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Listening, reading and vocabulary revision.

Procedure:
Write on the board 10 to 15 words, which you would like to
review. Tell the students to choose any five of them and write
them down.
Read out the words, one by one and in any order. If the
students have written down one of the words you call out they
cross it off. When they have crossed off all their five words they
tell you, by shouting 'Bingo'. Keep a record of what you say in
order to be able to check that the students really have heard all
their words.

Variation:
The procedure above demands recognition of sound and
spelling relationships. You can make the activity more demanding
by giving, for example, a definition of the words. The students
must then listen for meaning and match this definition with their
words.

Note:
If, at the end of the lesson, there are a number of sentences
or individual words written on the board you can use them for
Blackboard bingo.

Brainstorm round a word

Vocabulary review and enrichment.

Procedure:
Take a word the class has recently learnt, and ask the students to
suggest all the words they associate with it. Write each suggestion
on the board with a line joining it to the original word, in a circle,
so that you get a 'sunray' effect. If the original word was 'decision',

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