Session 4: Ideas for teaching vocab and using mind maps

Vocab building has always been a teaching issue for me as students often encounter difficulties on how to expand their vocab and memorize them. Students often tell me that it is hard to learn the pronunciation and the spelling. However, this problem could be solved since Paul introduced some new ways to teach us to learn vocab.

Padlock is amazing to collect ideas from students! Their ideas will be shown on the screen immediately after they input the words using tablets or mobile phones. Also, it is great for revision as well since the words collected can be classified into different categories by dragging and dropping the boxes easily.

Quizlet is another wonderful tool you can use to make learning vocab fun since it has many built-in functions such as flip card, matching and test. Isn't it fantastic? You just need to input the vocab and the definition. Quizlet will automatically create everything for you!! There are lots of vocab games using those words you just input for students to play! Most incredibly, it contains pronunciation function as well! I will definitely introduce Quizlet to my students.

Want to make a mind map easily? Use Bubbl.us
You can make use of bubbl.us to make a mind map which can be expandable or collapsible! Here is the link.
https://bubbl.us/?s=7279117#MzY2MjM3Ni83Mjc5MTE3L2NiNTM3NWMzN2E1NGIwZTY1YmRjN2RmYzE3NDZiYjE5?X

Since it is so easy and useful, I can't help creating two more mind maps for my student. As you can see in the following photos, it can be expandable or collapsible!

This is the next one.