Thinking about training vocabulary

Surfing the internet I'm looking for new posts about "how to train your vocabulary the best".

Look at this:

http://www.playonwords.com/articles/2008/06/23/cool-picks-for-hot-summer-reading-building-language-and-literacy/

You will find a great page with many tips how "to build language and literacy".
Let's take a look at one of those tips:

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Trainstop by Barbara Lehman

Climb aboard this train, but be sure to sit next to the little girl rather than her parents who are engrossed in the newspaper and fall asleep, missing the whole adventure. Her face is pressed against the glass of the train car window, anticipating the new world she will enter after passing through a tunnel. Stepping out of the train into a world of tiny people, she is asked to help retrieve a toy airplane and pilot from the apple tree. Friendships develop, but it’s time to hop back on the train to return to the city. The magic comes full circle when upon arriving home, the girl looks up to see her little friends flying by to deliver a tree of thanks.
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Sure, reading this I was thinking about I already had red this story once, a long time ago. No, I hadn't heard of this book before, but I know books where stories are told like the way it is told in this book.

Does this matter? No! You have to taste the magic of such books: taste it as often as you can... So, now let's take a look at the Tips to build language and literacy:

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How can so many story possibilities be packed into a wordless book? That’s the point. Beautifully illustrated wordless books provide a platform for creative story telling and writing. Encourage your child to examine the drawings and describe characters, contrast them, predict what they will do, describe their emotions and give them dialogue. Look at the parents versus the little girl—engrossed in their paper, falling asleep, indifferent to their surroundings while the child is anticipating adventure.

Your child becomes the author-story teller as she orally illustrates each page and gives words to the drawings. Try collaborating by alternating as the storyteller—you describe the action on a page and let your child add on to the story on the next page. Or each invent your own story, share them and see how they differ. Make this a family activity, assigning one member to write down the story as it unfolds or illustrate it as a group.
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Now - do you get the plan? This is a very useful tip how to train vocabulary:
the best - you can do this in any language with every language.

A multi-lingual way how to train the vocabulary of a language...