Ways to learn new vocabulary

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Wednesday's Assignment

Good morning,

Here is a listening activity, click on this link and answer the following questions:

1.     What is the speaker’s name and expertise?

Her name is Therese Dingham. Her expertise is vocabulary acquisition.

2.     List all the different effective ways to learn new vocabulary that the lady has mentioned in her talk; use present simple tense to write the steps.

- think any of word similar

- try to have a conversation on the topic that you are expert on

- most of the words from article through  reading story, book, etc.

- read different text on different topic (use the word wide web to choose the text, or magazine that interest your mind). The more you read, the bigger you obtain the chart of words and phrases.

- pay special attention to unfamiliar word and how it uses ( if you don’t have a dictionary or the internet, ask your friend or guess the meaning of the context from the sentence because all of the word around will help you figure out the meaning of the word)

- write the new word down ( good idea to keep a word journal or some kind of list, you can update and review regularly.
- the word that goes with it, e.g., from one word you can list of related word or belong word, the same word as family.
- collocation: a group of words that collect together in a specific order
- write them down and make your own sentence with them
- fun activities with internet, puzzles or quiz, use online dictionary, or website to listen to the word, enjoy them, write to your friends on blog, Facebook, Twitter, or email, try to express with a new word.

3.     How many parts in the talk?

There are 5 parts: 
- Introduction
- Body: - How to use the reading material as a new word
             - Some strategies to make sure you remember all the words you have learned

             - Give some examples how to make vocabulary fun
- Conclusion

4.     What is a ‘Word Journal’? What you need to do with it?

Word Journal is a small book which you write the words in and keep it handy or in the pocket. 
You need it to organize your word in different way, alphabetically by film, group by part of speech, in relation to text, whatever word field.

5.     What were the examples that she has mentioned with the words family and collocations?
(    Examples of word family: If a new word is a noun: support, you can add a verb: to support, or adjective: supportive, another noun: supporter, or maybe an antonym)

Examples of collocation:  black and white not white and black, make a mistake not do a mistake

6.     Use the following table to learn the new vocabulary and then add any new word that you find it hard for you:

Word	Definition	Sentence
Demystify	To clarify	The manager asks all the employee to demystify the bank budget.
Repertoire	Part, the piece of drama	The family is one of my important repertoire of my life.
Infinite	Unlimited, endless	My kids have infinite energy all the whole day.
Encounter	To meet or come across new thing	I have encountered challenges when I came to Canada.
Lexicon	The vocabulary dictionary in own language	I should have a lexicon to build my vocabulary for myself.
Exponentially	Very quickly	That idea come to my mind exponentially.
Collocations	Words that connect together	I have to learn by heart all collocations.