Learning vocabulary: the family.

I like to teach and review family vocabulary with my students through a genealogical tree, as the one you can see in the image. When they understand the diagram (it may be difficult for those on 1st ESO), it is easier for them to remember the names of family members. We see this diagran and then I ask them to draw their families and we see what their families are like, this usually makes them feel well and it is a good activity to do in the first days.

We also see other famous family trees, like that of The Simpsons and we make sentences of the type: "Bart is Lisa's brother", so we  revise the Saxon genitive too.

We also play other games like this one I found at English Flash Games to Learn Vocabulary, with three different levels. My students like it very much. We do this in class with the help of WIBs.

Have you tried doing these things? Do you learn vocabulary better this way?
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Next week we are going to start working on the three types of conditional clauses. In this presentation we have almost every possibility, nevertheless we will focus on the most used and needed at our level.

We are going to work a lot on them so that you can see and produce the differences in use; we will be doing the exercises in our textbooks, but you can also use several pages in internet like this one or this one, which is easier.

Remember, if you have any problems, doubts, or whatever need, you can always leave your comments!!!