Word Association TEFL Vocabulary Activity | Fun Word Association Activities for ESL

Описание: This word association activity is an ideal way to help students activate prior knowledge that they might have about a topic. Or, you can use it at the end of a unit to show students how much they have learned! I love to use word association activities and games with my students and this is one of the best options.

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0:00 Intro
0:18 When to use word association
0:50 How to do word association
1:24 Why I like this activity
1:34 Conclusion

Transcript for word association :

Hey everybody, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about one of my favourite ESL warm-up activities. It's called word association.

It's basically a mind map of words or brainstorming words but kind of in an organized fashion. I use this activity if I'm teaching students something I think they already know a lot about. For example, sports, weather, or hobbies. All those things are very common in ESL textbooks so unless I'm teaching like absolute basic beginners, students probably already know a lot of sports or know a lot of weather vocabulary words. I like to use this activity to help them kind of elicit their prior knowledge so that any new things they learn will be easier for them to remember.

So for example, if we're doing weather, I would write weather on the board and then draw a circle around it and then I would get students to shout out words that they know about weather and they would say like snow or hail. And then that would kind of be maybe like winter things so i'd have a little category of winter weather.

And then maybe they would say hot, humid, sunny and that would be kind of summer weather so I'd have another little hub of sunny. Just keep going until the students have kind of come up with all the words they know and then jump into your lesson.

It's a nice way to introduce any sort of ESL lesson on most topics and then students can just think oh, I already know a ton of words about the weather so they feel less stressed out and overwhelmed by any new words that they might be adding to that in your lesson.

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