Vocabulary Recycling Teaching in TEFL Courses

        Inspired by the British Council, create excellent vocabulary recycling exercises designed for your English TEFL teaching classroom. Preparation: card strip, marker, empty shoe box

        How to do it: Every time a new word comes up in class, just write it down on a piece of paper and add it to the box. Later in the lesson, you can fix this by having students take one card out of the box at a time and then ask them to define the word or put it in a sentence. There you go. Instant vocabulary review, memory consolidation.

        Change of approach: The beauty of the shoebox idea for the word cards is that you have a variety of other interesting options:

Sorting: After you have created some cards, have a group of students sort them into a word collection

Such as animals, or nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. Give them a time limit to prioritize and see if they can beat them to it.

        Vocabulary Expansion:

        Take out a card and put it on the blackboard. G. hire

        Students are asked to identify the following in pairs:

        Nouns of the words on the card (employment), people who work (employees), people who employ (employers)

        What are you if you don't work/can't work (unemployed).

        Other options for different words include: antonyms, superlative/comparative/past/past participle

        When you're done, you can add these vocabulary extensions to the back of the corresponding card. You have just created more options for further revision.

        Defining Matching Games:

        Post random words around the room. Reading out a definition, students had to run around the room reading posted words and when they found the correct word, stand under the correct word. The first student to stand under the correct student is the winner.

        Story Writing Competition:

        Pick 10 words at random and stick them on the board. Work in pairs and see who can write a story that includes all of these. Bonus points for appropriate use, most imaginative story, and fastest completion. The students read it out at the end.

        20 Questions, Teacher to Student:

        The teacher took out a card. The class has 20 questions to guess what the word is. Encourage questions such as: Where do you usually see this? If they guess correctly within 20 questions, the class wins. If not, the teacher wins.

        TEFL courses will cover many more different teaching methods in detail. These ideas require little preparation, but are a great way to engage, recycle and expand students' knowledge of vocabulary.

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