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# 1: Vocabulary Building Activities at High Level:

Vocabulary represents one of most important skills necessary for teaching and learning a
foreign language. It is the basis for the development of all the other skills: reading
comprehension, listening comprehension, speaking, writing, spelling and pronunciation.
Vocabulary is the main tool for the students in their attempt to use English effectively. When
confronted with a native English speaker, when watching a movie without subtitle or when
listening to a favorite English song, when reading a text or when writing a letter to a friend,
students will always need to operate with words. There are many strategies and activities to
improve the vocabulary.

 Semantic Map
 Word Cards
 Search Word
 Venn Diagram Technique
 Cross Word Puzzle
 Bumper Words
 Word Definition
 One Word Subsitution
 Linking Words
 Finish the Sentence
Semantic Map:
A semantic map is a graphic organizer that helps students visually organize the
relationship between pieces of information. Researchers have identified this strategy as a
great way to increase students’ grasp of vocabulary words.  Semantic mapping can be
used as a pre-reading activity to active prior knowledge, or to introduce key words. As a
post-reading activity, it can be used to enhance understanding by adding new concepts to
the map. Here’s how it works:

 The teacher decides on a key word and writes it on the front board.
 Students then read the key word and are asked to think about other words that come to
mind when they read the word. Students then make a list of all of the words.
 Students share the recorded words, then as a class the words are categorized.
 Once category names are assigned, a class map is created and discussed.
 Students are then encouraged to suggest additional categories for the map, or add to the
old ones.
 Any new words that relate to the topic are added to the map as students read through the
text.

Bumper Words:
Bumper words is a categorizing activity that helps students to learn the
relationships between words on their list. If you plan to use a bumper words activity,
keep that in mind when selecting your word list so that it’s easier to create the
assignment. Here’s how it works.
Teacher Direct:
As a teacher, I group the words into categories. I will make this into a worksheet
or a graphic organizer, or write them on the board to use as a class activity. Another
option is to create a manipulative for small groups or station use. When i put the words
into groups (of 3 to 5 is best), all of the words should relate except for one. The students’
job is to figure out which word is not related, and they bump it to the next word group.
It’s a chain effect. Here’s an example:
As you can see, in the first group of words, abase, demean, and humiliate can all be related, but
extol does not fit. So, it gets bumped to group two, where students look for another ill-fitting
word that is then bumped to group 3, and so on. When creating this activity, you can use words
that are not on your vocabulary list to complement the ones that are.

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Q. # 2: Writing Skill through Poetry:

Poetry always awakens our senses and promotes literature. It helps students draw
sketches or images of everything they can feel, interpret and talk about. Poetry is musical and
rhythmic, and it has caught the attention of everyone. Poetry is universal and global, so it
connects people. It is a vehicle that is expressed in a broader perspective. Poetry needs to be
focused, which is usually not observed by students. Poetry is so versatile that it can make a big
difference in ELT. There are many types and forms of poetry. Similarly, poetry language can be
simple or decorative. Poetry begins with an interesting historical reference to epics, folktales
and many other references; not only in India, but also in many other non-English speaking
countries.
 Poetry is a kind of writing in which the words are arranged beautifully and rhythmically.
We recently celebrated World Poetry Day on March 21, and suddenly I thought of this theme.
Learning and writing poetry can provide expression and communication to students and
teachers. We need poetry to promote language teaching emotionally and holistically. Poetry
helps to use rhetoric, adjectives, phrases and symbolic words to express feelings spontaneously.
When we read, listen or write loudly and rhythmically, we can easily learn it.

There are many ways in which ELL classes can use poetry. Poetry offers many
opportunities for language teaching and practice. It offers a wide range of opportunities to learn
vocabulary and structure. It is not an easy task to start ELL's poetry in class. The first thing a
teacher has to do is to prepare students for poetry. First, the teacher must know the student's
understanding of poetry and its form, structure, rhythm and rhythm. Poetry ranges from simple
to complex. Today, even ridiculous poetry has great needs. Depending on the level of the
student, we can start using poetry in the classroom in a variety of ways, such as: Discussion
about the difference between Poems and Prose.

 Give a short story and ask to convert some lines in a poetic composition.
 Read poems loudly and tales and prose in poetic manner so that students can follow. Reading
aloud always works well as far as pronunciation and fluency is concerned. In order to increase
fluency, pronunciation and confidence, classroom practices and exercises play an important role.
Vocabulary is also very important because there are many words which can only be used in poetic
composition. So, vocabulary games and quiz also play an important role.
 Poems have some unusual sentences and structures which students normally will not find in
prose.

Their sentences and structure help a lot in ELL.

The aim of teaching English through poetry is to provide inspiration of learning

language with emerging techniques and practical wisdom and ideas. It does not mean that
English teaching means learning poetry but to learn L2 (English) with the help of poetry
enthusiastically. Learning through poetry needs extra attention and motivation as students have
to devote more time and energy.
 Teaching poetry is helpful because it works well as a catalyst. It is often referred to as "a
soothing lip balm", similar in that its versatility makes learning exciting, memorable, and
involves the entire classroom. If we enter the history of poetry, we will find epics, legends and
folklore sung by so-called illiterate people, but they will study hard and repeat it many times.
Similarly, Japan's 'Tanka' and China's 'Shi' have also contributed to the great success of
language teaching. They make history, culture and mythological references easy to learn and
enrich our knowledge of specific languages. Students can gain the following advantages
through poetry: A student can use and fit words in poetic composition.

Correct use of vocabulary and grammatically correct language can be learned.

 Students can I earn use of Thesaurus, Phrases, Structure, verb and tenses.
 Nurture student’s imagination and creativity as well as build their confidence level. There are
the basic uses poetry can bring into EET (Effective English Teaching). It brings emotions,
rhyme and congenial expression in classroom. Poetry works for enrichment of language
because it:
 Enrich vocabulary
 Sound, Rhythm and stress
 Pronunciation and fluency.

Each coin has two sides ; so is everything has some pros and cons. Teaching English
through Poetry is time consuming and sometimes wrong construction of poem can make the
results worst. A right click always enhance the beauty, similarly bad click make the memory
worse. Some activities which will help in learning language through poetry:

 Worksheets of vocabulary, quiz.

 Sentences connected with each other.
 Rhyming words.
 Events whose pictures can be shown to the students.
 Language lab with recording facility and background music facility.
 Some interesting themes based on curriculum, tales and contemporary issues which can cater
needs of natives.
 Healthy discussion and debate in class.
 Encouragement and motivation.

There are some assignments and projects that can be made a part of curriculum as:

 Creative writing to add one or two stanzas on most famous poems of syllabus.
 Create a poem with the help of given a group of 50 to 100 words.
 To write applications, letters, reports of events in poetic form.
 Reconstruction of Nursery Rhymes and kids poems is also a good mind blogger.

I personally teach graduates whose native language is not English, most of them from a
semi-rural background. When the university erased poetry for third-year students, classroom
instruction became boring, because poetic composition made understanding easier to flow
freely. When students are asked to imagine and explain, they can easily use words, structures
and structures. And find that their creativity is just right and appropriate, they will be promoted.
Poetry plays a vital role in the teaching of phrases, structures, and construction.

Poetry fosters an understanding of the text and its use in the language classroom. For
non-English speaking students, the use of grammar is not easy, but they can also be used in
poetry. We can't forget our oldest trick "narrative", where the story is sung by people who are
not even literate, but their work is remarkable. Even Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" are written
in this form, even now it is unparalleled. Similarly, China’s “Shi” and Japan’s “Tanka” are still
very popular because they are rhythmic poetry and can impart knowledge to everyone.

Poetry and related activities can play an important role in EET and learning. I have read
many popular pop music albums (today's pop music) that are the result of vocabulary and
rhyming word exercises such as walking/speaking, singing/attacking, chance/dance, etc.
Therefore, poetry and related exercises in the classroom can enhance EET. We as teachers must
focus on the text, the correct use and construction. Students will understand the meaning and
relevance of language, as poetry awakens our senses and helps build oral skills. It offers an
excellent opportunity to expand vocabulary and rhythm and rhythm. It is so versatile that it
opens up countless vacancies for teachers and students.
 The main purpose of this study is to show that poetry is not only part of literature. But to
understand or adopt a language, you must do a good job in poetry formation. Even simple
essays have a kind of poetry that you can understand when you are versatile in both. This article
attempts to point out how poetry and related activities enhance ELL. As a teacher, we must
focus on the use of vocabulary, target language and grammatically correct sentences. Deep
poetry can be found in songs, folktales, etc. They teach us the importance of poetry learning and
teaching. It has a profound meaning, we must understand it to better understand the language.