When teaching English, I remember my own learning trick in 4 other languages (a hobby). The best advice is to train the ear to listen to sentences or whole phrases, and not get stuck on words.

Take an index-sized card on which you paste a digital picture of an everyday article found around the house or garden.

To try and make learning words a reaL "LIFE" situation, I ask pupils to keep a list of all the words they encountered in the previouos week.

With small groups, a useful exercise is to write down a simple, basic sentence and ask the students to add as many adverbs and adjectives to make the sentence more "colourful".

A simple activity to try is to print oout flash cards for the astrological signs. Then print out the "advice" from one of the many offered in papers or magazines.