Category: dictionaries

Get Those Dictionaries Off the Shelf!

You’ve made the commitment to add dictionaries to your classroom. Now what do any of these situations sound familiar?

• You want to integrate the dictionaries into your lessons, but your students resist.
• You want your students to use a dictionary so they become more autonomous learners, but they are apprehensive.
• Many students, regardless of age or grade, level, have not acquired basic dictionary skills which makes using this classroom tool as daunting task.

If you said “yes,”
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Transforming Your Students’ Vocabulary


Do your students say “good” when they could say “fantastic“?
Do they say “sad” when they could say “miserable” or “broken-hearted“?
Do you want to help transform your students’ overuse of simple vocabulary into
vivid, meaningful language?

The Longman Essential Activator® is a contextualized resource
that leads students step-by-step from key words to a more exact word or
phrase, helping them to express their ideas more accurately.

How does the Activator® build vocabulary?

1. Students choose a word they already know,
   such as big

2. The clear signposts help students
   navigate to the correct nuance of the
   word: