Teaching pe vocabulary

1. Teaching PE Vocabulary
Learning & Development

2. Aims of the Session
Teachers will
• learn the stages of teaching/learning vocabulary
• explore different ways of teaching new vocabulary
• practise a way to record new vocabulary
• practise and revise new vocabulary

3. Vocabulary Instruction
Do reading and interactive vocabulary instruction make a difference?
Cheryl Boyd Zimmermann
California Sate University

4. What are they doing?
● gymnastics
● football
● tennis
● rugby
● baseball
● basketball

5. How would you teach……?
warm up camping muscles hydrated
stretch heart rate jump jog

6. Teaching New Vocabulary
pictures synonyms
antonymsmime
Teach
new
vocab
Learning & Development Team

7. Collocations or Chunks

8. From Arabic to English
In Arabic In
English
make pressure do push-ups
write homework
make exercise
vegetables and fruits
white and black
record a goal
do a mistake

9. Discussion
If you don’t use it, you lose it.

10. Practice - Online Resource
Agendaweb.org
http://www.agendaweb.org/vocabulary/body-exercises.html

11. Recording vocab
What to add?
What info is crucial?
Meaning 50%
Use 50%

12. Vocab Notebook
New word Meaning
Example or Collocation
a collocation a usual combination of words Learn
vocab in collocations.
a chunk
blood (Arabic translation - ‘dum’)
high/low blood pressure
aerobic Strengthening the heart and lungs
do aerobic exercise
by making them work hard for several minutes
<> anaerobic

13. Or annotate in the book

14. Vocab Practice & Revision
Vocab explanation games

15. Can you answer these questions?
1. What are the 4 stages of teaching vocabulary?
1. What are the different ways you can teach new vocab?
1. Which is your favourite vocabulary activity?
4. Which do you think will be your teachers’ favourite way to record vocab?