The document describes activities from a workshop aimed at developing English vocabulary skills. It includes 6 activities: 1) writing kind words about each other, 2) giving compliments to boost self-esteem, 3) creating a "vocabulary of the heart", 4) using online resources to learn vocabulary, 5) listening to a song, and 6) reflecting on vocabulary learning. The workshop aims to improve lexical competencies, self-knowledge, self-esteem, and ICT literacy through collaborative and creative group activities.

3. The Rules of Work
1. Be Active and Participate.
2. Be Friendly and Tolerant.
3. Think Critically and Collaborate.
4. Imagine and Create.
5. Give Thoughtful Feedback.

4. Average Vocabulary Size
Most people know between 50,000 and 100,000 words.
Larger vocabularies are strongly correlated with academic
and professional success.
The King James Bible uses about 8,000 words.
Shakespeare's works use about 20,000 words.
Webster's Third New International Dictionary contains over:
263,000 main entries
476,000 entries
700,000 definitions

5. Activity 1: “Five Kind Words”
Objectives: to develop lexical competencies; to obtain
feedback from participants, and to increase their self-
esteem and self-knowledge.
Equipment: paper, pencils or felt-pens
Procedure: Work in a group of 5. Take a piece of paper
and a pencil. Draw an outline of your hand and write
your name on its "palm". Give this piece of paper to a
neighbour on the right of you and take the piece of
paper from the neighbour on the left. Write an
attractive trait of character of the owner of the palm
inside one of the “fingers” and pass the sheet to the
next participant. The next participants, one by one,
have to do the same thing till the piece of paper
doesn’t return to the owner.
Reflection:
o What feelings do you have when you are reading
the inscriptions on your hand?
o Do you know all your benefits which were written
by others?

6. Activity 2: “A Magic Chair”
Objective: To increase self-identity.
Equipment: An empty chair (preferably of a
round form ).
Procedure: Put an empty chair in the middle of
a circle with the participants who are sitting on
their chairs. Invite one of them to take the
empty chair. Then the empty chair is declared to
be a “magic chair”, and the person, sitting on it,
is announced be the best and most beautiful
one. Ask other participants to say compliments
to the person on the “magic chair”.
Reflection: Why do we do this?
Ask a person, who was sitting on a chair, to
share the experience.

7. Activity 3: “Let’s Create a “Vocabulary
of a Heart”
Objectives: To analyze the components of successful interaction
between teachers and students; to pick up a vocabulary to the
word "heart"; to promote the development of participants’
empathy.
Equipment: paper, felt-pens, the layout of a Heart
Tasks:
1. Which kind may a Heart be? Choose one characteristic,
using an adjective. Write it down in the “Vocabulary of a
Heart”.
2. What can the Heart do? Say and write, using a verb.
3. What should be there in each teacher’s Heart? Give your
ideas.
4. Reflection: What is your attitude towards this activity?
What is its purpose?

11. Activity 5: “Grow Your Vocabulary”
Objectives: To present the most popular Internet
resources for learning English vocabulary and to
practice the participants in the use of these resources;
to promote the development of the participants’ ICT
literacy and competences.
Resources to practice:
 Ilearnwords
 http://www.merriam-webster.com
 http://bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
 http://lingualeo.ru
 The Best Quotes About Vocabulary
http://www.ranker.com/widget/284722

12. Activity 6. Song “Skeleton Dance”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpvuqj5nv6U

13. Reflection: Game “A Microphone”
1) Which statement about the importance of
words in our life you would like to quote?
2) What was the most interesting thing for you
in our today's workshop?
3) And what you would like to learn more?

15. Literature and other Sources:
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7. 10 Ways to Build Your Vocabulary in a Foreign Language.
http://fr.slideshare.net/TransparentLanguage/vocab-slide-share

16. for Your Active Participation in My Workshop!
Dear Friends,