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Activity 7 -14. Group work What other techniques are there for presenting new vocabulary? Give them a title. Look through Activities 10-17, define them.
7. Show real objects or pictures of real objects to your learners. Example:
The topic of a unit is cooking. The teacher brings the following kitchen tools into class and shows them to the learners:
Bowl whisk fork spoon knife wooden spoon
She then ‘cooks’ something, using the items and repeating the new words often.
8. Use parts of words to help learners build words or guess their meaning. Example:
Vocabulary Development Prefixes We can change the meaning of an adjective by putting a prefix in front of it. Add the prefix un-, in- or im- to these adjectives and put them in the correct column. Check in your dictionary to see if you out un- or in- . You put im- in front of most adjectives and put them in the correct column. Check in the dictionaries to see if you put un- or in-. You put im- in front of most adjectives beginning with m or p.
Tidy happy friendly realistic dependent precise expensive possible safe adequate interesting human exciting polite competent perfect mature patient
