 | The more you read, the more you will extend your vocabulary and develop your reading skills. Wherever possible, choose books or articles or extracts which are of interest to you, ones that motivate you and encourage you to read on. Make sure they are at your level, or only marginally above your level, neither too difficult nor too easy. Rather than working with word lists, I think it is usually best to encounter new words in context. Then you will see how they are used and how you can use them yourself. As you come across new words in context, there is a very good chance that you will be able to guess their meaning. Let’s suppose for a moment that you have not come across the verb oversleep before. It’s highly likely that you’d be able to work out its meaning from this sentence: - ‘I overslept this morning. I usually wake up at seven, but this morning I didn’t wake up till nine.’
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