Teaching vocabulary 5 grades unıt 1 new friends

                              Teaching vocabulary

Class: 5

Unit: 1 ( Countries,my country)

Target vocabularies:   

Apple,Fish,Carrot,Rabbit,Umbrella,Moon,Star,Window,Bridge,Flag.                                   

Aims: To help students convey the meanings of words by using visual support.

           Help students memorize new vocabulary.

           Attracting student’s attentions to the worlds by using pictures.

           Introducing new vocabulary and the correct pronunciation of it.

           To develop working memory for words.

           To raise awareness for new words.

 Materials:

     Pictures ( by using power point presentation)

 

 Activities: Power point presentation,Demonstration technique.

 Procedure: 1) Teacher shows the power point presentation which includes the pictures of target vocabulary items and ask the students what they see.For example; they see the Picture of apple at first and students say in turkish ‘elma’ then teacher says we call that in english ‘apple’.

2) Teacher demand from the students to repeat the world ‘apple’ after him and all the students say ‘apple’.They don’t see how it is written.

3) After repeating;Teacher writes the world to the board and teacher repeats that at each Picture.

                       Practice Part

Activities: Picture dictation, What’s missing.

Aims:  Aims of these activities are to help students internalize the target words and practice them. Moreover; these activities are helpful at teaching  vocabulary to students with fun.

Materials:  ------

Procedure: 1)Teacher wants from the students to draw the pictures of the vocabularies that they have learnt to the board. For example ;  teacher says ‘apple’ and wants from a volunteer student to drive the Picture of it.They do that for each vocabulary.

2) After they draw all the pictures,they play a game.Teacher wants from the students to look at the board and wants from the students to keep the drawings in their mind.Teacher says them  to close their eyes and teacher deletes one of the drawings.Then,teacher wants from the students to tell what he/she deletes.They do that for each drawing.

 Production:

Activitiy:Students write ten sentences  related to the vocabularies that they have learnt.For this teacher wants from the students to keep a notebook just for words.

Materials:  -----

Aim: Students practice the vocabularies that they have learnt.

Procedure: Students write sentences with the words they have learnt to practice these words and the next class teacher checks what they have done.

  

                                       REFERENCES

   The primary english teacher’s guide -  jean Brewster and Gail Ellis with Denis Girard.

  Pasifik yayınları 5 grades english book (2009-2010) Lütfi Yalçınkaya,Lamia Bağdu, Ayşe Beyhan Sazer.