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| Lisa | Date: Friday, 27.11.2009, 17:35 | Message # 1 |
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| Note-books must be used while studying English as it helps to read the words correctly and get ready for dictations.
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| Teacher | Date: Wednesday, 16.12.2009, 09:20 | Message # 2 |
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| Dear Lisa, could we ask you to explain in more detail how you work with the vocabulary notebooks in your lessons? How much time do you usually paln for this activity? What do the students do while writing in their vocabulary notebooks? Do they read aloud? Do they work in pairs? Do you do it as a whole class activity? How often do you check their vocabulary notebooks? Does it help your students to do tests well?
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| lyudmila | Date: Friday, 22.01.2010, 16:53 | Message # 3 |
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| Of course using note-books is useful but nowadays pupils don't like writing and computers make them lazy. And in future they will use typing on computer than writing, so I am at a loss: to demand or not writing accurately or not.
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| Uchilka | Date: Friday, 22.01.2010, 17:28 | Message # 4 |
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| My students don't use note-books. I print all words and hang them in the lesson, we revise some words at the beginning of every lesson and i am satisfied with the results. At the end of the school year I control my students' knowledge of the words using some games.
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| Tatyana | Date: Wednesday, 24.02.2010, 22:14 | Message # 5 |
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| I believe keeping English vocabulary notebooks make students well-organised. We usually divide a notebook into two parts: a vocabulary section and a grammar one. In one part we write down words and expressions on different topics (for 8-11 grades student we make a section to write multi-part verbs and idiomatic expressions), the other is used to write grammar rules. So students can easily find useful words when they write essay or any other compositions, or revise for a test. Of course not all students are very goot at keeping notebooks, but most like it.
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| Yelena | Date: Wednesday, 24.02.2010, 22:59 | Message # 6 |
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| In junior school the question of keeping English vocabulary notebooks even doesn't arise for me. Of course using them makes little learners' studies more effective and easier. But vocabulary volume increases extensively by grades 7-8. At this stage I prefer teaching my students to use different types of printed or computer dictionaries to making them waste their time by copying new words. I provide them with the lists of the words from active vocabulary and from time to time they do lexical tests.
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| NinaSeleznyova | Date: Thursday, 25.02.2010, 00:14 | Message # 7 |
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|  All my students use vocabulary notebooks as it helps to systematize their vocabulary knowledge and makes them well-organized. The vocabulary notebook focuses on typical meanings as well as on word-building and grammar peculiarities and useful phrases and collocations. My students work with their vocabulary notebook mostly at home and do it quite accurately. Some information is added by the teacher in class. I check the notebooks regularly once or twice a month. I am satisfied with the results.
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| А_Ле-ка | Date: Friday, 26.02.2010, 19:01 | Message # 8 |
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| Using a notebook is one of the useful strategies of learning to learn. It provides better memorising especially at the very beginning. Different types of memory are involved in this process. Writing in a notebook activizes not only visual abilities to master the material but also tactile. Children's fingers and hands "work" and make them learn better. Being junior school students they will choose themselves better strategies of learning as by that time they will have acquired lots of them.
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| Teacher | Date: Thursday, 25.03.2010, 10:12 | Message # 9 |
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| Vocabulary notebooks are fine. Can you tell us how these VN are used for practising vocabulary in communicative contexts.
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| nicky | Date: Sunday, 19.12.2010, 20:43 | Message # 10 |
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| Of course using vocabulary notebooks is useful especially for junior pupils. They make up word phrases, sentences, situations. We often write lexical tests. It helps the pupils make fewer mistakes writing compositions and essays.
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| Dubrovskaya | Date: Wednesday, 22.12.2010, 17:39 | Message # 11 |
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| Don' make my stulents keep VN. Don't find it useful even at the elementary stage.
The fact is that every text book has got certain pages where current v-ry is given and active and passive v-ry is usually given at the end of the text books and any word can be easily found. I usuallly say:" If you want to keep a VN - do it, if don't - it's your business."
I'm of the opinion,that it's more effective to give tasks to organize the words we are training in different ways. E.g. "Write down all the adjectives connected with the topic "Food", all the verbs, vegetables, drinks, food, we usually eat for breakfast, food, we never eat for breakfast and so on. So pupils are made to write and to train spelling but do not do it mechanically, may be watching TV at the same time, but using brains actively.
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| irina | Date: Thursday, 23.12.2010, 17:02 | Message # 12 |
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| It depends on the group. Sometimes it`s useful to keep them. Some students remember the words without writing down the words.
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| Natalia | Date: Thursday, 27.10.2011, 16:24 | Message # 13 |
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| I print the new words and give them to my pupils. We work with these worksheets at our lessons, play games, solve crosswords. At the end of the lesson I ask the pupils to rewrite the words into their vocabularies and learn them by heart.
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| Ne-yulia | Date: Thursday, 27.10.2011, 16:53 | Message # 14 |
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| I also don't use vocabulary notebooks this year, because our textbook (I speak about "Spotlight") gives the whole list of the words we study - it is given at the end of the book as active and passive vocabluary. I often give my pupils some additional words, I print them as conspects to the special "file -book". The pupiuls also have disks with a vacabluary-learning program and work with them at home and in class. But my elementary pupils have vocabluary notes. Added (27.10.2011, 16:53)
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I also don't use vocabulary notebooks this year, because our textbook (I speak about "Spotlight") gives the whole list of the words we study - it is given at the end of the book as active and passive vocabluary. I often give my pupils some additional words, I print them as conspects to the special "file -book". The pupiuls also have disks with a vacabluary-learning program and work with them at home and in class. But my elementary pupils have vocabluary notes.
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