USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY

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TOM JOHNSON GEN. ED. FACULTY ADMCtjohnson@hct.ac.ae USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY NOT COMPREHENSIVE JUST THE FEATURES IVE USED CREATE FLASH ACTIVITIES: LAPTOPS & PHONES BBV VISTA STUDYMATE.COM SEPARATE WEBSITE

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USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY Select TERM/DEFINITION OPTIONFive activities & glossary simultaneously created:Flash cardsType the wordFill the gapMatchingGlossary

USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARYSelect MULTIPLE CHOICE OPTIONQUIZ and CHALLENGE options created simultaneously: Standard multiple choice Challenge same as Jeopardy team game 5 question categories & levels of difficulty 25 question items needed for Challenge

USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY5 POSSIBLE CATEGORIES FOR CHALLENGEGRAMMATICAL FORM MEANING NUMBER OF SYLLABLES WORD STRESS SPELLING

Is the word below a noun, verb, adjective or adverb? What does . mean? Which word below has the same meaning as .?How many syllables does international have? Which syllables is stressed in accommodation?Which is the correctly spelt word below?

15USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARYCHALLENGE QUIZ GRADING CRITERIA Word Frequencies: 1st 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 most common words in English Based on Longman Corpus Network: Compare door and baguette, big and enormous

Longman Corpus Network building word concordances for 10 years used in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English16USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARY Lexical complexity:Compare: month with accommodation, price with psychology Question Difficulty: Compare:How many syllables does 'foreign' have? Which word below has the same number of syllables as 'secretary'?What type of word is angry? a] a noun b] a verb c] an adjective d] an adverbWhich of the words below can be a noun and a verb? e.g. canWhich of the words below has a different stress as a noun and as a verb? e.g. recordWhich of the words below has the same spelling as a noun and as a verb? e.g. compare answer[noun] and answer[verb] with entrance and enter.

17USING STUDYMATE TO TEACH, PRACTICE & TEST VOCABULARYTHE FUTURE Website based on, but not limited to Oxford Word Skills Basic Website very big project just started [URL in handout] Oxford Word Skills Intermediate Online exercises will be developed by another teacher ANY QUESTIONS?

Books / syllabuses come and go English vocabulary doesnt change very quickly18