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🧂 A2 Vocabulary & Speaking • 20 Minutes

Salt: From the Sea to the Table

Learn 10 everyday words about collecting, carrying, and using salt through short practice steps and voice recording.

💡 How to use this lesson

For the Teacher

• Use this 20-minute lesson to help students master 10 salt vocabulary words and basic pronunciation.

• Guide students through the word table, oversee the 16 practice questions, and check answers with the class.

For the Learner

• Read the word table carefully and use the short memory tips to remember new words easily.

• Complete the 16 practice exercises step by step, then record your voice in the Shadowing section.

Word Table

Study the 10 core words, their simple meanings, common word partners, and memory tricks.

📚 10 Key Words

Salt farmer collecting sea salt crystals in sunny salt pans, bright outdoor light, simple clear illustration

Word	Meaning	Common Collocations	Example Sentence	Memory Tip
📦 Group 1: Containers and Piles
basin	A wide open bowl for holding liquids or food.	wash in a basin	We wash the salt in a large basin.	Like a bathroom sink basin!
barrel	A large round wooden container with flat ends.	wooden barrel	They store sea salt in a wooden barrel.	Round and wooden, not square like a crate!
crate	A wooden or plastic box used to carry things.	plastic crate	Put the bags of salt into a crate.	Rhymes with GREAT box!
heap	A pile of things sitting on top of each other.	a heap of salt	There is a big heap of white salt outside.	Starts with H like Hill!
🛠️ Group 2: Tools
ladle	A large deep spoon with a long handle.	soup ladle	She uses a ladle to pour hot soup.	A ladle holds a little lake of soup!
sieve	A tool with small holes to separate solid pieces.	fine sieve	Use a sieve to clean small stones from salt.	Say SIV, like GIVE with an S!
shaker	A small container with holes to put salt on food.	a salt shaker	Pass me the salt shaker please.	You SHAKE a shaker!
👐 Group 3: What People Do
scrape	To push a hard tool across a surface to remove something.	scrape the ground	Workers scrape salt off the dry rocks.	Sounds like scratch and scrape!
sprinkle	To drop small pieces lightly over something.	sprinkle salt on top	Sprinkle a little salt on your soup.	Like light Spring rain drops!
crush	To press something hard so it breaks into tiny pieces.	crush salt crystals	They crush the big salt rocks into powder.	CRASH and CRUSH break items!

Practice

16 Interactive Exercises

Work through 4 practice types to build your vocabulary confidence.

Part 1

Collocation Matrix (4 Items)

Match each word on the left with the word that fits best on the right to make a common phrase:

Word

crate

shaker

heap

barrel

1. pepper

____crate ____shaker ____heap ____barrel

2. rain

____crate ____shaker ____heap ____barrel

3. milk

____crate ____shaker ____heap ____barrel

4. rubbish

____crate ____shaker ____heap ____barrel

Part 2

Gap-fills with Word Bank (4 Items)

Word Bank: crush ladle basin sprinkle

5. Complete the sentence:

She uses a big wooden ____ to serve hot soup.

6. Complete the sentence:

Please ____ a little salt over the fresh salad.

7. Complete the sentence:

We must ____ the large salt crystals before cooking.

8. Complete the sentence:

Wash the sea salt carefully in a clean ____ with water.

Part 3

Choose the Word (4 Items)

Select the correct word to complete the sentence meaning:

9. The farmer stored fifty kilograms of dry salt inside a wooden ___.

____ a. ladle ____ b. barrel ____ c. heap

10. Use a fine ___ to filter out small rocks from the salt.

____ a. sieve ____ b. ladle ____ c. shaker

11. They carried fresh apples and salt bags in a plastic ___.

____ a. shaker ____ b. crate ____ c. ladle

12. I need to ___ the dried salt off the sea rocks.

____ a. scrape ____ b. crush ____ c. sprinkle

Part 4

Sentence-building (4 Items)

Put the given words in the right order to make a complete sentence.

Example pattern: "They carry the boxes by train."

13. Reorder these words: [ scrape / They / salt / rocks / from . ]

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14. Reorder these words: [ salt / He / in / shaker / put / a . ]

____

15. Reorder these words: [ heap / Put / salt / a / here / of . ]

____

16. Reorder these words: [ a / use / sieve / They / salt / for . ]

____

Shadowing

12 Speaking Items

Listen to each item, then press the record button to practice speaking clearly.

🗣️ 4 Common Collocations

Item 1

a salt shaker

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Item 2

a wooden barrel

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Item 3

a big heap

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Item 4

sprinkle salt

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

💬 4 Short Everyday Sentences

Item 5

We wash the salt in a basin.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Item 6

She uses a ladle for soup.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Item 7

They crush the big salt rocks.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Item 8

Put the crates on the truck.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

📢 2 Real Speech Sentences

Item 9

He will scrape salt off the hard ground.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Item 10

Pass me the salt shaker please.

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

🎯 2 Focus Words for Clear Pronunciation

Item 11 • Word Focus

Hard Sound

sieve

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Item 12 • Word Focus

Hard Sound

scrape

[Bài tập luyện nói]

____

Vocabulary: Salt from sea to table

Salt: From the Sea to the Table

💡 How to use this lesson

Word Table

16 Interactive Exercises

Collocation Matrix (4 Items)

Gap-fills with Word Bank (4 Items)

Choose the Word (4 Items)

Sentence-building (4 Items)

12 Speaking Items

🗣️ 4 Common Collocations

💬 4 Short Everyday Sentences

📢 2 Real Speech Sentences

🎯 2 Focus Words for Clear Pronunciation

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