hi again welcome back to ink vidcom I'm
Adam
today's lesson is meant to show you ways
of increasing your vocabulary I know
some of the other teachers on Ingrid
comm have done these lessons I just want
to throw my two cents in if you know
what that means means I want to give my
own piece of advice I have a few ideas
for you we're gonna start with of these
we'll look at a few others more
practical ones as well the most
important thing that you can do to
increase your vocabulary is read read a
lot
what should you read anything and
everything but the most important thing
is read what you are interested in okay
if you like sport read a sports magazine
if you like movies
read a movie magazine even better read
the script of the movie if the movie is
based on a novel read the novel for
example recently the movie Life of Pi
was very famous in the theaters it's
based on a novel read the novel it's a
pretty good book my favorite movie
Shawshank Redemption based on a novella
by Stephen King read it the best way to
increase your vocabulary also don't just
learn new words and try to remember them
right right a lot use the words you're
learning right every time you learn a
new word you should have a notebook with
you all the time anyway write the word
in a sentence
but not just any sentence make sure that
the sentence clearly shows that you know
the meaning of the word okay
so let's for example I know everybody
knows this word but beautiful everybody
knows this word but let's say it's a new
word for you don't write the sky is
beautiful it doesn't tell me anything
about the word beautiful the sky is also
blue does beautiful mean blue no make
sure you're using something I love to
see a beautiful sky that has pretty
clouds and a sunshine and a nice color
nice shade of blue because it makes me
feel happy not the best example it's a
very long sentence but you get my idea
now again coming back to that
notebook always have a notebook with you
always have a pen with you and don't
limit yourself to one new word when you
learn a new word make sure you learn
different forms of the same word okay so
for example the word beautiful let's say
this is a new word for you you learn the
word beautiful put it in your adjectives
column it's an adjective that's what you
want but why not learn the other forms
for example what is the adverb form of
beautiful I think most of you know it
it's beautifully so you have now two new
words what is the noun form of beautiful
it's beauty you now have three new words
in your vocabulary is there a verb form
of beautiful yes as a matter of fact
there is
beautify means to make beautiful you now
have four new words think of other words
beautician mutation is a person who
works making people more beautiful she
does facials and manicures and pedicures
and wax and whatever else these
mutations do anyways try to find other
forms learn many words instead of just
one word okay now some people like to
study roots and suffixes and prefixes
personally I'm not a huge fan of this
recommendation but first let me explain
what a root is for example you have the
root jekt so you learn inject eject
object subject all the different words
that come from the root so many people
only study the word or the root jekt and
think that it will help them understand
all the words with this root it's a good
idea if you have the patients I think
most people who are studying English
don't like to study roots because it's
like studying another leg
which if it works for you do it if it
doesn't don't okay and now another thing
you can do listen listen to any spoken
English that you can hmm I think some of
you may have heard of Ted calm it's a
good website people give talks and
lectures about different topics listen
listen carefully any time you hear a
word that you don't recognize write it
down if you don't know the spelling no
problem write it phonetically write the
word just like it sounds then if you
have access to a transcript means all
the words of that were spoken written
down check the transcript and find your
word if you can't if you don't have a
transcript go to a dictionary now some
of you have asked me to recommend a
dictionary very simple and there online
you can get the paper one or the online
one Merriam Webster's em-dash w.com
American English oxforddictionaries.com
British English okay now I know I've
seen a lot of students uses like their
electronic dictionaries they go from
like English to Korean English to
Japanese English to Spanish don't do
that anymore
okay English to English this way you're
learning more words as you're learning
one word I don't know this word I look
at the definition in the definition I
might be I might be learning other words
okay you will maximize how many words
you learn by using an English to English
dictionary now again about those
electronic dictionaries sometimes like
especially when people are trying to
write they will write a sentence in
their native language and then press
translate on this dictionary and get a
sentence in English now I've seen
sentences that I knew came from the day
from the electronic dictionary because
they made no sense okay there were
terrible terrible sentences don't do
that okay the people who made these
dictionaries might not know English very
well keep that in mind okay so these are
some ideas now I'm going to tell you
what I think are the
best ideas to increase your vocabulary
okay so now we're gonna look at a couple
other ways you can increase your
vocabulary these are very effective but
they take a lot of patience a lot of
perseverance you have to try hard you
have to keep doing it because vocabulary
not so easy right
okay so first we're gonna start with
cards you get yourself a stack of cards
maybe this big not too big because you
want to carry them in your pocket take
them with you everywhere you go okay on
one side of the cards you're gonna write
words for maybe five words that are new
words for you
you're gonna write sentences on the back
on the other side of the card you're
gonna use these words in sentences so
you have a clear meaning or you can
write the meaning of the word dictionary
meaning both okay now you're gonna split
your cards into three piles okay you're
gonna have the pile of cards of words
that you know words you're very
comfortable with eventually you will
have a pile like this words that you're
very comfortable with you know them very
well you don't need to look at these
cards very often okay now before I
continue where do you get these words
you get from a TOEFL site or an IELTS
site or an SAT site or an SAT book for
example they have lists of words that
you need to learn put all these words on
cards split them up like this you know
these words very well don't need to look
at these words you're almost sure or at
least you recognize these words you've
seen them before you've heard them
before you can guess what they mean
maybe in context so you're not sure put
them in this this pile this pile you
will look at all the time and then in
the last pile you put words that you
really don't know okay this is the pile
you will look at the most you will study
these words as they become more familiar
you move them to this pile this pile you
study also very regularly you take the
this pile is the one you put in your
pocket and take
with you when you go outside on the bus
look at your words long line at the bank
pull out your cards look at the words
okay
when this word becomes very comfortable
for you when you know what this word
means move it over to this pile leave it
at home okay don't know almost sure no
study move study move put aside once in
awhile look at them just make sure you
remember because if you never look at
these again you will forget them okay so
it's all the time continual you have to
practice practice practice practice
vocabulary is a lot of memorization
that's the way it is now here's another
thing you can do okay this is the last
one I'll show you today what you do is
you make yourself groups of words okay
you take you can do it many ways you can
make yourself a little like a little
brainstorm you for example if we're
looking at roots you write the root and
he reject and then you write reject they
inject eject subject etc or in the list
however way works for you so three ways
that I will recommend to group words
again if you like the roots group them
like that
eject reject object subject inject now
the reason you're going to make groups
is because maybe you don't remember
object or object
remember noun or verb but you remember
jecht
you remember this group you sort of
remember what jack means so you can
apply it to object jack is like push in
most context object is push away refuse
okay so if you don't remember the word
hopefully you will remember the idea of
the group and then that will remind you
what the word means okay another group
you can use is similar meanings so
synonyms words that have similar
meanings or a similar function okay so
for example I'm going to look at this
function increase extend expand
accelerate intensify reinforce all of
these have some sort in there meaning
have some sort of connection to increase
extent make longer increased length or
time duration expand increased size or
scope accelerate increase speed
intensify increase intensity reinforce
increase strength so maybe you see the
word reinforce you're reading something
you see the word reinforced you're not
exactly sure what it means but you
remember the group it was in the group
was the increased group so reinforced
means increase plus the context of the
sentence you saw it in will help you
understand it means increased strength
or in sometimes it could be increased in
number like number of soldiers reinforce
the position the last group is theme for
example let's say for today that theme
is technology okay so you write words
that have to do with technology obsolete
state-of-the-art update downgrade
cutting-edge all these words we can talk
about like computer software's or
computers obsolete
old not useful anymore nobody uses us
anymore Windows XP maybe not completely
obsolete but almost obsolete
hardly anybody uses it anymore
state-of-the-art means the newest
cutting edge the newest the most modern
the most advanced you can get update to
make newer downgrade to make less for
example I have Windows 8 I don't like it
I want to downgrade to Windows 7 but
can't do it Windows 8 won't let me but
anyway so you have a theme you have a
function you have the root learn in
chunks
if you don't remember one word you'll
remember the group it'll help you
understand the word you're looking at ok
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