Additional Vocabulary Review

In Session 5, we discussed different ways to teach intermediate and advanced learners strategies to increase their working vocabulary. The following are some examples, which demonstrate you could use the following article to teach new vocabulary. Take a look once again at the first two paragraphs of the reading assignment.

When Malcolm Oliver moved his family to Canada from Bombay last fall, he knew landing work would be tough. But he didn't count on finding a culturally diverse workplace full of other newcomers also struggling to adjust to new jobs and lives.
"I thought I'd be working with Canadians but I was surprised," says Mr. Oliver, 46, a production technician for Toronto - based Dalton Chemical Laboratories. About 70 of its 100 employees are newcomers to Canada.

The learner and you could take some unfamiliar words and fill in the grid with additional word forms.

Noun Verb Adjective Adverb
Diversity
Diversification		 Diversify Diverse Diversely
Adjustment
Adjustor		 Adjust Adjustable  
Product Producer
Production
Productiveness
Productivity		 Produce Production
(technician, line)
Productive
Producible		 Productively
Technician   Technical
(director)		 Technically
Employee(s)
Employer
Employment		 Employ Employable  

note: some words, such as production, can take the same form when used as different parts of speech