Remembering the words

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Remembering the words

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Collocation Blog

What are collocations?

Why should I study them?

Words often appear to gether in "chunks". Without knowing that the words are meant to be read together as a "chunk" it makes it difficult to understand a sentence.

For example;

It is an uphill battle for students to learn collocations.

What are the key nouns? battle, collocations

What nouns appear with other words in a chunk? uphill battle

What does each word mean? uphill=going up a hill, battle=a big fight

What do they mean together? uphill battle=a very difficult or challenging fight

This blog, Collocation of the Week, teaches you lots of new collocations that might be useful for.

Describe it to me...

Do you often know what you want to say but can't find the right word? This is the perfect website for you.

The OneLook Reverse Dictionary lets you describe what you are looking for and then it will give you words that match your description. Remember to click on the words that you find to see if they mean what you want to say.

Curfews in Russia

Who are minors? What is a curfew?



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Do you agree with the curfews?

Thesaurus: Helping you find the right word II

By request, here is a re-post.

Do you have trouble finding the right word when you are speaking or writing? Do you often use the same words because you don't know any others?
A thesaurus can help you with all of these problems. How does it work? Have a look at this.You can buy a thesaurus at any good bookshop (it will be very useful for you) or you can use a free one online.

WordSift

Here is a great website and a challenge for you. Have a look at the website and think- how can this website help me improve my English?

Word Ahead- Clamour

Word Ahead -Absolute

Word Ahead- Reprisal

Word Ahead -Obtuse

Word of the Day 1

About Word of the Day

I will be giving you a Word of the Day every week day. 

Your job is to:

• Listen to the word. 
  
• Find it in the dictionary.
  
• Read the meaning.
  
• Practice pronouncing it.
  
• Add a comment using the word.
  

A Wordle cloud of our Smith reference

Click here.

How many words do you know?

The Word Count website is a list of 100 million words. It starts with the most common and finishes with the least common.

How can you use this in your studies?

Thesaurus: Helping you find the right word

Do you have trouble finding the right word when you are speaking or writing? Do you often use the same words because you don't know any others?

A thesaurus can help you with all of these problems. How does it work? Have a look at this.

You can buy a thesaurus at any good bookshop (it will be very useful for you) or you can use a free one online.

How do you spell...?

Here is a great little game that helpsd you improve your spelling (and your vocabulary).

Academic Vocabulary: Is it useful for you?

Many of you have studued the AWL. It is such a long list of words. Will you ever be able to remember them all? Maybe. Will you ever have to use them all? Probably not.

It would be better for you to study words that will be useful for you. This website has a great list of exercises that are categorised by university subject. Choose the subject that is closest to what you will study and start learning.

Good Luck!

Vocabulary and fun?

Here is another website with a fun game to help you learn vocabulary. I recommend starting with the medium game.

Changing the world one word at a time

Here is a very interesting website to help you learn vocabulary. It is called Free Rice. Here is how it works; you take a quiz on vocabulary, if you get the answer correct the United Nations Food Program and Havard University donate rice to fight world hunger. You can learn and help people at the same time!

You can change the level of difficulty the quiz once you start. I would recommend you to try somewhere between Level 20 and Level 30. You can also change subjects to English Grammar.

Good Luck!

Learning vocabulary with your eyes

Vocabulary is always difficult for students to study. People often feel that this involves looking at long lists of words. However, there are many ways that you can study vocabulary. Have you ever considered learning words from pictures?

The Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary is a great resource for students. It allows you to study different categories and find pictures that can help you study vocabulary.

For example, if you click you way through this pathway; HOME :: COMMUNICATIONS :: COMMUNICATIONS :: COMMUNICATION BY TELEPHONE :: PORTABLE CELLULAR TELEPHONE, you will come to a picture of a mobile phone. In the picture you can read the labels of different parts of the mobile phone. Below the picture, you can read the the meanings of the words and you can click on the speaker icon to hear the pronunciation.

Many people believe that learning form pictures will help you remember things better.