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* The use of mini-activities / games in vocabulary learning and teaching Adding fun elements Designed to integrate newly acquired words into the learner’s mental lexicon The mini-activities / games should be incorporated into meaningful tasks * Incorporating mini-activities / games into meaningful tasks Exemplar 4 – “Buying Things” (Primary 1-3) Use noun / noun phrases to - identify items to buy in a shopping centre, e.g. rain boots, waterproof watch - identify shops in a shopping centre, e.g. toy shop, clothes shop Read a story about a boy called Charlie, who went shopping with his family, and learn or revise the names of the shopping items in context… Task: design a poster for an imaginary shopping centre, with information on the types of shops, the products available and the prices *please refer to CG (CDC, 2004): pp. E20-23 for details of the exemplar * Examples of classroommini-activities / games  Word hunt Odd one out Pelmanism (locating pairs) Go fishing Hangman Analogies Word slap Pass the sentence * Odd One Out Analogies e.g. trousers robot jeans T-shirt e.g. - easy is to simple as hard is to ________ - top is to bottom as front is to ________ - fruit shop is to banana as bookshop is to ________ Can you suggest some more items for the analogies? * Word Slap Players take turns, clockwise, to shout out a different word from a pre-selected lexical set (e.g. things in a bookshop) on every fourth beat. Players who either repeat a word already used, or break the rhythm – or say nothing – are ‘out’. One – two – three – pencil! ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? * Ideas on vocabulary learning and teaching Input from various sources Present and practise in context Repetitive exposure overtime in multiple and varied contexts Work on vocabulary building skills and strategies Print-rich environment Bridging from receptive to productive Have fun! * Useful Links Online Games for children and res