| Building your Vocabulary | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This site has numerous units that will help you to build your vocabulary quickly. Here is how you can find them and how they will help you. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Learning vocabulary from context | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| A daily English newspaper is ideal for building your vocabulary. This is especially true of news stories because the format of the news gives you three chances to understand. This allows you to guess the meanings of many unfamiliar words just by reading the story. Here are the units on this site that will show you how: Dealing with vocabulary (for teachers) Dealing with unfamiliar vocabulary Using context to learn unfamiliar words Taking full advantage of the news style Tips on reading The headline |
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| Learning vocabulary directly: The second reason the newspaper is an ideal medium for building vocabulary is in its content. You see the same topics every day and within these types there is almost always a set of key words occur over and over again. We give you a quick start at learning the key words for topics such as storms. the environment, and disputes in the section entitled common newspaper stories. |
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