Vocabulary Teaching
Use this table to help you think about how you will teach the 12 vocabulary items you have selected from the 'What made me who I am' text
for pre-teaching.
Two examples are given to show you how to use it.
Item Meaning How meaning Pronunciation Grammatical and Concept
will be conveyed other information questions (if
to students needed)
Communities A group of people I will explain by /kə'mju:nətɪz/ Communities is Can you think of
(Community) live locally to each first giving a the plural form for any communities
other or have definition. “A a community. you’re a part of?
something in community can be (Community -
common multiple things, /kə'mju:nətɪ/) You can be part of
one thing for one community, or
example is our many
school community. communities.
A community is a
group of people
that share
something in
common.”
After (hopefully
successful)
eliciting, I will
then use examples
students can
understand/relate
to.
, Unpopular Not liked/disliked I will explain this /ʌnˈpɒpjʊlə/ Adjective What’s a opinion
by asking what you have that you
students opinion is think is unpopular?
on something
unpopular in Can you think of
students, like for anything you
example waking like/dislike that is
up early in the unpopular?
morning.
Hopefully getting
a negative
reaction, I will use
that as an example
and say that they
share an unpopular
opinion on waking
up early.
Protests When you I will explain by /'prəʊtests/ A noun Have you ever
say/show publicly first giving a seen a protest
that you object to definition. After Can also be used before?
it (hopefully as a verb, for
successful) example ‘to If you could
eliciting, I will protest’, is when protest something,
then use examples you say/show what would it be?
students can publicly that you
understand/relate object to it.
Use this table to help you think about how you will teach the 12 vocabulary items you have selected from the 'What made me who I am' text
for pre-teaching.
Two examples are given to show you how to use it.
Item Meaning How meaning Pronunciation Grammatical and Concept
will be conveyed other information questions (if
to students needed)
Communities A group of people I will explain by /kə'mju:nətɪz/ Communities is Can you think of
(Community) live locally to each first giving a the plural form for any communities
other or have definition. “A a community. you’re a part of?
something in community can be (Community -
common multiple things, /kə'mju:nətɪ/) You can be part of
one thing for one community, or
example is our many
school community. communities.
A community is a
group of people
that share
something in
common.”
After (hopefully
successful)
eliciting, I will
then use examples
students can
understand/relate
to.
, Unpopular Not liked/disliked I will explain this /ʌnˈpɒpjʊlə/ Adjective What’s a opinion
by asking what you have that you
students opinion is think is unpopular?
on something
unpopular in Can you think of
students, like for anything you
example waking like/dislike that is
up early in the unpopular?
morning.
Hopefully getting
a negative
reaction, I will use
that as an example
and say that they
share an unpopular
opinion on waking
up early.
Protests When you I will explain by /'prəʊtests/ A noun Have you ever
say/show publicly first giving a seen a protest
that you object to definition. After Can also be used before?
it (hopefully as a verb, for
successful) example ‘to If you could
eliciting, I will protest’, is when protest something,
then use examples you say/show what would it be?
students can publicly that you
understand/relate object to it.
