Lesson newspaper articles (scanning)

Activity 3: Vocabulary development activity
Objective:
to help learners to enlarge their vocabulary
to develop vocabulary guessing skill and dictionary searching skill

Time: 10 min

Materials: handout 3
Handout 3

1. Whirlpool	a) A person who has the legal right to receive smb’s property, money or title when that person dies
2. Hollow	b) very impressive
3. spectacular	c) an investigation of opinions, behavior, etc. of a particular group of people, which is usually done by asking them questions
4. motto	d) having a hole or empty space inside
5. survey	e) a short sentence or phrase that expresses the aims and beliefs of a person, a group etc. and is used as a rule of behavior
6. heir	f) a place in a river or the sea where currents of water spin round very fast

Ask students to match the words to their definitions

Let students to check the activity in the whole group