Vocabulary

As an ESL/EFL teacher, have you noticed some of your students feel bored with the vocabulary learning?Do you feel annoyed when you can't find a new way to plan your vocabulary lesson?Don't know how to arouse your students' interests?

Here are plenty of solutions for you. You can make vocabulary puzzles, find a variety of worksheets which can be applied to your vocabulary teaching, play games with flash cards, plan your lesson with the templates offered here and get some ideas on how to teach vocabulary. All of them are very valuable for your teaching work. I hope you can enjoy it! 

1. Puzzlemaker 
Are you considering working out a renovative way to test your students' vocabulary learning except dictation?

Here is a new way!—Puzzle.
Create your own puzzles to test your students' vocabualry learning and also let them have fun!
This is a free puzzlemaker website in which you can create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, using your own word lists.        Click here to start your own puzzlemaking!

2. Teaching resources
      All the resources here are applicable. You can view, download and print them for your own teaching.

A. Worksheets                                                                                  
     Can't find proper worksheets which can be applied to your vocabulary lesson？
     There are plenty of worksheets for you, just click here.
B. Flash cards
     Use flash cards in your class to make your vocabulary class active.
     The flash cards recommended here have clear instructions on each and suggestions on how to apply them in the class.
        In order to make your students highly involved in the class and get interested in your lesson, just Click here.
C. Lesson plans
    Find difficult to make your lesson plans? Here are some useful lesson plan templates for various levels of students. You can choose those which are helpful in your teaching.    Click here 

3. Videos
A. Teaching Vocabulary with Gradable Opposites

      This video shows how effectively a simple diagram can communicate meaning. The relationship between words describing temperature is demonstrated by placing them on a scale. This technique visually defines word meaning for EFL students.

 

 B.  Teaching Vocabulary through Technology

References

Puzzlemaker. (n.d.). Discovery Education. Retrieved April 1, 2012, from http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/index.cfm?campaign=flyout_teachers_puzzle

Language worksheets. (n.d.). Have Fun Teaching. Retrieved April 5, 2012, from http://havefunteaching.com/worksheets/language-worksheets/

Vocabulary Flash Cards. (n.d.). Have Fun Teaching. Retrieved April 6, 2012, from http://havefunteaching.com/flash-cards/vocabulary-flash-cards/ 

Lesson Plans. (n.d.). Have Fun Teaching. Retrieved April 8, 2012, From http://havefunteaching.com/tools/lesson-plans/

BridgeTEFL. (2009, Jan 27). Teaching Vocabulary with Gradable Opposites - TEFLVideos.com [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4z4rUEvwa0&feature=player_embedded

BestPracticesWeekly. (2011, May 13). Teaching Vocabulary through Technology [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqGbCjFFs6I&feature=player_embedded