 All you know about a word 188
3.2.14 German or Latin? 189
3.2.15 What did this word mean before? 192
3.2.16 New vocabulary 193
4 Vocabulary testing 197
4.1 Written tests 198
4.1.1 Multiple choice 198
4.1.2 Gapfilss 200
4.1.3 One-to-one matching 202
4.1.4 Multiple matching 205
4.1.5 Dictation-based tests 208
4.1.6 Sentence completion 209
4.1.7 Cloze 211
4.1.8 Write sentences 212
4.1.9 Say if you know it (1) 213
4.1.10 Say if you know it (2) 215
4.1.11 Translate 217
4.1.12 What goes with this item? 218
4.1.13 Learner lists 220
4.1.14 Learner-composed tests 221
4.1.15 Lexical frequency profile 222
4.2 Spoken tests 223
4.2.1 Read aloud 223
4.2.2 What's in the picture? 224
4.2.3 Repeat after me 225
4.2.4 How well do you know this word? 226
4.2.5 What more do you know about this word? 227
5 Mainly for fun 228
5.1 Spelling games 229
5.1.1 Words from letters 229
5.1.2 Short words from a longer one 231
5.1.3 Beetle hangman 233
5.1.4 Scrambled words 235
5.2 Word games 237
5.2.1 Criss-cross 237
5.2.2 Wordsearch 241
5.2.3 Crosswords 244
5.2.4 Words beginning with... 245
5.2.5 Acrostics 247
5.3 Pronunciation games 248
5.3.1 Tongue twisters 248
5.3.2 Jazz chants 249
References and further reading 251
Index 255
