THE 5 TH VTTN CONFERENCE

1. THE 5TH VTTN CONFERENCE CHALLENGES and CHANGE in ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Hanoi – Saturday, January 17th 2009

2. HOW TO MAKE • VOCABULARY LEARNING FUN • FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS A WORKSHOP By NGUYEN NGOC MINH TRANG JANUARY 2009

3. Problems • Students need lots of vocabulary, especially in the early stages of learning English, to increase their ability and confidence in communicating in English. However, learning vocabulary is never easy for learners. Teachers who motivate the students learning English need to make learning vocabulary a fun, involving and active process.

4. OBJECTIVES • The workshop aims to: • Provide participants with the process of young learners acquiring vocabulary. • Provide participants with motivating techniques and practical classroom ideas for practicing and reviewing vocabulary.

5. Outline • What young learners learn vocabulary • Techniques and practical classroom ideas for practicing and reviewing vocabulary

6. What young learners learn

7. Learning vocabulary Form of the word (how it is pronounced) Meaning of the word (what it means) vocabulary Contextualizing of the word (When it is used) Expanding the word (vocabulary development) recycling the word

8. Techniques and classroom ideas for practicing and reviewing vocabulary • Games • Activities

9. Games and Activities • Card passing • Concentration • Bingo • Finding places • Word games • Story • Scramble • Spelling check • Listening and writing

10. Ice breaker games • And we walk to the left • And we walk to the right • And we walk(2 times) • And we walk all night • With the heel and the toe • And the half turn around • With the heel and the toe • And the good friend found.

11. 1. Card passing • Before class: prepare some teacher’s cards • In class: • Revise the words • Have sts read and pass the cards • Extension: • The game can be changed into competition one

12. 2.Concentration • Before class: make a set of picture cards and word cards for each group • In class: • Sts are in groups of six • Ts give two sets of picture cards to each group and place them facedown in random order on the desk • Sts turn over two cards and find two identical cards( st read the word whenever st turn over the card)

14. 3. Bingo • Before class: Prepare some picture cards • In class: • Have sts make three rows of three sts each • Give the card to each st • The volunteer in each group call the number and say the word • The first sts to cover three squares across, down, or diagonally wins the game

16. 4. Finding places • Before class: - Prepare the dices with picture of places on each side of the dice. • - Prepare 6 bowls of beads • In class: • Divide the class into group of six, have each group stand under the name of the group(at the bus stop, at the bakery,…) • Each group throws the dice and moves to another place. In each place, sts need to pick up some beads( Sts repeat the words while moving)

17. Where are you? • At the bus stop : green • At the train station : yellow • At the airport : white • At the bakery :pink • At the bookstore :blue • At the factory :purple

18. 5.Word games

19. 6. Story • It was Sunday. Emily didn’t go to school. She called her friend, Jenny but Jenny wasn’t at home. She was ____. She watched TV. The film was boring. Then she took a long nap. When she woke up, she had a cough…hm…hm and a run nose. She was _____ and ____. There was a bell ring at the door. Matt, Jenny came. Emily met her friends. She was ______.

20. How do you feel? SadTiredSickBoredTired

21. 7. Scramble • Before class: prepare some word cards • In class: • Work in the whole class • Revise the words of weekend activities • Have sts make a big circle in which there is one st (the caller) in the center • The caller calls out two or three words of weekend activities at random • Sts stand and exchange seats, they have to race with the st in the center to get a seat

22. Play basketball Walk the dog Go fishing Listen to music Go out to eat Make a cake Draw pictures Plant flowers Go swimming Read a book Play soccer Make dinner Go shopping Vacuum the carpet Watch TV eat out Weekend activities

23. 8. Spelling check • Before class: Prepare the paper of word cards • In class: • Work in groups of 6 • One st will be a caller. He/ She calls a word and the others will point. The next caller is the person who catches the word first

24. 9. Listening and writing • Before class: Paper A4, wordcards • In class: • Work in groups of 6 • Listen to music and pass the paper around the group. • When teacher stops music, Sts stop passing, hear the word from the teacher and then write down.

25. Thank you • Games for teachers

27. References • The TKT course book • Let’s go teacher book • Primary English Language Teaching Training course • Teach English - Trainer’s handbook, Adrian Doff • Maths & science workshop in HCM city for games for teachers • Teachers from Nanyang University, Singapore for ice-breaker song.