Remember English Words

Remember English Words

Many students have problems with grammar, speaking or writing when preparing for tests, but vocabulary (词汇) is the most common one. Maybe we can make it if we can get some new ways to memorize new words. One way you can have a try is“structured reviewing” .

Structured reviewing means continuous reviewing of what we have learned in order to better understand it. We all agree that people forget information they have learned if they don’t review it in time.

Chart of Steps of “Structured Reviewing”

Memorize five sentences with new words→Review them six times a day. →Review them once a day for 5 days→ Review them once a week→Review them once a month

Learn five new words every day. We can learn five different sentences with a new word in each sentence. On the first day in the early morning, we can write them down a few times while reading them aloud so that we can memorize them.

Moreover, we need to review them six times a day, including after the first lesson, after lunch at the school and after dinner.

On the second day in the early morning, we get over the first day’s sentences. Then we learn five new sentences with five new words just as we did the day before.

For each day’s sentences, after we have reviewed them for five continued days, we just need to review them once a week. Then once a month.

Through this method, we store them in our long-term memory and will never forget them.

Result of using this method

I used to hate new English words. I became even angry when I lost points because of the words. But there was no use—new words couldn’t be avoided. So, I changed my ways of memorizing the words. Now I review them in time. It seems to work well.—Frank

Many of us usually learn words separately and silently from the word list in our textbook, so we often write sentences with mistakes. We should make up our own sentences with new words and read them aloud. In this way, we can remember the new words better.