Words, words, words - Learning English Words
How to Develop Students' Vocabulary? Using different strategies for developing student's vocabulary is essential as an English teacher. There are many learning strategies out there and it is easy to get lost in the forest of words as you walk along the path of strategies. In this blogpost, I will present one way of developing student vocabulary in lower secondary school in Norwegian compulsory education. I will also describe a recycling of the vocabulary given in the activity. In this particular lesson the overall topic was segregation in the USA. Before the vocabulary activity, the students read facts about segregation out loud in class. Those who wanted to read sentences from the whiteboard could read for the rest of the class, because this is highly motivating for some of the students. A discussion of English vocabulary began quite quickly, when the use and meaning of the word "segregation" was discussed in both English and Norwegian. After some discussion the cla