Teaching Vocabulary (websites)

Teaching Vocabulary (websites)

1. BBC World Service: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish

Here you will find some useful vocabulary activities (along with many more resources), and there is a strong vocabulary element in Words in the News (www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/index.shtml). This has three news stories a week to read and/or listen to, plus an archive dating back to 1999!

2. Onestopenglish: www.onestopenglish.com

An annual subscription is currently £36, 52 or $64, and (in my opinion) well worth it. I’ve been a member for several years.

3. Macmillan Dictionaries: www.macmillandictionaries.com/resources/resources.htm

The resources available here include ready-made e-lessons, dictations and games like ‘hangman’.

4. Oxford Word Skills: www.oup.com:80/elt/global/products/wordskills

This site has interactive activities and tests organised into three levels (basic, intermediate and advanced).

5. Oxford Crossword Maker: www.oup.com/elt/ef_teachertools/xwrdmker/?cc=gb

Use this very handy free resource to create your own crosswords, include A/B (‘jigsaw’) crosswords. You need to join the Oxford Teachers’ Club (free) to access this resource.

6. Academic Vocabulary: www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm

The activities here are useful both for EAP and general English learners.

7. Wordle: www.wordle.net

To get a ‘wordle’ or ‘word cloud’ (a decorative way of displaying a text, which gives more prominence to words which occur most frequently within it), copy and paste a piece of text into the box, and click on ‘Go’. You can customise the font, colours, layout, etc of the wordle when you have created it. Use the resulting wordle for the following activities:

8. Google Battle: www.googlebattle.com

Type in two words and see which has more Google hits. You can ask the students to choose two words – two similar words, for example, and predict which will win the Google Battle. Or take two opposites. Or choose an ‘old’ word and a more modern one, etc. You can focus on key words from a text, and/or on words you want your students to use in a writing task.

9. Google Labs Ngram Viewer: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com

This compares the history of words over a specified time period (eg from 1800 until today). Try comparing taxi and cab, for example.

10. WordCount: www.wordcount.org/main.php

The WordCount website ranks the 86,800 English words in order of frequency of use. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving what the site owners call a ‘visual barometer of relevance’. The larger the size of the font, the more frequent the word is. The smaller the font, the more uncommon it is.’ Choose one word (eg nature) and enter it. Then see what the next five or six words are and, if suitable, use those as the basis for a short text or a discussion.

11. www.matchware.net/en/default.htm

12. www.ur.se/sprk/engelska/index.php

13. http://vocabulary.co.il/index_main.php

14. www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/books/content/wordbuilder

15. www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-fun.htm

16. www.hello-world.com/English/index.php

17. www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize

18. www.spellingcity.com

19. www.gameskidsplay.net

20. http://homepage.eircom.net

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