The best way to learn new vocabulary is to use it, both in speech and in writing. The exercises in this book are designed to give you that practice by encouraging you to write down exactly what you would say in the context provided. The repetition of words and structures in various types of exercises will help you remember the words and make them yours to use in real situations.
Following are suggestions to help you get the most out of this book:
1. Get a good dictionary, either bilingual or English only, to use as suggested below.
2. Copy on a separate sheet of paper the lists of words presented in each unit.
3. You will already know some of the words. Write a check by each one if you are certain of its meaning.
4. Look up in your dictionary the words that you do not know or are not sure of, and write a word in your language or a definition in English next to it on your paper.
5. Do the written exercises for the entire unit.
6. In the exercises that ask you to write personal sentences, try to use words that are new to you. Of course, if the new words do not fit, use words that you already know.
7. Compare your answers with those in the Answer Key at the back of the book. For the exercises that require personal answers, you may wish to ask a native speaker friend to read your answers to see if they are correct.
8. Go back to your original list, cover up the translations or definitions that you first wrote, and see if you now know all the new words.
9. Try writing more sentences, using the same patterns used in the exercises, to further practice the words that you haven’t completely mastered so far.
10. Check out the exercises in the McGraw-Hill Education Language Lab app, for additional practice.
11. Keep practicing!