KEEPING A VOCABULARY NOTEBOOK ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE PRE INTERMEDIATE

 

ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE PRE INTERMEDIATE UNIT 2 KEEPING A VOCABULARY NOTEBOOK

 

A What do you do? This is what some students do. RAFAEL I write down new English words and phrases in my notebook, and next to each one I write a Spanish translation. I usually write down if a word is a noun, verb, adjective, and so on. KAZUO I sometimes write a word in phonemics because English pronunciation is very difficult for me. But my notebook is a mess [nothing is in a good order; syn untidy]. I like to draw pictures. B Tips for your notebook A tip is a piece of advice to help you. Here are some tips for your notebook. √ Put words from one topic in the same place, e.g. food in one place, clothes in another, etc. Don’t mix them up [put them together with no order]. You can also have grammar topics, e.g. ‘uncountable nouns’, or a page for words that all have a connection, e.g. words and phrases that were all in a story you read in English. Some words and phrases will go in more than one topic. √ If you can’t find a topic for a new word or phrase, e.g. useful or in particular, put them in a different place in your notebook, e.g. a page for each day or each week, or perhaps one page for every English lesson you have. Write the date clearly at the top, e.g. Monday 14th May. EXERCISES 2.1 Organise the words into the topics below. One word can go in two different topics. Use a dictionary to help you. diet branch lay the table count.v dig.v ground flour add up leaf minus butcher thousand frozen zero butterfly             2.2 Explain these words in English, or draw a picture, or if you think an explanation is too difficult and a drawing is not possible, write a translation instead. 1 raw ____ not cooked ­_________________________________________________________________ 2 dig _________________________________________________________________ 3 butcher _________________________________________________________________ 4 leaf _________________________________________________________________ 5 flour _________________________________________________________________ 6 lay the table _________________________________________________________________ 7 add up _________________________________________________________________ 8 minus _________________________________________________________________ 2.3 What information could you include with these words? The answers are all on the opposite page. 1 forget __opposite –remember ____________________________________________ 2 awful ____________________________________________________________________________ 3 necessary ____________________________________________________________________________ 4 translate ____________________________________________________________________________ 5 tip ____________________________________________________________________________ 6 enjoy ____________________________________________________________________________ 2.4

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