Increase your vocabulary - read a lot - write a lot

Sep 29, 2026

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Lesson transcript explaining practical, learner-friendly strategies for expanding English vocabulary. Emphasizes reading extensively in topics learners enjoy, including magazines, film scripts, and related novels. Encourages active writing in a notebook: record new words in meaningful sentences and learn multiple word forms (adjective, adverb, noun, verb). Suggests optional study of roots and suffixes/prefixes, and prioritizes listening to spoken English while capturing unknown words phonetically and verifying via transcripts or dictionaries. Recommends using English-to-English dictionaries and avoiding unreliable native-language translation outputs.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLifestyle

FormatPDF

Pages3

Reading Time5 min

AccessFree to download

Vocabulary Building Strategies

Read what you enjoy

Write and practice in a notebook

Learn word forms and related words

Optional roots, suffixes, prefixes

Listen and verify with transcripts or dictionaries

Use English-to-English dictionaries

Transcript видео к статье « Increase your vocabulary! Секретыпополнения словарного запаса английского языка» ([www.engblog.ru](www.engblog.ru)) Today’s lesson is meant to show you ways of increasing your vocabulary. I know some of the teachers have done these lessons I just want to throw my two cents in, if you know what that means. It means I wanna give my piece of advice. I have a few ideas for you . We gonna start with these. We’ll look at a few others more practical as well. The most important thing that you can do to increase your vocabulary is read. Read a lot. What should you read? Anything and everything, but the most important thing is read what you are interested in. Okay? If you like sports – read a sports magazine, if you like movies – read a movies magazine, even better – read the script of the movie. If the movie is based on a novel – read the novel. For example, recently the movie “Life of Pi” was very famous in the theatres, it’s based on the novel. Read the novel, it’s a pretty good book. My favourite movie “Shawshank Redemption” based on a novella by Stephen King. Read it, the best way to increase your vocabulary. Also, don’t just learn the new words and try to remember them, write, write a lot. Use the words you’re learning, right? Every time you learn a new word, you should have a notebook with you all the time anyway; write the words in a sentence, but not just any sentence, make sure that the sentence clearly shows that you know the meaning of the word. Okay? So let’s for example (I know everybody knows this word) but ‘beautiful’(everybody knows this word) but let’s say it’sa new word for you. Don’t write “The sky is beautiful”. It doesn’t tell me anything about the word “beautiful”. The sky is also blue. Does beautiful mean blue? No. Make sure you are using something.“I love to see a beautiful sky that has pretty clouds in the sunshine and are nice colour, nice shade of blue because it makes me feel happy. Not the best example it’s a very long sentence but you get my idea. Now, again coming back to that notebook. Always have a notebook with you, always have a pen with you and don’t limit yourself to one new word. When you learn a new word make sure you learn different forms of the same word, okay? So for example, the word “beautiful”: let’s say this is a new word for you, you learn the word“beautiful”. Put it in your adjective column, it’s an adjective, that’s what you want. But why not learn the other forms? For example, what is the adverb form for the word “beautiful”? I think most of you know it. It’s beautifully. So now you have two new words. What is the noun form of“beautiful”? It’s beauty. You now have three new words in your vocabulary. Is there a verb from of “beautiful”? Yes, as a matter of fact, there is.“Beautify” means to make beautiful. You now have four new words. Think of other words.“Beautician” Beautician is a person who works making people more beautiful. She does facial, the manicure, the pedicure and wax and whatever else beauticians do. Anyway, try to find other forms, learn many words instead of just one word. Okay. Now some people like to study roots, and suffixes, and prefixes. Personally I’m not a huge fan of the recommendation. But first let me explain what the root is. For example, you have the root “-ject”, so you learn inject, eject, object, subject – all the different words that come from the rootso many people only study the word or the root “-ject” and think that it will help them understand all the words with this root. It’s a good idea if you have the patience. I think most people who are studying English don’t like studying root because it’s like studying another language. If it works for you – do it, if it doesn’t – don’t. Okay. And now another thing you can do. Listen. Listen to any spoken English that you can. I think [some of you might have heard of TED.com. It](some of you might have heard of TED.com. It)’s a good website; people give talks and lecture

FAQs

What is the most important activity for increasing vocabulary?

Read a lot, especially materials you are truly interested in.

How should you record new words while studying?

Keep a notebook and write the word in a sentence that clearly shows its meaning.

Why are English-to-English dictionaries recommended over translation dictionaries?

They help you learn more English words from definitions and avoid unnatural sentences produced by unreliable translation.

Sep 29, 2026

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