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The Versatile Blank Book

The vocabulary book you write yourself
with a little help along the way


​James Thomas

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See notes for students
The Versatile Blank Book
contains 100 blank pages for students to draw, label and diagram the relationships that they discovery in English vocabulary using such things as mindmaps, organisation charts, pictures and tables.

​This is Section 4 of this book. 

Our students are bright and creative and resourceful and living in the 21st century.


Vocabulary is not stored in our brains in alphabetical order or in lists of any kind. In the last 30 years a great deal of research into the relationships between vocabulary items has shown that we connect ideas, through words, in a variety of non-linear and individual ways. 

The common practices of tasking students with learning vocabulary from bi-lingual lists, filling in gaps in sentences and matching synonyms might be useful to get beginners started. But course books and vocabulary books use these testing activities for even the most advanced learners.
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Since Comenius published Orbis Sensualium Pictus  in 1658, there is no excuse for teaching vocabulary without stimulating contexts. His book became the most widely used language teaching book in Europe for over 200 years. It was translated into many languages including some outside Europe.
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Most of the cover has been left blank for students to make it their own.

Introduction
  • How to create your own book
  • About passive and active vocabulary 
  • About passive and active vocabulary study
  • Goal setting
  • What you can do in English
  • Scheduling your vocabulary study
Section One
Brief introductions to some online language tools that students can learn to use. Discovering the patterns and connections that  thousands of native speakers use every day is useful to students  when they are creating their pages.
  • SkELL 
  • VersaText 
  • COCA
  • Collins COBUILD dictionary​
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Section Two
What is worth knowing about vocabulary:
  • Pronunciation
  • Phrasal verbs
  •  Compound nouns
  • Collocation and Colligation
  • Grammar Patterns and Word Templates
  • Word families
  • etc. etc. etc.
There are thirteen units in this section.
Section Three
How students can visually represent relationships between words. 
  • mindmaps
  • labelling pictures richly
  • organisation charts
  • etc. etc. etc.
​There are fourteen units in this section.
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Section Four
The student's 100 blank pages start on p.65.

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  • Books
    • The Versatile Blank Book
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    • Word lists
    • Grammar Patterns
    • Vocabulary Notebooks
    • Pronunciation Set
    • SST
    • Statues
    • Gallery
    • Topic Trails >
      • Czech Walking Trails
      • Amour
      • Mad Cows Disease
      • Jamal
  • VersaText
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    • Versatile Moodle
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