Enhancing Vocabulary Learning and Teaching at Primary Level

Module 1: Fun and Games
Unit: Sports

	1.	Introduce names of sports to pupils with a PowerPoint presentation (LT 1.1) (ppt.) and a reading passage on Olympic Games (LT 1.2) and elicit from them their knowledge about different kinds of sports.
	2.	Invite pupils to categorise the sports into different groups and give reasons for the categorisation. Help pupils create paradigmatic associations by introducing the superordinates of different sports (e.g. water sports, track and field events, ball games) and guiding them to organise the vocabulary in a tree diagram.
	3.	Develop pupils’ knowledge of word formation by highlighting that some of the words are formed by compounding.
	4.	Introduce the sentence structure ‘ is a kind of ball game / water sport / track and field event.’ Invite pupils to act out some sports and let others guess the answers. Through this miming game, pupils practise the newly learnt sentence structure and vocabulary items.
	5.	Help pupils familiarise with the vocabulary learnt by preparing some Word Wizard cards with answers for them to work on during recess and lunch time.
	6.	Provide pupils with some websitesWebsites related to sports: http://en.beijing2008.cn/ http://www.london2012.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport about sports and encourage them to search for more information about different sports.