"Vocabulary instruction that does improve comprehension generally has some of the following characteristics: multiple exposures to instructed words, exposure to words in meaningful contexts, rich or varied information about each word, the establishment of ties between the students own experience and prior knowledge, and an active role played by students in the word learning process"
Objectives:
To describe, discuss, analyse and evaluate how language suits its purpose in advertising.
To review essential vocabulary relating to advertising.
To create vocabulary activities that will assist students to learn and review advertising language.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will have revised some language of advertising.
Students will have begun to create their own vocabulary exercises.
Possible vocabulary revision activities, contributed to by several students
Click to choose the work sheets or instructions.
Terms matching - Term and effect matching game
Complete the grid Vocabulary, examples and effects - fill in the gaps (cloze) exercise.
Advertising Word Search
Advertising Crossword
Team Tournament
Hangman
For Sale Sell an item (oral) competition
Advertising Bingo
The key word technique
Advertising word challenge (with apologies to theatresports)
Web Word Sites - visual thesaurus and world wide words
WWWebster Dictionary definition
http://home.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/comp/ad-claims.html
http://doe.sd.gov/octa/ddn4learning/themeunits/advertise/standards.htm
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/power.htm