Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ministry of Education
Intermediate School ……
 How to
present
your
vocabulary
?
Because of the importance
of this question ,we will
discuss the Techniques
in presenting
vocabulary. we should
try different ways of
 teaching in order to
reach the information
to the students.
Therefore, different
students have
.different minds

Teaching
:vocabulary

We have two types of

: vocabulary
.Active vocabulary (1
It is taught to be produced
by students in speaking
.and writing
.Passive vocabulary (2
It is taught to be
understand and recognized
by students upon hearing
.or reading it

Techniques in presenting
.vocab

Edward Antoney defines it like

this ( a technique is a particular
trick, strategy or contrivance
used to accomplish an
immediate objective.)
‫‪Here are examples of techniques‬‬
‫‪: to use‬‬
‫‪:real objects (1‬‬
‫‪It is objects and real things can be‬‬
‫‪brought to school. Such as : a toy, an‬‬
‫‪.egg, a whistle and a stick….etc‬‬

‫‪.the use of imagination (2‬‬

‫‪To teach the word " puddle" for‬‬
‫‪! example‬‬

‫)هذه طريقة لساتخدام الخيال في تقديم الكلمة‬

‫مثل كلمة ‪ puddle‬وهي تعني بركة مياه صغيرة‬
‫كيف تقدميها للطالبات ؟‬
‫تقدميها عن طريق اساتخدام المخيلة ؟ كيف ؟؟‬
‫تقومين بحمل قارورة مياه صغيرة وتسكبيها أمام‬
‫الطالبات بداخل علبه دائرية ! وتقول ماذا لو جمعنا‬
‫هنا قوارير مياه كثيرة ما لذي سايحصل بداخل هذه‬
‫العلبة سايقولوا أنها ساتكون بركة مياه(‪.‬‬

‫‪:pictures (3‬‬
‫‪Teacher should collect pictures from‬‬
‫‪news papers or magazines this might‬‬
stimulate the students to interact
! with their teacher

.flashcards (4
You show students a big size of paper
or card actually written on it any
word , for example car or cat . this in
a written form not picture. You don’t
use any kind of pictures in this
.technique

.body language (5
Everyone knows about body
language or gestures ! it is facial
expressions people use to show their
feeling like happiness, sadness,
anger and satisfaction. In gestures
you use your arms or hands or legs
to show the meaning of sth big small
.… etc

.Definition (6
Note that, this technique is not *
*suited to a beginner classes
Example for this technique. To teach
the word bridge you say ( a bridge is
something we walk on while moving
from one place to another above the
.river)

.synonyms (7
It means similar to or the same of
.another word like sad/ unhappy
The meaning of a new word can be
taught by giving synonymous word.
When you want to give the student
synonym word you should give her a
word that is familiar to her. A word
she has an idea about. Here
: examples
Happy, happiness, joy, cheerfulness,
fun, funny, delight, glad, gladness,
!..pleasure, satisfied, pleasant

:Antonyms (8
It is known that when you give the
! opposite of sth you mean it
This is words with opposite meaning.
…For example, good, bad / big, small

:Cognates (9
Words in the student's mother
tongue ( her own language) that
have the same or very similar form
as the English word . For example ,
computer, telephone, television, in
Arabic we use the same form but in
.Arabic handwriting

:illustration (10
Illustrative sentence" : a teacher
creates a linguistic context in which
the meaning of the
.one unknown word is explained

:Scales (11
The teacher shows the meaning by
sequencing the words along the
scale between two Antonyms. For
,example
never – sometimes – often – 0%
!(( generally – always 100%

:Audio presentation (12

Words can be presented by a tape
recording, the noisy of a jet plane, a
horse galloping, a river gurgling or
children splashing in water. The
process is simple you just tell the
class to listen to the sounds only and
.? guess what is it

:Translation (13
The teacher gives the mother tongue
.equivalent for the word