Tham khảo tài liệu 'learning by doing 7', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | HOW TO STUDY Practice Tips In the text you re studying or in a newspaper find a word you don t know. Cover that word. Look at the rest of the sentence and decide what the sentence could mean without the word you covered. If the sentence isn t clear on its own write what you know for sure about the meaning of the sentence. Try to draw a picture of the sentence or to make sense of it in any way that suits your learning style. Now ask yourself what you need to know to make the sentence clearer. Write down your questions or record them into an audiotape. Then go back to the original sentence and choose a word or phrase that could replace the unfamiliar word. Check to see that your word or phrase makes your picture clearer. You made a definition based on what you knew the words around the unknown word to find out what you didn t know. Now look in the dictionary and see how close you came 66 CHAPTER 9 You pay closer attention to what you re learning and even enjoy the process when what you re studying interests you. Even if something doesn t naturally interest you you can make it interesting by connecting it with something you already know. When you can build on what you already know you re more likely to remember what you learned. Getting Involved in Learning Have you had the experience of sitting in a waiting room and picking up a magazine simply for something to do Maybe it s a magazine on a hobby you re not at all interested in. But it looks like you ll have a long wait so you begin looking through it. You begin feeling bored. Then something catches your eye. Maybe it s a photograph of a place you d like to visit. Maybe it s an article on including pets in a hobby. You become interested. You 67 HOW TO STUDY find yourself getting into the magazine so much that you re almost disappointed when it s time for your appointment You become interested in something new something you haven t learned before when you can relate it to something you already know. USE YOUR HIDDEN .
