How to study enghlish 7 pdf

HOW TO STUDY

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Creative Thinking

If you’re a right-brain thinker, you’re probably pretty good at coming up

with ideas.

If this is you:

• Use your imagination. Pretend the text is a speech or a play and

you’re the announcer or actor. Come up with your own ideas on

this!

Rhythm

Musical rhythms, songs, or the beats in poetry come easily to you.

If this is you:

• Tap your foot or fingers as you read your text as if it were a song

or poem. This works with numbers, too.

Art

You like to look at or make drawings, sculptures, or paintings.

If this is you:

• Draw pictures of what something you’re reading means to you.

Turn the text into your own cartoon.

You’ve come a long way already. Now you know which side of the

brain dominates your thinking and you have used that knowledge to find

learning styles that will help you learn more efficiently. In the next three

chapters, you’ll be exploring those styles, one by one.

WHAT IF ENGLISH ISN’T YOUR FIRST

LANGUAGE?

O.K. Now you have a general idea of what your learning styles are. But

you spoke another language before you learned English. Reading in

English takes a little longer than reading in your native language. Some

native English speakers talk a little too fast for you to understand them.

What can you do?

The trickiest part of learning a new language is the simplest. CLOSE

YOUR EYES. Let your ears do the work. No matter what kind of a learner