How Do You
Learn Common English Vocabulary?
You can learn this way too! You can learn faster than my son
(he's almost four years old now) by combining
listening with reading and writing study. But if you don't
also speak the vocabulary you are studying, he might learn faster than
you!
In a nutshell, if you already:
- study vocabulary in lists
- read English text (books, newspapers, the
internet, etc)
- attend an English class
- write a journal in English
- talk to people in English
then you can start to learn even faster
than before by adding a regular listening study program.
For this story (below),
- read the phrasal verbs
- imagine a silly image to represent the meaning
of each
- read them out loud
- look at the photo and try to imagine your own
story about it that uses the phrasal verbs
- listen to the story
- listen again, while reading the story
- do something else for a while (perhaps 5 to 10
minutes)
- come back and try to remember the words
- listen to the story again.
You are finished studying common English vocabulary listening for
today. Now review this all again the next day.
Here is the story:
Hard Facts
Verb
list
1. be dying for
to want very much
2. face up to
to accept having to deal
with something unpleasant
3. get away with to manage to do
something without being blamed or penalized or experiencing an expected
bad result
4. hand over
to surrender somebody,
or give something away to somebody else
5. improve on
to produce something which
is better, more useful etc than
You
can get your own copy of this recording in mp3 format here - (at no charge).
Just right click here.
 
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