Improve your vocabulary
vendredi 16 février 2024
par agnesueur
par agnesueur
| Tip | Name and link | Explanation or document |
| Learning from lists can be a first step... | Banish boring words | lists of words that are less boring than the average, more common ones... |
| Pro active learning | Thesaurus | Look for equivalent of common words to have a higher level of vocabulary (try with equivalents of "good", "bad", "interesting", which are quite boring and found much too often...) |
| Visual thesaurus | Same principle as above, in a visual presentation (WARNING : only a few free instances allowed without creating an account) | |
| Forget about dull words ! | Spidergrams vocabulary : find the word in the center, the one you can forget, and use those around instead ! ;) | |
| Use a dictionary | Collins, Cambridge, Oxford, Longman | A defintion will allow to say the same thing differently, or understand subtleties |
| Learn "real" English | Idioms | list of common idioms in PDF, list online |
linking words |
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| jeopardies to challenge your understanding of idioms in a little context | ||
| Proverbs | matching games to practise proverbs |
