VI Lesson 8 Listening and speaking (tapescript)

How different students organize their vocabulary learning

1. I have a little notebook. It's an address book with the letters of the alphabet, and I write the new words in two, or three times a week. I write the English word first, then the translation, and a short sentence as an example. I try to learn ten new words a day.

2. I have a little notebook. I always have it with me. I try to fill one page a day. Sometimes I put words in groups, like fruit - all kinds of fruit, you know. Or colours, or clothes, or things and the shops where you buy them. I have some grammar pages, where I write irregular verbs, or a page for prepositions, I think prepositions are difficult, you know - on Sunday, in the morning, listen to a concert - but you say phone someone. In my language we say 'phone to someone’.

3. I stick little bits of paper all over my house! Sometimes I write what the thing is, er... On the mirror, I have mirror, on the door handle, I have door handle. Yeah, I know, it's funny. My friends think 'What's the matter with her?' but I like it. And sometimes I write the words that are new, from the last lesson, and I put the word on the ... on the kitchen door and I see it every two minutes!

4. I write the new words on a little piece of paper, with the English on the one side and the Turkish on the other side. I write the English word in a sentence so I know how to use it, and what words it's used with. Then in my left pocket, I have the new words, and in the day, when I'm having a break or travelling on the bus, I take out the new words, and if I remember them they go into my right pocket. If I don't remember them, they go into my left pocket again.