英語單詞就像建房子的磚頭，非常重要。
但是單純只背單詞，不會有很大提高，因為效率太低。單純背單詞是很枯燥無味的，事倍功半！如何能做到事半功倍，有效地習得單詞了？是習得，而不是學得。例如：碰到同一個不認識的單詞，甲，乙兩個人用不同的方法來記憶這個生詞，看哪一個人能夠更有效？！甲趕緊查字典，把單詞意思背下來，需要大概3分鐘。乙先聯(lián)系上下文，對這個生詞的意思做一個猜測，然后再查字典。查完字典后，他會做一個語境分析，然后用這個生詞造句，最后把這個生詞記在生詞本上，以便今后復(fù)習，大概需要5分鐘。一個月之后，毫無疑問，乙今后碰到這個生詞，一定很熟悉。而甲再碰到這個單詞，還得查字典。孤立的一個單詞，靠死記硬背，是低效率。怎么樣有效地，事半功倍地記憶單詞？閱讀，閱讀，閱讀！重要的事情說三遍，這是重中之重。選擇一些適合自己閱讀的英文小短文（一篇英文短文，生詞在5-8個之間），最好帶音頻（音頻可以跟讀），像英文簡易小說，寓言故事，童話……按照乙的做法，先讀一遍短文，劃出生詞，猜測詞意，最后查字典編入生詞本。冰凍三尺非一日之寒,所以堅持很重要.按照艾賓浩斯記憶曲線，有效率地復(fù)習生詞本，這樣能做到永久記憶單詞。英語是一門很看重積累的科目 ，堅持閱讀，隨著音頻堅持跟讀，日積月累，量的積累是為了質(zhì)的飛躍。下面我們來閱讀這篇英文小寓言（300個單詞左右），適合初中生閱讀。A Boy and His Nail（男孩和釘子）There once was a little boy who had a bad temper .His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that evevy time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.The first day,the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.Over the next few weeks,as he learned to control his anger.the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails to the fence.Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all.He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.The days passed by and the boy finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.The father took his son by the hand and led him to the hence.He said,＂You have done well,my son,but look at the holes in the hence.The hence will never the same.When you say something in anger ,they leave a scar just like this one.You can put a knife in a man and draw it out.It won’t matter how many things you say I’m sorry the wound is still there.”這篇小短文基本覆蓋了初中的基本語法。能讀懂這篇小寓言，說明你有了2000的詞匯量，基本掌握了高頻詞的用法。每個學習階段都會有高頻詞（經(jīng)常會用到的單詞），小學英語有250個高頻詞（sight words）。初中英語有1000個高頻詞，高中有2500個高頻詞，大學6級有4000個高頻詞。而這些高頻詞都有相對應(yīng)的閱讀材料，這些閱讀材料都可以在網(wǎng)上買到。掌握了這些高頻詞，就算碰到生詞，你也能猜出扣十有八九。有時接到某些教育機構(gòu)的促銷電話，：這”一個小時能夠背400個英語單詞，我們有獨門記憶法?！蔽夷胤畔码娫?，思緒萬千?？隙〞胁簧偌议L會上當，尤其是那些自己孩子英語比較差的家長，會病急亂投醫(yī)。所以再次強調(diào)一下，英文閱讀是記憶單詞的最有效，最潛移默化的方法。切莫投機取巧，一定要扎扎實實。
