Zero prep activities for ESL teachers #18: Explore-Explain-Apply to teach vocabulary

You will often hear that vocabulary must always be taught in the context of a text. However, it's actually possible to teach vocab using nothing but the students' own curiosity and creativity. This video shows you how.

Further reading:

- Constructivism:

- inquiry learning:

Definitions:

- urban Forests:

- urban blue spaces:



- Episode 17, Celebrity Christmas Dinner Party:
- Episode 16, Dub steps:
- Episode 15, Whaddaya know?
- Episode 14, "Discussion alley":
- Episode 13, "Presentation associations":
- Episode 12, "We-kipedia":
- Episode 11, “Problem-solving trees”:
-Episode 10, “Smartphone stories”:
- Episode 9, “Digital running dictations”:
- Episode 8, “The amazing zero prep listening lesson”:
- Episode 7, “Newsroom”:
- Episode 6, “5,4,3,2,1”:
- Episode 5, “City Break”:
- Episode 4, “The most doable speaking task ever”:
- Episode 3, “The Swiss Army speaking task”:
- Episode 2, “Lifeline graphs”:
- Episode 1, “Word fields”:

Here we continue our series covering zero preparation classroom activities for ESL teachers. This series is here to help you out at those times when you have far too many classes, far too much correction, but nowhere near enough time. It’s also here to provide you with a toolkit for those horror occasions when you show up to class and realize you’ve left all your materials at home.

Throughout the series we’ll look at a variety of tasks, including vocabulary building, reading, speaking, and listening activities, that you can use to engage your students and that will cost you zero preparation time. No photocopying, no typing, no printing. Just you walking into the classroom and getting started.

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