Vocabulary Development

1.     Some readings are distributed among the students taken from http://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/advanced.html titled as
Cheating and Plagiarism,
Dirty Britain,
English as a National Foreign Language in India,
The Great Wall of China,
Gender bias and poverty

2.     They discuss the reading materials in their groups till they reach a relative comprehension while their voices are recorded by the teacher for further evaluation.

3.      This step is done at home by the use of internet and they are asked to go to www.wordsift.com and put the reading there. In Wordsift, they learn about keywords, examples from the text, pictures related to the text. Thus, they reach a complete comprehension of the  text.

4.     They are supposed to jot down the keywords as well as finding their definitions through the online dictionaries introduced by the teacher, such as: www.dictionary.com and www.wordcentral.com . In this way, students learn how to use online sources to improve their vocabulary.

5.      with the use of  www.naturalreader.com  students can practice the pronunciation of the whole text or specifically wanted words. In the suggested site, they can listen to the text online or download the text-to-speech software to use this tool even without access to the internet.

6.     Next session in the class,  students first discuss their findings in their groups and  then share their information about the text with the whole class and teacher.

7.     As the final activity, students are given worksheets related to the previous session�s reading and they are asked to fill in them individually and then discuss the answers in groups.