VOCABULARY PRESENTATION AND PRACTICE
A short worksheet for discussion and thought.

Look at the following list of presentation techniques.
Which words would you teach with each technique? Why? Give one example for each technique.

Drawing
Pictures
Realia
Explanation
Mime
Translation
Exemplification
Example sentence
Synonym
Antonym
Lexical sets
Texts
Context & guess
Guided discovery
Morphology
Etymology
Situational
Phonetics
Dictionary
Hyponomy
Grammatical
Suggestopedia

Are there any techniques you think I have missed?

Retention.
How can we ensure that students retain, both short and long term, the vocabulary we have presented?

Think about the following:
The role of testing.
Helping students organise their notes.
Planning cyclical work based on vocabulary content.
Retention load and overload.