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Making the new words active

One of the great advantages of revising vocabulary is that it should help you to make the
step from having something in your passive vocabulary to having it in your active
vocabulary.
Encourage this process by:
writing the words and expressions you are trying to learn in a sentence relating to your
life and interests at the moment.
making a point of using the new words and expressions in your next class or homework.
keeping a learning diary in which you note down things that particularly interest you
about the words you have learnt.
watching out for the words and expressions you are trying to learn in your general
reading of English. If you come across any of them in use, write them down in their
context in your diary or notebook.
writing a paragraph or story linking the words and expressions you want to learn.

What can you remember?
1 What do you remember now from the first six units in this book? Answer without looking
back at the units.
2 Now read through the units again.
3 How much do you remember about the units now?
4 Choose at least one word and expression from each unit and work through all the
suggestions made in B and C above. It may not always be appropriate in your future study
to do all the steps in B but try them now for practice.

Some plans for your work with this book

1 How often are you going to revise what you have done? (Every week? Every five units?)
2 Which techniques are you going to use for revising?
3 Now write yourself some notes to remind yourself of when you are going to revise. You
might like, for instance, to write revise vocabulary in your diary for the next eight Fridays,
if you decided to revise every week. Alternatively you could write REVISE in capital
letters after, say, every five units in the book.

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