KEEPING A VOCABULARY NOTEBOOK

ORGANISING YOUR NOTEBOOK Give each page or double page a title, e.g. sport, education, food, modal verbs, etc. Then, as you learn new words, record each word on a suitable page.

WHAT DO I NEED TO RECORD? What?

Meaning

How?
a. translation

Example
=book (Macedonian)

A snail is a small soft b. definition/explanatio animal which moves very slowly. n

c. synonym or opposite d. picture

Awful ( = terrible ); polite ( rude )

snail e. example sentence

Im reading an interesting book by Shakespeare. car /k:(r)/ cake ( like make ) book (n); read (v); polite (adj)

Pronunciat ion Part of speech

phonetic symbols or your own system (n), (v), (adj),etc

Tip: You re not going to learn everything about a word when you first record it, so always leave space in your notebook, then you can come back and add more information later.