Seven Secrets to Learn English

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Seven Secrets to Learn English

• Elena Varzari, Senior Lecturer, Balti Alecu
  Russo State University, US Embassy Alumni
  Resource Center Coordinator/ Balti branch,
• administered by IREX- International Researches
  Exchange Board

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Contents

• Secret 1 Learn about Word Stress
• Secret 2 Sentence Stress
• Secret 3 Listen! Listen! Listen!
• Secret 4 Dont Listen!

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Contents

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• Secret 5 Improve Your Vocabulary
• with 5 Words a Day
• Secret 6 30 Minutes a Day Better than
• 3.5 Hours a Week
• Secret 7 Revise! Revise! Revise!

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Learn about Word Stress

• Word Stress is
• golden key number one for speaking and
  understanding English
• very important
• one of the best ways for you to understand spoken
  English - especially English spoken fast.

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Learn about Word Stress

• Native speakers of English use word stress
  naturally. Word stress is so natural for them
  that they don't even know they use it.
• Non-native speakers who speak English to native
  speakers without using word stress, encounter two
  problems

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Problems

• They find it difficult to understand native
  speakers, especially those speaking fast.
• 2. The native speakers may find it difficult to
  understand them.

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Learn about Word Stress

• In English, we do not say each syllable with the
  same force or strength.
• In one word, we accentuate ONE syllable.
• We say one syllable very loudly (big, strong,
  important) and all the other syllables very
  quietly.

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Learn about Word Stress

• Let's take 3 words photograph, photographer and
  photographic.
• Do they sound the same when spoken? No. Because
  we accentuate (stress) ONE syllable in each word.
  And it is not always the same syllable. So the
  shape of each word is different.

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Learn about Word Stress

• PHOTOGRAPH 3 syllables-1st stressed
• PHOTOGRAPHER 4 syllables- 2nd
• stressed
• PHOTOGRAPHIC 4 syllables- 3rd
• stressed
• This happens in ALL words with 2 or more
  syllables TEACHer, JaPAN, CHINa, aBOVE,
  converSAtion, INteresting, imPORtant, deMAND,
  etCETera

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Learn about Word Stress

• Native speakers of English listen for the
  STRESSED syllables, not the weak syllables.
• If you use word stress in your speech, you will
  instantly and automatically improve your
  pronunciation and your comprehension.

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Learn about Word Stress

• Try to hear the stress in individual words each
  time you listen to English - on the radio, or in
  films ,etc.
• Your first step is to HEAR and recognize it.
• After that, you can USE it!

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Learn about Word Stress

• There are two very important rules about word
  stress
• One word, one stress. (One word cannot have two
  stresses. So if you hear two stresses, you have
  heard two words, not one word.)
• 2. The stress is always on a vowel.

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SENTENCE STRESS

• Sentence Stress is golden key number two for
  speaking and understanding English.
• With Sentence Stress, some words in a sentence
  are "stressed" (loud) and other words are weak
  (quiet).

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SENTENCE STRESS

• Look at the following sentence
• We want to go.
• Do we say every word with the same stress or
  force?
• No! We make the important words big and the
  unimportant words small.
• What are the important words in this sentence?

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SENTENCE STRESS

• WANT and GO.
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• We WANT to GO.
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• We WANT to GO to WORK.
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• We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK.
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• We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK at NIGHT.

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LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!

• When the speech is too fast for you, when you
  can't understand it, that is exactly when you
  NEED to listen to it!!!
• How can you improve if you don't listen and you
  dont practise?

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LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!

• When you were a baby, did you understand your own
  language?
• You learned to understand by listening 24
  hours a day, 7 days a week
• After that, you learned to speak.
• Then you learned to read.
• And then you learned to write.
• But listening came first!

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DON'T LISTEN! 

• In Secret 3 it was said - LISTEN!
• LISTEN!
  LISTEN!
• Now it is said
• DON'T LISTEN!
  
• What is it meant?

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DON'T LISTEN!

• Sometimes you can LISTEN too hard.
• Sometimes you can TRY too.
• Which is the difference between the verbs TO
  LISTEN and TO HEAR?

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DON'T LISTEN!

• TO LISTEN is active.
• TO HEAR is passive.
• Sometimes it is better only to HEAR. Let the
  radio and the cassette play.
• But DON'T listen.
• Just HEAR.
• Your subconscious will listen for you.
• And you will still learn.

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DON'T LISTEN!

• If you listen and try to understand, you may
  block on one word and get frustrated.
• Don't worry! Just HEAR! You will still be
  learning.
• The important thing is to let the radio or
  cassette or television or record PLAY.

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DON'T LISTEN!

• And you - you do nothing.
• Your brain will HEAR, your subconscious will
  LISTEN and you will LEARN!

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Improve Your Vocabulary with 5 Words a
Day 

• Vocabulary is easy!
• How many days in a year are there?
• If you learn only 5 new words a day, you will
  learn 5 x 365 1,825
• new words in a year.

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Improve Your Vocabulary with 5 Words a
Day 

• Buy a notebook and write in 5 new words EACH day,
  EVERY day.
• Learn them! You will soon have an excellent
• vocabulary.

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30 MINUTES A DAY BETTER THAN 3.5 HOURS A WEEK 

• Study regularly.
• Study often.
• LITTLE OFTEN is better than
• 
  LOT SOMETIMES

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30 MINUTES A DAY BETTER THAN 3.5 HOURS A WEEK

• How can you easily find 30 minutes each
• day?
• You can get up 30 minutes earlier
• Or have a shorter lunch break.
• Fix a particular time every day - and keep it!

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REVISE! REVISE! REVISE! 

• If you revise, you'll improve your learning by
  100.
• You should be systematic about this. When you
  learn something, you should note it.
• Then you should look at it again, 3 times
• - after 1 day
• - after 1 week
• - after 1 month

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REVISE! REVISE! REVISE!

• Each time you revise, test yourself.
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• Learn, revise, test.
• Revise, test.
• Revise, test, etc.

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Results Guaranteed

• SUCCESS !!!