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التالية والتي أعدها مجموعة من المتخصصين
Buy a good English dictionary.
Read as much English as you can.
Read anything that interests you, in any format available to you. If you find
newspapers or literature difficult, try reading graded readers, which are
simplified books.
Select carefully the words or phrases
you look up in a dictionary. It's
frustrating to look up every word that you don't understand. Only look up those
words that you think are important, such as:
- Words or phrases that occur often
- Words or phrases that are
essential for understanding a sentence.
You can often get the general
meaning
of the
sentence without having
to use a dictionary, so save yourself some work!
From the words or phrases that you look
up, decide which ones are vital for
you to understand and use. For example, words that you need for your job or
study, or words that occur often.
Use your English dictionary
to get the essential information about these words and phrases (grammar, stress,
pronunciation and meaning), then make an effort to practise these words. Write
down the new word in a sentence of your own and try to use the word as often as
possible, until you are sure that you remember it.
When you look up
a new word, make sure you know which words you can use with it. For example, you
do a test, but you make an effort.
When you find a new word,
check to see if you can use it in other ways. English is a flexible languge -
nouns, verbs and adjectives can often be made from each other. For example, to
apply for a job, a letter of application, the applicant for the job and so on.
Keep an English
vocabulary book
Keep an English vocabulary book with
you. You can use it while you are reading, or watching television or a film. You
can also refer to it when you have some spare time to help you revise new words
and expressions.
Organise your new vocabulary book
in ways that will help you to remember. Here are three ideas to get you started:
1
Write
an important word in the middle of a page
and draw a bubble around it. Then draw lines out from this word connected to
smaller bubbles. In the smaller bubbles you can add words associated with the
main word.
2
Take
a broad subject like sport. Divide your
page into three columns. In the left column make a list of as many sports as you
can think of. In the middIe column write down all the equipment you need to play
the sport. In the final column write down all the words used for scoring. Of
course you can use this idea for any subject you like and put in as many columns
as you need.
3 Draw
a horizontal line across a page and put in
all the words you can think of which range from one extreme to another. For
example:
freezing > cold > cool
> warm > hot > boiling
adore > love > like > don't mind > hate > can't stand
