Jacqi CO1

Last week I observed an advanced reading class. The instructor started the class off by quizzing them on last weeks vocabulary words. This was a fill in the blank type of quizz but what was interesting is that each question had 3 sentences and you used the same word for all three sentences you just had to make sure to conjugate it correctly. Then she handed out a packet with this weeks new vocab words and they went over them. I really liked her technique because as she went over the vocabulary words brefietly and spent the majority of the time talking about how the words were used in advance reading and how you can drive the meaning of the word through context clues. I thought this was useful because the words they were learning were TOFEL prep words like akin and curtly. No one really uses those words in speech but if you know how to deduct meaning from context you can figure out their definition in a round about way.