Vocabulary Teaching
Item Meaning How meaning will Pronunciation Grammatical and Concept questions
be conveyed to other information
students
mining The act of I will begin to /'maɪnɪŋ/ Noun What can be
extracting explain by mined? (coal,
minerals and showing some Stress- Oo present participle metals)
metals from the pictures of things of mine
ground by that can be Does mining
digging mined for: coal, past participle involve digging in
salt, gold. mined the ground? (Yes)
I will ask students related verb-
to think about mine
what these have (coal, gold)
in common and
to give other Do not confuse
examples they with pronoun or
can think of determiner
(diamonds, silver, ‘mine’ /mʌɪn/
iron)
Some eliciting
will then lead me
to explain the
meaning of
phrase ‘mining
village’ as ‘towns
created around
mines to house
workers and their
families’
(to go) down the Work as a coal I will begin by /'daʊn ðə pɪt/ Preposition + Does it involve
, pit miner explaining that noun going
this phrase is underground?
used to describe (yes)
someone working
in a mine. I will Does it describe a
then go on to profession? (yes)
explain that a
‘pit’ is a large Is it an easy job?
hole in the (no)
ground, in this
context it means Is it a modern or
a coal mine. traditional
industry?
I will then give (traditional)
some examples
sentences:
Going down the
pit was a
tradition in his
family.
He went down
the pit after he
left school.
Diplomat An official whose I will convey /ˈdɪpləmæt/ Countable noun
job is to meaning to Plur: diplomats
represent one students by using Stress-Ooo
country in near synonyms Adjective-
another ‘ambassador’ diplomatic
‘consul’ ‘official’.
I will explain that
Item Meaning How meaning will Pronunciation Grammatical and Concept questions
be conveyed to other information
students
mining The act of I will begin to /'maɪnɪŋ/ Noun What can be
extracting explain by mined? (coal,
minerals and showing some Stress- Oo present participle metals)
metals from the pictures of things of mine
ground by that can be Does mining
digging mined for: coal, past participle involve digging in
salt, gold. mined the ground? (Yes)
I will ask students related verb-
to think about mine
what these have (coal, gold)
in common and
to give other Do not confuse
examples they with pronoun or
can think of determiner
(diamonds, silver, ‘mine’ /mʌɪn/
iron)
Some eliciting
will then lead me
to explain the
meaning of
phrase ‘mining
village’ as ‘towns
created around
mines to house
workers and their
families’
(to go) down the Work as a coal I will begin by /'daʊn ðə pɪt/ Preposition + Does it involve
, pit miner explaining that noun going
this phrase is underground?
used to describe (yes)
someone working
in a mine. I will Does it describe a
then go on to profession? (yes)
explain that a
‘pit’ is a large Is it an easy job?
hole in the (no)
ground, in this
context it means Is it a modern or
a coal mine. traditional
industry?
I will then give (traditional)
some examples
sentences:
Going down the
pit was a
tradition in his
family.
He went down
the pit after he
left school.
Diplomat An official whose I will convey /ˈdɪpləmæt/ Countable noun
job is to meaning to Plur: diplomats
represent one students by using Stress-Ooo
country in near synonyms Adjective-
another ‘ambassador’ diplomatic
‘consul’ ‘official’.
I will explain that
