1. Vocabulary Review

2. More ideas How many can you recall?
New words / pics / translations scattered on the board – identify (point, identify number)
Flash cards
You-tube with sound turned down
Vocabulary boxes
Given list: students self-test by writing in translations
Given list: students self-test by marking , , ?

3. Contextualize words in a story (written or spoken)
Words + translations: then delete words, Only L1 left on the board, students say or write in translations
Recall all those they can remember
Pass it round
Bingo
Rewrite with substitute words: then reconstruct original
Working in pairs to match

4. Open-books gapfills
Tic-tac-toe, and other games
Crossword puzzles (using translation, and with a word bank)
Identify the right word of two options in a sentence
Rewriting a text with different words, then reconstructing the original
‘Crossing the river’
In pairs, matching words with translations

5. Deepening knowledge of items
Further aspects of form, meaning, and use, e.g. collocation, connotation, appropriateness. Should display features of quantity, success-orientation, heterogeneity, interest, simplicity. Important: deep processing.

6. Sample procedures ‘Google it’
Look it up in the dictionary! (sample sentences, other combinations, pronunciation)
What’s the best translation (in context)?
Translate chunks and collocations
How else could you say it? Paraphrasing, finding synonyms
Word-family tables
Notice its use/collocational links when you come across it again

7. Tips to maximize learning time
Minimize time spent on organizing the activity
Puzzles: minimize time spent ‘not knowing’
Involve as many students as possible simultaneously
Use time-limits:
You have exactly (n) minutes. Ready?.... GO! OR
Let’s see how long it takes you to do this.
Follow-up: let’s see if you can break your previous record)

8. What’s the best translation?
The phrase ‘a born teacher’ is not usually meant to be taken literally. People who use it do not seriously mean that someone is born with a certain teaching DNA configuration in their genes. They are, rather, referring to stable personality characteristics, resulting from a combination of innate and environmental influences, that the teacher brings to their professional practice and that produce something that looks like a natural bent for teaching.
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9. Word-family table Adverb Adjective Verb Noun general - dictate basis
preferably
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