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How to Improve English Vocabulary

Building a strong English vocabulary is always a goal of any student. As there are many roads leading to Rome, so are there many ways of building English vocabulary.

One idea of building English vocabulary is through pictures. The teacher will ask the student to look at a picture and complete missing words from sentences that describe that picture.

Let's try an example!

Table Setting Vocabulary

There is a white ____ (palace, plant, plate, play) on this ____ (chair, desk, table, tail). On the left of it there are two ____ (forks, fours, fox, foxes), and on the right a ____ (kick, kite, knife, nice). At the other end of the table, there is also a ____ (soon, spoon, sport, suppose) on the left, and a ____ (cup, gas, glass, grass) on the right.


As you can see, the above is a simple exercise for students to build their English vocabulary. Further explanation and the words in parenthesis can be taught to students at the end of the exercise.

Remember to keep the exercise short, and sentences simple. The idea is to improve English vocabulary, so don't include overly difficult grammar structures.