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"Fakebook" allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes.

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What is Pixton used for?

Pixton is a click and drag comic development site that can be used to enhance the learning process and allow students to showcase what they know. It provides all users with the ability to easily create comics on the web.

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Safely simulate social media on Zeoob...

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Safely simulate social media on Zeoob...

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Students use Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat. You can create a simulation for safe practice of modern communication with this tool. I thought it was pretty cool and easy to use.

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A fake Instagram post generator is a tool that allows users to create fake Instagram posts and comments, typically for the purpose of creating humorous or satirical content. These generators typically include a range of customization options, such as the ability to choose the user's profile picture, write a caption, and select a background image or video.

Mimic Marketing Content is a game changing simulation for students in all areas of business. Generate Fake Instagram Post and build dummy digital marketing content that looks like real Instagram posts. Fake Instagram Post Generator is an easy and best fictional Instagram Tool for school, teachers and student.

It helps to create a fake Instagram post template by entering all the required details like Instagram username, location, image, text content, post time, image count, etc. This tool provides the facility to add the image to the profile and also add pictures in Mock Instagram post content. Users can generate posts with the symbol of a verified account.

Team at zeoob has developed an ultimate Instagram Simulator which will help you to create Fake Instagram posts with your words of desired content, images and comments... How do you make a fake Instagram post in 2023?

Features of Fake Instagram Post Generator

Instagram Post Editor - Our fake Instagram Post generator tool is very easy to use. You can edit fake post template with pencil icons and directly edit the post.

Support Dark Mode - Generate fake instagram posts with dark and light mode. Users can easily switch between light or dark mode based on their convenience.

Support comments - Add as many comments to your fake instagram post with this tool.

Support emojis - You can use emojis while building fake instagram posts. You can also use your own mobile/device emojis.

The most realistic Instagram post Design - Our instagram template is the most realistic fake instagram post generator having the latest updates of Instagram.

Live Preview of your editing - Our tool lets users edit and simultaneously preview the customization done in real-time to make further changes accordingly to your fake instagram post.

Save your projects - Save your generated fake post projects and resume once you come back.

In summary, generating a fake Instagram post is a simple process that requires a fake Instagram post generator, some customization options, and a responsible approach to sharing the content.

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Zeoob: Use Fake Tweet Generator, Instagram Post

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Create realistic social media posts in seconds with Zeoob's tools. Generate fake Instagram, Facebook, & Twitter posts with our post generators. Perfect for content creators & teachers.

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Simplifying English for Reading Comprehension/ Fluency

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This is an AMAZING TOOL: It uses synonyms to simplify texts.

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Rewordify.com | Understand what you read

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Rewordify.com helps you read more, understand better, learn new words, and teach more effectively.

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Resource information:Liveworksheets its a free resource that allows teachers and students to transform traditional printable worksheets (doc, pdf, jpg) into interactive online exercises with self-correction.

Students can do the worksheets online and send their answers to the teacher. This is good for the students (it's motivating), for the teacher (it saves time) and for the environment (it saves paper).

Additionally, interactive worksheets take full advantage of the new technologies applied to education: they may include sounds, videos, drag and drop exercises, join with arrows, multiple choice and even speaking exercises, that the students must do using the microphone.

What objectives it meets

·     Provides interactive exercise and activities for teachers to develop students skills.

·     Enhace students production skills through individual and collaborative activities.

·     Engage and motivate students through interactive activities

·     Allows teachers to create a variety of activities and exercises using different tecniques.

How it leads to full communicative English

·     Since the activities or exercises are created or uploaded by the teacher using the vocabulary students had learned, students have to write, record an audio or make a video depending of the setting given by the teacher, using the correct the context, tone and vocabulary learned producing their own work.

Adaptations for different levels

·     In liveworksheets teachers can adapt activities or exercises to different types of content, age and English levels.

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Resource information:American English its a free resource center for teaching and learning about American English language, both teachers and students will find new ways to practice English. It also provides academic expertise, advisory and consultative assistance, as well as materials and resources worldwide. All programs are implemented by Regional English Language Officers (RELOs) at American Embassies or Consulates.

What objectives it meets

·     Provide a variety of engaging materials and resources for teachers' professional development and for students in the classroom

·     Enhace students production skills through individual and collaborative activities.

·     To increase input to learners in any setting

How it leads to full communicative English

·     Most of the activities enhace students production in writting and speaking through different activities like role plays, telephone calls, oral and written conversation, personal opinion, open-ended prompts and questions,debates, summaries and so on.

Adaptations for different levels

·      The American English website allows you to search different activities depending of the age and levels of the students. Teachers can addapt any activity to lead students to full communicative English by chosing the level you want to work.

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For English Language Teachers Around the World

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1. Padlet - Storytelling activity for students
- Writing and speaking activity
- Apply lexical chunks
2. Educaplay - Match and learn
- Listening Activity
-  Idiomatic expressions
3. Mentimeter - Song synonyms and antonyms
- Listening and writing activity
- Synonyms and antonyms

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Resource #1: Learn English Today.
Information: This website helps people who are studying English as a second language (ESL) or a foreign language (EFL). Its aim is to provide resources and materials to help learners study English in an effective manner.

Resource #2: Ney York Public Library.
Information: It's an essential provider of educational programs and resources. Here you can find a wide variety of resources, from English language classes and technology training, to story times.

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Information: this platform will allow students to create their own presentations with videos or recording they create by themselves, and it is friendly to use. The result will be shown in class as a presentation. The negative side for this platform is that it has expiration dates, but the content won't be deleted if you have access to the links you have already created.

Application: after you have gone over vocabulary words or chunks with students, suggest to use them in a video explaining the words, they will have to give concrete examples of situations in which they can use the words or chunks.

Objectives: use words in real examples. Review words seen in class by explaining meaning and pronouncing them in recordings or videos. Decide on the vocabulary they are going to use and in which situations to use it.

How it leads to full communicative English: since this is vocabulary that is familiar to students, they will get to review the words or chunks, and they are going to decide on the words that they put to use and in which situation. In this activity or project students have to work by themselves and they are producing videos or recordings, they know that this task will be presented to their classmates, so they will become more engaged with the content they will be presenting. At the end of each video or presentation the teacher can ask two more students to give feedback on the video to assess the use of the words, so the audience can get a chance to be exposed to the words and evaluating their use.

Adaptability: this platform is recommended for highschool and middleschool students since their work rhythm is faster than elementary kids'. It can adapt to any kind of content.

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Learn to read by writing and sharing books.

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Information: this platform will allow students to create their own presentations with videos or recording they create by themselves, and it is friendly to use. The result will be shown in class as a presentation. The negative side for this platform is that it has expiration dates, but the content won't be deleted if you have access to the links you have already created.

Application: after you have gone over vocabulary words or chunks with students, suggest to use them in a video explaining the words, they will have to give concrete examples of situations in which they can use the words or chunks.

Objectives: use words in real examples. Review words seen in class by explaining meaning and pronouncing them in recordings or videos. Decide on the vocabulary they are going to use and in which situations to use it.

How it leads to full communicative English: since this is vocabulary that is familiar to students, they will get to review the words or chunks, and they are going to decide on the words that they put to use and in which situation. In this activity or project students have to work by themselves and they are producing videos or recordings, they know that this task will be presented to their classmates, so they will become more engaged with the content they will be presenting. At the end of each video or presentation the teacher can ask two more students to give feedback on the video to assess the use of the words, so the audience can get a chance to be exposed to the words and evaluating their use.

Adaptability: this platform is recommended for highschool and middleschool students since their work rhythm is faster than elementary kids'. It can adapt to any kind of content.

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Here you have my two ideas to help students achieve full communicative language.

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Communication by level (the words you know)

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Frequency List
A quick google or bing search will show that fewer than 1000 words are necessary for basic communication in a language. Students can practice short, useful conversations with the words they know. Rather than get stuck trying to find "how to say desempeño" (or any other word), students can communicate fluently with the words they know.

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This article contains 5 ideas for fluency and oral practice. At the top is of course the ROLE PLAY.  In terms of pragmatic English use, a roleplay or skit is a great way to ensure students practice and reach communicative competence, as they can practice different contexts and relationships and build on different styles. (student-teacher, parent-child, customer)

Here are a couple more:

1) Prop box: Get a box full of old "props" like a soup ladle, old sunglassess, different caps/hats. Students pull one out and that determines their character.

2) The middle man (for listening skills) 3 speakers: 2 choose a role and situation, and have a simultaneous conversation with the 3rd speaker. The 3rd speaker must engage in conversation even if he is confused and guess what the 2 conversations are about.

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Would Tiger Woods be any good at golf if he never actually practiced his swing hundreds of thousands of times?

Would Michael Jordan be MJ if he never spent thousands of hours practicing, hitting and missing those shots?

Would native speakers learn their language if they never actually opened their mouths to practice it?

The communicative approach to language teaching believes that in order to learn a language, one has to practice using it to communicate meaning to others. Language learners gotta keep on talking. They gotta keep on telling people their stories, jokes and opinions.

So we've got five activities for you that will do just that for your students- keep them talking.

Instead of you shhhh-ing them when they get louder and rowdier, you'll let them talk each other's ears off in a highly productive way.

But wait a minute, what exactly is communicative approach to language teaching?

I thought you'd never ask.

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What Is the Communicative Approach?

In the 1960s and '70s there was a growing suspicion surrounding the efficacy of the grammar-translation approach to teaching language.

This approach was of the mind that language has building blocks, and you combine these building blocks in order to come up with meaningful communication. There are specific rules (a.k.a. grammar and syntax) on how these blocks are combined.

Students learn by being drilled on the different rubrics of the language. But educators, particularly in Britain, were beginning to ask, "If the end goal of language is communication, then why am I spending 45 minutes of each class teaching my students about every verb tense on the face of the earth? And while I'm talking non-stop, why are my students not even opening their mouths to practice the language?"

Europe, at this time, was becoming increasingly integrated, with people traveling to many other nearby countries, prompting the mass learning of languages. Students were asking, "I just wanna know where the bathroom is! I don't need to know these thirteen tenses of one Spanish verb cold to do that!" Or "What good to me is knowing 30 Italian translations of the different vegetables when I never go to the market."

The communicative approach was born in this milieu, out of the need to go back to the fundamental reason for language, why we want to learn a second or third language- to be able to communicate.

All the rest of learning is noise-bells and whistles. Nice to know, but it can sometimes get in the way of actually acquiring the language.

This ability to communicate allows them to excel in using the target language with real native speakers and in understanding it in real media such as the videos from FluentU.

So in the communicative approach, a lot of talking is done by the students as they start practicing what it's like to actually have the words roll off of their tongues. They don't just sit in class and listen as a teacher lists every exception to a grammar rule.

Students interact with each other -awkwardness, grammar mistakes and all. Guided by their teacher, they engage in role playing, pretending to talk about last night's game, haggling the prices of stuff, recalling the plot to the latest blockbuster-all real-world situations where there's a need to communicate meaning.

This is very different from walking to the blackboard, holding a piece of chalk and writing the Russian translation for the word "dog."

With the communicative approach, interaction becomes both the Method and the Goal of teaching.

In the next section, we learn five activities that will involve exactly that-interaction, communication, transmission of meaning. They'll coax your students out of their shells and into the road of language acquisition.

5 Outspoken Activities for Highly Communicative Language Teaching

1. Next Level Role Plays

Role playing is an important communicative activity. It allows your students to practice the target language in a safe environment where mistakes are no big deal. They'll get a feel for what it's like wielding the language in different situations and contexts.

This is the difference between you talking about a "hammer"-how to hold it, the different parts and uses-and your students actually "swinging the hammer around," pounding the walls or aiming for the nail.

Assign scenes to student pairs - (this will maximize their speaking time). The scenes can be anything, but make it relevant for your wards. If you have a class of business professionals, make it about a meeting or a sales situation, for example. If your class is composed of high school students, try a mess hall or a dorm room situation. A 30-second dialogue is already enough.

The complexity of the dialogues will depend on whether your students are beginners or advanced learners. With advanced learners, you can probably just assign the students roles or a situation and let them have a go at it. Your role then will be to provide live commentary and correction.

For beginners, it will be a lot different.

You'll have to give each pair their lines. Write the whole dialogue on a piece of paper. Write the lines in the target language first, followed by their English translations. This will be very helpful in letting beginners know what the dialogue is all about.

Send the pairs off to practice on their own.

Visit each pair in their practices and monitor their progress. It's very important that you explain the context of the dialogue. What's the motivation for the characters? Why are they acting that way?

Listen to the practice and check their pronunciation. If you can suggest gestures and props for the scene, so much the better.

After a day or two of practice, let the pairs present in front of the class. This is one is very important because it's a chance for the whole class to learn from the scenes of the other pairs. You need to be very active in explaining what the scene is all about. If it's two best friends talking, then explain why they were talking informally, for example.

Let the pair present the dialogue twice or thrice and provide live commentary and corrections on the second go. Explain the scene to the class. This is very important because meaning of our communications are vested in the contexts and the roles that we play.

Language is meaningful only in context. This is one of the emphases of the communicative approach.

2. The Talk Show Interview

Here, students will experience what it's like being the host of a talk show or being the guest answering questions in front of a live studio audience.

Again, let the students work in pairs. The host student prepares five questions and writes them on a piece of paper. This question list will be given ahead of time to the celebrity student so they can prepare an answer for them. Instruct the "celebrity" students to give answers in complete sentences. Three sentences for beginners should be just right.

Reminder: Go around the classroom to make sure the questions are worded correctly and are in their proper format.

Give the pair a day to rehearse their Q&A segment.

The next day, if possible, have an "interview set" arranged in front of the class to help students get in character.

Let the pairs present their segment. For the benefit of the whole class, you can do a live commentary or translation as they go along.

So, for example, if one of the questions in a Spanish class is, " ¿Cuáles son tus pasatiempos?" (What are your hobbies?), you can interpose and maybe say, " Pasatiempos, class, she's asking about his hobbies now."

If the other student answers with " Me gusta jugar al futbol." (I love to play football.), you can then tell the class, "So, Stephen loves to play football, right? Please, continue." But don't be overbearing to the point of distraction-pick your spots right.

In an advanced class, you can probably have an impromptu question from the "audience."

Process the activity after the pairs have presented. Ask them, for example, if they have any questions about asking questions in the target language.

Maybe not immediately the day after, but reserve a session for when the students switch roles and the "host" becomes the "celebrity" guest and will be responding to questions this time.

3. Objectified

Have students draw from rolled sheets of paper containing names of different objects. Their job, using the target language, is to describe and give plenty of hints so that the class can discover what the object is.

Unlike Charades, in Objectified, students are allowed-in fact, they're required-to speak. They can say whatever they want, short of naming the object. They can gesture away, they can use the full repertoire of body language in order to shine the spotlight on the correct answer. Give each student two minutes to work the room and see what happens.

The student who guesses the correct word gets some brownie points. The student who's able to communicate the correct answer gets double brownie points.

Imagine your intermediate level Japanese language student walking into a corner store in Japan to ask the shop owner if they're selling ice cream. They'll use all of their relevant vocabulary to describe the ice cream. they'll gesture like crazy just so the owner can understand. They're trying to communicate meaning the best way they can, using what they already know.

This is very much what happens in Objectified. The student in front is trying to pass meaningful information to the whole class. Don't worry if their grammar is less than perfect. Never mind that their sentences aren't polished. As long as they're able to pass along meaningful information, then they're engaging in the communicative approach to learning a new language. Their grammar will get better in time.

4. What I YouTubed Last Weekend

Notice how students, in their spare time, click that "share" button quite often? They pass onto others some interesting, funny, inspirational and awesome videos. It gives them great pleasure to let their friends see what they've seen. They want their friends get the same laugh, feel the same tug to the heart or the same jaw-dropping experience.

Why not take advantage of this entrenched social-technological dynamic and do the "sharing" inside the classroom? Let your students tell about the most awesome thing they've seen on YouTube over the weekend. The only catch is that they should do this in the target language. Encourage your students to also relate their feelings, insights and opinions about what they've seen.

This is essentially a reporting activity, where students will stand in front of the class (or perhaps remain seated at their desks) to tell all about the most memorable video they saw over the weekend. Afterwards, you can let them watch the videos in class if there's time. For an added challenge, put them on in a mixed up order and have the class identify which video was presented by which student previously.

While they're speaking, don't interrupt or correct them. It's perfectly normal if they struggle with grammar and syntax. It's all part of the process of learning a new language anyway. One learns a language by talking it, albeit imperfectly. This is still miles better than only opening one's mouth after one has perfected all the grammar rules.

5. News Reporting

Here students perform anchor duties and tell the news using the target language.

In news reporting, there's an economy of words used. It's laser focused for getting the information across. Telling the news is akin to telling a story, and training your wards using this technique will give them the opportunity to practice talking about events and dishing out information. It's like being in the center of a gossip huddle. And just like the previous activity, this is done individually.

Let the students choose a topic of their liking. They could choose to report on sports, politics, business, showbiz, lifestyle-anything they might see reported on TV. But unlike their favorite CNN anchors, they won't be reading from a script. They'll have to commit their piece to memory to really tell a story! A 30-second clip would be more than enough.

So, the first thing they'll need to do is compose their piece on a sheet of paper. Depending on their skill level, they could start by writing the story in English, then translating it to the target language. Ask for a copy of their story so you can polish it a little more and return a corrected draft.

After a few days of practice, let the students do their thing in front of the class.

Listen to them and follow with the copy of the story in your hand. But consider that only as a guide. Truth is, they don't really need to memorize the script word for word, so don't jump on every miss, don't get your nose bent on every mistake. Don't even think of the grade that you're going to give the student. Watch, smile and be supportive.

The important thing for each of these activities is really just to let the students know that, in spite of any awkward pauses, they can survive using the target language -and that in spite of the mistakes and the misses, they'll still be appreciated by the teacher and the whole class when they take their seats.

When you get to this point of teaching where students don't look at their mistakes like monsters in the closet, when students know they can butcher the target language, make mistakes and learn along the way, you mimic in your class how the native speakers, as toddlers, flunked their way to success in their own language.

Through the non-threatening reactions of their primary caregivers-they pushed on to become the fluent native Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish native speakers that they are today.

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And One More Thing...

If you love the idea of teaching with bite-sized snippets of authentic content, you'll love FluentU.

How can video clips aid language teachers in class? FluentU has its authentic videos leveled across six skill levels, and every word is carefully annotated so that learners have plenty of support. For any subtitled word, you can view an in-context definition, relevant image, audio pronunciation and multiple example sentences. Simply click on a word to see how it's used in other videos across the site.

With FluentU, your students will learn the real language-the same way that natives speak it. They'll hear their new vocabulary words in context, spoken naturally and casually.

Every student is guaranteed to find videos they love to watch, and you're guaranteed to find videos that meet your teaching needs. FluentU will provide tons of inspiration for lesson plans, in-class activities, homework and long-term projects. Say "goodbye" to spending hours searching for good videos on YouTube and say "hello" to focusing on actually teaching your students!

FluentU has a very wide variety of videos, as you can see here:

FluentU has interactive captions that let you tap on any word to see an image, definition, audio and useful examples. Now native language content is easily within the reach of any student, at any skill level, thanks to the interactive transcripts.

Didn't catch something? Go back and listen again. Missed a word? Hover your mouse over the subtitles to instantly view definitions.

You can learn all the vocabulary in any video with FluentU's "learn mode." Swipe left or right to see more examples for the word you're learning.

And FluentU always keeps track of vocabulary that your students are learning. It uses that vocab to give students a 100% personalized experience by recommending videos and examples.

You can organize chosen videos into "courses," name your courses and assign them to your students for homework or in-class activities. They can each sign in using nothing but a secret password that we bestow to you, the teacher. Then you can track their progress individually and as a group. How many videos and activities have they progressed through? What percentage of the exercise questions are they getting right? You'll be able to see all this information and more.

Sign up for a free trial and bring FluentU to your classroom today.

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Would Tiger Woods be any good at golf if he never actually practiced his swing hundreds of thousands of times? Would Michael Jordan be MJ if he never spent thousands of hours practicing, hitting and missing those shots? Would native speakers learn their language if they never actually opened their mouths to practice it?

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Focuses on Morphology, syntax and semantics by interactive actives that can be played individually or as a class.

Useful to create study plans and guiding students through practice

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Different media resources for full communicative English

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Duolingo for schools is an excelent tool for teachers, here teachers can assing lessons or practice XP.

A Duolingo account is needed.

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If you want to have an access to the lesson and worksheets you need to have an account. Resources for the free account are limited.

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Ready made ESL song lessons that your students will love - Tefl Tunes

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Duolingo is an excelent tool for begginers. They can learn a lot of vocabulay and they practice listening, speaking, reading and writting.

Students don't need to make an account.

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1) Choose 2 or 3 random words (as a class).
2) Brainstorm word associations (independently).
3) Students provide an account trying to use the words in as many different contexts as possible.
(Accounts could be: jokes, invented stories, anecdotes, news stories, historical events, opinions, etc.)
4) A record of the different contexts is kept on a word association web.
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In this article, I demonstrate how I teach advanced learners how to develop richer and more expansive vocabulary.

This article demonstrates perfectly how to use the communicative approach to teach vocabulary in a way that is both meaningful for the teacher and student.
About the Author: Melissa is a graduate of OnTESOL's 120-hour Advanced TESOL Certificate course. She recently returned from teaching English in Japan. She runs her own private teaching business where she teaches English to Korean students in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Information Behind Words

Every word in a language comes with multiple layers of information. Among them include its:

The first two criteria are what is commonly taught in vocabulary lessons in classrooms.

The third criterion is what creates the richness in native speakers ' knowledge of words.

Associations give plenty of meaning and flexibility to a word and are the reason why it can be challenging to teach puns to non-native speakers.

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Associations are acquired through ordinary life events and are influenced by the environment in which the native-speaker grows up.

This is why students and teachers should never discount the value of time, experience, and learning outside the classroom.

While it would be very difficult to replicate each of these experiences, as teachers, we can strengthen vocabulary by providing as many associations as we can with words.

Connecting Words

One useful activity is connecting words.

Finding connections among words is a challenging exercise, especially if you add more words.

Students will have to rely on their creativity and it will also encourage them to ask questions as to the word ' s permissible contexts, what part of speech it is, and so on.

This reflection will give them the opportunity to get to know this word at a deeper and more meaningful level.

Choose 2 random words (more words can be used to make it more challenging).

Here are some of the methods I use to do this:

1. Instruct students to draw strips of words from a cup.

2. Take a page from any book, run your fingers through it, and stop at a random word. Repeat to get more words.

Once the words have been chosen, students will provide an account using them.

There are numerous ways to answer.

I like to use as many as I can because this also exercises different ways to perceive a situation and it ' s particularly useful for the speaking portion of language placement tests like IELTS or TOEFL.

Connecting Words - Providing Accounts Explained

An account can take the form of personal stories, historical accounts, fictional stories (like that of a novel), stating opinions, persuasive speech, and jokes.
" There was a fad when I was in high school for a certain type of glasses. But I don ' t really remember what they look like. I do remember that my friend had them and when I tried them on, everything was so blurry " . Find out the 3 ways a TESOL course by OnTESOL will make you a better teacher
At this point, the student is still sticking to the standard definitions and contexts for both words.

However, the teacher can suggest that " blurry " can also be used to describe " memory " and that the student can say " my memory for it is blurry."

The student can give an even more specific expression such as, " I remember it very vaguely " .

Therefore, the student can add more information to the preferred contexts and associations of the word.

Using the same words, students can give other types of accounts (jokes, stating opinions, and so on).

Likewise, teachers can add more words and ask students to provide two types of accounts in one answer.

There are many " words " + " type of account " combinations (e.g. 3 words, 2 types of accounts), and teachers can gauge what works best for their students ' levels.

Conlcusion

This activity not only exercises word flexibility, but it also strengthens retention of the vocabulary ' s meaning and contexts.

In addition, students gain plenty of confidence knowing that they were able to perform this challenging exercise.

It also gives teachers the opportunity to teach contexts and associations more naturally, through conversation, as opposed to writing words on a board and bombarding students with too much information at one time.

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In this article, I demonstrate how I teach advanced learners how to develop richer and more expansive vocabulary. This article demonstrates perfectly how to use the communicative approach to teach vocabulary in a way that is both meaningful for the teacher and student. About the Author: Melissa is a graduate of OnTESOL's 120-hour Advanced TESOL Certificate course.