Any experienced English teacher must pay close attention to the vocabulary of the students, because without the accumulation of vocabulary, there is no way to talk about learning high school English well.
The first difficulty in high school English is actually in vocabulary. The second difficulty is the grammar, we can overcome it on top of the first difficulty, then the second difficulty grammar will be reduced by 50%.
How do you check if a student's vocabulary is up to standard? I suggest you ask the whole class to buy this booklet, a total of 688 high-frequency words in college entrance examination, if they can recognize 500 of them, they can pass, but most likely, they will get stuck around 300 and cannot move.
Many students told me that the reason why he didn't learn English well in high school was because his English grammar was falling behind. In fact, at the beginning of the class, I knew very well that when he did the questions after the grammar lecture, he couldn't understand what the questions were talking about at all, because there were too many words in the questions that he didn't know.
Chinese is our mother tongue, and we don't know a lot of new words when we do Chinese questions, how can we do this question correctly?! In the study of English, it is the same reason, a very simple question, we don't know the word, we don't know what it means, so the correct answer can come from?!
We don't even know the basic words in the questions, so how can we get the high-frequency words and high-frequency test points in the college entrance examination?!
I really want to praise this conscientious and responsible English teacher! If every English teacher tries to find the answer to how to teach students English lessons well, I think our English classroom teaching will be targeted countless times!
Yes, I think that as English teachers, we can't let our classes be aimless and look very casual, every word we speak, every grammar point, should be infinitely close to the requirements and goals of the college entrance examination English test.
In fact, what I want to say is that our English teachers should not only be familiar with high school English words, high school English grammar and past college entrance examination English questions, but also should be exposed to college English level 4 or 6 in addition to college entrance examination English, and even TOEFL and IELTS test modes.
It is every English teacher's dream to make students fall in love with English——— but we must not let students waste time in unlimited entertaining teaching!
Can memorizing words be solved by entertainment? It definitely can't be solved.