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CREATING A PERSONAL GLOSSARY

As you enter higher levels of English study, developing a broad, rich vocabulary becomes an
important goal. Creating your own glossary in a notebook devoted to new vocabulary will help.
After you have studied new material, select new words you feel will be the most useful for you.
Add these words to your personal glossary.
Practice. Look back over the exercise on page 4. Choose eight new words that you haven’t
mastered yet, but would like to add to your personal glossary. Write them below. For each
word, write the meaning, part of speech, and an example sentence. Note the pronunciation if
helpful. Use a dictionary as needed.

punctual adj. arriving or happening at exactly the time that has been arranged: A punctual
person is always on time for the train.

Idea. Buy a small pocket notebook for your personal glossary. Carry it with you so you can
review vocabulary at any time. Remember to select and add new words from each new unit to
your notebook.

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PERSONALIZING
When you personalize new vocabulary, you think about how it relates to you: your experiences,
people you know, or your environment. Taking a few minutes to make connections between
new vocabulary words and your own experience will help you better remember the vocabulary.
Practice. For each item, think of a person you know who matches that personality type.
Think of people you have known in the past and people you know now. You may also want
to think of celebrities or television, movie, or literary characters. Write a name below each
vocabulary word. Then write the reason you feel the vocabulary applies to that person. Tell a
partner about your choices.

Positive Negative
a sweetheart a tyrant

Name: Sherri Name:

Reason: always smiling and willing to Reason:
help others

a team player a workaholic

Name: Name:
Reason: Reason:

an optimist a pain in the neck

Name: Name:
Reason: Reason:

a people person a pessimist

Name: Name:
Reason: Reason:

Idea. Review these vocabulary words and what you wrote tomorrow, then a few days later,
then a week later.

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APPLYING VOCABULARY TO A NEW CONTEXT

After you have learned new vocabulary in one context, it’s good to apply it to a different
context. This will help you use the vocabulary more flexibly in future conversations and better
remember it.
Practice. Look at the adjectives with suffixes -ful and -less and the list of topic areas. Then
work with a partner. Take turns using the adjectives to discuss something about the different
topic areas. Agree with, disagree with, or add a comment to what your partner says.

Adjective Suffixes -ful and -less

careful careless purposeful purposeless
hopeful hopeless useful useless
meaningful meaningless restful restless
painful painless helpful helpless
powerful powerless pitiful pitiless

Being a doctor is a very meaningful occupation. I agree. It’s the work of saving lives.

doing construction work nursing teaching

going to graduate school working in retail being a doctor

police work owning your own business collecting garbage

being a stay-at-home mom accounting working for a large company

Your own idea:

being a chef being an artist

Idea. Try applying vocabulary you’ve learned in other units to a variety of new contexts.

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