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Vocabulary practice Games

          Games are important part of a teacher’s repertoire. In the course of games, students are engaged in an enjoyable and challenging activity. Often, students are so involved in playing games that they don’t realize they are practicing language. Games can provide practice in vocabulary. They can practice individual, pair or small groups. Now, let I tell you what games the teacher may use while working with words.

            Games that teacher may use while working with words. There are 9 games for students to practice vocabulary. Now, I would like to tell you about these games. The following games:

1.      Memory game that may be exploited while working with words related to any topic.

2.      Word association requires students to tell the words that they know in category.

3.      Mining can be used as a guessing game.

4.      Guess the tool provides a good opportunity to develop students’ skill in defining words and paraphrasing.

5.      Human sounds can be used after students have learned the vocabulary.

6.      Suggestion chain involves reviewing both leisure activities vocabulary and ways to suggestion.

7.        Notices and warnings practises the phrases and short sentences.

8.      Exaggerate gives students the opportunity to practice strong adjectives.

9.      Expand the sentence should be played after students have learned about ordering a series of adjective in English.

The games can learn language very well. These games are intended to be integrated into the general language syllabus of any course book and can be important, motivation and enjoyable way of practicing vocabulary for students. If teacher can provide games that related to a topic, students also understand a topic clearly. So, in the class teacher should adapt these games to practice vocabulary for students. Then, teacher can use these games to be guideline to create games of their own.

Vocabulary	Pronunciation	Meaning		Sentence
		Thai	English
revision < n.>	/ rɪˈvɪʒn /	การแก้ไข	a change or set of changes to sth	He made some minor revisions to the report before printing it out.
exploit <v.>	/ ɪkˈsplɔɪt  /	เอาเปรียบ	to treat a person or situation as an opportunity to gain an advantage for yourself	She realized that her youth and inexperience were being exploited.
association <n.>	/ əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn /	การทำงานร่วมกัน	an official group of people who have joined together for a particular purpose	Do you belong to any professional or trade associations?
disapproval < adj.>	/ ˌdɪsəˈpruːvl /	ความรู้สึกไม่เห็นชอบ	a feeling that you do not like an idea, an action or sb's behaviour because you think it is bad, not suitable or going to have a bad effect on sb else	He shook his head in disapproval.
eliminate < v.>	/ ɪˈlɪmɪneɪt /	กำจัด	to remove or get rid of sth/sb	Credit cards eliminate the need to carry a lot of cash.
distribute < v.>	/ dɪˈstrɪbjuːt /	แจกจ่าย	to give things to a large number of people; to share sth between a number of people	The money was distributed among schools in the area.
exaggerate < v.>	/ ɪɡˈzædʒəreɪt/	เกินจริง	to make sth seem larger, better, worse or more important than it really is	He tends to exaggerate the difficulties.