How To Improve Your English Vocabulary in 7 Days
in today’s lesson you will learn the
secret to improving your vocabulary in
only seven days welcome to speak English
with Tiffany I am teacher Tiffany let’s
jump right in
alright day number one on day number one
you need to first pick a topic of
interest and find a related article or
blog now let’s look at this a little bit
closer to find out exactly what your
interest is let’s say for example you
enjoy dressing nicely well that may mean
that your interest is fashion or maybe
you enjoy watching basketball maybe you
watch basketball games with your friends
or even with your family on a weekly
basis well that may mean that your
interest is the in b.a or maybe you
enjoy something with plants maybe you
enjoy growing plants well if you enjoy
growing plants or you have a green thumb
which just means you’re good with plants
maybe your interest is gardening or
maybe you even enjoy let’s say reading
let’s change that maybe you enjoy
reading about and also watching and even
playing golf so that would mean that
your interest is golf
and finally maybe you actually are
really good at playing the guitar so
that may mean that your interest is
music so as you can see there are many
different interests that we can have but
the most important thing is for you to
choose your favorite interest or
something that you really enjoy doing on
a regular basis ok now the next thing
you have to do is to find an article or
a blog about that interest so for
example let’s say you want to find a
magazine article
now magazine articles are really good
because magazine articles include
interesting monthly information ok they
come out on a monthly basis and they
give monthly information ok or maybe you
want to look at a blog now blogs are
very good because they include the
opinions of others ok opinions of others
so it can give you a different aspect
about or a different aspect of your
interest and finally maybe you actually
decide to find an article in the
newspaper
now newspaper articles are very popular
ok one reason that newspaper articles
are so popular is because they include
daily pieces of information ok
daily pieces of information and they are
updated on a regular basis let’s do this
I’m just going to write daily info
remember info is just short for
information ok this is day one find your
interest and then find a blog or an
article about your interest let’s move
on
day number two read the article or blog
and circle ten words now you see what
happened on day one you don’t have to
read the article you only have to find
it on day two is when you read the
article okay
let’s look at this a little closer now
with this one what you need to remember
first of all is that you must read the
article or the blog read the article or
the blog very carefully that means you
need to look at each of the words in the
article okay next what you need to do is
to remember that there will be many
unknown words that there will be many
unknown words and many of my students
have become very frustrated with this
because they feel like they don’t know
enough English vocabulary but you must
remember at this step on day two even
though there are many unknown words you
need to only circle the words you have
never seen before okay
the words you have never seen before
okay sometimes there are words that you
have seen in passing maybe as you’re
driving or walking around you’ve seen
the word before if that is the case
don’t circle that word try to find a
word that you’ve never seen okay now
only circle 10 that’s very important
only ten words okay and the last thing
to remember is don’t worry about the
other words
okay don’t worry about the other words
sometimes when you worry about every
single word as far as memorizing it your
brain can be overloaded and you get very
stressed okay so don’t worry about the
other words on day two only worry about
these right here these ten words okay
let’s move on today number three day
number three on day number three we are
going to write the definitions and the
sentences from the article or blog okay
so let’s look at it in a little bit more
detail all right now the first thing we
need to remember again is that on day
two we circled ten words okay we got ten
words from the article or the blog that
we read and as we said before we’re
going to write down the definition of
each word and we’re also going to write
down the exact sentences from the
article okay the exact sentences so the
sentences came from the article or the
blog okay now what you’re gonna do after
that okay after you’ve written them down
what you need to remember to do is this
so put this right here you need to
remember to go over the definitions and
memorize them okay this is the time that
you’re going to start memorizing a lot
okay but remember it’s actually only one
group okay they’re a group of ten
sentences so you’re going to memorize
the ten definitions this is the
definitions now for the sentences you
are going to do something
little bit different okay for the
sentences your only goal is to do what
read each sentence three to five times
aloud this is very important to do it
out loud you need to speak so you need
to say it out loud okay this is your
goal for the sentences on day three okay
let’s keep going all right Dave four on
day four you are going to change out the
words but keep the same sentence okay
let me explain exactly what that means
okay so again what do we have we have
ten words and on day three we wrote down
the ten sentences right okay now this is
what’s going to happen this day we can
also retitle it practice finding
synonyms
now remember synonyms are just words
with similar meanings I’ll write it out
really quickly for you
okay synonyms are just words with
similar meanings okay that’s what a
synonym is okay now why are we looking
at synonyms if we’re trying to learn
more vocabulary why are we looking at
the synonyms simple synonyms well
there’s a reason the reason is that this
will help you remember the new vocab
okay the new vocab and sentence patterns
okay
the new vocab remember vocab is just a
short way of saying vocabulary and
sentence pattern okay now let’s take
a look at an example okay let’s make
this a little bit clearer for you so
we’re gonna look at an example so let’s
say for example the word that we learned
was e leu say date now many of you have
probably never heard this word so I’ll
say it one more time elucidate one more
time elucidate now the word elucidate
just means to explain okay now let me
give you a sentence so let’s say I read
an article or a blog and in the blog I
read this sentence to elucidate his
point the man showed a picture okay now
what did I say earlier remember the word
elucidate just means to explain so on
this day day four what you’re going to
do is rewrite the same sentence but
you’re going to take out the vocabulary
word and replace it with a different
word so this is how the sentence you
would write would look okay two blank
space his point the man showed a picture
okay now I explained before that the
meaning of the word elucidate is
explained so we can write to explain his
point the man showed a picture now what
happens is the next time you see
elucidate or the next time you read the
sentence to elucidate his point the man
showed a picture you will remember the
word explained or the definition because
you changed it okay that is
why this practice on day four is so
important and so helpful okay let’s keep
going day number five
alright on day number five you’re going
to find one image to match each word
from the article or blog okay don’t
worry this is simpler than it sounds
okay so let’s look at it really closely
alright so again we have a total of ten
words right let’s do that s one more
time ten words okay and let’s say that
the ten words we have let’s give two of
the words let’s say for example let me
write them down mm-hmm let’s say one of
them is beaming and don’t worry I will
explain what they mean
number two is edifis okay edifis let’s
make this a little bit cleaner and let’s
say number three was terrain okay so
number one beaming number two edifis and
number three terrain so in the article I
read those were three of the ten words
that I found now I’ll give you the
meaning very quickly so beaming just
means to smile an edifice is just a
building or you can also say a structure
okay building our structure and terrain
just refers to field or a piece of land
okay now remember on this day day five
you’re trying to find a picture that
matches the words you found in the
article or blog so for example I said
beaming which just means to smile that
means that we can use this picture right
here
and what about edifice well I want to
use this picture
right here and finally terrain field or
land I want to use this picture right
here in the back so you see what you’re
doing is making a visual connection with
the vocabulary words that you found in
the article or blog all right we’re
almost there let’s keep going all right
day number six on day number six you’re
going to make sentences about the images
using the vocab word now this is when it
gets really interesting okay okay
let’s jump right in now explain
everything okay
so there were three words that I taught
you on day five I taught you beaming
edifice and terrain but let’s just use
two of those words
so first let’s use edifice remember a
building or a structure and let’s also
use beaming Kaymer beaming just means
smiling or to smile okay now let’s clean
up that G okay now on the left side we
have our images okay
so let’s start with the first one so we
have this picture right here which
connects with this right here
edifis so now what I want to do is I
want to make a sentence so let’s do this
I’m going to use the red color and I’m
gonna make a sentence for the word
edifice now remember you can make a
simple sentence or you can make an
advanced sentence whatever your level is
you can decide okay remember if you need
help making longer sentences watch my
video on how to make longer sentences
it’s a three part series and it will
really help you okay let’s keep going so
we can say the edifice remember this is
going to be about the picture okay the
edifice is located in Madrid okay so my
sentence uses the vocabulary word but
it’s also about the
picture why because you see the word
Madrid right there okay
now let’s do the second one so we have
this picture right here and we’re going
to connect it to this word beaming okay
so we’re gonna come over here and we’re
gonna write our sentence so our sentence
will be the man and woman there we go
are beaming across the a at each other
okay so again we have beaming right here
and we also have the fact that they’re
looking at each other which describes
the picture okay very good now we’re
almost done let’s go today number seven
all right on day number seven you’re
going to review the images and say the
sentences okay
let’s look at this a little closer all
right so what we’re going to do is see
we have 10 right up until this point
we’ve learned ten words we found ten
images and we’ve written ten sentences
to go along with the words and the
images okay so this is what you’re going
to do on this day you need to let’s get
a different color
you need to make flashcards so you can
make flashcards using the words and the
images that you found or let’s see or
maybe you want to look at a notebook
okay you can use
a notebook and then I’m gonna show you
visually what you can do okay you can
use a notebook so either flashcards a
notebook or you can even maybe you
decide to make a digital file so you can
make a digital file okay on your
computer on your iPad even on your phone
okay make a digital file now this is
what you’re going to do okay so remember
that on day six what did we do we had an
image okay let’s say there’s an image
right here and we took that image and we
made our own sentence about that image
and we used one of the vocabulary words
okay so basically what is happening on
day seven we’re reviewing by practicing
ok practicing using the images and the
sentences we made so again you can use a
digital file you can use a notebook or
you can use flash cards make the
flashcards draw it in your notebook or
even save image files on your computer
or iPad but the most important thing is
you need to practice using the images to
actually be a trigger again if you need
to know what a trigger is you can go to
one of my other videos where I talk
about the importance of using triggers
to learn vocabulary and use the triggers
or the images to actually memorize the
words and also the sentences this is how
you can learn vocabulary in only seven
days and you keep doing this over and
over now if you really want to keep
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