How to make junior high school English vocabulary teaching more interesting

In junior high school English teaching, teachers must attach importance to vocabulary teaching, flexibly use various teaching methods and realize interesting vocabulary teaching, thus stimulating students' learning interest and enthusiasm, allowing students to accumulate more vocabulary in a relaxed and happy classroom atmosphere, deeply understand the meaning of vocabulary and make good use of it.

1. Warm up before class and combine multiple intelligences.

American developmental psychologist Howard? 9? 9 Gardner put forward a variety of intelligence, including musical intelligence and visual intelligence (Miao Ying, 20 12). In junior high school English vocabulary teaching, teachers can fully develop students' intelligence in these aspects to start teaching.

With the increasing cultural exchanges between China and the West, middle school students' curiosity about western culture is gradually strong. Beautiful nursery rhymes or English songs can not only create a good learning atmosphere, but also bring students into a real English learning environment. A strong sense of rhythm drives students to unconsciously hum lyrics and recite words, which is more relaxed and enjoyable without effort. For example, when teaching vocabulary this week, we can use such a nursery rhyme (Sheng, 20 10):

Monday, Monday, monkeys spend money to fly.

Tuesday, Tuesday, the monkey's ass fell off in half.

Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, the monkey climbed Guo Huashan.

Thursday, Thursday, the monkey monkey goes to the exam.

Friday Friday, the monkey met the big tiger.

Saturday, Saturday, the monkey climbed the tree to pick pomegranate.

On Sunday, the monkeys rest in the park.

Students beat the rhythm while singing, which effectively stimulated their initiative and enthusiasm in memorizing words, optimized the memorizing process, avoided rote memorization and improved the memorizing effect.

2. More intuitive English vocabulary teaching

Junior high school students are in the stage of rapid development of thinking, and intuitive image presentation is also the most effective and direct way of information transmission. English teachers can use pictures, objects, slides, stick figures and other means to stimulate students' sensory nerves in a more intuitive and vivid teaching way, thus stimulating students' interest and enthusiasm in learning vocabulary. For example, in the teaching of socks, shorts, shoes and other vocabulary, teachers can present the image characteristics of these new words to students more intuitively in the form of stick figures, and let students know the meaning of vocabulary through interesting stick figures, which can stimulate students' desire to learn new words and effectively cultivate students' image ability.

3. Improve the interest in vocabulary teaching through gamification teaching.

The age characteristics of junior high school students determine their lively and playful character, so it is often effective for students to master vocabulary easily and happily while playing middle school. Therefore, the teaching methods of games and competitions are also effective ways to push classroom teaching to a climax. For example, in the teaching of some fruit names, teachers can prepare some fruits in advance and put them in bags, and then organize students to play a game of "touch-guess" to see who guesses more and correctly; For example, in the teaching of action words such as swimming, flying and riding, teachers can let students guess actions, thus deepening their understanding and mastery of such verbs. Game teaching can create a relaxed and harmonious classroom atmosphere, entertain and entertain, and effectively stimulate students' interest in learning and memorizing vocabulary, thus implementing, consolidating and accumulating a large number of vocabulary.

4. Create a reasonable teaching situation to stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning.

The traditional vocabulary teaching method of rote learning can no longer meet the needs of the current concept of quality education, which is a waste of time and easy to disturb students' memory. Therefore, junior high school English teachers should base themselves on students' psychological characteristics and vocabulary content, create teaching situations reasonably and effectively, and then improve students' enthusiasm and effectiveness in vocabulary learning. For example, the word "business" means "business" in Chinese In order to help students form a quick memory and grasp, teachers can design teaching situations by dividing words into the structure of "bus+In+e+ss", and then guide students to imagine that bus is "bus", in is "inside" and e can be imagined as ". In this way, the meaning of the word business can be understood as that there is a goose (E) and two snakes (ss) talking about business on a bus. In this way, students will be more enthusiastic and interested in this kind of imagination, and cultivate rich imagination and effective vocabulary memory methods while helping to remember well. In addition, the creation of this teaching situation can help students create a more relaxed and harmonious learning space, thus improving the efficiency and effectiveness of junior high school English vocabulary teaching.

5. Story interesting teaching method

Everyone loves to listen to stories, and telling stories in class is also an effective way to promote students' high spirits. According to the unique psychological characteristics of teenagers who are interested in stories, it effectively tells the main contents of stories in popular language, thus stimulating students' interest. For example, teachers can design a story with the theme of "birthday party in the big forest", telling the story of various animals celebrating the monkey's birthday in the picturesque forest, and playing the voices of various small animals with the help of multimedia and other information technologies to guide students to think and guess; While affirming the students' answers, teach words such as pig, bird and cat.

In the process of listening to stories and participating in guessing and memorizing words, students are easily attracted by vivid and interesting story plots, and also exercise their ability to learn and express these words.

6. Ask questions skillfully to arouse students' enthusiasm

The reasonable setting of suspense can fully arouse students' enthusiasm for learning, and appropriate suspense, like stimulants, tightly grips students' heartstrings. Therefore, junior high school English teachers should also attach great importance to this point, skillfully set questions according to the teaching content and purpose, stimulate students' curiosity and trace back to the source, thus stimulating students' interest in learning. For example, in the teaching of fruit vocabulary, the teacher can draw a circle first and then ask: What is this? Students will answer according to the image: face/ball, etc. Then the teacher added a few strokes and turned them into oranges, apples, peaches and so on. Let the students perceive the words of various fruits caused by a circle. Such suspense presentation can effectively stimulate students' enthusiasm and initiative, cultivate their thirst for knowledge, thus mobilizing their knowledge reserves and creatively exploring new knowledge.