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Ielts vocabulary Booster: Learn 500+ words for ielts essay Ideas on vocabulary learning techniques072026cf3. Ideas on vocabulary learning techniques
Copious vocabulary is very important if you want to score high in IELTS. But learning a large amount
of new words can be a tough task, especially if you are busy with work, family, and other
responsibilities. In this chapter we will give you some great tips on how to memorize large amounts
of new vocabulary and phrases in a short span of time both based on our teaching and personal
experience and on what we have found on the Internet.
First of all you need to
read a lot
. Reading helps you see the words you already know in a new
context and learn some new lexical units. I recommend reading everything you can find in English -
articles on the Internet, menus, newspapers, books, advertisements, etc. You can even try to Google
search in English. That will be a great way to enrich your vocabulary.
Another great tip is to
get in the habit of looking up words
you don't know. A good example: you are
watching a new TED video and hear new words that you seem to understand from the context, but you
are not sure what exactly they mean. Take your time to look them up. After that
write those words in
a notebook
with their translations or definitions so that they be there every time you want to revise
them. But here you might ask - how do I work with those new words written in my notebook? Well,
that’s a good question. Actually there are a lot of l
earning methods: making up as many
associations with the word as possible, saying the words many times, using the words in your
speaking or writing, grouping them according to different principles, asking someone to test
you
, etc. You are free to use any method that works best for you.
One more good recommendation is to
focus on phrases
while working on your vocabulary. It means
memorizing words in lexical chunks or even short sentences. In this way you will always have a set
of expressions ready to use in a conversation. For example, ‘Have a safe trip’, ‘Enjoy your meal’, ‘I
am so happy to see you again’, etc. So instead of forming a sentence from scratch and trying to
remember the words separately you will have a set of speech patterns which you can use
immediately.
The last but not least advice is to
review often.
When preparing for IELTS test, many students follow
a special ritual of reviewing new vocabulary every morning and every evening before going to bed.
In this case yesterday’s vocabulary is more important than today’s. The aim is to transfer the short-
term knowledge of new vocabulary into your long-term memory. For this reason a review is
extremely important, especially in the first few weeks after learning new vocabulary.
So those were some useful tips on how to remember new words based on our experience. In addition
to them we will also tell you some great tricks that we have found on the web. Here is a list of those
tricks according to their popularity and effectiveness.
Firstly
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