What did the famous Chinese philosopher Confucius say?

What did the famous Chinese philosopher Confucius say?

• I see and I f________

• I hear and I r_______

• I do and I u__________

Can you match up the percentages and the activities?

• 10%• 20%• 30%• 50%• 70%• 90%

• Hear• Say• See and hear• See• Say and do• read

Learning Vocabulary

…can be at the bottom of your list…

…and you can’t do it on the bus!

…just staring at the words won’t help…

…very few people have a photographic memory so you will have to do some

writing!

Here are a few tricks and tips to

help!

The traditional method…

das Haus

H- a - u - s

Haus

1.Look 2.Say

3. Cover4.Write

5. Check

and some variations…

Fold a piece of A3 paper in half lengthways. Write 7 words in the first column and the English meanings in the second column. Use your book to check you get it right.

Fold over the 1st column so that only the English meanings are visible.

Write the German words as best you can from memory in column 3. Open it up and check your answers.

Now fold over columns 1 and 2 to practise the English meanings in column 4. Check your answers. And so on.

The sheet is proof that you have done your learning homework.

ich habe

du hast

er/sie/es hat

Bart hat

wir haben

ihr habt

sie/Sie haben

I have

you have

he/she/it has

Bart has

we have

you (pl) have

they/you(pol)

have

The pyramid methodDie Umweltverschmutzung Die

Die UDie UmDie UmwDie UmweDie UmweltDie UmweltvDie UmweltveDie UmweltverDie UmweltversEtc!!

Write the word out at the top of a piece of paper.

Underneath write the word out adding a letter each time until the word is complete again…

Then test yourself!

Buy lots of highlighter pens…Traffic light your vocab list…

No idea what it means or how to spell it

Sort of know it but can’t spell it

Can spell 100% accurately and know the meaning

OR…colour code into

masculine

feminine

neuter

plural

Get your vocab list…

1 der Metzger2 die Drogerie3 die Apotheke4 das Rathaus5 die Metzgerei6 die Tankstelle7 das Verkehrsamt

On a new piece of paper get rid of the vowels.

1.D-r M-tzg-r2.D– Dr-g-r—3.D-- -p-th-k-

Etc….

Fill in the gaps.

Check your work or get a friend to…. Re –do the dodgy ones.

Get your vocab list…

1 der Metzger2 die Drogerie3 die Apotheke4 das Rathaus5 die Metzgerei6 die Tankstelle7 das Verkehrsamt

On a new piece of paper get rid everything except for the first letter.

1.Der M- - - - - -2.Die D3.Die A

Etc….

Fill in the missing words

Check your work or get a friend to…. Re –do the dodgy ones.

Print off the next slide and get a friend to fill in a group of words from the Frequent Word List or recent vocab work.

Look at the following words/phrases and award them a number (1 – 5) according to the criteria below. (Write the number in the word box.)1. I can spell the word and I know what it means.2. I know what it means.3. I think I know what it means.4. I know I have learnt this word/phrase but I can’t remember what it means.5. I have never seen that word/phrase before.

a) b) c) d)

e) f) g) h)

i) j) k) l)

m) n) o) p)

Activity 2Now look up any you didn’t know using a dictionary and write the English meaning in the box under the German word

der Mann

die Frau

das Kind

Colour coded post it notes…

… stuck around your room,… on your cereal packet,… in the loo!

der Mann

die Frau

das Kind

Colour coded post it notes…

…double them up and put the English underneath.Flip to check your answer.

Make a shape you can remember with them on the back

of your door…

Record yourself saying groups of 7 or 14 words (you learn best in 7’s apparently!)…

Step 1Say the wordSpell the wordSay the EnglishRepeat until first group of 7 complete

Step 2Say the wordSpell the wordPause for 3 secsRepeat until first group of 7 complete

Step 3Say the wordPause for 6 secs

Repeat until first group of 7 complete

Step 4Say the English wordPause for 6 secs

Repeat until first group of 7 complete

Step 5 Playback1st pause – give the English meaning2nd pause – spell the word and give the meaning3rd pause – give the German/French meaning and spell the word.Repeat until confident !

Visual Learner?Make flashcards or a memory game.

If you write the word on the bottom you can fold it over to test yourself.

Masculine words

Femwords

Opinions

Group types of words and stick them around your room.

Visualise your room and the words.i.e opinions stuck to wardrobe

Get a good visual image…. like Marge for example….

Write all the words on one topic in blue for example, past particples.

Opinions words could be in orange… …and reasons could be in green .Now when you think of Marge you should be able to visualise your word groups…

… and it should all come flooding back!

Home Learning…

1. You are being given a group of 21 words. In groups of 7 words you need to try a minimum of 3 different vocabulary learning styles.You will evaluate the styles and feed back to the rest of the class in the next lesson and there may be a vocab test.

2. Can you think of any other ways to learn vocabulary?

3. In what other subject areas/tasks could you use these skills? Give three examples with reasons for your answers.