oh
i just made it
this doesn't happen often you'll see we
usually practice it
mr e who i can't tell you usually gives
me a thumbs up signals and i know i have
to go hi james from england
i was actually looking at the paper
anyway time to do a lesson
if you're at this lesson it's because
you probably have trouble with
vocabulary what do i mean you have
trouble with vocabulary you're probably
saying i learn all these words they
teach me these things and within hours
days weeks i forget everything well it
makes sense it's not your fault
it's not your teacher's fault there's a
method for things
to work i mean there's always a way to
make things work a little better than
something else
writing out a word 20 times is not going
to help you um later on if you check
we'll have the 3u method and that will
teach you how to remember vocabulary
that you won't forget it but right now
what i want you to do is master
vocabulary and what do i mean by master
it a lot of students don't take the time
to actually get a full picture
imagine a picture that's got a rose and
it's in a beautiful red it's glorious a
great color you know sun behind it you
can see everything now imagine that
picture black and white
what are you going to miss
you'll think you have the picture
because there's a rose but do you see
the beautiful yellow no because it's
black and white so there's something
missing from that picture and what's
missing from that picture can sometimes
be depth color and brightness
once you have that it's hard to forget
because when i said imagine a rose you
imagine it in color maybe with water on
it maybe someone holding it but that's
what you need to remember it so we're
going to work with vocabulary and look
at the four things you need to do to say
i have mustered vocabulary so this
vocabulary belongs to me
okay the number one thing we're going to
look at is understand it
well what do i mean by understand
many students open a dictionary look at
a word look at the definition one
definition and then say okay i know
or they look at the four
that's not it
when i say understand it take that
definition write it out
take a
dictionary area expensive sound effects
and write out that definition
then what i suggest is you write
one two or three sentences
right
showing your usage of that word in the
proper context
if it has three definitions well guess
what sun
bub
you have to do three words that means
maybe nine sentences
this sounds like a lot of work i want
you to remember something
don't do the work now you have to learn
it again later
and what's worse is if it took if it
takes five minutes to do what i'm
describing it'll take you 20 to 30
minutes to do it later that's six times
the amount of time because it's hard to
do
no one said learning a language is easy
but it can be fun and very productive
and there's something nice about having
no vocabulary and having it learning
quickly and keeping it so first thing to
understand write out the definition
all right
yeah sorry
write out the definition when you write
out the definition then write example
sentences
your example sentences all right
um let's go with the word uh ceiling for
instance there are two definitions for
the word ceiling
number one ceiling is the top of a room
the top part there's the floor there's
the ceiling the ceiling is inside the
building roof is on top of the building
a second definition for sealing is the
limit of something the ceiling you
cannot go any higher than this
in business we talked about a gloss
ceiling right and we talked about you
can only go so far then no more give you
an example so how would i use it to make
sure i understand it well my first
sentence might be for
for sealing and a roof i will paint the
walls blue and the ceiling
yellow
the ceiling yellow oh god looks like the
sun got it sealing is inside you don't
paint your roof yellow it's inside
yellow what about the second one okay i
put the second one is the limit of
something
for a salary for instance so i'd say the
ceiling for my salary at work is twenty
thousand dollars they will not pay me
more than that so i need to get a new
job
that's the limit
so i've written out these definitions it
gives me an understanding and maybe even
where i should use it
what about the next one the next one
we're going to do is pronounce
well how do you pronounce something
well here's what i usually say
the best way to learn pronunciation is
to do phonetics
simple phonetics break it down let's go
back to the word ceiling again
okay ceiling
okay i would have done this
see by the way you spell ceiling
like this but i don't care about how i
spell it it's how do i say it you say
ceiling
if you're nautical you like water you
might put
c bling
phonetics how do you say it these are
completely different but who cares how
you spell it how do i say it because
once i get the phonetics for it i can
pronounce it
right or big c
ling
you get the picture we can just keep
going
get the phonetics
do it slowly one part at a time because
if you go c c c
ling ling ling c ceiling then you can
put it together and pronounce it
properly like a native speaker you like
that i do teach my students that all the
time break it down master each point put
them together only at the end
third spell it okay
spelling is easy that's part of
vocabulary right because we have to do
vocabulary we both say it and we both
write it or
sorry we say it
we hear it we write it or we read it
spelling i have many students from parts
of the world who cannot spell so my
suggestion is this
look at the word you're already looking
at the definition write it out 10 times
write it out and look at it then go away
yes i said it go away relax have a beer
nope no beer have a tea we need you
smart right have a tea talk to your
friends come back and then spell it out
again look what mistakes you made why
did you make those mistakes there may be
grammar rules that will help you with
those mistakes such as i before e except
after c right or when you add an add a
letter e after a consonant usually it
actually affects the sound of the word
inside like fat and fate becomes long
that's another rule for another day but
the point is check your spelling so
write it out ten times come back later
write it out it'll help facilitate or
help your memory right
and finally recognize it
if somebody says to you oh that ceiling
looks really old and you're going what
is ceiling i've not heard of this
ceiling before
it's no good to you
i mean if you can't pronounce it nobody
understands you you can't recognize it
when someone says it you don't know what
they're talking about
so how do we do that
easy another lesson is speak slowly do
this
sealing
we go slowly to get the stress where is
the stress is it sealing or sealing
learning the stress
we are able to when people speak faster
pick it up because when i say look at
the ceiling
you need those stresses to catch the
word then your brain will catch it so
once again i suggest you say it very
slowly at least four or five times very
very slowly and elongate that word and
then the next five times say as fast as
you possibly get
let's say as fast as you possibly can
stealing singing ceiling
because then you're gonna get the sounds
that you must say in other words the
silence i must say that you can hear it
if you can do that when someone says
ceiling you'll know it's different than
i'm going seeing going to see something
or he's seeing not seeing ceiling you'll
catch it because you know ah there was
no l-stress
must be a different word you like that i
like it too
so
how to master grammar that's the first
mistake this has nothing to do with
grammar son
this is how to master
vocabulary
so if you've been paying attention
you'll notice that but it'll stick in
your mind see you'll recognize it was a
mistake
and you'll understand it's my fault
okay but i think it's a great lesson
please take it to heart try it out
you'll be surprised actually get off
right now write down five words you've
had problems with go through what i told
you go take the test
because i actually gave a test on this
word ceiling yeah that's what i did
ceiling it's not only here it's at the
invid website so go there check it out
do what i said see if you remember what
this word means
all right anyway it's been fun
with our vocabulary grammar lesson and
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other teachers god knows by now maybe 20
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gone all right learn your vocabulary
ciao
you