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    How To Write Vocabulary Presentations And Practice
    How To Write Vocabulary Presentations And Practice
    How To Write Vocabulary Presentations And Practice
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    How To Write Vocabulary Presentations And Practice

    By Philip Kerr

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    Vocabulary has gained its rightful place at the centre of modern language learning syllabuses, but how does a writer select which items to present and practise? Philip Kerr, an experienced teacher, trainer and coursebook writer, explains the importance of key criteria such as frequency, learnability and usefulness when choosing vocabulary items to focus on.
    Starting with an overview of theoretical and practical issues involved in writing vocabulary materials, he goes on to illustrate a wide range of practice activity types and also includes suggestions for dealing with the knotty issue of rubric-writing. Carefully constructed tasks are backed up with detailed commentaries which encourage readers to think critically about vocabulary materials in general.
    This module forms part of the ELT Teacher 2 Writer training course. The training modules are designed to help you write better ELT materials, either for publication, or simply to improve the quality of your self-produced classroom materials.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherELT Teacher 2 Writer
    Release dateMay 18, 2013
    ISBN9781301288649
    How To Write Vocabulary Presentations And Practice
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    Philip Kerr

    Philip Kerr is the bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther thrillers, for which he received a CWA Dagger Award. Born in Edinburgh, he now lives in London. He is a life-long supporter of Arsenal. Follow @theScottManson on Twitter.

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      How To Write Vocabulary Presentations And Practice - Philip Kerr

      HOW TO WRITE VOCABULARY PRESENTATIONS AND PRACTICE

      Philip Kerr

      TRAINING COURSE FOR ELT WRITERS

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      How To Write Vocabulary Presentations And Practice

      By Philip Kerr

      © 2013

      Published by ELT Teacher 2 Writer at Smashwords

      www.eltteacher2writer.co.uk

      We would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce their material:

      What Is Involved In Knowing A Word – From Nation, Teaching Vocabulary, 1E. © 2009 Heinle/ELT, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission. www.cengage.com/permissions; From Dellar/Walkley/Hocking. Innovations Upper-Intermediate, 2E. © 2004 Heinle/ELT, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission. www.cengage.com/permissions; Extract from: Global Pre-intermediate © Lindsay Clandfield; 2010, Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited. Used by Permission. All rights reserved; Extracts from: New Inside Out Pre-intermediate © Sue Kay and Vaughan Jones; 2008, Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited. Used by Permission. All rights reserved; Extracts from: Straightforward Pre-intermediate © P. Kerr; 2012, Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited. Used by Permission. All rights reserved.

      Although every effort has been made to contact copyright holders before publication, this has not always been possible. If notified, ELT Teacher 2 Writer will endeavour to rectify any errors or omissions at the earliest opportunity.

      How To Write Vocabulary Presentations And Practice

      Contents

      about the author

      1 Aims

      2 Preliminary Questions

      3 Writing Rubrics And Teacher’s Notes

      4 Presentation Materials

      5 Practice Materials

      6 Good Vocabulary Material: A Checklist

      7 Glossary (explanations of key words)

      8 Task Commentary

      About The Author

      1 Rearrange the phrases a–h to make a paragraph.

      a) ‘bios’ as they’re often called. Unfortunately,

      b) for ELT Teacher 2 Writer on writing bios.

      c) have to write them quite often. Perhaps

      d) if you’re a writer and a lecturer, you

      e) My name is Philip Kerr and I’ve

      f) never liked, or been any good at,

      g) someone could write a module

      h) writing biographical information – or

      2 Now read the rest of the text.

      The first ELT materials that I wrote were during my first job teaching English language in a lycée in Morocco, and I was motivated mostly by frustration with the Coursebook I was using. It was called Practice and Progress and it was written by Louis Alexander. It has been out of print for a long time but I saw today that a brand new copy of it is available via Amazon for £1,460.68.

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