I give students a list of relevant vocabulary words important to our work.  We are doing a unit on the environment and New York City now.  I ask the students to get into pairs or triads and write dialogues or trialogues if the word exists and then present them to the class.  Below is the list of words they have already encountered in their readings and should have looked up.  A  few I have already gone over with them, such as sustainablity since it has a specific environmental meaning.  This is the list of words.

1.  sustainability
2. resilience
3. estuary
4. current
5. mitigate
6. berm
7. dune
8. levee
9. equity
10. evacuation
11. reservoir