I am experimenting with making some crosswords for English learners. One of the problems of learners have with vocabulary is how to approach memorizing the words. Almost everybody tries to make list and learn the list of words. There are problems with this method, the biggest of which is boredom. Another popular method for both teachers of English and their students is making sentences. This technique is useful because the student sees how the new word is used in a sentence and so it is often easier to remember. The problem with this technique is that it is sometimes very difficult to make a sentence. I’m sure you have all experienced this.
Most students and teacher find that games and activities are a good way to help both remember the new vocabulary and to understand how to use it. So in the spirit of fun here’s my first effort at crossword making.
The crossword is not interactive at the moment (sorry about that), but you can download the PDF file by clicking the link below.
Across
1. The lowest point in a trend or the bottom of a wave.
2. To get bigger.
4. The price of shares started to rise back to their original values. The staged a ——–.
9. To become calm and predictable.
10. To go up and down and up and down.
12. Things got better, we can clearly see the ————– (11)
13. A slow gentle change is a ——- change.
16. To become smaller.
17. A sudden fall.
18. $10,000,000 is a ———– amount of money.
Down
1. A state of chaos and panic.
3. Another way to say fell or dropped a little.
5. To cut back dramatically and by a large amount.
6. Worries about debt default caused the Euro to ——- (fall dramatically) on the markets.
7. Stopped getting worse, ——– out.
8. To rise up quickly. This verb also describes flying quickly.
11. The highest level. Also the top of a mountain.
14. The president not only fired the head of marketing he —- (got rid off) the whole department.
15. To jump or rise.
16. A small change can also be called a —— change.
