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  • um I'm going to give you a teaching tip using concentric circles, uh, for reviewing vocabulary words.

  • You have 20 students.

  • You have an inner circle on an outer circle.

  • There are 10 students in the inner circle and 10 students on the outer circle.

  • They're going to face each other.

  • The outside circle is going to rotate clockwise.

  • The Innocents circle is going to stay still.

  • The inner circle.

  • Each student will have a card with one of the vocabulary words from a reading.

  • They just finished having, uh, and the students on the inner circle will ask the student who's on the outer circle.

  • The will tell them the definition of that word.

  • They will show them the card with the word, and the student on the outside will then tell the student on the inside.

  • What is the definition of that word?

  • If the student doesn't know, then the student will turn the card and the definition will be on the card.

  • If they have any difficult to reading it, the student from the inside will read it to them.

  • The students that will rotate the teacher will time so that they have approximately one minute with each student on the outer circle and they rotate to the next student.

  • And then that student shows the card of the next vocabulary word.

  • And the student has to define that word, and they continue rotating until they go through the 10 students.

  • Then the students on the inner circle will go to the outer circle, and the students in the inner circle within quiz the ones on the outside with the words.

  • And this is a good activity for reviewing for a quiz or a test.

  • And it's a wonderful activity.

  • I use it a lot, and the students love it.

  • They enjoy it.

  • They learn their review.

  • They laugh, they smile, so it's an engaging, effective, fun activity.

um I'm going to give you a teaching tip using concentric circles, uh, for reviewing vocabulary words.

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