TOPICS; daily routine, school, health and lifestyle, family relationships and my 'universals' Research shows clearly that teaching vocabulary through patterns and collocations is a much more effective way than teaching single words. Although I have always endeavoured to teach words in context and phrases, this collection of quickies is more au fait with current vocab research. As a result, here is a new set of GCSE revision quickies that are chunk-based and focus on collocation and lexical priming. These new quickies complement the ones I have previously created beautifully in my opinion. Why you should use them: they reflect the way humans learn languages - through chunks and lexical patterns rather than single words. So the focus here is on developing a repertoire of ready-to-use phrases recycled over and over again.

A vocab builder on the topic of Internet/Mobile phones with a range of useful sentences

A set of narrow reading texts with activities in the imperfect tense on the topic the Area I live in

A very comprehensive sentence builders which includes -a wide range expressions to convey what one is looking for in a job - adjectives - jobs All of the above is translated in English in brackets Three vocabulary builders to consolidate all of the above WITH SOLUTION

revision quickie, suitable for top set . Ideal for homework.

Revision worksheet. For more revision quickies like this one look in my pages.

Vocabulary builder for independent learning on town.

A sheet to consolidate adjectives, ideal for homework / cover / independent work. No supervision needed.

A wide varieties of activities to prepare the students for oral conversation

Students are divided into teams and given a mini-board per team. The teacher calls out a case (e.g. 45) and the students, under timed conditions, must make as many words containing the letter cluster in that case as possible (note: one word made up of three clusters = three points). I designed the puzzle in such a way that in several cases one can make up as many as three words containing a given cluster.

For higher ability classes.

Students are divided into teams; the teacher and/or one or more students will be the judge(s). The challenge consists in paraphrasing, explaining and providing supporting examples for the proverbs in the table (either projected on the screen or blown up on an A3). Fluency and intelligibility of student output are more important than grammatical accuracy.

Another sheet in the GCSE revision quickie