1. TEACHER: MISS CARMEN
MARIA BARBOSA

2.  Building your English Vocabulary
KEY FACTOR : CREATIVITY AND
IMAGINATION !!!!
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3.  Write Vocabulary o cards ( fun way to review words)
 Use index cards ( box )
SOME LEARNERS ARE KINESTHETIC : MEANING THAT
THEY LEARN THROUGH MOVEMENT!!
Procedure:
1)Write up to 5 vocabulary items on each card.
2)Look at your native language side and try to remember the
english equivalents and viceversa.
3)If you manage to remember all 5 words-items put the card in
your pocket.
4)I f you can´t remember all the words items put it at the
bottom of the deck. Remaining only the cards whose words
you still can´t remember.

4.  A key to a good memory is an active
IMAGINATION!!!!
 THE HUMAN BRAIN IS A SENSATION SEEKING
ORGAN SO IF YOU JUST STARE AT A WORD YOU
WANT TO REMEMBER, THE BRAIN MAY START
WORKING ITS CHARM AN INVENT SOME CRAZY
STORY THAT WILL HELP YOU MEMORIZE!!!

5.  WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT HERE?.....
A CRAZY MEMORY STORY THAT IMAGINATIVE PEOPLE USE TO
REMEMBER THINGS.
WE ALL HAVE A VIVID SENSE OF IMAGINATION!!
WE SHOULD SIMPLY LET IT GO WILD AND RELATE
WHATEVER COMES TO MIND TO THE MEMORIZATION
TASK AT HAND.
“SHORT LISTS WITH WORDS NOT CONNECTED TO ANYTHING ARE
MORE DIFFICULT TO RETAIN THAN LONG STORIES THAT ARE
INTERESTING FOR YOU!!!!

6.  THE SENSE OF SIGHT USES UP TO A THIRD OF THE BRAIN,
THEREFORE MAKING VISUALIZISING A PRIME CHANNEL TO
AID US IN RETURNING WORDS.
SOME PEOPLE USE VISUAL AND RELY ON ANYTHING THAT
STIMULATES THEIR EYES!!!
 THEREFORE THE FOLLOWING WILL HELP:
 BIG SIGNS WITH TARGET WORDS
 SMALL STICKERS TO ASSOCIATE WORD AND IMAGE
 USE OF VISUAL DICTIONARIES!!!!
 ENGLISH LEARNING SOFTWARE WITH ONLINE VOCABULARY
/ GRAMMAR / LISTENING/ SPEAKING GAMES AND
EXERCISES……

7.  “ A famous group was venturing out from
Liverpool on a ship heading from New York,,,
 The ship sank and they got stranded on a
island.
 The result was a band on an island, or A-
BAND-ON!!!

8.  Music is a great way for learning english
vocabulary, grammar, phonetics…..
 You may be having a hard time reading an
article from the New York times in Literary
supplement, but you will MEMORIZE and
UNDERSTAND every word from Frank
Zynatra or Britney Spears ( depending on
your musical inclinations)

9.  The use of song lyrics, movies, tv. Series,
documentals, song videos……is very much
conductive to English learning!!!
 Record a specific word on an audio file or
better yet RE-LISTEN TO the text from which
you extracted the words in the first place!!!

10.  SOME SCIENTISTS SAY THAT YOU CAN EVEN
LISTEN AND LEARN WHILE YOU SLEEP!!!

11. To teach English is not an easy job but you should
never give up about enriching your teaching
strategies and working hard to improve your
students´learning ….never forgetting about the
multintelligences of our students, and remembering
that each one them has its own needs and different
learning styles!!!!
KEYS TO SUCCESS:
 AN ACTIVE IMAGINATION
 STRONG MOTIVATION
 PERSITENCE

12. DIFFERENT LEARNERS DEVELOP DIFFERENT
WAYS…….
TO BUILD THEIR VOCABULARY, LEARN GRAMMAR RULES,
PRACTICE THEIR PRONUNCIATION, PRACTICE THEIR WRITING
SKILLS……
THE MORE THE STUDENT REVIEWS THE WORDS, PRACTICE THE
LANGUANGE,,,,THE FASTER HE OR SHE WILL ADQUIRE WHAT WE
WANT TO TEACH
AND HOPEFULLY……….
ENGLISH WILL STAY IN HER OR HIS MIND FOREVER….
OUR STUDENTS WILL START TO THINK NOW IN ENGLISH , NOT IN
SPANISH ( OR THEIR TARGET LANGUAGE), FORGETTING ABOUT
TRANSLATION AND HOPEFULLY THE LANGUAGE WILL FINALLY
BECOME ACTIVE IN THEIR MIND….WE CAN SAY OUR JOB HAS BEEN
SUCCESSFULLY ACCOMPLISHED !!!

13. Miss Carmen Ma.
Barbosa
Thanks all my collegues and
teachers who have inspired me to
be a better teacher….

14. Friday June 6th, 2008
Good bye and God bless you all!!