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Monday, November 23, 2009, 10:19 AM
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Fridgewords.org is a place where it is easy to learn English words. It has over three thousand and two hundred words, for grades four and up, including SAT and TOEFL. If you want to learn English words just because you decided you want to, pick your level and study. If you were told to study a certain list of words, type it in our search engine. The word list you have might not necessarily be in one grade level, you might have some words scattered here and there in other grade levels as well, there fore you type them in the search engine and you get them listed.Posted by Administrator
Now, instead of studying them separately, simply add them to your words basket, and view the flash cards. The flash cards are big, bold, and neat, so there is no need to make your own. This is very environmental friendly, for there is absolutely no paper required to be wasted.
There are also two types of tests you could take to help you study. One is type in (guess the word), where you are given the definitions but you have to type in the definitions. Also when you type in the word, remember to spell it correctly, it will take points of unless it is spelled perfectly.
The second type of test is the multiple choice test where you are given one word and for different definitions. All you have to do is choose the right definition, but be aware that some words have more then one definition, and during the test they change constantly, so don’t get used to only one definition.
For when you are done studying there is a way for you to check your knowledge. Go to your word basket, select all of your words, and then click preview, and you will get a list of all of your words, and now all you have to do is have someone test you on them until you have got it perfectly.
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Saturday, November 21, 2009, 08:43 PM
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Initially, in the infancy phase, vocabulary growth requires no effort. Babies hear words and mimic them, eventually associating them with objects and actions. This is the listening vocabulary. The speaking vocabulary follows, as a child's thoughts become more reliant on its ability to express itself without gestures and mere sounds. Once the reading and writing vocabularies are attained – through questions and education – the anomalies and irregularities of language can be discovered.
In first grade, an advantaged student knows about twice as many words as a disadvantaged student. Generally, this gap does not tighten. This translates into a wide range of vocabulary size by age five or six, at which time an English-speaking child will know about 2,500–5,000 words. An average student learns some 3,000 words per year, or approximately eight words per day.
After leaving school, vocabulary growth plateaus. People may then expand their vocabularies by reading, playing word games, participating in vocabulary programs, etc.
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Friday, November 20, 2009, 10:05 AM
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Reading vocabularyPosted by Administrator
A person's reading vocabulary is all the words he or she can recognize when reading. This is the largest type of vocabulary simply because it includes the other three.
Listening vocabulary
A person's listening vocabulary is all the words he or she can recognize when listening to speech. This vocabulary is aided in size by context and tone of voice.
Writing vocabulary
A person's writing vocabulary is all the words he or she can employ in writing. Contrary to the previous two vocabulary types, the writing vocabulary is stimulated by its user.
Speaking vocabulary
A person's speaking vocabulary is all the words he or she can use in speech. Due to the spontaneous nature of the speaking vocabulary, words are often misused. This misuse – though slight and unintentional – may be compensated by facial expressions, tone of voice, or hand gestures.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009, 06:05 AM
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It’s hard to say this out loud, but I’ll say it, I’m stupid, my brain has stopped working! Why? Because I flunked on my practice for English finals, the practice for the English finals are kind of like regular finals, only it’s not the real thing, it’s just a fake clone.Posted by Administrator
My mom found out, and she sure is mad. I don’t think I have ever seen her this mad, she kept on saying that it’s a shame that I flunked English because she said that any job that you get after college requires writing in it, even if you work at a fast food joint.
Well, I did some research, and my mom was right. Every job in the world, whether you’re working as a manager or a clerk, you are required to do a whole lot of writing, so I’m going to start to learn English words extra hard for these finals.
My mom found me a website I could use to learn English words called fridgewords.org, which is supposed to help me ace the finals.
People always see me as popular, and I noticed how tired I was of being popular when I studied, I didn’t really see the point of it, which is why I one day dressed like a girl, and not like a rich girl celebrity.
After about a week, my mom noticed the instantaneous changes in my apparel and behavior, she got a letter stating that I was honorary student of the week, I concentrated more then I usually do, and I’ve been more tolerable then I used to be.
The English finals approached faster then I had imagined, and eventually it was time to sit down and do them, and as nervous as I was to do the English finals, everyone had to do it sooner or later in life, and most people did okay on them, so I wasn’t too worried, I did have a lot of help this time so, I think I have nothing to worry about.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009, 08:20 AM
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Ok, you see there was this big test coming in one month and I had to study. My parents promised to by me ‘World of Warcraft: the Burning Crusade’ if I got a +A on the test. But the problem is that I had trouble studying. No matter what, I always got a big fat F. So I decided that I could look on the internet for new ways of studying. And then I found an easy to use site called FridgeWords.org , it has exercises to help you study. Alright maybe there are a few exercises but they’re really affective.Posted by Administrator
First I added the words I needed to study to the word basket. Then I clicked on ‘my word basket’ and all of the words that I selected were there. Then I wanted to review, so I clicked on flash cards and I reviewed until I was ready to try my luck, I did the Exercises: type in (guess the word) thing and the multiple choice test. I scored pretty badly but I continued to study the words I needed for the test and I did this every time I had the chance until the day of the test.
One the day of the test, my hands were sweaty and I was shaking and I couldn’t wait to get it over with. There were the thirty words we were supposed to study on the test were on the test. We had to wait until next week to get our grades back every day seemed like a whole month. Then finally on the day we got our test results back was here I was shaking I was afraid that I would get a bad grade and never get a second chance,( I know I’m exaggerating here but that’s how I felt). My teacher was handing out our test results to everyone some got bad grades others got good, it seemed like an hour passed by and the teacher put the piece of paper on my desk and the I got… an +A my mom and dad kept their promise and got me the game and ever since I used fridgewords.org to study for word tests.
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