Imagine this… 
You choose a fun lesson on an engaging topic. In the lesson, you introduce some vocabulary and help students practise it. But students don’t remember, or fail to use the words in the next lesson 
. Sound familiar?
The key to language learning is revision, so here are some quick ideas to revise vocabulary from previous lessons. Create a list of words you want students to revise and do one of the following tasks 
.
Quiz
Ask a student to choose a word and say what ideas they associate it with. The other student needs to guess which word their partner is talking about. Then, students swap roles 
and continue until they’ve used all the words.
You could also ask your lower-level students to say only two words that come to mind when they see the target word. Or, with higher-level students, you might want to ask for simple definitions.
Finding associations
Instruct students to pair the words based on something the words have in common or an idea that 
connects them. This can be as obvious or as abstract as students like, as long as they can explain the link between the words!
Retelling the lesson
Challenge students to use the words to explain 
what the previous lesson was about. You can also provide a list of words that students studied weeks or months ago, and ask students to say which topic they associate the words with. This will help to crystalize vocabulary banks in relation to certain topics.
Help your students integrate new words by doing quick and simple tasks like these or a regular basis. You will find more ideas for no- and low-prep vocabulary revision activities in our blog post!
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