Vocabulary Development and Vocabulary activities
The theme of the month in 9 th grade is “Beyond”. This chapter in the course book consists of texts about supernatural phenomena. Before we started working with the texts, we talked about some of the topic words such as senses, sceptical, spectre, to haunt, spooky, atmosphere, phenomena/phenomenon and supernatural. We talked about and explained what the words meant and the students wrote sentences using the newly learned vocabulary. During the lessons these topic words will be used several times both orally and in writing (recycling). In addition, we talked about supernatural experiences. Some of the students shared their knowledge and opinions about the theme. One of the texts we listened to and read was about a physicist who explained supernatural phenomena by science. While listening the students wrote words they did not understand or found useful. Furthermore, they wrote arguments the physicist used to explain that paranormal activities could be explained by science. One of