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szdaily -> Budding Writers -> 
Strategic ‘grouping’ makes learning more simple
    2017-03-29  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    Chen Rong, Class 9, Senior 2, Shenzhen Xin’an Middle School Instructed by He Liming, Tang Ying

    深圳市新安中学高二(9)陈蓉 指导老师:贺黎明 汤颖

    Vocabulary plays an important role in learning English. If you want to learn English well, you should memorize as many words and their meanings as you can. My English teacher always asks us to learn new words.

    Actually, all of us know the importance of vocabulary, but it’s boring to memorize them. As a result, there are many learners who give up on studying English.

    As students, we must overcome the difficulties of mastering new words if we want to pass or get high scores on our exams.

    When I was learning a word in a unit of my textbooks, I just read and looked at it again and again until I memorized it. It took me quite a long time to learn all the 40-50 words in a unit. What’s more, after I memorized them, I forgot them very soon after. After a class on highly effective English learning strategy training given by my English teacher, I realized that my way of memorizing words was inefficient and boring.

    From this class I learned a new method of learning words which is called “grouping.”

    When we are learning a dozen of words, we should find the connection between the words in application, meaning, part of speech, prefix, suffix, opposite words and so on.

    For example, if you want to learn the following 12 words quickly in just a minute: hot, hard, fire, cool, easy, kind, ice, cold, warm, cruel, difficult, soft, what will you do to master them?

    The strategy of “grouping” is a suitable way for us to finish this task. You can put them into two groups to make up two stories: ice = cold, hard = easy, kind = nice vs hot = fire, warm = soft, cruel = difficult. The first word is that the ice is cold and hard, but it’s easy to make it kind to us. When we touch it in summer, we will feel very cool. The second one is that fire is hot and warm. It seems to be soft but it is cruel and destroys things and is difficult to control in truth.

    Is this strategy of learning new words more interesting and effective than your strategy of learning new words by learning them one by one individually? I think it is very easy to learn many words together at a time in this way.

    In my opinion, this method of “grouping” is like killing two birds with one stone.

    I can not only memorize the words but also know how to use them as well as improve my writing. What do you think of this strategy now? Why not try it?

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