Assignment C - Part 2.ii
Activities
Three follow-up activities for exploiting the authentic text with advanced students
✓ Before you begin, read the instructions and notes on the assignment platform and the relevant
section of Advice on Approaching this Assignment.
First Activity
a) A dictionary activity, for vocabulary and dictionary skills development AFTER the class have
read or listened to your selected text.
This could be used later in the same lesson or in another lesson. You can use the vocabulary items
you have selected for pre-teaching or make a different selection. The vocabulary must be from the
text or clearly relevant to the text.
Dictionary race
Name of Activity
20 minutes
Time
• To develop students’ autonomy in dictionary skills
• To raise students’ awareness of the information they can find in
a dictionary.
Aims • To encourage group collaboration in project work
• To promote creativity.
*Hand out dictionaries and one worksheet per group.
*Give students instructions for the activity.
*Give time frame for the activity
*Students must work in groups, the number in a group depends on the
number of students in your class, 3/4/5 per group.
Teacher’s Instructions *Give feedback.
*Drill definitions with students.
- can use fewer words and definitions if time is an issue.
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, Dictionary
Worksheet
Materials Pencils
Erasers
Notebook
Dictionary race
Team: __________
Match the words with the definitions.
Words
Status-
Shorten-
Pyramids-
Stereotypes-
Equate-
Establishments-
Incorporates-
Renovation-
Definitions
A) Noun __________________________
relative social or professional position; standing.
"An improvement in the status of women"
the situation at a particular time during a process.
"An update on the status of the bill"
B) Verb _________________________
consider (one thing) to be the same as or equivalent to another.
"Customers equate their name with quality"
(of one thing) be the same as or equivalent to (another).
"that sum equates to half a million pounds today"
cause (two or more things) to be the same in quantity or value.
"the level of prices will move to equate supply and demand"
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Activities
Three follow-up activities for exploiting the authentic text with advanced students
✓ Before you begin, read the instructions and notes on the assignment platform and the relevant
section of Advice on Approaching this Assignment.
First Activity
a) A dictionary activity, for vocabulary and dictionary skills development AFTER the class have
read or listened to your selected text.
This could be used later in the same lesson or in another lesson. You can use the vocabulary items
you have selected for pre-teaching or make a different selection. The vocabulary must be from the
text or clearly relevant to the text.
Dictionary race
Name of Activity
20 minutes
Time
• To develop students’ autonomy in dictionary skills
• To raise students’ awareness of the information they can find in
a dictionary.
Aims • To encourage group collaboration in project work
• To promote creativity.
*Hand out dictionaries and one worksheet per group.
*Give students instructions for the activity.
*Give time frame for the activity
*Students must work in groups, the number in a group depends on the
number of students in your class, 3/4/5 per group.
Teacher’s Instructions *Give feedback.
*Drill definitions with students.
- can use fewer words and definitions if time is an issue.
© 2020 The TEFL Academy. All rights reserved. 1
, Dictionary
Worksheet
Materials Pencils
Erasers
Notebook
Dictionary race
Team: __________
Match the words with the definitions.
Words
Status-
Shorten-
Pyramids-
Stereotypes-
Equate-
Establishments-
Incorporates-
Renovation-
Definitions
A) Noun __________________________
relative social or professional position; standing.
"An improvement in the status of women"
the situation at a particular time during a process.
"An update on the status of the bill"
B) Verb _________________________
consider (one thing) to be the same as or equivalent to another.
"Customers equate their name with quality"
(of one thing) be the same as or equivalent to (another).
"that sum equates to half a million pounds today"
cause (two or more things) to be the same in quantity or value.
"the level of prices will move to equate supply and demand"
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