Strategies for Studying vocabulary

Strategies for Studying vocabulary

As you can see, here you can find a series of strategies that will be very useful to learn vocabulary in a faster and more efficient way.

• Flash cards: write words on one side and definitions on another. The cards can be used independently to quiz or to use for word sorting and matching games. Draw pictures or use symbols to aid with definitions. 

• Word Structure: Sometimes a word can give clues to the meaning in its structure. Analyzing the word’s structure and properties is a vocabulary strategy that you can use to figure out the word’s meaning. When you approach an unknown word, you can guess at its meaning by breaking down the parts of the word such as roots, prefixes, compound words, pronunciation and syllables. 

• Word sorts: study the definitions and spelling patterns and try to make relationships among the words. Sort or group words by first letter, prefix, suffix or root, meaning, or by part of speech. 

• Word mapping: A vocabulary word map is a graphic organizer that helps you think about new words or concepts in several ways. To build a word map, start by entering the new word in the middle of the map. Then, fill in the rest of the map with a definition, synonyms, antonyms, and a picture to help illustrate the new word. See the example below.

• Visual Imaging: When you use visual imaging, you think of a word that either looks like or sounds like the word whose meaning you are trying to learn. Thinking of the picture of the look-alike word and/or image will help you remember the word and its meaning. 

After using any of these strategies to learn vocabulary, you can start doing some exercises to practice what you learned in this link and additionally you will have a video that will be useful to increase your knowledge about how to acquire vocabulary.

http://www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/general-vocabulary/

Past Continuous Forms

The past continuous is formed using was/n