Hello dear friends
How are you
?
I hop you are all fine
:-)
Today we are talking a little about vocabulary
.
I present you today 3 main ways to make words in groups so as
not to forget them and to use them more powerfully
First of all you should have a certain notebook for English (new
words and expressions) in which you should gather all new words as the following
1-
keep words which have the same meanings (and their opposites) together
for example
If i ask you: What does the word (happen) mean? You should know a synonym in English (a word has the same meaning)g
When u open your dictionary, u will know that happen means
take place or occur
(happen =take place= occur)
If you don't know a synonym, you should explain the meaning in English as much as u can
.
Another example: the word (airport) you are likely know the meaning, but you don't know a synonym. So try to explain it in
your way in English
.Airport is the place where planes take off and lands
and so on
another example
advantage = merit
disadvantage = demerit
Whenever you remember one word of this group, you should remember the other three words
and so on
2- Keeping words wich have similar spelling and pronunciation
There are many words have similar spelling or pronunciation. However, they have a completely different meanings. so we should keep them together to know the difference between them.
For example
plan
plane
plain
The first word means a scedule to achieve a goal, and the letter a is pronounced like (cat)t
The second word means the method of transport which flies in the sky
and the letter a is pronouned like (make)e
the third word means paved land (geographically) and the letter a is pronounced too like (make) and we
differentiate by the context
another example
hear - here
her -hair
The first two words are pronounced the same but hear means to recieve sounds and voices by ear and here is the opposite of there
Also the second two words are pronounced the same, but her is a pocessive adjective (like her bag) but hair is a part of your body on your head
and so on
3- Keeping words which are related to the same topic
Like:
Mesns of transport, jobs, body parts and so on
You may draw a circle in the center of your page and make
many arrows come out from this circle into smaller circles. Write (BODY) inside the big circle and in the smaler circles write new body parts you want to keep (head, arm, leg and so on)n
That's all for today
Hope i have given you something important about how to keep
words in english
waiting for your questions and comments
see you next time
Good Luck
