all of us know the importance of enlarging vacabulary, but it can be really frustrating ——— endless vocabulary lists,lengthy and random spellings, and two similar words that look like twins. Worse still, it's much easier to forget than memorize. It happens a lot that you spend a long time on keeping a diffcult word in mind, but end up forgeting or misremembering it right before usage.

Despite the toughness of word memorizing, many English learnerds find their own way to absorb new words more effectively and painlessly, from reviewing daily, sorting words by prefix and suffix, to learning new expressions from English songs or videos.

Do you have any useful method for it? Feel free to share your unique experience and approaches!

Discussion Questions:

1. spelling and pronunciation ——— which one is harder to memorize for you?

2. share one of your methods to let the word stay in your memory. How do it work?

3. Suppose you are required to remember a list of unknown words and phrases in a limited time, and you can only choose ONE approach : reading them aloud, or writing them down on the paper repeatedly. which one would you like?

4. Some people argue that it's unwise to enlarge the vocubulary through 'reciting' word lists and doing vocubulary check tests, which are generally adopted in English education in China, while others argue that it's the most feasible way for most Chinese students. What's your opinion?