|
||
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Online dictionaries | |
|
Your students may encounter vocabulary problems when they are working online. If they don't have some dictionaries at hand, they may open a new window, look up the word in an online dictionary, then minimize the window and continue working. |
|
| Practice it! | |
 |
1.
|
|
A search for potato, for example, will produce the following results:
Each word or phrase links to its definition and is accompanied by an example. |
|
|
In this site we can also search other dictionaries:
|
|
|
2. |
|
|
Look up a word in the student dictionary here. |
|
|
This section contains games so that kids play with words. They can make an experiment with a sentence in the Science Lab, code a text in the Computer Lab, or even invent a new word and publish it in Build-Your-Own Dictionary. |
|
| Activity framework | |
 |
Methodology: suggest your students that they open a new window in their browser with a bilingual (or monolingual) dictionary. When they are doing an activity and encounter a new word, then they can alternate between windows and get the meaning in just a few seconds. |
|
|
|
| Additional info | |
 |
Other dictionaries that you might find useful: Little explorers English-Spanish picture dictionary A bilingual picture dictionary for kids. Some of the words have a link with a printout exercise.
|
 |
|
|
|
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
.
http://www.visualthesaurus.com
http://yourdictionary.com/ 
http://www.onelook.com/
http://www.diccionarios.com/