ONLINE VOCABULARY & SPEAKING PRACTICE - A FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY TO THE LESSON PLAN “TEACHING ACADEMIC VOCABULARY & READING ONLINE USING ONLINE TOOLS”

Sep 28, 2026

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Online vocabulary and speaking follow-up activity designed to support the “Design Your Ideal City” project within the lesson plan “Teaching Academic Vocabulary & Reading Online using Online Tools.” After introducing the “Livable Cities” chapter and target academic vocabulary, students join a live online symposium, delivering short speeches using assigned target words/collocations. The activity runs 35–40 minutes with group work, visuals support, and jury scoring via Mentimeter based on correct vocabulary use, fluency, and creativity.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages3

Reading Time8 min

AccessFree to download

Duration and Purpose

Duration: 35–40 minutes

Activity Purpose

Interaction Pattern and Group Setup

Group work and jury rotation

Number of groups and roles

Symposium Workflow

Instructor prompt and word assignment

3-minute preparation cycle

1-minute speech and visual support

Evaluation and Scoring

Jury criteria

Mentimeter scoring and winner announcement

Target Vocabulary List

Livable Cities key words

ONLINE VOCABULARY & SPEAKING PRACTICE-A FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY TO THE LESSON PLAN “TEACHING ACADEMIC VOCABULARY & READING ONLINE USING ONLINE TOOLS” (READING&VOCABULARY FOCUS 2 CHAPTER:3 “LIVABLE CITIES” Reading 1) This online activity is prepared as a follow-up vocabulary& speaking practice to the project work “Design Your Ideal City” in the lesson plan “Teaching Academic Vocabulary &Reading Online using Online Tools” for the course book “Reading & Vocabulary Focus 2”Chapter:3 Reading:1 and had better be carried out on a different day. After the students are introduced to the chapter “Livable Cities” and practice the target academic vocabulary, they can now be engaged in a fun speaking activity that may create a different learning and practicing atmosphere. This activity differs from the already assigned project work in the sense that it will require more spontaneous speaking skills asthe instructors are expected not to mention this activity to the class beforehand and the students will need to provide further and more detailed information that has to be built around the given target word/collocation. Duration: 35-40 minutes. The Purpose of the Activity: Encourage & Enable students in an online class to improve their academic vocabulary by helping them transfer the newly learned target words & collocations into their active vocabulary and enhance their speaking skills by creating areal life like online symposium environment. Interaction Pattern: Group work & Individual (As this activity is designed as a follow up activity for the project work “Design Your Ideal City” in the lesson plan “Teaching Academic Vocabulary &Reading Online using Online Tools”, the groups will remain the same except the jury. The instructor will choose a jury member from each group and from that time on, the jury members will no longer belong to their former groups as they will have assumed a new role) Depending on the number of students in the class, there should be approximately 4/5 groups consisting of 3/4 students in each group. Those students are asked to imagine themselves as representatives of their companies who are taking part in an ONLINE symposium on “How the Livable Cities of the Future Should Be Designed” and they will introduce their ideas. These groups will compete against each other in terms of good target vocabulary and / or collocation use, fluency and creativity and/or originality of ideas. The last group that will include 4 students is going to be the jury who is going to decide on the winner. As the students will have completed their project work on designing their ideal city, they are expected to be familiar with the target words/ collocations and the right visuals to use. After the instructor delivers the opening speech, s/he says aloud one of the target words/collocations that has recently been learned and the name of a student from any of the groups. Here at this point, all the group members are authorized by the instructor to mute/unmute themselves and share their screens. As soon as the student and the other group members hear the target word, they start working. They have a total of 3 minutes. The student whose name has been pronounced starts preparing a 1 minute-long speech that will introduce the livable cities of the future using the target word/collocation while the others work on choosing the right visual/s from their already prepared project work that they think would accompany the speech. The key point here is that the focus of the speech should definitely be on the given target word/collocation and its other word forms (v/n/adv/adj…) . For instance, if the given target word is “restrict”, the whole speech should be built on “current restrictions”,“potential restrictions”,“reasons for restrictions”,“restrictive measures” etc… The group is given 3 minutes. During this 3 minutes, the other groups may focus on eliminating visuals relevant to the already stated target words. At the end of 3 minutes, the

FAQs

What is the main purpose of the online follow-up activity?

To help students transfer newly learned academic target words and collocations into active vocabulary and improve speaking skills through a realistic online symposium environment.

How does the symposium speaking cycle work for each assigned target word?

After the instructor announces a target word/collocation and a student name, the student prepares a 1-minute speech while other groups select supporting visuals from their project. There are 3 minutes for preparation, then the speech is delivered with visuals support.

How are groups evaluated and how is the winner determined?

A jury evaluates each group’s overall performance for correct vocabulary use, creativity/originality of ideas, and fluency. Each jury member assigns a score out of 5 via Mentimeter, and the average determines the group score; the instructor then announces the winner.

Sep 28, 2026

Uploaded by cksankcs