39 ESL Vocabulary Activities: For Teenagers and Adults - Jackie Bolen, Jennifer Booker Smith 2015

Make a sentence
Games and activities for lower-level students

Skill: Writing

Time: 5 minutes

Materials: Nothing, or worksheet/whiteboard/PowerPoint

To practice current or review vocabulary, have students make 1-5 sentences.

No Materials Version: Have students use their books and choose a given number of words to make sentences.

Whiteboard/PowerPoint Version: Give students a list of words to use all or some of.

Worksheet/PowerPoint Version: Fill-in-the-blank or multiple choice with a word bank.

Procedure:

Begin with a brief oral review of the vocabulary words you want them to work with and elicit from the students what the words mean.

No Prep Version: Have students take out their books and notebooks and tell them a number of sentences to make using those words. For example, “Turn to page 53, and choose three vocabulary words. In your notebook, write a new sentence using each word.”

Whiteboard/PowerPoint Version: Either give students a word list to choose from, or for lower level classes, several sentences with a word bank. Have the students write the complete sentences in their notebooks.