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Activity 1 Spelling!
1 Your teacher is going to call out six words which are often misspelt. Write them down as they are called up.
Then look them up in the Longman Active Study Dictionary to see if youve spelt them correctly.
Activity 2 Meaning!
2 Look at the meaning and example sentence for the words in bold in the questions below, then try to answer
the questions.
a) When is steam produced?
b) What information do you find in a textbook?
c) Is zest a positive or negative feeling?
d) If you borrow something do you give it back?
e) When an arrangement is definite, is it likely to be changed?
f) What is a fever?
Activity 3 Words in sentences - how to use and when to use.
3 Look up the following words in the Longman Active Study Dictionary. Use the definition, example sentence or
usage notes to write your own sentences using the words. The words in bold tell you which word to look up.
All the words have example sentences showing you how to use them, and most have usage notes as well.
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How to use the Longman Active Study Dictionary -
the sictionary is your friend!
Longman Active Study Dictionary Wo r k s h e e t s
a) famous
b) great big
c) iffy
d) on the market
e) ignore
f) be ignorant of
g) me
h) say/tell
Activity 4 Pronunciation!
3 Some of the following words have the wrong phonetics. Check in the Longman Active Study Dictionary, or you
can try correcting without looking!
a) save
b) tag
c) two
Record the pronunciations in your notebook. Remember to write down the pronunciation for each new word
you learn from your dictionary.
d) oven
e) rush
f) tail
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Aim: To teach students how to use the Longman Active Study Dictionary
Level: Intermediate
Time: 40-45 minutes
Materials: Photocopiable worksheets and Longman Active Study Dictionary
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Activity 1
1 Call out the following words slowly and steadily, giving the students time to write each one down.
ACCOMMODATION COMMITTEE COMMITMENT DEFINITELY NECESSARY STRENGTH
You may wish to choose other words, ie, ones that the students have been making mistakes with recently or maybe often misspell.
The above are ones students often get wrong.
Get them to look up the words in the Longman Active Study Dictionary.
Activity 2
2 You can divide students into pairs or you can call out the questions to this exercise as a quiz activity.
Answers:
When students have finished the exercise, get them to make up their own quizzes in pairs. Each pair chooses six words and writes
questions about them as above. They then swap with another pair and answer the questions.
Activity 3
3 Explain to students that the Longman Active Study Dictionary has phrases as well as individual words, and usage notes which give
them extra information on when and how to use certain words.
Monitor students as they do the exercise to check they are writing the sentences correctly.
Suggested answers:
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How to use the Longman Active Study Dictionary -
the sictionary is your friend!
Longman Active Study Dictionary Wo r k s h e e t s
Warmer
Boardwork - Worweb
Ask students why they use dictionaries and make a wordweb like
the one below to illustrate these reasons.
Add anything in the wordweb that the students dont call out.
Get students to copy the wordweb. Tell them that the workbook at
the front of the dictionary covers each of the areas above in depth
and the following exercises are quick dictionary use exercises.
a) Leonardo de Caprio is a famous actor.
b) I saw a great big spider in the kitchen!
c) He was a bit iffy about the holiday plans, so I cancelled.
d) The house was on the market for ages.
e) I ignored his reaction and carried on.
f) I was completely ignorant of the new rules.
g) She was taller than me./She was much taller than I am.
h) He didnt say much last night./He told me that he was
engaged.
a) When water is boiled
b) Information on a certain subject
c) Positive
d) Yes, after a certain time
e) No
f) An illness where you have a very high
temperature
Activity 4
4 Choose a word and ask students to tell you the pronunciation. Tell them they can look up the word in the Longman Active Study
Dictionary, or try to guess without looking. If you have a phonemic chart in the classroom, use this to revise phonemes with
students. If not, use the chart at the back of the Longman Active Study Dictionary.
Answers:
a) Correct
b) Incorrect
c) Correct
d) Incorrect
e) Incorrect
f) Correct
Encourage students to record pronunciations with the definitions and example sentences they write in their notebooks, to help
them remember new words.
Why do we use
dictionaries?
See when and where
to use words
correctly
Check correct
pronunciation
Check correct
pronunciation
Find
meaning
See how to
use words in
sentences