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[stonepepe1]

Many sites that I have visited are pay only sites for English vocabulary lessons.

Does anybody have any sites that share English Vocabulary for free? preferably separating them by topic or genre?

Here are the ones I used, maybe they can help you guys out! & plz post something that can help me out

Thanks any help would be appreciated!





http://www.englishclub.com/business-english/vocabulary.htm
http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/
http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/lists/a/

http://www.esl-lab.com/vocab/index.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/vocabulary/vocabulary.html
http://www.eslgold.com/acad_vocab_definitions.html

[stonepepe1]

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[ddeubel]

Can you please tell me what techniques you are using to further the Korean's already incredible abilty to memorize, accumulate, use and digest thousands of words / week?

This is the most important information I want to know. Lots of words about LOL - we don't need more lists....

If you reply, I;ll tell you the secret to "acquiring" words (by students NOT teachers).

DD

http://eflclassroom.ning.com

PS> the answer begins with N and ends with Y and it isn't a city.

[jadarite]

[stonepepe1]

i need these word lists plz, thanks!

[ddeubel]

There are hundreds of word lists - all over the place on the internet. You might want to try Reading sites, they general create them as vocab to accompany leveled readers...you have to hunt.

This will get you on your way -- hunt in our folders on EFL Classroom 2.0 for thousands of resources like this.... http://www.mediafire.com/file/nmne12uzdmn/Words Words Words Vocab resource pack.pdf

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[stonepepe1]

[GreenlightmeansGO]

I think the message here is that lists of words aren't that useful.

Why not try Breaking News English (google it) for articles and exercises. Vocab is picked up from the readings.

As DD said, you may want to look for graded readers.

Look here (you have to become a member)
www.englishtips.org

Click on the appropriate flag for the page in English.

[GreenlightmeansGO]

If you really want lists, here:

http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/acvocabulary2.pdf

http://www.virtualsalt.com/vocablst.htm

Good luck.

[GreenlightmeansGO]

http://members.tripod.com/~frank_esl2000/wordlists.html

[GreenlightmeansGO]

http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/lists/c/
This looks like what you want

[stonepepe1]

Greenlight u are awesome, thank you so much!!


any other lists would be appreciated!!

also I think this thread would be great for future references since there are many english teachers on this board, so its not only for me but it's going to be for many other people

Thanks

[gangpae]

Korean people have spent boatloads of money on learning English and yet English abilities remain shockingly bad when compared to other nationalities. After considering the multiple linguistic issues that may be the root cause of the slow progress I have discarded any notion of a linguistic disadvantage. I have come to the conclusion that the problem is socio-cultural. The main problem is that Koreans are in charge of English learning process and they don't know what they're doing. In fact it can be heart breaking for anyone who has spent more than 2 years here seeing students making steady progress at the elementary level, and then seeing all that progress destroyed by 1 term of middle school. Good methodology would include a comprehensive program that taught pronunciation, fluency, grammar, morphology, etc. Korean methodology seems to be based upon the only foreign language experiences they have had: Hanja character memorization, and grammar translation method learned from the Japanese.
So that's what you get here: vocabulary lists and grammar classes, both of which exclude the foreign teacher from the process, and are taught by Korean teachers who understand neither. And the results are predictable; if you teach a language like some sort of dead language Latin course you get dead language results. Single word sentences with incredible usage errors.

Vocabulary lists are the bulwark of Korean ESL fraud.

[stonepepe1]

can somebody delete that retarded tangent above please?

I'm just looking for vocab lists and it can help other teachers in the future