The Use of PowerPoint in Teaching Vocabulary.

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The Use of PowerPoint in Teaching Vocabulary.

• Introduction
• No one can deny that technology is playing
  today a key role in teaching and learning process
  introducing some facilities to the teacher to
  perform his / her role completely, therefore
  ,this workshop aims to show the importance of
  PowerPoint software in teaching new vocabulary
  items as a kind of changing and developing of the
  old methods of teaching and in a way which can
  not be applied by any other mean as well as this
  workshop aims to show the use of this technique
  in teaching focusing on vocabulary items
  effectively and providing teachers with a
  practical example of using this technique in
  teaching.

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• Some teachers may face difficulties because of
  lack of knowledge in using this software. For
  this reason, they should have good practice
  before applying this technology in teaching. One
  example of how teachers can use this technique
  is to teach vocabulary items in an effective way
  and make their lesson full of fun and benefit to
  their students.
• There are many ways PowerPoint can be used
  in the English classroom.
• Muayad AL-Toubat

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Animals
Horse
Dog
Duck
Sheep
Cow
Cat
Chicken
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Dog
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cat
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sheep
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chicken
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duck
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horse
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cow
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Sound Game

• Get ready to play a sound game.
• Guess the animal from the sound.

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What is PowerPoint?

• It is a software package that can be seen as a
  combination of Word, Publisher and Media Player
  which allows you to combine
• text (written in PowerPoint or pasted in from
  other sources, i.e. Word, Internet, CD-ROM
  encyclopedias etc).
• images (clip art from galleries, Internet, CD-ROM
  encyclopedias, scanner, digital camera).
• video clips (from Internet, gallery, camcorder).
• sounds (from CDs, sound gallery, self-recorded).
    

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The Importance of PowerPoint in Teaching

• its fun to watch and gets the students
  attention
• you can get important language and structures
  across through a mixture of sound, text, images
  and video.
• it saves time and effort.
• it is a kind of change of the traditional
  methods. i.e. it breaks the routine the students
  are used to have in their learning process.
• it inspires and motivates the students to work
  with the foreign language through technology.
• you can teach more than one skill in the same
  time.
• it allows students to be creative (with computer)
  and achieve attractive, professional looking
  results.

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How can you use PowerPoint?

• As A Teacher you can create presentations
• For teaching new vocabulary items effectively
• For grammar points
• For oral exam preparation
• Slide shows for cultural awareness
• For self-study exercises (prepare CDs for
  students)