Monday, September 3, 2012

Topic of the Week - Vocab Building


Our new Topic of the Week is Vocabulary Building.  How do you learn and remember new words in English?  This week I will share with you some websites and strategies for Vocab study.  Feel free to add your own tips in the comment section.  

I made this cool word picture at Tagxedo.com.  The program looked at all the words here at fastfoodenglish.blogspot.com and created this image.  The bigger the word, the more often it is used.    Learning these words will help you understand this website better because they are used often.  

The same is true in English.  You can study the words that are used the most and it will help you understand more.  They are called High Frequency Words and you can find the top 1200 most common words in English  here. http://school.elps.k12.mi.us/donley/classrooms/berry/sitton_spelling_activities/4thgrade_spelling/sitton_word_list.htm


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