Introduction 1
1 Confidence and dictionary skills-building activities 5
1.1 Getting to know your dictionary 6
1.2 Finding the words you want quickly 1 7
1.3 Finding the words you want quickly 2 8
1.4 Spellcheck 8
1.5 Alphabet warmer 9
1.6 Alphabet practice:Code breaking 10
1.7 Navigating the dictionary:Where is the letter? 11
1.8 Navigating the dictionary:Where is the word? 11
1.9 Isthat a real word? 12
1.10 Navigating the dictionary:Parts of speech 13
1.11 Navigating the dictionary:Labels 15
1.12 Navigating the dictionary:Using guidewords and signposts 1 17
1.13 Navigating the dictionary:Using guidewords and signposts 2 19
1.14 Locating multi-word items 20
1.15 Definitions 22
1.16 Example sentences 23
1.17 Dictionary quiz 24
2 Vocabulary-building activities 27
2.1 Learner training:Recording vocabulary 27
2.2 Definitions writing,matching and concentration 30
2.3 Definitions bluff 31
2.4 Collocations 1:Make and do 32
2.5 Collocations 2:Verb+noun 33
2.6 Collocations 3:Adjective+noun dominoes 34
2.7 Word building 1 36
2.8 Word building 2 37
2.9 Word building 3 39
2.10 Word building 4 40
2.11 Word building 5 42
2.12 Word building 6 43
2.13 Word families 44
2.14 Comparatives patchwork 45
2.15 Adjectives:Positive or negative? 47
2.16 Understanding connotation 49
2.17 Multi-word expressions 50
2.18 Expressions:Opposites? 51
2.19 Phrasal verbs 53
2.20 Common lexical errors:Correction 55
3 Grammar activities 57
3.1 Grammar codes 57
3.2 Countable and uncountable nouns 58
3.3 Uncountable nouns 60
3.4 Recipes 61
3.5 Plurals 63
3.6 Dependent preposition wheels 65
3.7 Dependent prepositions:Error correction 67
3.8 to or-ing? 68
3.9 Common errors:Transitive and intransitive verbs 69
3.10 Grammar auction 70
4 Pronunciation activities 73
4.1 Syllables and stress 73
4.2 Stress:Two syllable nouns and verbs 75
4.3 -ed endings 77
4.4 Homophones 79
4.5 Minimal pairs 81
4.6 Oddoneout 82
4.7 Rhymes? 84
4.8 Rhyming slang 86
4.9 Bespoke tongue twisters 87
4.10 Short short stories 89
5 Reading and writing activities 91
5.1 Reading:Meaning and context 1 91
5.2 Reading:Meaning and context 2 92
5.3 Confusables 94
5.4 Formal or informal 1 95
5.5 Formal or informal 2 97
5.6 Text completion 98
5.7 Academic writing:Discourse markers 100
5.8 Punctuation 102
5.9 Mini-stories 104
5.10 The dice game 105
5.11 Extreme dialogue writing 106
5.12 Fairy story 108
6 Quick activities 109
6.1 Picture this!Memory game 109
6.2 Spelling 111
6.3 Topic brainstorm 112
6.4 Senses brainstorm 112
6.5 Idioms brainstorm 113
6.6 Vocabulary box 114
6.7 Describe and draw 114
6.8 DIY pre-teaching 115
6.9 Associations 115
6.10 Hairy headlines 116
6.11 Categories 117
6.12 Name cards 118
7 CD-ROM and electronic dictionary activities 119
CD-ROM activities 120
7.1 Exploring your dictionary 120
7.2 Idioms 121
7.3 British and American English 122
7.4 Pictures 124
7.5 Lexical chains 1 125
7.6 Lexical chains 2 127
7.7 Haiku 129
Electronic and online dictionary activities 130
7.8 Concordances and corpora 130
7.9 Word and phrase origins 131
8 Specialized dictionaries 134
Bilingual dictionaries 134
8.1 Wordmaze 134
8.2 Production dictionaries 135
Picture dictionaries 136
8.3 Memory game 136
8.4 Picture snakes 137
Phrasal verb dictionaries 139
8.5 Phrasal verb+noun shuffle 139
8.6 Pelmanism 140
Idioms dictionaries 142
8.7 Keywords in idioms 142
8.8 Idioms in the media 144
Resources 145
Index 148