ABSTRACT
This chapter offers activities to help with category skills, memory of new words, and opposites, as well as including activities which focus on the element of speed, which to some extent we need in order to help a conversation to run smoothly. It seems that most of us store words in our inner lexicons in a similarly logical way; in several types of categories including semantic and phonological forms. These help us to home in on the target word. We can also make 'cross-references' in our brains, as they do in a library, to make the whole process more accurate. There is already information about the way in which vocabulary development takes place, but author brief is not to go down the theoretical route myself. Instead, author advice would be to look at the excellent books by Sadie Lewis in this area on both theory and practice.
