EOIDNA/ Nivel Intermedio/ Listening
PART 2 (5 x 1 = 5 marks)
You are going to listen to Martin giving some advice on how to learn vocabulary. For
questions 6-10, complete the sentences/table with the correct information in no
more than 4 words, as in the example (0).
You will hear the recording twice.
INTRODUCTION
0.
To learn vocabulary, the old ones are the best methods:
____________reading and listening______________________________________
READING AND USING THE DICTIONARY
6.
What kind of texts should students read?
_________________________________________________
7.
Which words should students look up in the dictionary?
Only ____________________________________________
8.
Which three steps should students follow?
a. ___________________________
b. Look it up in the dictionary
c. Go back to the text
LISTENING TO THE RADIO
9.
Listening to the radio is a good way of improving your comprehension, but in
order to learn vocabulary, it is also necessary ______________________
REMEMBERING
10. Repetition is very important to remember; therefore , try to read in
______________________________________________
NEW WORDS
11.
What to do with new words you’ve just learnt?
__________________________________________
12.
What you feel when you ___________________________ has a great impact
on the process of learning.
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EOIDNA/ Nivel Intermedio/ Listening
6)
Everything/ any kind
7)
Very frequent words
8)
Make a note
9)
To read
10) The same area/ subject/ topic
11) Use them
12) use a new word
EOIDNA/ Nivel Intermedio/ Listening
PART 2 (5 x 1 = 5 marks)
You are going to listen to Martin giving some advice on how to learn vocabulary. For
questions 6-10, chose the option a, b or c that best answers each
question/completes the statement, as in the example (0–b).
You will hear the recording twice.
0. To learn vocabulary, the old ones are the best methods:
a. listening and speaking
b. reading and listening
c. reading and writing
6
Students should read…
a)
all sorts of texts
b)
literary works
c)
what they like
7
Students should look up in the dictionary…
a)
all the unknown words
b)
only the most difficult ones
c)
the ones which appear frequently
8
Listening to the radio is a good way of…
a)
improving your comprehension
b)
learning vocabulary without reading
c)
revising the new vocabulary
9
As repetition is very important to remember, try to read…
a)
in the same area/ field
b)
only what you are interested in
c)
the same text again and again
10 What to do with new words you’ve just learnt?
a)
Repeat them every day
b)
Use them as soon as you can
c)
Write them down on a piece of paper
11 Using a new word for the first time…
a)
has a great impact on your self esteem
b)
helps you remember it
c)
is not the same as recognizing it
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EOIDNA/ Nivel Intermedio/ Listening
There are no easy solutions. The old methods are very often the best methods:
reading and listening, reading and listening, reading and listening and particularly
reading. It is the best way for learning and improving vocabulary.
Dictionary is of course terribly useful but it isn’t very useful to sit with a dictionary
and to go through it systematically with the copied words you don’t know about.
Read, read things you’re interested in. Read magazines, read short stories, read
what you can find , read – You have access to the internet?- read web sites on
subjects you’re interested in and only look up the words which come up again and
again and again. Don’t let words that don’t know stop you. Don’t get depressed.
Don’t notice all the things that are unfamiliar, that you don’t know. Read and
understand what you con. A lot of that vocabulary you’ll be picking up without
thinking about it. You’ll surprise yourself one day you’re using words you don’t
know you knew but words you’ve read. If a word comes up frequently and really
seems to be an important word because it always comes when you want to work
out something you don’t know, make a note of it, look it up in the dictionary but
then go back to where you found it and read that again , this time understanding it.
- And what about listening to the radio? Is that a good way of improving your
vocabulary?
- It’s brilliant, it’s excellent. You don’t have the luxury of stopping and thinking and
going back and checking out the content. So listening to the radio is a wonderful
way of improving your comprehension. I think in terms of learning vocabulary you
need to read as well.
As for remembering for ever, let’s not forget that, how do you remember something
forever? Well, I can’t promise you forever, but you remember things by coming
across them again and again and again and again. And I think one of the problems
with vocabulary is that people sometimes want to write down and learn every word
they come across. Well, maybe a word they’re never going to come across again.
But if you’re reading in a particular area a subject the more you read in that
subject, the more the words will come back again and again and again. And it’s
important that that happens. Umm and try to find opportunities to use a word if
you’re speaking to people or if you’re writing. See if you can sneak in some of the
words you’ve used. That feeling of, ah! I’ve just used a new really has a huge
impact on the mind and the memory and that, noticing that you are using a word
properly for the first time, in itself, is a really important part of remembering it.
- And also when you’ve just learnt a new word and you hear it again and you
recognize it immediately that0s a great feeling.
- Absolutely! And that’s a wonderful phenomenon that we have in our own
languages too. When we learn something and then we suddenly notice it
everywhere. And I think (mmm) because I’m a language learner as well as a
language teacher…I learn a new word in English or in another language and
suddenly it’s on every page.
- Well, very good. That‘s some good advice on how t remember new words and
new vocabulary. Thanks very much, Martin