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![](/i/favi32.png) 4000 Essential English w ordsSupporting Learning with Outside Activities4000 Essential English Words, Book 4Supporting Learning with Outside Activities
A well-balanced language course provides four major opportunities for learning: learning
through input, learning through output, deliberate learning, and fluency development. The
highly structured activities in these books support all four types of learning opportunities.
In addition, learning can further be supported through the following activities:
1 Have students create vocabulary cards with one word from the unit on one side of the
card and the translation of the word in the student’s first language on the other side.
Students should use the cards for study in free moments during the day. Over several
weeks, students will find that quick repeated studying for brief periods of time is more
effective than studying for hours at one sitting.
2 Assign graded readers at students’ appropriate levels. Reading such books provides
both enjoyment as well as meaning-focused input which will help the words stick in
students’ memory.
3 Practice reading fluency to promote faster recall of word meaning for both sight
recognition and usage. Compass Publishing’s Reading for Speed and Fluency is a
good resource for reading fluency material.
4 Include listening, speaking, and writing activities in classes. Reinforcement of the
high-frequency vocabulary presented in this series is important across all the four
language skills.
Author
Paul Nation
Paul Nation is professor of Applied Linguistics in the Sc h o o l of Linguistics and Applied Language Stu dies
at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has taught in Indonesia, Thailand, the United States,
Finland, and japan. His specialist interests are lan gu age teaching m ethodology and vocabulary learning.
Elbarskhan & mmh
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