When I teach vocabulary, what I like to do most is use the new words to chat with the students and have the students make sentences. For example, I've finished the discussion of the reading text of Unit 11 "The Cellist of Sarajevo," so what was left for today's class was the vocabulary part. If I had just read the words and example sentences through, most of the students would have fallen asleep. To make the students "feel" the "life" of the vocaublary words, we chatted using the words. To encourage them to make sentences, I brought two boxes of cookies to class today. The two teams winnig the most points would win the cookies. Well, to get the students to speak English, sometimes some form of incentive is needed. Today, in Class 313, Lines 6 and 3 won the prizes. Making sentences with new words not only helps students remember the meaning of the words more easily but also brings some laughter. Though it takes some time, it's worth it, I believe.
To make sentence making more challenging, I sometimes ask students to pick more than one word from the vocabulary list and make a sentence. The number of the words they use in a sentence is the point(s) they get. For example, today, Shu-wei (周書緯) made the following sentence:
The woman whose father is a distinguished composer was slashed in the concert, and her son was terrified and anguished, mourning for his mother's death.
The bold-faced words in the sentences are new words the students learned today. Shu-wei used 7 words, so he won 7 points.
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