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Methods and skills of memorizing English words
English word memorization skills Green's rule

(A) letter combination change memory method

English words are based on a certain word. Adding, subtracting and sandhi, a letter becomes another new word. The specific method is as follows:

Put a letter in front of it.

For example:

It's his

Ear (Ear)-Close/Listen (Listen)

Bread (bread)

Add a letter after it.

For example:

Hear -heart (heart)

You (you)-your (yours)

Aircraft (aircraft)-planet (planet)

Add letters in the middle

For example:

Through (though)-through (through)

Tree-three (3)

Subtract letters

For example:

She-he (he)

Close to failure

Go-Star (Star)

Change letters

For example:

Reading/cooking.

Cake (Cake)-Lake (Lake)/Wake (Wake)/Make (Make)/Take (Take away)

Adjust the letters (change the alphabetical order)

For example:

Blow a bowl

Sing (sing)-sign (sign)

form

(B) Comparative memory method

This paper introduces the method of comparative analysis of similar but different words, and finds out their similarities and differences for memory.

For example:

Changing a vowel word can change different words:

Ball (ball), bell (bell), bill (bill)

Changing the words of consonants can change different words:

Fight, light, maybe, night, right.

The sound and shape are the same but the meaning is different: light and light.

Similar in shape: want → wait, read → prepare.

The meaning is the same: research/learning, big/big/great, watching/seeing/watching, etc.

The opposite meaning: big → small, expensive → cheap, hot → cold, etc.

(3). Associative memory method

Make the English words to be memorized vivid, vivid and systematic, and establish an absurd, exaggerated, bizarre and unreasonable connection between the new words and the old words, which will be unforgettable for life, so as to achieve the purpose of bringing the old with the new and remembering quickly.

For example:

When playing, I think of: ball (ball), (playing) basketball (playing basketball), (playing) football (playing football), playground (playground) and so on.

When eating, I think of: restaurant, breakfast, lunch, and so on.

In this way, over time, perseverance, you can make many a mickle, so as to achieve thick accumulation and thin hair.

(4) Classification memory method

English vocabulary is extremely rich, and it will be of great benefit if we can memorize the words in different categories.

Classification methods vary from person to person, from hobby to hobby, and are flexible and diverse. According to their nature and use, it is organized and systematic, which is easy to consolidate and remember, such as by color, school supplies, transportation, daily necessities and so on.

It can also be classified by subject name, time, quantity, season, animals and plants, place names and map names. Using the method of classification, when learning a new word, we can learn related similar words together.

For example, the classification of time is as follows:

Time: century, year, quarter, month, week, day, night, hour, quarter, minute and second.

Season: spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Weeks: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

(5) pictographic memory method

Pictographic characters are created by people using the pictographs, features and actions of the whole or local structure of characters.

In the process of memory, intuitive images and thinking in images are used as much as possible to improve the memory effect. There are many hieroglyphs in English, but they are rarely found by people.

For example:

Eyes (eyes) see (see) meet (meet)

Sleep (e, e stands for two eyes)