Assessment for Learning Resource Bank Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity – Looking up Words in Dictionaries

Learning objectives:

Text Types	Dictionary entries
Vocabulary	Words of Similar meanings happy/ cheerful work hard/ diligently Parts of speech Adjectives Adverbs
Language Items and Communicative Functions	N.A.
Language Skills	Reading
Attitudes	N.A.
Generic Skills	Critical thinking skills

Activity	Description	Suggested duration (minutes)	Available for self - learning?
Preview Download	An interactive activity: Looking up Words in Dictionaries This activity provides learners with room for exploratory learning. Learners work out different ways they find most effective and efficient in looking up words in dictionaries with which they complete activities such as finding a particular word, choosing the correct meaning, finding words of similar meanings and making word cards and word banks. In the end, learners use the feedback sheet to evaluate how they have performed in the activities. The skills of using dictionaries can help learners become better independent learners paving the way for self learning.	N.A.

Key Stage 3 Targets:

To develop an ever-improving capability to use English:

KSa-	To provide or find out, select, organize and present information on familiar and less familiar topics
KSb-	To interpret and use more extensive information through processes or activities such as sequencing, describing, classifying, comparing, explaining, predicting, inferring, summarizing and drawing conclusions