GCSE VOCAB DRILLS WITH MEMORY AIDS 1 (LEARN 30 KEY VOCAB IN AN HOUR)

Learning Intentions: To focus on drilling 30 key pieces of exam vocab using memory triggers.

the door
to go up
floods
to fly
the kite
the dwarf
the tie
above all
restless
to throw
clean
the dress
the grades
a strike
expensive
a goat
time
the nurse
the disease
the shoes
lively
the fireman
cheap
a song
they lose
the facilities
to record
the news
to give
the subjects
a skirt

Memory triggers help form connections for students between the foreign words and their own retention of the words, helping to lead to autonomacy when recognising, recalling and producing the vocab in exam situations. Particularly helpful with lower ability students when trying to hammer vocabulary in the run up to the exams.

However, all ages and abilities can access memory trigger lessons, and it’s never too early to learn key vocabulary! Would work as a stand alone lesson.

Foundation and Higher booklets provided to accompany the PowerPoint. These booklets include level-specific extra work, meaning that if some students pick up the vocabulary faster than others then they have other exam questions to be working on (Higher: gap-fill/questionnaire/writing; Foundation: Sentence level translation into Spanish using the 30 key vocab / Translation into English using the 30 key vocab).

Pick up and teach - great for vocabulary blasts or holiday booster sessions!