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1 Improving your English Pronunciation ESL Tech Center, Shoreline Community College Sarah Swanberg, Instructor

2 How many words are there in the English language? a) 10,000 b) 100,00 c) 250,000 d) 1,0000 http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/h ow-many-words-are-there-in-the-english- language

3 Strategies for remembering all those words  Note cards  Notebook  Place in your phone, laptop etc?  Other?

4 Things to remember about a word  Spelling  Pronunciation  Different parts of speech  Definition  Synonym/antonym  Usage  Example sentence using the word  Use www.merriam-webster.comwww.merriam-webster.com

5 Break down the word  Don’t recognize a word? No problem! Break it down!  Illegible---discontent---retrospective---- subterranean…what do they mean???  Learn more about words parts at http://www.prefixsuffix.com/ http://www.prefixsuffix.com/

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