How to memorize English words systematically

1. Use the pronunciation rule memory method

English is a pinyin text. According to this characteristic of English, the pronunciation and the letters in the word are organically combined to enhance the memory of the word. It is to use the English International Phonetic Symbol to identify words. The International Phonetic Alphabet is a system of symbols that marks the sounds of English. If you are familiar with and master the International Phonetic Alphabet and the pronunciation of regular letters and letter combinations, you can directly spell English words according to the phonetic symbols, especially some words that are relatively long and difficult to remember. For example: pronunciation (n. pronunciation), you can spell English words according to the phonetic symbols. phonetic symbols to write the words correctly. There is a close connection between the pronunciation of words and the pronunciation of letters and their combinations.

Two letter combination change memory method

In English words, based on a certain word, adding, subtracting, replacing, or transposing a letter becomes another new word. The specific method is as follows: add letters in front, for example: is-his, ear-near/hear, read-bread. Add letters after it, for example: hear-heart, you-your, plane-planet. Add letters in the middle, for example: though-through, tree-three, for-four. Minus letters, for example: she-he, close-lose, start-star. Change the letters, for example: book-look/cook, cake-lake/wake/make/take. Adjust letters (i.e. change the order of letters), for example: blow-bowl, sing-sign, from-form. In addition, we can simplify the spelling of words and recombine them. Sometimes we need to recombine a weird and difficult-to-remember word to simplify the memory process to make it interesting and vivid. For example: change the "ign" in "sign" (mark) into "ing", recombine it into "sing" (singing), and then use "sing" to remember "sign"; change the "ear" (ear) Put "e" after "ar" to recombine it into "are", and then use "are" to remember "ear"; put the "e" in "leak" after "k", Regroup to "lake", then use "lake" to remember "leak".

3. Comparative Memory Method

Comparison is an important means for people to understand the objective world. Only through comparison can identification be achieved. Without comparison, it is difficult to clarify the relationship between things. What is introduced here is a method of comparatively analyzing similar but different words and clarifying their similarities and differences for memorization. For example: changing a vowel in a word can transform into different words: ball, bell, bill; changing a consonant in a word can transform into different words: fight, light, might, night, right, sight, tight; sound Words with the same sound but different meanings: sun and son, too and two; the same sound and shape but different meanings: light (light) and light (light); the same meaning: also/too/either, ago/before/past, each/ every/all, because/as/for; opposite meaning: yes/no, old/new, right/wrong, up/down, young/old, etc.

4. Associative memory method

The famous Soviet physiologist Pavlov pointed out: "Memory depends on association, and association is the product of establishing connections between old and new knowledge." Association is memory the basis of. To memorize words by association is to fully use divergent thinking to expand your imagination, from here to there, from point to surface, and connect a word to as many forms, structures and usages related to it as possible. Make the English words to be memorized vivid, vivid and systematic, and establish an absurd, exaggerated, strange and unreasonable connection between the new words and the old words, which will be unforgettable for a lifetime, so as to achieve the goal of bringing the old into the new and quickly memorizing it. purpose.

For example: the new word bake (vt. bake, bake) uses associative memory to make (make) a cake (cake) and bake (bake) by the lake (lake); when playing ball, think of: ball, (play) basketball, (play) football, playground, etc.; when eating, think of: dining - room, (have) breakfast, (have) lunch, etc.; when sleeping, think of: bed, bedroom, go to bed, sleep, go to sleep, fall asleep, etc. . In this way, if you accumulate over time and persevere, you can accumulate less and become more, so that you can achieve thin accumulation but thick growth.

5. Classification memory method

English vocabulary is extremely rich, and it would be of great benefit to memorize words by categories. The classification method varies from person to person, from hobby to hobby, and is flexible and diverse. Classify them according to their nature, use, etc., and make them organized and systematic, so that they can be easily consolidated and remembered, such as by color, school supplies, transportation, food, daily necessities, etc., or by subject name, time, number , seasons, animals and plants, occupational names, place names, picture names, etc., summarized and classified. Use a classification method. When learning a new word, you can also learn similar words related to it. For example, the classification of time is as follows:

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

2. Seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter.

3. Months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

4. Week: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

5. Days: the day before yesterday, yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow.

< p>6. day and night: dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, mid-night.

6. Repetition memory method

Repetition can deepen the "trace" of memory. As the saying goes, "Once you are alive, twice you are familiar, and three times you become a master." However, this kind of repetition is not a simple, mechanical reciprocation, but with appropriate intervals and rest. According to Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve, people's forgetfulness starts from After memorizing it, start, first quickly and then slowly. Therefore, the time interval for review should be short first and then long. You should remember it once every twenty minutes after the first time, remember it a third time the next day, remember it a fourth time a week later, and remember it fifth time a month later. Repeating it many times in this way will not only form a long-term memory memory and the effect is better. I once heard an example: If you stare at a person for three hours in a row, but never see him again, then maybe you will forget his appearance after a month or two, but if You divide these three hours into many days and only look at that person for a minute or two every day. If you continue like this, you will never forget his appearance for the rest of your life. The specific method is to first set the number of words to memorize in a day, and then memorize these words at regular intervals throughout the day. The intervals should not be too short. After memorizing them well, memorize them again after a few days. If this cycle continues, you will receive a good memory effect. This method is suitable for people who have plenty of time and can devote a period of time to learning English. It takes a person with perseverance to persist in memorizing it.

7. Contextual memory method

Memory of English words is related to the environment.

When memorizing and understanding English words, we must make use of the "hints" of "environmental factors", and then gradually get rid of the "hints" of these "environmental factors" in the process of continuous learning and application to achieve abstract memory and understanding. And even if you have memorized new words, you only know their meaning in a specific environment. When the environment changes, they seem to become new words again. For example, if you learn a new word from a certain class and really remember it, if you put it in a new class, it may feel unfamiliar. Therefore, if you want to master English words proficiently, you must also memorize them in various contexts. Regardless of whether we realize this subjectively or not, this is a tortuous path that each of us actually takes when memorizing English words. We must not be discouraged because we cannot remember them in a short period of time. For example: "get away" is interpreted as "leave, get away", "get through" is interpreted as "arrive, get through", "get up" is interpreted as "get up, board", etc. When you have so many understandings of the meaning of the word "get" in your mind, when someone suddenly asks you what the English word "get" means, you may not be able to answer immediately. But when this word is combined with other words, it can be interpreted correctly when it appears in different contexts. Only when we reach this state can we have a broader understanding of the meaning of English words and improve our English proficiency.

8. Chart memory method

The chart method can be used to organize sporadic and scattered materials and memorize them as a whole. Charts allow learners to quickly discover the similarities and differences between various memories and present the internal connections between them. Chart memory helps to store memorized information regularly and retrieve it quickly. For example, some prepositions that express spatial concepts are often misunderstood or confused when understood solely from the Chinese translation. However, if represented by pictures, they are easy to understand and remember, such as: under/beneath, on/over/above, across /through, in/on/to the south, in/into, etc.; some contents in English are more suitable to be made into tables, which are easier to understand and leave a deeper impression on students, such as personal pronouns nominative case, object case, adjective part Possessive pronouns, nominal possessive pronouns and reflexive pronoun tables:.

9. Symmetrical image thinking and memory

Some symmetry phenomena often appear in English words, which are no different from buildings. Knowing this, we can separate certain symmetrical parts of the word and remember them as a whole image, which makes it easy and interesting. For example: tomorrow "orro"; cabbage "abba"; tomato "to...to"; cotton "otto"; church "ch...ch"; museum "mu...um"; common "ommo"; follow "ollo" etc.

10. Pictographic memory method

Pictographic words are created by people using the pictographic (shape), characteristics, and actions of the overall or partial structure of the word. Try to use intuitive images and image thinking in the memory process to improve the memory effect. Such words occupy an important position in English. As long as we grasp this feature, it will be much easier to memorize words. There are many pictographic words in English, but they are rarely discovered by people. For example: eye see meet sleep (e, e represents two eyes); bed (b, d represents the front and rear bedside); cup (u is cup-shaped); banana (a represents the petal of a banana, n represents the connected handle); rabbit (b, b are two long ears), etc.

11. Sensory memory method

The sensory memory method is to mobilize the ears, mouth, eyes and hands, to unify listening, speaking, reading and writing, and to use as much memory as possible Multiple senses are a method to achieve the purpose of memory. The advantage of this is to communicate the connections between various parts of the cerebral cortex. Repeated movement causes relevant information to repeatedly stimulate the corresponding mental centers in the brain, deepening the memory traces on the cerebral cortex. It can effectively improve memory effect. You can also pay attention to the English that appears in our daily lives, such as English on electrical equipment, various warnings, slogans, etc. You can also listen to foreign songs, enjoy foreign movies and TV shows... you will be immersed in it, accumulate over time, recall it repeatedly, and naturally remember it.

Example: Some people talk about Pentium all day long, but they don’t know the root meaning of pent. They only know Lenovo, Founder, but not legend, founder. In fact, as long as you pay a little attention, the outer packaging of the brand battery has the word battery. , the word shampoo (shampoo) on the outside of the shampoo bottle, the words OTC (Over the Counter, over-the-counter drugs) on some drug packaging boxes, etc. During the teaching process, teachers should properly infiltrate relevant knowledge and educate students to observe frequently and accumulate more. Be a caring person.

12. Game memory method

In primary school, memorizing English words is a difficult point. Various games should be introduced when memorizing words, which can not only effectively adjust the atmosphere of English learning and stimulate students' interest in learning, but also encourage students to actively memorize words during activities with a positive attitude.

1. Word Solitaire game: multi-person cooperation, first any student speaks a word, the first letter of the word spoken by the next student must be the last letter of the word spoken by the previous student , and so on, and the same word cannot be repeated. If someone fails to say the word within the specified time, he will be eliminated. The remaining students continue the game, and whoever persists to the end is the winner. For example: car-read-do-one-eat-ten-name--evening-game-English...

2. Word splitting game: For example, changeable weather can be spelled out with the seven letters weather. How many words did you learn? we/eat/at/tea/the/he/her/here/there/tree /are/where/hear/heart/what/water … ;

3. Makeover game: that is, in a word Add, subtract, or change a letter to make a new word. Such as: of—off/if, us—as/bus, know—now/known/knew, hair—chair/air, look—book/cook...