1、How to Teach English Vocabulary In English ClassesI. Teaching the new words in the English environment. As we know, children learn to listen and talk first when they learn their mother language. Thats exactly we should do in teaching. Our students seldom speak English out of the English class, so we
2、 must make full use of each minute in the class to speak English. Our text books are well arranged by different communicating functions, and we can easily make many conversations according to the target vocabulary. In my English classes, not only do I always use the classroom English, but also the s
3、tudents are encouraged to used English to describe everything, with the least help of Chinese. I am ready to offer help when the students meet some new words that they dont know, even they never appears in our textbooks. People get familiar with the strange things at their second sight, as the Chine
4、se saying says, students will get familiar with the new words after they listen or speak them a few times. So sometimes, I was surprised to find that I need not to teach a number of the new words, because the students had used and understood them before!II. Teaching the new words in components.S-t-u
5、-d-e-n-t, student; d-o-c-t-o-r, doctor ., some of the English teachers used o get the habit of enjoying the loud voice from the classrooms in the mornings, and appreciate the students hard working in reading English words loudly. But, seldom have they thought about it. Is it a useful or efficient fo
6、r the students to memorize the new words? My answer is NO!. You may ask for my reasons for the answer. Well, we can recall how we learned the Chinese characters when we were young. Did we read the Chinese characters stroke by stroke loudly? Maybe this is too far for you to remember, so just have a l
7、ook at the kids, how do they memorize their mother language naturally? I did an experiment to show it for my students. I wrote the character 镓 on the blackboard quickly, which I was sure that most students had never seen them before, and after a second, I erased it. Then I asked my students, Do you
8、know what was the Character I wrote on the blackboard just now? Most of the kids said JIA, which was correct. Then I asked, Do you know its meaning? More than half of the students put up their hands, their answer was a kind of metal. Of course, the answer was right. Next, I ask the students to write
9、 down the character on the paper, and more than 90% of them wrote it down correctly. Next I asked the students, Why could you read and recite the Chinese characters that you had never seen them before? The students answered actively, because it begins with the part 钅, it means a kind of metal; becau
10、se it has the part 家, and we can know it read as ji. I showed my satisfaction to the clever answers. My next question was, The character stayed on the blackboard for just two or three seconds, how did you manage to remember it in such a short time? The students answered that the character was made u
11、p with two parts, 钅 and 家, which they were so familiar with. Seemly the students completely stepped into my trap.Then I asked, Do you think it is easier for you to memorize it by reading 镓 stroke by stroke like 撇、横、横、横、折、点 .? The students laughed. Then came my most important question, Then why do yo
12、u read the English words letter by letter? So far, most of the students agree with me on learning a Chinese character. But how can we do in English? Does each of the English words has its etymons? The answer is true.I ) To teach English words by prefix and suffix.As we know, most of the prefixes has
13、 its meaning when they are added in front the English words. For example, we put dis- before a verb to make its negative. So, when we learn like and dislike, able and disable, we can give the students some more: Whats the negative for appoint, appear and agree? Of course, we can remind other ways of
14、 turning a word into its negative, by using un-, im, in- and so on. On the other hand, the suffixes are much more abundant. Lets take the word act as example: act n. 动作 actor n. 男演员 actress n. 女演员 action n. 活动 active adj. 活跃的 actively adv. 活跃地 activity n. 活动 II ) To teach compound wordsMost of the l
15、anguages have their rich and colorful history, so does English. Do you know the word husband? It seems quite simple, while it is compounded by two parts: hus and band. Hus means a lady who is not so serious in her life, and band” means control or tie, so can you guess what husband mean? Thats someon
16、e who ties a lady, it is husband! Is it something interesting?Some of our students get a headache at long English words. For example, you may ask your students: Can you spell the word internationalist? I guess most of their answers are no. Then you could teach them part by part: inter-: 交相的 nation: 国家 -al: suffix to make a adjective - international 国际的 -ist: 专家，者
