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Vocabulary activities / Penny Ur ; consultant and editor: Scott Thornbury.

Ur, Penny. (Author). Thornbury, Scott, 1950- (Added Author).

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This resource contains ideas for introducing, practising, expanding and exploring vocabulary. It includes word games for a variety of levels, and ideas for using audio, video and computer technology. The accompanying CD-ROM contains print-ready materials.

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ISBN: 9780521181143 (pbk. with cd-rom)
Physical Description: x, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + 1 CDR.
Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Vocabulary > Problems and exercises.
English language > Textbooks for foreign speakers.
English language > Spoken English.

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Table of Contents

Thanks and acknowledgements

Introduction

(2)

Guidelines

(17)

1 Vocabulary expansion

(86)

1.1 Building on the individual

(6)

1.1.1 Classroom language

(2)

1.1.2 Word of the day

(1)

1.1.3 Show and tell!

(1)

1.1.4 How do you say it in English?

(1)

1.1.5 Areas of expertise

(1)

1.2 Building on contexts and associations

(33)

1.2.1 How many more can you think of?

(2)

1.2.2 Brainstorm round a theme

(2)

1.2.3 Chain associations round the class

(1)

1.2.4 Pass it round

(3)

1.2.5 How else could you say it?

(1)

1.2.6 Does it have an opposite?

(1)

1.2.7 Which words do we know?

(1)

1.2.8 Vocabulary from a picture

(3)

1.2.9 Abbreviated txt

(2)

1.2.10 Places and things you do there

(2)

1.2.11 What other meanings does it have?

(2)

1.2.12 Same word, different part of speech (1)

(5)

1.2.13 Same word, different part of speech (2)

(1)

1.2.14 Words that are the same in my language

(3)

1.2.15 It's the same in my language - or is it?

(2)

1.2.16 Woof! Woof!

(2)

1.3 Focus on word combinations

(21)

1.3.1 What usually goes with this word? (1)

(2)

1.3.2 What usually goes with this word? (2)

(2)

1.3.3 Identifying lexical phrases

(2)

1.3.4 Paired expressions

(3)

1.3.5 Comparing proverbs

(3)

1.3.6 Idioms and their meanings

(2)

1.3.7 Meanings of phrasal verbs

(2)

1.3.8 Find a one-word verb that means the same!

(2)

1.3.9 Book, play or movie titles

(1)

1.3.10 Creating compound nouns

(2)

1.4 Building on word structure

(15)

1.4.1 Suffixes for parts of speech

(4)

1.4.2 Exploring affixes

(3)

1.4.3 Find a new word

(2)

1.4.4 Word families

(2)

1.4.5 From Greek and Latin (1)

(2)

1.4.6 From Greek and Latin (2)

(2)

1.5 Names

(10)

1.5.1 What would you like to be called?

(3)

1.5.2 Putting it on the map

(2)

1.5.3 Nations: what are they good at?

101

(2)

1.5.4 How many languages do we speak between us?

103

(1)

1.5.5 Special dates

104

(2)

2 Vocabulary review

106

(49)

2.1 Single items

107

(28)

2.1.1 Listing from memory

107

(1)

2.1.2 Recall and share

108

(1)

2.1.3 Words without vowels

109

(1)

2.1.4 Single-word dictation

110

(1)

2.1.5 Translation dictation

111

(1)

2.1.6 Guessing

112

(1)

2.1.7 Draw a word

113

(1)

2.1.8 Guess them fast!

114

(5)

2.1.9 Quick bingo

119

(1)

2.1.10 Remembering pairs

120

(3)

2.1.11 Word dominoes

123

(3)

2.1.12 Sort them out (1)

126

(2)

2.1.13 Sort them out (2)

128

(1)

2.1.14 Arrange along a continuum

129

(3)

2.1.15 Flexible odd one out

132

(1)

2.1.16 Diamante poems

133

(2)

2.2 Items in context

135

(20)

2.2.1 Search a page

135

(1)

2.2.2 Association dominoes

136

(2)

2.2.3 Connect two

138

(1)

2.2.4 About me

139

(1)

2.2.5 True or false

140

(1)

2.2.6 Cuckoo

141

(1)

2.2.7 Gapfill dictations

142

(1)

2.2.8 Easy cloze

143

(1)

2.2.9 Finish the sentences

144

(1)

2.2.10 Find four collocations

145

(4)

2.2.11 Rewrite more simply

149

(1)

2.2.12 Which did I erase?

150

(1)

2.2.13 Gradual erase

151

(1)

2.2.14 Once upon a time

152

(1)

2.2.15 Dicto-gloss

153

(1)

2.2.16 Rhymes and couplets

154

(1)

3 Advanced vocabulary study

155

(42)

3.1 Using dictionaries and thesauri

156

(6)

3.1.1 What can the dictionary tell me?

156

(2)

3.1.2 What can the thesaurus tell me?

158

(2)

3.1.3 Looking up words faster

160

(1)

3.1.4 Guess it first

161

(1)

3.2 Exploring vocabulary items

162

(35)

3.2.1 It doesn't mean quite the same thing (1)

162

(3)

3.2.2 It doesn't mean quite the same thing (2)

165

(2)

3.2.3 Analysing meanings

167

(3)

3.2.4 Translation bloopers

170

(1)

3.2.5 What's the best way to translate...?

171

(1)

3.2.6 Literal or metaphorical?

172

(3)

3.2.7 Related words

175

(2)

3.2.8 Connotations

177

(2)

3.2.9 Is it appropriate?

179

(3)

3.2.10 Local Englishes

182

(2)

3.2.11 Compare collocations

184

(1)

3.2.12 Spelling history

185

(3)

3.2.13 All you know about a word

188

(1)

3.2.14 German or Latin?

189

(3)

3.2.15 What did this word mean before?

192

(1)

3.2.16 New vocabulary

193

(4)

4 Vocabulary testing

197

(31)

4.1 Written tests

198

(25)

4.1.1 Multiple choice

198

(2)

4.1.2 Gapfills

200

(2)

4.1.3 One-to-one matching

202

(3)

4.1.4 Multiple matching

205

(3)

4.1.5 Dictation-based tests

208

(1)

4.1.6 Sentence completion

209

(2)

4.1.7 Cloze

211

(1)

4.1.8 Write sentences

212

(1)

4.1.9 Say if you know it (1)

213

(2)

4.1.10 Say if you know it (2)

215

(2)

4.1.11 Translate

217

(1)

4.1.12 What goes with this item?

218

(2)

4.1.13 Learner lists

220

(1)

4.1.14 Learner-composed tests

221

(1)

4.1.15 Lexical frequency profile

222

(1)

4.2 Spoken tests

223

(5)

4.2.1 Read aloud

223

(1)

4.2.2 What's in the picture?

224

(1)

4.2.3 Repeat after me

225

(1)

4.2.4 How well do you know this word?

226

(1)

4.2.5 What more do you know about this word?

227

(1)

5 Mainly for fun

228

(23)

5.1 Spelling games

229

(8)

5.1.1 Words from letters

229

(2)

5.1.2 Short words from a longer one

231

(2)

5.1.3 Beetle hangman

233

(2)

5.1.4 Scrambled words

235

(2)

5.2 Word games

237

(11)

5.2.1 Criss-cross

237

(4)

5.2.2 Wordsearch

241

(3)

5.2.3 Crosswords

244

(1)

5.2.4 Words beginning with...

245

(2)

5.2.5 Acrostics

247

(1)

5.3 Pronunciation games

248

(3)

5.3.1 Tongue twisters

248

(1)

5.3.2 Jazz chants

249

(2)

References and further reading

251

(4)

Index

255

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