GE B1+ Unit 5 Use of English

Remembering vocabulary

I like English, but it’s not easy to remember all the new words we have to learn – something ¹_______ is very important if we want to do well. I’m not the only one – I’ve got a lot of friends ²_______ it difficult, too. Next week, we’ve got a vocabulary test, ³_______ will be worth twenty percent of our marks for this term, so we’ve been talking about how to prepare for it. We’ve all got a notebook ⁴_______ we write down new words in class. However, although we’ve tried to learn the words in it ⁵_______ heart, it’s quite boring. One of my friends, ⁶_______ is really good at English, suggested writing the words on one side of a card. On the other side, you have to write the defi nitions. Then you look at the defi nitions and try to work ⁷_______ what the words are. Another boy revising ⁸_______ the test told us about an app for learning vocabulary, which is a bit like the word cards. The diff erence is that it knows ⁹_______ you have learnt a word. That means it can help you focus ¹⁰_______ the words you still haven’t learnt. It sounds good so I think I’ll try it.