we teach our students new English words

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like in every class and at the end of
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the course or the semester most of the
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students of course not all of them and
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fortunately forget these new terms so
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today I'm gonna share four fun easy to
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do activities to review new vocabulary
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words with your ESL students and make
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them stick forever I mean hopefully I'd
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love to tell you that this is a collab
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video with the awesome the language lady
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so don't forget to check her vocabulary
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activites video as well link is in the
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description below let's go I don't know
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the name of this activity but let's call
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it the line and this activity you have
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to prepare nothing all you gotta do is
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divide your class no matter how big or
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small into two groups ask the students
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to stand in two lines facing the board
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on the board you'll draw a line and on
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top of that line write these three rules
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without explaining anything lesson
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related three points not related two
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points misspelled - point I like to give
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the students a couple of minutes let
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them try to guess what the game is and
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then I fully expose my game so you tell
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them the first two students standing on
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the line writes a word in the board
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let's say they wrote banana then they
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hand the pen to the students standing
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right after them and go to the back of
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the lion the second a student must write
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a new word that ends with the last
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letter of the previous word I think you
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get it by now let's say they wrote
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airplane the second student gives the
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pen to the third and the third to the
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fourth and so on the
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the line if your class is small I set a
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timer so students have to keep writing
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words so for example two minutes are
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over let's get back to the rules
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remember this is a review activity
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so obviously you we have to review some
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words right so let's say the lesson was
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about food if students write
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food-related words they get three points
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for every word but if they write words
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that are not food-related they get two
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points and the third rule is pretty
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obvious if they misspelled the word they
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lose a point because yes we're reviewing
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vocabs but also we want to make sure
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they remember how to write these new
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vocabulary words you can replace food
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with any lesson you're teaching like
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clothes transportation furniture pretty
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much anything
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so here we're encouraging the students
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to squeeze their brains to remember the
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words they've taken and they're doing it
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while having fun away from their chairs
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and books working as a team because at
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one point or another they gotta help
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each other at the end of the game you
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have a little math class counting the
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points and the line with the more points
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wins what do they win it's up to you
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activity 2 is pictionary it's a very
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popular game and I love it so much and I
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thought let's make it even more popular
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here you have to do one thing only which
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is writing all new words that you've
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already taken on cards and sprit them
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facing down on the table so here we're
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having one category only as an example
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let's say being say I love to add some
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sauce pans so I include a couple of
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cards that say lucky which means you get
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a point without even trying another one
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with unlucky and here they lose a point
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also without trying
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I usually divide the class into two
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teams but if it was a large class than
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three or four groups a student from the
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first team will pick a card and they
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have 20 seconds to draw the word on the
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card if the first team gets the word
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before time is up they get a point and
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team stick turns til we finished
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reviewing all the words we want them to
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remember this game is hilarious because
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not all students are born artists and
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they'll laugh at their drawings they'll
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get really upset if they get the unlucky
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card and they'll try hard F is so fine
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I'm gonna call the third activity close
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your books or turn down your papers if
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your listeners on papers like the first
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activity all you gotta do is nothing I
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know you now think that I'm a lazy
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teacher which is a true but that's a
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different story let's get back to the
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game let's say you have this lesson
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about occupations and you explain all of
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these different jobs and their meanings
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and now you think oh how I'm gonna make
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sure student just won't forget them to
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make this happen divide the class into
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as many groups as you wish tell them to
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have one final look and all these
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occupations and then ask them to close
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their books with some groups I ask them
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to even put their books down because
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they sneak peek and this is not the
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point of this activity after you make
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sure old books are closed or even down
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tell them I know you guys got the
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strongest memory ever and I believe in
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you therefore you have two minutes to
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write down all of the occupations that
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we've just learned first reaction is
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just dropping down but after a couple of
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seconds they start racking their brains
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to remember all of the new words and
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because they've just learned these words
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is gonna be easier for them to remember
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the words and harder to be forgetten
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later on
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my last activity is swing it or grab it
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first for this activity we need a table
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bell or if it's not available think of
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something students can grab like a small
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bowl or a yarn or if you can't afford it
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a piece of candy or chocolate would be
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great you'll prepare a list of review
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questions divide the class into two
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teams to get all students engaged ask
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when a student of each team to come to
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your desk and face their counterpart on
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the desk place your table bell or your
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ball or your chocolate tell them you'll
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ask them a question and the student who
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knows the answer must first ring the
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bell or grab the item and then say the
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answer if they get it right their team
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gets a point and if you're going with
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the chocolate idea then they just get
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the chocolate and repeat the exact thing
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with the rest of the students try to
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vary your questions my favorite is when
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I ask them to name three things like
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name three appliances we've just learned
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name of three types of shoes name three
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pieces of furniture and sometimes after
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I've asked like four or five questions
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from their book I like to trick them and
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ask them a very random not lesson a
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related question like what did you have
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for dinner yesterday where what's your
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best friend's name something like that
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that's a pretty 8 I hope you find these
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lazy teacher vibe activities useful and
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make sure to check the language lady
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channel for more amazing ASL videos
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thank you dr. humble for this lovely
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collab thank you for always looking for
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ways to make your classes awesome and
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thank you for your time
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