Tuesday 2 February 2016

Here is a listening activity, click on this link and answer the following questions:

1.     What is the speaker’s name and expertise?

      Her name is and her expertise is how to learn Vocabulary

2.     List all the different effective ways to learn new vocabulary that the lady has mentioned in her talk; use present simple tense to write the steps.

     1.Reading plenty of materials and find vocabulary.
 
     2.Talk with your partner. You can guess the meaning from context sentence or 

       use dictionary.

     3.make sentence with this new word.

3.     How many parts in the talk?      It has two parts.


4.     What is a ‘Word Journal’? What you need to do with it?

     To record new word and remember it again.


5.     What were the examples that she has mentioned with the words family and collocations?

     For example: its noun, verb, adj and adv


6.     Use the following table to learn the new vocabulary and then add any new word that you find it hard for you:



Word


Definition

Sentence

Demystify揭秘
make (a difficult or esoteric subject) clearer and easier to understand.

Repertoire曲目
a stock of plays, dances, or pieces that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform

Infinite 无限,广大无边
limitless or endless in space, extent, or size; impossible to measure or calculate

Encounter 遭遇
an unexpected or casual meeting with someone or something.

Lexicon 词汇
the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge

Exponentially指数


Collocations

the habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance

expertise 专门知识

expert skill or knowledge in a particular field


Journal  ri
a newspaper or magazine that deals with a particular subject or professional activity.







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