Teaching vocabulary

1. Ways of teaching vocab

1.1. incidental

1.2. deliberate

2. Criteria for selection of items

2.1. usefulness

2.2. important for student's present situation or culture

2.3. easy to learn

2.4. fun and/or interesting

3. Meaning relationships

3.1. synonyms

3.2. antonyms

3.3. hyponyms

3.4. co-hyponyms

3.5. superordinates

3.6. translation

4. Practical tips

4.1. word cards

4.2. not writing a lot for each item

4.3. own keywords

4.4. no more than 10 new items in each class

5. Vocabulary

5.1. grammatical items

5.2. lexical items

6. Lexical items

6.1. A student needs to know:

6.2. written and spoken form

6.3. meaning

6.4. grammar

6.5. collocation

6.6. connotation

6.7. appropriateness

7. Review tasks

7.1. single item

7.1.1. How many can you remember?

7.1.2. dictations

7.1.3. Quick Bingo

7.1.4. guessing

7.2. items in context

7.2.1. composing sentences

7.2.2. composing a story

7.2.3. finding collocations