Rediscovering the Lexical Approach - Magpie Moments

02/10/2011

Rediscovering the Lexical Approach

This was an idea I loved during teacher training but never really got a chance to properly get to grips with... but thanks to the generous idea sharing of Carlos Islam and Ivor Timmis here I cre-apted my own collocation lesson based on my wedding. You can see the resources and the outline lesson plan below if you're interested.

Download Lesson Plan Collocations

Download Unmarked wedding day text

Download Marked wedding day text2

Download Simplified exam coll dict entry

This lesson was a lot of fun to teach :-)

10 Feb 2011 00:09:33 | Vocab fun

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