Japanese Universities Subscribe to the ELT News newsletter. A tool that is often overlooked for this is mental review .
Students can meet the new vocabulary mentally as well as actually seeing the words on the page.
After students have finished the main task, have them close their books. Still in their pairs or groups, they work together to see how many of words related to the topic they can remember. Decide if you want them to write the words or just say them. If you have them write the words, a good follow-up is to have groups compare their results with other groups. Here's another type of mental review.