Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 to forget words you thought you'd learned? Basic questions to ask yourself ….. Do you want ….. to waste your time? a below-average vocabulary? to fail in English exams? to fail an interview because of poor English? to find it difficult to read in comfort?

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 to become a successful international business negotiator? There's more!! Do you want ….. to learn efficiently? an above-average vocabulary? If so, here's what you have to do ………. to stop worrying about exams?

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 What you have to do …

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 What you have to do ….  ask teacher to repeat it  repeat it yourself, loudly or silently  exaggerate the stress  use it in a phrase  write it down with the stress pattern Recording the stress pattern, e.g; for the word "container": Container: o O o - conTAIner - container - container - container - con tai ner Or indeed: con TAI ner (o O o) Do the same with: "photographer": PRONUNCIATION o O o o

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 What you have to do ….  GET A GOOD DICTIONARY!!  set up an organised system  use Excel or a database  don't write just the word itself: add synonyms, words in the same group  use your system regularly COPYING TO COMPUTER

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 an example of recording vocabulary

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 Understanding the origin of words: Most words have a history. Knowing a word's history helps make it easier to remember. Here are some examples:

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 duct lat ducere = to lead to deduce make a deduction to induct = teach (to introduce or lead someone to) an aqueduct (which leads water somewhere) to introduce an introduction an introductory offer to seduce a seduction seductive to reduce to make a reduction to educate education educative to conduct electricity an electrical conductor to conduct onself good conduct a viaduct, e.g. a road over a valley to abduct a child an abduction to produce production an air duct as in a ventilation system to abduct to conduct to induct to educate to deduce to introduce to produce to reduce to seduce now do the same for the latin word: "tractare" Graphical aids to learning

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 platinum aluminium bronze sapphire limestone lead gold Ordering, Sequencing, Hierarching Here's another example ….. emerald rare silver marble masonry precious ruby common iron metals stones alloys brass diamond slate You’re told to learn these words. How do you go about it?

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 Metals Sort your words first!!!! - Ordering, Sequencing, Hierarching …. MINERALS Stones Precious Masonry Alloys Rare Common gold platinum silver aluminium copper iron lead brass bronze steel diamond emerald ruby sapphire granite limestone marble slate

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 The Origin of words - learn the ROOTS!! Copy and enhance this table ……… then make a table of SUFFIXES.

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 Practising and Learning your words …. Make up some practice cards to test yourself or to work with a partner, for example: Side A symbiosis o o O o Side B the intimate living together of two species for mutual benefit

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 Practising and Learning your words …. Use the two column method, for example to practise words in the "tractare" family: to take back or withdraw a statement to retract a statement to contract a detractor to grow smaller a person critical of someone else to remove or take out somethingto extract to take one number away from another to subtract person or company engaged to do a job contractor

Recording & Learning Vocabulary Chris Snuggs Thursday, 06 January 2011 General practice reinforces vocabulary learning!  You MUST read English regularly:  magazines: "Time", "Business Week", "The Economist", "Asia Review" etc  biographies  novels, including crime stories  You MUST check news websites every day:  BBC BBC  International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune  CNN CNN  SKY NEWS SKY NEWS  TIME Magazine TIME Magazine  You MUST try to listen to BBC Radio 4 regularly on LW 198.  You MUST watch TV regularly: news and other programmes, but also videos that can be borrowed ……