Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts

Sunday, April 25, 2010

VOCABULARY NO. 10: Animals

PREPARATION

In our session today we will review our vocabulary on animals.

The first thing we are going to do is to take a piece of paper and pencil and write down as many animals as we can remember. We are going to do this on different steps:

1. We can start by writing down the names of farm animals. How many can you remember?

2. How about names of insects?

3. Animals that live in the sea, water?

4. Animals that live in forests? rainforest, savannah?

A QUIZ

Now, take a look at the following pictures and see how many words you can remember:



PRACTICE

Sunday, March 21, 2010

VOCABULARY NO. 7: In class

In our session today, we will review some words related to a class/classroom. We are going to use 2 online tools to find out the meaning of them.

1) OBJECTS: Use Google Images to understand the meaning of the following words:

pencil
pen
eraser
pencil sharpener
folder
binder
notebook
staple
stapler
notepad
bookmark
chalk
square
bevel
ruler
drawing compass ("o" here is pronounced as in "son", "come")
crayon
coloring pencils
marker
bulletin board
OHP
bookcase
booklet

2) VERBS and misc: We will use Google define: to find out the meaning of the following words:

to read out loud
to write down
to hand out/hand in
to turn in
to grade
to collect
to proctor
a deadline
office hours
a tutorial
a seminar
a lecture
a section
an instructor
a professor
a teacher
a teaching assistant
schedule
tentative weekly schedule
a syllabus
a class
a classroom
a tutor
timetable
exam calendar

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

VOCABULARY NO. 6: At the doctor's

Pain-man-women.jpg

http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/Pain-man-women.jpg

It is always useful to manage some basic vocabulary related to illnesses and doctors. Why don't you try and write down as many words as you can remember in the field?


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Some common words are:

medicine
specialist
prescription
unhealthy
injection
virus
penicillin
pharmacy
drug
operation
checkup
therapy
pain killer
sympton
broken
healthy
sprain