Start with individual student assessments. TOPIC Using the Thesaurus AIMS *To develop students Thesaurus skills. *To raise students awareness of the information they can find in the Thesaurus. *To develop students skills of prediction,when they come across new words. *To encourage group collaboration in project works. *To promote creativity. *Form sentences with the new words and compare. AGE GROUP Older teenagers and young adults. LEVEL Grades 9 and above. TIME 60 minutes MATERIALS 1.Class Thesauruses are available online. [Cambridge and Macmillian both have the above online] 2.Lesson plan 3.Thesaurus Quiz INTRODUCTION In this lesson students do a fun quiz too develop their Thesaurus skills. They then work in small groups to create their own Thesaurus quiz. PROCEDURE *Ask the students for any words that they dont understand ? *How often do you use the Thesaurus when you are learning English? *What kind of information can you find in a monolingual English Thesaurus? *Put students in small groups to share their ideas,or have a class discussion/brainstorming! *Give each group a copy of the Thesaurus quiz 15 minutes CHECK QUIZ ANSWERS *Check students answers by going through each question and eliciting verbal feedback. *Students to compare their answers with other groups. 10 minutes *CREATING A QUIZ *Give each group of students a copy of the Thesaurus quiz template,explain that they are going to create a new Thesaurus quiz,for their colleagues.Students to use the Thesaurus to create the quiz. *Write the questions,and keep a record of answers. *Set a new quiz as homework. 30 minutes