Memorizing English words has always been the most troublesome problem for most students. Here, I combine the strengths of various schools and my daily teaching experience to provide you with some methods of memorizing words and teach you how to Memorize words.

1. Pronunciation memory method

Most words in English conform to pronunciation rules, so you should pay more attention to the pronunciation rules of letters and letter combinations a

Rhythm, you can know its sound by seeing its shape, and you can know its shape by listening to its sound. Pronunciation mnemonics should be the preferred method for memorizing words. For example:

reality/ / magnificent / / discovery/ / hospital/ /

2. Imitation memory method (collection of foreign words)

There are some words The pronunciation is very similar to Chinese. Of course, most of the words are transliterated, which helps memorize the words. For example: romance, logic, typhoon, international, microphone, copy, cartoon, hamburger, salad ( salad, brandy, whiskey, Moslem, sofa, cool, pose, engine, motor, bar, Canada (Canada), laser (laser), golf (golf), tofu (tofu)...

It should be noted that the pronunciation of Chinese characters must not be used to replace the pronunciation of English words. These two Languages ??are not entirely equivalent after all.

3. Homophone memory method

That is, using the similar characteristics of the pronunciation of English words and Chinese pinyin to connect and imagine the memory. Such as: conquer (conquer) "overcome"; vacation (vacation) "I am happy"; fetch (take) "get"; tomb (grave) "earth tomb"; strange (strange) "fact"; trainee (trainee) ) "beat you"; trainer (trainer) "beat you"...

4. Humorous memory method

When teaching the word lawyer, I remind students not to pronounce it as " "Master", the students burst into laughter and quickly memorized this word. Likewise, I have had the same effect by telling students not to pronounce Moscow as "touch the dead dog." When learning monkey, I added the words donkey and monk, so that students can remember these three words in humor.

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5. Allusions and background knowledge method

revolution - the origin of Lu Xun's pen name is the transliteration of "lution", which means "revolution" meaning. Muscle - the root word mus (muscle) means mouse. The ancient Greeks believed that an athlete's upper arm muscles resembled a mouse.

Sandwich - comes from the name of the British Earl Sandwich (Sanwich). In order to facilitate playing cards, he invented a kind of sandwich bread that could be eaten while playing cards, which later developed into today's "sandwich".

Kangroo - Kangaroo. It is said that when Captain Cook sailed to Australia, he saw a high-jumping animal leaping past him. He quickly asked the tour guide around him, "What's that?" The tour guide didn't. When he saw it clearly, he said, "Kangroo" (meaning "I don't know" in Australian dialect). Captain Cook mistakenly thought that Kangroo was the name of a kangaroo. He recorded this animal in his voyage diary. Later, Kangroo really became a kangaroo. The English name of this animal.

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6. Associative memory method

l whole - use w to plug the hole to become "whole" "

l committee - two m, two t, two e, which shows that there are many people, that is, the committee"

l Marry-----Mary added Doesn’t a person “get married” with “r”?

l quiet——If you move the “e” in “quite”, doesn’t it mean “quiet”?

l Secretary----secret (secret) + ary (person) is "secretary"

l The word professor is difficult to remember. Is f and s one or two? You can think of a professor (f) Take two students(ss).

l It is difficult to remember whether the word responsible is ible or able. Since responsible applies "ible", because there is a "point" of responsibility on it

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7. Analysis of word formation

l president - prefix pre (front) + sid (association of sit) + ent (person), "the person sitting in front" is "president" ”)

l international - prefix inter (mutual) + nation (country) + al (adjective suffix) = international

l dialogue - dia (double, double) + logue (language)

l The word antidisestablishmentarianism consists of 28 letters. According to the word formation method, the word can be divided into 7 parts, namely anti dis establish ment ar(y) ian ism

Objection Negative establishment (root) noun suffix adjective suffix noun suffix (ism, school)

Among them, disestablish cancel, disestablishmentarian advocates the abolition of the state religion system, and comprehensively concludes that the meaning of antidisestablishmentarianism is "19th century" A movement in Britain to retain the Church of England as the official church of England.”

8. Summarize the rules

From car, cover, can (can), cave, cage, content, camp, circle, contain, close, catch, capture

(capture), etc. It can be seen that words starting with C often mean "package", "cover" and "contain".

From light, lamp, lantern, laser (laser), look, level, line, long, ladder, etc., it can be seen that most of the words starting with L

are related to "light, Line, straight" and so on. Isn't the letter L itself a symbol of "length" and "light"?

9. Reversed memory method

(1) It is the same whether it is read forward or backward. Such as: civic (city, citizen), nun (nun), peep (peeping), pup (puppy), madam (lady), eve (New Year's Eve), level, deed, eye… …

(2) It makes sense to read it forward and backward. : Such as: are-era (era), deer-reed (reed), door- rood (cross) doom (destiny)-mood, evil-live, not-ton, pan- nap, war- raw, was- saw, ten- net......

10. Memorizing methods for proverbs and famous quotes

l tide-Time and tide wait for no man. (Time waits for no man.)

l believe-To see is to believe.(A hundred hearings are worth a sight.)

l distant-A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.(A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.)

l distant-A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near. p>

l offer-I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, sweat and tears.---Churchill.

l trust-Old wood is best to burn, old to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.---Bacon.(When burning fire, burn old wood, and when drinking, drink old wine. , you should ask old friends for entrusting things, and you should read old writers ------- Bacon when reading)

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11. Affix memory method

< p> That is, when encountering a certain affix, try to expand the words you have learned or related to it as much as possible, which is more suitable for reviewing old words.

l re-retell, reread, rewrite, redo, return, rebuilad……

l un-unable, unacceptable, unattrac