Task checklist - Building a Powerful Vocabulary Live Workshop.

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Task checklist
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⬜⬜ Make a commitment to read for at least one hour per day.
Read the newspaper for about 30 minutes today or tomorrow, and make it a daily habit.

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3. Magazines:
i. Pick three magazines on your favorite topics.

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ii. Buy subscriptions, bookmark their websites, or install their apps.
iii. Read articles on these at least once per week.
4. Find and read one short story in English.
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6. ⬜⬜Get a novel that you think might be interesting and start reading it.
Visit the Wikipedia webpage (http://en.wikipedia.org), find an article that interests you and read it.
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Watch one English-language movie this week, and note down some useful vocabulary from it.
Start watching an English-language TV series.
Pick one English-language news program and one talk show, and start watching them.

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10. Music:
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Listen to one English-language song.
Find its lyrics and analyze them; note down any useful vocabulary.

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11. Online lectures and lessons:
i. Visit the TED talks YouTube channel and watch one talk

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(http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDTalksDirector)
ii. Subscribe to at least 10 English-learning channels on YouTube.
12. Apps:
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i. Go to the app store on your phone and search for the term ‘vocabulary’.

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⬜⬜ii. Install and try out some free apps.
Decide on your method of recording vocabulary (notebook, Word/Excel file, app, etc.).
Pick three or four dictionaries and bookmark their websites or install their apps. Some suggestions:
i. Cambridge – http://dictionary.cambridge.org
ii. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionaries – http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
iii. Merriam-Webster – http://www.m-w.com

15. ⬜ iv. Macmillan – http://www.macmillandictionary.com

Pick a word that you learned recently, and
i. Look it up in a dictionary
ii. Review its part of speech and definition
iii. Listen to the correct pronunciation and practice it
iv. Read the examples and make some sentences on your own
v. Try to find some synonyms and antonyms
vi. Analyze any prefixes, suffixes or roots the word has
vii. Make a mnemonic for it (funny image, story etc.)