Connect Two

Students compose sentences that contextualise two vocabulary items from a displayed set, drawing connecting lines on the board.

Procedure

1. Display 10-15 vocabulary items on the board in a scattered layout (not in lists or rows). Items can include words and multi-word expressions.
2. Invite students to volunteer a sentence that meaningfully contextualises any two items.
3. Draw a line on the board connecting the two items used.
4. Continue until every item is connected to at least one other. Students may naturally link three or more items — that's fine.

Tips

• Follow-up: Point to a line and ask students to recall the sentence it represents. Delete the line if recalled correctly. Continue until all lines are gone.
• Variations to make it more interesting: sentences that are clearly true, clearly false, negative sentences, personalised I statements, or questions to which you don't know the answer.
• Combining two items in one sentence activates higher-order thinking (connecting, applying, evaluating), making it more engaging than single-word contextualisation.