One of the challenges I face as a English grammar teacher is that although my students can understand the grammar points I present in class, they often don't have to vocabulary to use with it. For example, I might teach students how to use unreal conditions like this:
If I found (simple past) a million dollars, I'd (=I would) turn it in to the police.
If I had found found (past perfect) a million dollars last week, I would have turned it in to the police.
Again, my students know the rules, but they can communicate fully because of their lack of vocabulary, and nothing will change until they come up with a detailed and clear plan to build their vocabulary. With this in mind, I've created vocabulary activities on my site to help students achieve this goal:
http://esl-lab.com/quizzes.htm
http://esl-lab.com/vocab/
If you have other sites you use to build vocabulary, please share these with us.
Randall
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Dear teacher,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the information you gave us to build our vocabulary. I really appreciate it.
Kim.
Englicious.com has some interactive . Here are a few pages from that site:
ReplyDeletehttp://englicious.com/Vocabulary/eVocabBodyParts-PreIntermediate.php
http://www.englicious.com/Vocabulary/eVocabInsects.php
http://www.englicious.com/QuizDbs/eQuiz_AnimalSounds.php
http://www.englicious.com/Self-Tests/eTest_BodyVerbs.php