Ways to learn vocabulary by Diego Maciel https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y en-us 2017-05-08 23:37:46 UTC 2025-11-16 13:53:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Read news articles other texts online diego_newsted https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170641211
You can easily read news articles and other texts online with a browser extension that provides you with the translation of individual words and their pronunciation. By reading online, and seeing the translation of the words you don't know, you can easily increase your vocabulary list.]]> 2017-05-08 23:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170641211 Learn Songs in the foreign language diego_newsted https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170641273 Music helps to activate the whole brain for learning. It's no surprise that songs are particularly suited for immersing you in a foreign language. There are various reasons for that: songs help with pronunciation and memory, and teach you the rhythm and flow of the foreign language. ]]> 2017-05-08 23:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170641273 Try to make connections with the words diego_newsted https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170641316 Whenever a student listens to a word, he should try to connect it to a word of similar meaning. For example: If a student wants to remember the word 'gigantic', he could connect it with 'Godzilla' or any other similar word. This will create a picture in the mind of the student and he will be able to remember the meaning as well.]]> 2017-05-08 23:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170641316 Try to remember words with opposite meanings diego_newsted https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170641350  
Whenever we hear a word, we try to know its meaning. Sometimes it is easier to remember the opposite rather than the word itself. By doing this, you can remember the word as well as the opposite. This also helps to learn two words at the same time.


]]> 2017-05-08 23:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170641350 Mnemonics diego_newsted https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170641528
A great online resource for mnemonics is the mnemonicdictionary.com; you can type in the words you want to remember and you will see many different ways to help you memorize.]]> 2017-05-08 23:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170641528 Create a Mind Map diego_newsted https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170642530 A mind map is an ideal way to cluster and organize your vocabulary. Visuals, colors, diagram-links reflect how the brain makes associations. The combination of words and images you create yourself activates both sides of your brain.]]> 2017-05-08 23:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170642530 Give color schemes to the words diego_newsted https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170642716 If your students are learning 'positive and negative adjectives', they can write all the 'negative' words in red color and words with positive meaning in green color. By doing this, your students can easily recollect the words whenever they come across them.]]> 2017-05-09 00:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170642716 Try to learn the new words in context diego_newsted https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170643638 Your students can write sentences including the new word in order to learn it faster.  If they just repeat the words to themselves or write them many times, the information is isolated. It is not connected to any of the other English words that they know.]]> 2017-05-09 00:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/diego_newsted/u9zk80t8l50y/wish/170643638