One way to make vocabulary learning more coherent is by inviting students to make sentences with the new words to talk about a topic. For example, when teaching the vocabulary listed in Lesson 12 of the Sanmin textbook Book 3: celebrated, passionately/passionate, enemy, sneak, balcony, swear, mere/merely, hostility/hostile, insight, prevail, handicap, torture, indeed, abandon, reconciliation/reconcile, we can challenge students to use each word to say something about Shakespeare's famous tragedy Romeo and Juliet, whose plot is familiar to them. Students may come up with these sentences:
Romeo and Juliet is a celebrated play by William Shakespeare.
Romeo fell passionately in love with Juliet at first sight at a party.
Their families were enemies.
Romeo loved Juliet so that he sneaked into her garden after the party.
Romeo saw Juliet on the balcony and he was enchanted by her beauty.
Romeo swore to Juliet that he would love her forever.
Romeo and Juliet were merely 14 years old when they fell in love.
They couldn't get married merely because of the hostility between their families.
The obstacle gave them an insight into what names really meant.
They wanted their love to prevail over the hatred between their families.
They wouldn't allow their love to be handicapped by anything.
The thought of not being able to stay together tortured both Romeo and Juliet.
Their families were reconciled with each other in the end.
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