CITI - rpiva

What kind of activities do you enjoy the most?learning vocabulary1projectsgamesroleplays and dialogs222presentation and speeches7good discussion5group works6Using mediums (listening to music, watchingfilms)72. What is the easiest way for you to study new vocabulary? How do you remember the newwords?Reading books, watching movies/ soaps, listening to music or singingCome across new words (find out the meaning), this unknown word appears more thanonce, so you learn it and can remember afterwards.Writing down new words and tray to remember Use the word in dialogs, articles, in speeches, and so onThe worst way is to remember words just with their definitionWrite the words down and during you look it up in a dictionary, you have alreadylearnt it for the first time.Connect the word with feelings and emotionsReading the new word loudly, that you can hear the word with your ears and the try torepeat or explain the word for yourselfWrite the unknown word on a sheet, on another sheet you write an explanation (inEnglish). You read the explanation and find out the right word on the other sheet, orread a word and try to explain it.InterpretationThe results of the interview with an English teacher (American) from Riga‘s stategymnasium show that this gymnasium really know about the importance to teach pupilsvocabulary, although the teacher wasn‘t able to give me a definition about EnglishLexicology. One of the main goals of the teachers work is to improve the communicationstyle of the pupils and to rise up the vocabulary. Nevertheless the teacher mentioned howimportant it is to know the structure of a language, before somebody is able to make a goodconversation. So before pupils go to this teacher‘s classes (communication lessons) theyattended English Grammar classes. It is provided for special grammar lesson, next tocommunication lessons. The teacher‘s experience in comparison to the lexical approach by M.Lewis (2008) shows the importance to teach Grammar in a much earlier stage in the learner‘s66