Resumen:
This Major Paper proposes different activities to work with vocabulary in Senior
High School. A deep analysis is made in what concerns the teaching of English
as a foreign language in Cuba and abroad. It also helps teachers handle the
vocabulary as a subskill of the language, for it is paramount in the
communication process; few can be done in any language without having a vast
vocabulary when it comes to communication. Also, the work provides different
activities that are easy and according to the psychological characteristics of the
Senior High School students in Cuba. The levels of assimilation were also taken
into consideration for students and they are in need of activities that demand
from them effort and thinking attitudes. For the elaboration of the work some
empirical and theoretical methods were put into practice with the aim of
clarifying the aspects taken into account in what concerns the teaching and
learning of vocabulary in Senior High School, so the objective of this work deals
with the proposition of different activities to augment the vocabulary areas in
Senior High School students. This work also considers some of the most
revolutionary theories in what concerns vocabulary learning, for it deals with the
Vigotskiayan theories of teaching and learning entailed to the communicative
approach and the linguistic competences as a need for it to be developed.