2. Why Should We Learn Vocabulary?
• Cells to body or bricks to building
• Without vocabulary, unable to express
• Variety is the spice of life
• Express diversified things in different
manners
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3. Strategies
• It is a continuous process
• Be persistent
• Make your own dictionary
• Write 5 difficult words daily
• Consult Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
• Make sentences daily
• Write a diary and use them in your writing
• Idle knowledge rusts and fades
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8. Oxford Photo Dictionary etc
1. Picture and voice especially for kids
• https://www.opdome.com/
2. Picture, name, explanation
http://www.visualdictionaryonline.com/food-
kitchen/food/chocolate.php
3. Oxford Photo Dictionary is a paper based
dictionary
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9. Oxford Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary
• The best dictionary, online and paper
bound copy
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
definition/english/help_1?q=help
• Read lemma and other parts of speech
Beauty, beautify, beautiful, beautifully,
beauty saloon, Beauty lies in the eyes of
beholder.
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10. Use Bilingual Dictionary
• Change Urdu to English
• Use Google Translate but it can create
ambiguity
• https://translate.google.com/?sl=ur&tl=en&
op=translate&hl=en
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13. Read Children Literature
• Read children story books
https://monkeypen.com/pages/free-stories-
for-kids
Read children encyclopedia
https://kids.britannica.com/kids/search/articl
es?query=bermuda+triangle
Read Children section in newspapers
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14. Read 1 Newspaper in a Week
• Online: https://epaper.dawn.com/
• Captions
• Headings
• Letters to editor
• Technology news
• Pieces of news
• Read editorial
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15. Play with Corpora
• Collection of digitized texts
• https://www.english-corpora.org/
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16. Listen Ted Talks, Talks at Google
Download with Torch browser free and easy
Ted Talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Yvq-
g7_Y
Talks at Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydM
Di3rI
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