Sample lesson:

  • Using The Canadian Oxford Picture Dictionary (or a photograph), ask a trainee to come up to the front and chose which verbs she is interested in learning. (The trainee can choose as many as she would like.)
  • Say each word and have the trainee repeat the word (two to three times).
  • Say the words in the same order originally presented.
    • Trainee touches each object in the picture after it is stated.
  • Say the words in any order.
    • Trainee touches each object in the picture after it is stated.
  • Trainee says the word and the facilitator touches the object.

Follow-up:

  • This lesson would also involve making sentences with words provided in the picture dictionary. Examples include:
    • Stir the coffee.
    • Grate the carrots.
    • Open the tuna.
  • Tell trainees that making cue cards with a picture of the item on one side and the written form of the word on the other would be a good idea. The learner could then take these cards home and practice for homework.
  • Future lessons would focus on other categories of vocabulary linked to the topic.
  • Review exercises could then include categorization exercises (as discussed in Session 1).