This document provides tips and suggestions for increasing one's vocabulary by focusing on words related to snow. It begins by listing Inuit words for snow and then explores the many English words used to describe snow, including types (snowflake, snowdrift), states (falling, drifting), descriptive words (wet, french, white), and opinions about snow (beautiful, ugly). Further sections suggest considering snow's size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose, and actions. Readers are encouraged to research technical vocabulary, mechanical and animal connections, and emotive language related to snow. The document concludes by instructing readers to make a large word list on the topic of snow and present it visually using an online word

1. WORDLE TIME

2. Wordle by Louise Armstrong

3.  You get a lot of marks for
having a good vocabulary!
 You can take a list of words
into the exam.
 8 ways to increase your
vocabulary.

4. Boas Introduction to HAIL (1911: 21-22) :
aput - snow on the ground
qana - falling snow
piqsirpoq - drifting snow
qimuqsuq - snowdrift
But English has
many ways to talk
about snow...

5. Snow
Snowflake
Snowdrift

6.  Avalanche
 Ice
 Arctic

7.  Describing
words that tell
us more about
snow, such as
glittering white
snow.

8.  Wet
 French
 White
 Heaped
 New
 Big
 Ugly
 Snow

9. Tell us more about the snow:
 Opinion or judgment -- beautiful, ugly, cold,
unnecessary
 Size -- small, tall, short, big
 Age -- young, old, new, historic, ancient
 Shape -- round, square, rectangular
 Colour -- white, black, green, purple
 Nationality -- French, Swiss, American, Canadian,
Japanese
 Material -- wooden, metallic, plastic, glass,
paper
 Purpose or Qualifier -- foldout sofa, fishing boat,
racing car

10.  What is the snow doing?
 Drifting...
 Blowing...
 Falling...

11.  What is the snow doing to us?
 Blinding...
 Blocking...
 Terrifying...

12.  Tell us how the snow is doing what it’s doing.
Falling...
 Quickly
 Slowly
 Gently
 Fast

13.  Crystalline water ice
Stellar Plate Crystal Stellar Dendrite Crystal

14. Snow Plough Snow Cannon

15. Snow geese Snow tracks

16. Snowman Snowball

17. Love it? Hate it?

18. 1. Collect related nouns.
2. Make a list of adjectives.
3. List verbs...
4. ...and adverbs.
5. Research technical vocabulary.
6. Look for mechanical/animal
connections.
7. How do humans use this thing?
8. Find emotive language.

19.  Collect the biggest list of words
connected to your topic that you can.
 Paste the list into
http://www.wordle.net/
 Change the colour and font until you
are happy with it.
 Take a screen shot.
 Paste into Word & edit.
 Paste into the PowerPoint presentation.

20. One of the following:
 • The Scene at a School Sports Day
• The Scene in a Busy Outdoor Market
• The Scene at a Carnival
• The Scene in a Forest
• Underwater