The Versatile Blank Book
The vocabulary book you write yourself
with a little help along the way
James Thomas
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The Versatile Blank Book
contains 100 blank pages for students to draw, label and diagram the relationships that they discover in English vocabulary: 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. 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
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.
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Section Two
What is worth knowing about vocabulary:
Section Three
How students can visually represent relationships between words.
Section Four
The student's 100 blank pages start on p.65. 
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