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how to remember words on Wednesday I go to school again at the beginning of the lesson one student says I started to read more I feel that it is good for me I can see how my grammar is better but I have a problem when I read I look up a new word in a diary then I continue reading sometimes when I see the same word again only 10 minutes later I don't remember the word and I have to look it up again can you help me to remember the words better our teacher says that it is an interesting question and she gives this explanation it is absolutely normal that you don't remember the new word immediately usually you will have to look up the word five times before you remember it there there will be also words that you will have to look up 10 or 15 times these words are usually verbs when we learn a new word the word goes through phases only when you achieve the last phase you remember the word very well there are five of these phases let's have a look at them the first phase is the moment when you see the word for the first time and you don't know the word you look it up in the dictionary the second phase is the moment when you see the word that you have already looked up in the dictionary or heard or saw it in the past you know that you saw this word before but you still don't remember its meaning you look up the word again the third phase is the moment when you see the word again and you feel what it could mean but you're not sure for example you know that the word is some kind of object or some animal or a verb the fourth phase is the moment when you already know what the word means when you see it but you are not able to recall the word when you want to say it when this phase happens the word is in your passive vocabulary the fifth phase is the moment when you are able to use use the word when you speak now you can see there are five phases all together do you understand now why it is not possible to remember a new word when you see it for the first time you would have to jump across all the phases with the first encounter with the word you have to see or hear every word several times and let it go through all the phases until you get to phase number five you can be happy not only when you learn a new word perfectly but also when you get from one phase to the other when it happens you are closer to the final goal and it is to use the word without problems in everyday communication all of this is interesting to me I didn't know about these phases but it is all logical it also happened to me that I looked up a new word in the dictionary but 2 minutes later I didn't know what the word was and I had to look it up again I felt stupid that I didn't remember the word now I know that it is absolutely okay not to remember the word forever when I see it for the first time I need several encounters with the word before I can use the word well after school I go to my football training our coach tells tells us that there will be a match on Saturday the school team will play against another school team from Cambridge our coach tells me to come and play for the school team I am very happy and I am looking forward to the Saturday match when you want to remember a new word you need to see or hear the word about 10 times how to improve listening the next day I go to school again one of the students has an important question he wants to know how to improve his listening skills he wants to know what the best approach is our teacher says thank you for your question good listening skills are very important for communication if you don't understand what people are saying it will be difficult for you to speak with them there are a lot of materials on the internet for students of English some students can have a problem with finding the right listening materials for them let's have a look at what you should listen to there are two types of materials which you can listen to you can listen to some audio or you can watch a film these are quite different materials and different rules apply to them when you listen to some audio you should know 95% of the words or more if the audio has a lot of new words read the text first if possible and make sure you know all the words when you practice listening you practice getting information from a spoken language you don't try to learn new words of course sometimes you can learn new words but it is not the main goal when you listen concentrate on getting information from spoken English it is important to use materials at your level of English for example you can use books in simplified English which contain an audio recording I really recommend these books to you they are fantastic because you can choose a book at your level of English when you have such a book read the book first and then listen listen to the recording at home or when you travel you can read two great books at www robins and cruso in ls. com or www. the littleprince in ls.

com your can also visit www. newsin levels. if you like listening to the news all these materials are in three levels of English the second type of materials for listening practice are films and videos on www.

youtube. com these are also great you can start using them when you know 2,000 words in English or more this is what you should do with a film watch it for the first time with subtitles so that you know what the film is about then watch the film without subtitles if you you like the film very much you can watch it more than once when you watch one film many times with every view you will understand more it is also good to watch videos on the internet about interesting subjects for example if you like nature you can watch documentaries about nature you can also watch reality shows reality shows are much easier to understand than films or documentary because the structure of the show is usually the same it is necessary to have at least 30 minutes a day of listening the more you listen the faster you will understand more words when listening you should always look at what you already understand even if it is just 10% at the beginning it is very easy to demotivate yourself by realizing all of the parts that you don't have understand yet look at what you already know be happy for every new sentence you have understood listening is the easiest way to learn you don't have to do anything you just listen did this information help you yes says the student thank you the listening topic is very interesting for me now I know what to do to improve my life listening when you want to be good at listening listen for 30 minutes every day what you need before you start on Friday we have an interesting conversation in our class our teacher has a question for us she asks what was your first reason to learn English do you remember the moment when you started to learn English when did you start to be really interested in the language I say that I remember the moment when I started to be interested in English my teacher says can you tell us what happened I say yes first I have to say that English wasn't always my favorite subject I started to learn English at high school at the beginning it was very difficult for me I didn't understand the structure of the language it was illogical to me I tried to remember words I tried to learn grammar but it was very hard when I finished high school I was still only a beginner I couldn't speak English and I believed that I would never learn this language properly I simply believed that English wasn't for me then something happened I always liked music and when I was 20 I started to listen to The Beatles I wanted to understand what they were singing so I started to translate their songs slowly I understood more and more then I met two ladies from England on a train we had a simple conversation but it helped me very much I started to believe that I could learn English from that moment on I was working on my English almost every day and I was getting better and better then I decided to go to England and improve English here my teacher thanks me for sharing my story she also tells me here is something very interesting about your story you are still you the first you didn't have motivation to learn English the second you had a motivation you wanted to understand songs you can see that motivation is very important when you have it you can succeed when you don't have it it is very hard to be successful then our teacher asks everybody in the class about their motivation to learn English the story stories are very interesting one girl's motivation is to be able to read historical books in original English one student wants to be a professional tennis coach in England he wants to speak perfect English before he starts his career as a coach one woman wants to work for a big international company and she needs English for her job I can see that everybody has some kind of motivation to use English in real life or to get information from books at the end of the lesson our teacher asks us if we like English I say I didn't like English at my high school but now I like it a lot I can see how useful it is to know this language our teacher says this is another important factor when you learn a new language it is good when you like something which is connected to English it can be people music culture or history if you like English it is easier for you to learn it if you want to be able communicate in English it is good to know 3,000 words or more if you don't like English it is more difficult to find time to practice enough to get to the level of 3,000 words I can agree with my teacher now I like not only the Beatles but also my teacher and my boss who is also English I also like English humor now it is much easier for me to find time to practice English every day on Saturday I go to play football for my school team we have some very good players on our team and we win 3-2 we are all very happy we go to the pub after the match and we celebrate our Victory when you want to learn English you need to have motivation to use English every day how to learn 3,000 words during the next lesson one of the students asks our teacher this question you told us that it is good to know 3,000 words where can I find these 3,000 words that are the most important for me to learn my teacher replies you can Google a list of the 3,000 most frequent words in English but such a list will not help you much when you start to learn words from this list you will learn words outside the context you will learn the words that are not connected with any story you will not learn what other words are connected with these words in sentences you will learn them in your short-term memory this system works only for some words these are basic Words which describe things and people around us for example mother father apple blue orange dog cat book car house city boy girl water Cinema or paper these are words which represent something that you can imagine easily for example when you learn the word dog you know immediately what it is you have a clear idea in your head what the word means yet when you want to learn words such as appreciate or suppose the system doesn't work well this is a problem many students experience they start their studying by using list of words it works at the beginning and they believe that they can learn English this way they don't know that when they achieve the level of 1,000 words they have to start using a different system if you want to learn words from a higher level you have to learn them from Whole sentences if you understand the meaning of a word in the context of a sentence you will learn the word much better you can can learn words from lists but there is usually a limit where you can go with this way of learning and it is 1,000 words also way of learning is very slow there are much better ways which we have already spoken about such as reading for beginners the best book to read is Robinson cruso in simple English you can find this book at ww.