How I taught my vocabulary lesson
I provided a vocabulary lesson “Flash card” last week. The activity was focus on memorizing the new words by the flash cards they made. In the beginning, I asked students about what was their favorite food in L1. We collected 15 different foods names, and wrote it on the blackboard both in English and Chinese. Then I provided 15 blank flash cards to each students. I asked them to draw those 15 foods and wrote the food names on the back of the cards in English. In this stage, I tried to create a connections between different words and their meanings.
After they made their own flash card, they worked in pairs. They needed to guess what the card their partner drew and said it out in English. I wrote a sentence as follow on the board; “My favorite food is_______. What is your favorite food?” They would start to ask their partner by using their flash cards. In this stage, I aimed to create a genuine purpose for using the language, and motivate the learner to use it.
At the end of lesson, I provided a paper which printed a tree on it. The students would stick their flash cards on it and think if there were other 5 similar words about the topic “Food”. They could use dictionary at this stage. Each students has different answers but it helped them more easily to embed the new vocabulary in memory. I believe student could be more active learning from encourage them looking for the new information by their willing.
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How I taught my vocabulary lesson
I provided (or conducted) a “Flash card” vocabulary lesson “Flash card” last week. The activity was focused on memorizing the new words by using the flash cards they the students made. In the beginning, I asked students about what was their favorite food was in L1 (Not sure what you mean by L1.). We collected 15 different foods names, and wrote it on the blackboard both in English and Chinese. Then I provided 15 blank flash cards to each students (to each student or to the students). I asked them to draw those 15 foods (on the front) and wrote write the food names on the back of the cards in English. In At this stage, I tried to create a connections between the different words and their meanings.
After they made their own flash card, they worked in pairs. They needed to guess what the card their partner drew on their card and said say it out in English. I wrote a sentence as follows on the board; “My favorite food is_______. What is your favorite food?” They would start to ask their partner by using their flash cards. In this stage, I aimed to create a genuine purpose (or ...real world purpose...) for using the language, and motivate the learner to use it.
At the end of the lesson, I provided a paper which had a tree printed a tree on it. The students would stick their flash cards on it and think if there were 5 other 5 similar words about on the topic “Food”. They could use a dictionary at this stage. Each student s has had different answers but it helped them more easily to embed the new vocabulary into memory more easily. I believe student could be more active learning from encourage them looking for the new information by their willing. (This last sentence is not very clear. ) I believe that when students look for new information of their own will, this results in more active and participative learning, and they are more likely to understand and retain the lesson content. (I think maybe you wanted to say something like)
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Did you write this in another software like MS Word or maybe Google Docs etc then copy and paste to italki ? The reason I ask is because I had some difficulty editing it. It wouldn't wrap properly no matter what I do. Finally, I could only edit it after I first cut all your text to Microsoft Notepad then copy it back to this italki notebook. If you use another software to write your draft, better to copy to Notepad first to remove all the software formatting. Then copy and paste to italki as clean text only without any formatting from the other software.
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