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This is another series of resource book for teachers published by Longman, which provides additional vocabulary practice activities and games to reinforce intermediate level students’ acquisitions of English vocabulary. Intermediate Vocabulary Games is slightly different from Elementary Vocabulary Games posted previously in that although it still covers concrete, everyday or situational vocabulary as those mostly presented in the elementary book, it offers more abstract and descriptive vocabulary entries such as those to describe feelings and sensations or to describe objects or scenery. The book is also supplied with vocabulary used in more complex topics or issues such as crime and education, which meets the need of intermediate learners of English.


Intermediate Vocabulary Games includes:

• 30 units of photocopiable games for intermediate learners of English
• 3 games in each unit: a memorizing game, a personalizing game, and a communication game
• Pairwork, small group, and whole class activities
• Teacher’s note on how to manage the game
• Photocopiable pictorial rule sheets to guide students doing the games

Contents:

Unit 1 Transport; Unit 2 Entertainment; Unit 3 Restaurants; Unit 4 Illness; Unit 5 Cookery; Unit 6 Animals; Unit 7 Scools and Univestity Subjects; Unit 8 Sports; Unit 9 Tools and DIY; Unit 10 Office Subjects; Unit 11 Computers; Unit 12 Action (1); Unit 13 Action (2); Unit 14 Approval and Disapproval; Unit 15 People; Unit 16 Colors and Shapes; Unit 17 Scenery; Unit 18 Sounds; Unit 19 Sensations; Unit 20 Emotions; Unit 21 Personality; Unit 22 Travel; Unit 23 Television; Unit 24 Holidays; Unit 25 Work; Unit 26 Crime; Unit 27 The Law; Unit 28 Education; Unit 29 Relationships; Unit 30 Space.

Dear teachers, let me hook you up with an awesome resource book for teaching. It’s called Reward Pre-Intermediate Business Resource Pack. This book provides you with 40 photocopiable communicative business activities, which you can use to supplement your teaching materials to pre-intermediate level students who are in need of professional business English communication skills.

The activities vary from pairwork, discussions, business communications, mill drills, and games. Almost all the activities are designed for pairwork including information-gap activities. In discussions, students work in pairs or groups and are prompted by questionnaires to solve a certain problem. Then, when coming up with a finding, they have to present it in class. When it comes to business communications, students may be asked to write a business letter, doing presentations, or making business calls. The last two activities are mill drills and games. Mill drills give students the opportunity to repeat the same language with several different partners. It is an interactive and effective way for students to quickly acquire the language being learned. Card games and board games are the last interesting feature of the book enabling students to learn language in a more relaxing way.

Teachers can refer to Teacher’s notes to manage all the activities and games. Teacher’s notes tells about the procedure of organizing the activities. It also mentions the target language points which should be taught, preparations and time allotments to carry out a particular activity, and follow-up activities to consolidate the main activity.

Elementary Vocabulary Games is a great resource book for teachers to provide elementary students with practice of vocabulary. The book consists of a collection of photocopiable vocabulary games and activities divided into thirty topic areas, which are normally taught to elementary level such as family members, jobs, colors, clothes, hobbies, sports, household objects, etc. Teachers’ notes are also provided to help teachers manage the games and activities.

The games applies various techniques, namely information gap, guessing games, search games, matching-up games, exchanging and collecting games, combining games, arranging games, card games, board games, puzzles, and role-play.

Each game includes three stages: memorizing, personalizing, and communicating. Memorizing stage focuses on students’ accuracy of word production with its correct meaning. The second stage is designed to get students to relate the new words to their personal experience. Communicating stage requires students’ flexibility and creativity to solve a goal such as finding a person, solving a puzzle, or completing a drawing. In this stage, students are given opportunities to use the new words to communicate with others.

Elementary Vocabulary Games is a very good reference book for teachers to teach vocabulary.