Vocabulary building

The Categories Game

• Draw a table and write these words as your topics:
• country, person, vegetable/ fruit, animal, job, colour.

• Country	Person	Vegetable/ Fruit	Animal	Job	Colour

• When I give you a letter, you will write a word beginning with it for all categories on your table (e.g. If I say 'S', you can write: Spain, Sam, Starfruit, Snake, Sailor, Scarlet).

• Country	Person	Vegetable/ Fruit	Animal	Job	Colour
  Spain	Sam	Starfruit	Snake	Sailor	Scarlet

• The first person to finish should use the 'thumbs up' on our Zoom meeting.
• Call out your words when it is your turn.
• We will then begin the game again by calling out a different letter.

• The 5 Why's
• A Lean Tool of Problem-solving
• What do these words mean to you?

• Word	Meaning
  Lean
  Tool
  Problem-solving

• The basics of 5 Why is rather simple. You just ask the question “Why?” five times to find the root cause of a problem. This is often showed with a simple example like:
  
  
  • The car will not start.
  • Why? – The battery is dead.
  • Why? – The alternator is not working.
  • Why? – The alternator belt has broken.
  • Why? – The alternator belt was worn out.
  • Why? – The car was not maintained (the root cause). [Source: 5 Whys]
  

• Now tell me in your own words, what is the 5 Why.

Now that you know what the 5 Why is, I want you to think of a problem that you may have faced lately.

What was the problem or issue?

e.g. A problem I faced recently was I ran through a red light.

What does that mean? To run through a red light?

Then I want you to use the 5 Why to come to the root cause of your problem.

e.g. 

[Source: 5 whys analysis tool]

Once you have finished writing your 5 whys, I want you to post these as a comment on this page.

Presentation

Now each person will present their 5 whys to the class.

Vocabulary List

From now on, I expect each of you to make your own vocabulary list in your books. I want you to put 

• any new or difficult words we look at in class;
• look up what it means and copy the meaning in your book;
• use that word in a sentence so you know how to use it;
• practice saying the word do you can pronounce it right.

Some words I can suggest for your list are: 

introductory, questionnaire, personal, originally, star sign, earliest memory, exciting, celebrity, presentation, vocabulary, lean, tool, problem-solving

Example of what your list can look like:

Vocabulary list

Word	Meaning	Use in a sentence	How to say it
exciting	something that makes me really happy or engaged	The movie was exciting!	3 sounds ex-ci-ting