Articles on teaching and learning different aspects of and kinds of vocabulary. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
General teaching vocabulary articles
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How to teach positive and negative connotations
Four approaches to teaching vocabulary
Playing with our Word Bag (vocabulary revision games)
15 ways of eliciting vocabulary
15 more ways of eliciting vocabulary
Picture dictionary games and activities
Why your students overuse their dictionaries
Why does my teacher stop me using my dictionary?
Why does my teacher make me use an English-English dictionary?
Teaching specific kinds of vocabulary articles
Teaching word formation articles
How to teach negative prefixes with adjectives
How to practise negative prefixes
Teaching collocations articles
How to teach binomials – NEW
Stimulating practice for chunks of language
Combining collocations and pronunciation
How to teach adjectives + prepositions collocations
11 adjective plus preposition games
Combining collocations and pronunciation
Fun make and do controlled practice activities
12 fun make and do speaking activities
10 fun compound nouns activties
Teaching opposites articles
9 fun activities for words with opposite meanings
Classroom activities for teaching opposites (with many game ideas)
Teaching abbreviations articles
Stimulating acronyms activities
7 acronyms games for ESL classes
How to teach Latin abbreviations
Other teaching specific vocabulary articles
How to teach the vocabulary of life events/ stages of life
How to teach Valentine’s Day vocabulary
12 fun describing objects activities
How to teach describing objects
How to teach describing people
The most useful colour vocabulary activities
How to teach describing appearances
12 describing appearances games
How to teach idioms with as… as
How to teach British and American vocabulary
How to teach feelings vocabulary
How to teach country and nationality words
How to teach colour vocabulary in ESL classes
Classroom activities for colour vocabulary
How to teach colour word recognition
How to use colouring-in in EFL classes
How to teach clothes vocabulary to young learners
How to teach body parts to kids
How to teach transport vocabulary to young learners
How to teach and use the language of newspaper headlines
Practising architecture vocabulary
Vocabulary practice for family words
Practice for weather vocabulary
10 fun activities for personality adjectives
15 fun ways of practising country and nationality words
15 games for the language of describing people
Xmas vocabulary that you can mime
Gardens and gardening for EFL classes
Glossary of football words and expressions (more of a list than an article)
Janglish articles
Words that are different in Japanese and English
How the Japanese chop up English
Made in Japan English words and expressions
Pronunciation changes in Japanese English
Learning English vocabulary articles
12 learning vocabulary challenges
Learning English vocabulary problems and solutions
How to make learning vocabulary easier
Related pages
Teaching vocabulary to young learners articles
Vocabulary games/ worksheets page
Updated 7 January 2026
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