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Webinar

Effective Strategies to Learn Vocabulary


Abdulaziz Saif
azizsaif2014@gmail.com
Whatsapp:
00918008382256

January 18, 2022


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Content of the Webinar

Why Do we need to learn vocabulary?


Why is it difficult to learn vocabulary?
How can I improve my vocabulary?

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Why Should I Learn Vocabulary?

Reading

Writing
Vocabulary
Listening

Speaking
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Strategies

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Strategy 1

Read and listen to a lot of English.

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1 Strategy
Read and listen to a lot of English
I sit down, fish the questions from my satchel, and go through them, inwardly cursing Kate for

not providing me with a brief biography. I know nothing about this man I’m about to
95-98 %
interview. He could be ninety or he could be thirty. The uncertainty is galling, and my nerves

resurface, making me fidget. I’ve never been comfortable with one-on-one interviews,

preferring the anonymity of a group discussion where I can sit inconspicuously at the back of

the room. To be honest, I prefer my own company, reading a classic British novel, curled up in
7 times
a chair in the campus library. Not sitting twitching nervously in a colossal glass and stone

edifice. 6
Text extracted from Jame’s Fifty Shades of Gray Novel
Strategy 2
Learn how to use a dictionary right.

Meaning
Form
Pronunciation
Examples
Collocations
Word family
Grammatical rules
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Strategy 3
Learn generative word knowledge
Activist Activity
Transact

Proactive actor

Act
Action

Overreact
Activate Hyperactive

Deactivate
Enact React
Inactive
Activism
Strategy 4
Guess from context

Meaning of other words Form of the word Background knowledge

Our teacher has a few eccentric habits, such as shouting in class and never wearing socks.

A) normal
B) strange
C) good
D)Amazing
Strategy 4
Guess from context

The hill was too arduous for us to climb. We had to walk our bicycles up the hill.

A) tall, sharp
B) B) fun, exciting
C) C) easy, not challenging
D) D) difficult, steep

The snake slithered through the grass. It was hunting.


E) Ate
F) Slept
G) Moved
H) Stopped
Strategy 5
Recycle your vocabulary writing and speaking.

Writing about the topic you have read.

Use the new words in your conversation.

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Sum up
Five strategies

1. Develop a reading habit.


2. Use dictionary right.
3. Use the new words in writing and speaking. Use it or
lose!
4. Learn word generative knowledge.
5. Guess difficult words from context.
Thank you

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