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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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Sum up
Five strategies