Ten ways to learn new words as a language learner Teacher and teacher trainer Svetlana Kandybovich, our latest TeachingEnglish blog award winner, shares her top tips for remembering new words. As a language learner, you work hard to expand your vocabulary. You plough through new words every day, make long lists of words and practise with flashcards. Remembering and using new words in speech is often a challenge for language learners. 1. We remember what is relevant to us. Tip: The British Council LearnEnglish website features tons of interactive videos, games and podcasts. 2. We retain words better when we learn them in small ‘chunks’ (i.e. small phrases that combine several words) and ‘scripts’ (i.e. typical dialogues). Tip: If you are into learning with video, TV and films, try FluentU. 3. Learning is essentially an internal process. Tip: On Forvo, you can listen to native and non-native speakers from different parts of the world pronouncing different words and phrases. 4. 5. Here are a few mnemonics created by my students: 6. 7. 8.
Pick Out the Grammar Gremlins Pick out the Grammar Gremlins that pop up in some of the following sentences—and correct them. Good luck! The man whose coming to dinner will be an hour late. If the parties for you and me, then you and I should arrive together. Click here to see how to correct those mischievous gremlins. So how did you do? Here are the answers—what should have been used in the sentences above. Game Word Generator - The Game Gal When I was putting together this site of games, I discovered that my printable word lists became very popular. I had word lists for pictionary, charades, and other games, and visitors seemed to really like them! So I got to thinking, what’s one step better than a printable list of words for playing pictionary? An online word generator! Here I’ve taken all the words on my printables, plus hundreds more, and combined them into different categories for playing games like pictionary, catchphrase, charades, or any other game you want. Here’s how it works: First, select a Game (the game menu also includes a Holiday option). My amazing husband also made an iPhone app with all the same content. Finally, I love feedback!
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Word frequency: based on 450 million word COCA corpus You can now freely download a list of the top 5000 words/lemmas from the 450 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English, which is the only large and balanced corpus of American English. Although there are many word and frequency lists of English on the web, we believe that this list is the most accurate one available (compare...). The free list contains the lemma and part of speech for the top 5,000 words in American English. If you want an eBook version of the 5,000 word list -- with collocates, genre information, etc -- you can purchase it for about $20 here. Finally, if you are a teacher of children, you might be interested in two free lists created by Dick Brandt, which show the most frequent sounds in English, based on a cross-match between the 20,000 word list and the CMU pronouncing dictionary: all words, monosyllables. Although the list is available on this page, you may not copy the list to another site. Download this list.
Depression Quest: An Interactive (non)Fiction About Living with Depression How to Learn English Words Learn English words quickly and easily with these tips and resources. We all know we must learn English words—and lots of them—to speak the language well. A native English speaker knows approximately 12,000 to 20,000 words according to experts. Mother tongue English speakers learn these words over a lifetime of informal daily life and in formal schooling. There are anywhere from 450,000 to one million English words depending on whether you count words separately (e.g., sit, sitting, sat, sitter) or as part of a word family (e.g., sit). We also learn words as part of idiomatic phrases (a set group of words that together have a meaning that's different than the separate words. e.g, sitting on top of the world). So how does someone learning English as a second language know where to begin? Before we look at which words to learn and how to learn them, please note that this website includes many vocabulary word lists and lessons as you can see below. Learn English Have Fun's vocabulary lessons
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Ditch The Lists: Digital vocabulary instruction that works Vocabulary instruction doesn’t have to be a boring chore for you and your students. Here are 4 ways to create engaging vocabulary activities for your classroom. This post is written by Denise Douglas, the Coordinator of Educational Technology at Tulare Joint Union High School District in California. You can connect with Denise on Twitter at @DougieFreshTech. Write and highlight the word, write the definition, give an example… YAWN! I’ve been out of the classroom for 4 years now, and one of my biggest regrets is the way I did vocabulary instruction. Here is what I used to have my students do: Ack! How can we do better? 1. Start with everyday tools you already have. I like to do this as a class so that students can have access to all the words without doing 15 words on their own. You can kick this idea up a notch by using a graphic organizer for vocabulary, such as the Frayer Model. 2. If you want to get students engaged with vocabulary, make it fun! 3. 4. Related
5 лучших игр для изучения английского - Лайфхакер Предисловие Сразу поясним: мы рассказываем о самых обычных играх, а не специально созданных для изучения английского;наши аргументы и рекомендации верны только в том случае, если вы играете с оригинальными озвучкой и интерфейсом;игры полезны для английского при условии, что вы уже имеете хотя бы базовые знания о языке. Выучить английский с нуля исключительно с помощью игр невозможно. Почему игры полезны для вашего английского 1. Это не школьный урок, где вас заставляют читать скучные тексты и непонятно зачем спрягать глаголы. 2. Новая лексика постоянно звучит в диалогах и мелькает в инвентаре. 3. В отличие от фильма или сериала, в игре вы волей-неволей должны взаимодействовать с другими персонажами: следовать их указаниям, выбирать строчки в диалоговых ветках. 4. Средневековые конфликты, футуристические войны, детективные расследования, криминальные разборки — список сюжетов можно продолжить. В какие игры нужно играть The Last of Us Почему именно пятая часть? Ведьмак 3: дикая охота Heavy Rain
US State Department Creates Illustrations Depicting Differences Between British And American English People in America and the UK both speak English, and while most words remain the same there are a few differences that could potentially create a misunderstanding. To help English speakers from all over the world better communicate, the US State Department created these useful illustrations that highlight key differences between British and American English. English originated as early as the mid-5th century, and has since been brought to a number of countries. Over the years many changes and adaptations have taken place, creating unique discrepancies in the English language all around the world. Here are some of the main differences between British and American English, we bet you find at least a few that truly surprise you! 1. americanenglish.state.gov 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.