• The learner could take these cards home and practice for homework.
  • Review (for the next session):
    • Review exercises could include categorization exercises (as discussed in Session 1.)
    • Review could also include making sentences with the words.

Future lessons could focus on other categories of vocabulary linked to the topic. The following lessons could be about kitchen appliances (necessary for cooking) and measurement. Once again, the learner is responsible for deciding which vocabulary words she wants to learn.

Learners may be interested in bringing their own photographs as a basis to learn vocabulary. A very learner-friendly book which could be used for vocabulary development (within a theme) is The Canadian Oxford Picture Dictionary. 6

If this book (or a similar book) is not available, look through cooking magazines and have your learner make a collage with the kitchen verbs she wants to learn! Naturally, if your learner is interested in other things, you'll need to find a magazine which will provide you with the pictures needed to complement the theme.



For Youth and For Fun

You can set up your review exercise like a true and false game. The learner can say the word and the tutor can touch the picture. If the picture touched is correct, the learner continues and says another word. If the picture touched is incorrect and the learner recognizes this, the learner is awarded one point. If the learner does not recognize the "lie", the tutor is awarded a point.

6 E.C. Parnwell, The Canadian Oxford Picture Dictionary (Oxford.: Oxford University Press Inc., 1996.)