1. Seven Secrets to Learn
English
Ida Bagus Nyoman Mantra
Mobile Phone: 081338676048
E-mail. bagusmantra@hotmail.com

2.  Secret # 1: Learn about Word Stress
 Secret # 2: Sentence Stress
 Secret # 3: Listen! Listen! Listen!
 Secret # 4: Don’t Listen!
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3.
 Secret # 5: Improve Your Vocabulary
with 5 Words a Day
 Secret # 6: 30 Minutes a Day Better
than
3.5 Hours a Week

 Secret # 7: Revise! Revise! Revise!
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4. Word Stress is:
 golden key number one for speaking
and understanding English
 very important
 one of the best ways for you to
understand spoken English -
especially English spoken fast.
Learn about Word Stress

5.  Native speakers of English use word
stress naturally. Word stress is so
natural for them that they don't even
know they use it.
 Non-native speakers who speak
English to native speakers without
using word stress, encounter two
problems:
Learn about Word Stress

6. 1. They find it difficult to understand
native speakers, especially those
speaking fast.
2. The native speakers may find it
difficult to understand them.
Problems:

7.  In English, we do not say each
syllable with the same force or
strength.
 In one word, we accentuate ONE
syllable.
 We say one syllable very loudly (big,
strong, important) and all the other
syllables very quietly.
Learn about Word Stress

8.  Let's take 3 words: photograph,
photographer and photographic.
 Do they sound the same when spoken?
No. Because we accentuate (stress)
ONE syllable in each word. And it is
not always the same syllable. So the
shape of each word is different.
Learn about Word Stress

9.  PHOTOGRAPH – 3 syllables-1 st
stressed
 PHOTOGRAPHER – 4 syllables- 2 nd
stressed
 PHOTOGRAPHIC – 4 syllables- 3 rd
stressed
This happens in ALL words with 2 or
more syllables TEACHer, JaPAN,
CHINa, aBOVE, converSAtion,
INteresting, imPORtant, deMAND,
etCETera
Learn about Word Stress

10.  Native speakers of English listen for
the STRESSED syllables, not the weak
syllables.
 If you use word stress in your
speech, you will instantly and
automatically improve your
pronunciation and your
comprehension.
Learn about Word Stress

11.  Try to hear the stress in individual
words each time you listen to English
- on the radio, or in films ,etc.
 Your first step is to HEAR and
recognize it.
 After that, you can USE it!
Learn about Word Stress

12. There are two very important rules
about word stress:
s One word, one stress. (One word
cannot have two stresses. So if you
hear two stresses, you have heard
two words, not one word.)
2. The stress is always on a vowel.
Learn about Word Stress

13.  Sentence Stress is golden key number
two for speaking and understanding
English.
 With Sentence Stress, some *words*
in a sentence are "stressed" (loud)
and other words are weak (quiet).
SENTENCE STRESS

14. Look at the following sentence:
We want to go.
 Do we say every word with the same
stress or force?
 No! We make the important words
*big* and the unimportant words
small.
 What are the important words in this
sentence?
SENTENCE STRESS

15.  WANT and GO.

 We WANT to GO.

 We WANT to GO to WORK.

 We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK.

 We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK at
NIGHT.
SENTENCE STRESS

16.  When the speech is too fast for you,
when you can't understand it, that is
exactly when you NEED to listen to
it!!!
 How can you improve if you don't
listen and you don’t practise?
LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!

17.  When you were a baby, did you
understand your own language?
 You *learned* to understand by
*listening* 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week
 After that, you learned to speak.
 Then you learned to read.
 And then you learned to write.
 *But listening came first!*
LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!

18.  In Secret # 3 it was said - LISTEN!
LISTEN!
LISTEN!
 Now it is said
DON'T
LISTEN!
What is it meant?
DON'T LISTEN!

19.  Sometimes you can LISTEN too hard.
 Sometimes you can TRY too.
 Which is the difference between the
verbs TO LISTEN and TO HEAR?
DON'T LISTEN!

20.  TO LISTEN is active.
 TO HEAR is passive.
Sometimes it is better only to HEAR.
Let the radio and the cassette play.
 But DON'T listen.
 Just HEAR.
 Your subconscious will listen for
you.
 And you will still learn.
DON'T LISTEN!

21.  If you listen and try to understand,
you may block on one word and get
frustrated.
 Don't worry! Just HEAR! You will
still be learning.
 The important thing is to let the radio
or cassette or television or record
PLAY.
DON'T LISTEN!

22.  And you - you do nothing.
 Your brain will HEAR, your
subconscious will LISTEN and you
will LEARN!
DON'T LISTEN!

23.  Vocabulary is easy!
 How many days in a year are there?
 If you learn only 5 new words a day,
you will learn 5 x 365 = 1,825
new words in a year.
Improve Your Vocabulary
with 5 Words a Day

24.  Buy a notebook and write in 5 new
words EACH day, EVERY day.
 Learn them! You will soon have an
excellent
vocabulary.
Improve Your Vocabulary
with 5 Words a Day

25.  Study regularly.
 Study often.
 LITTLE + OFTEN is better than
LOT + SOMETIMES
30 MINUTES A DAY BETTER THAN
3.5 HOURS A WEEK

26.  How can you easily find 30 minutes
each
day?
l You can get up 30 minutes earlier
0 Or have a shorter lunch break.
r Fix a particular time every day -
and keep it!
30 MINUTES A DAY BETTER THAN
3.5 HOURS A WEEK

27.  If you revise, you'll improve your
learning by 100%.
 You should be systematic about this.
When you learn something, you should
note it.
 Then you should *look at it again*, 3
times:
 - after 1 day
 - after 1 week
 - after 1 month
REVISE! REVISE! REVISE!

28.  Each time you revise, test yourself.
 Learn, revise, test.
 Revise, test.
 Revise, test, etc.
REVISE! REVISE! REVISE!

29. Materials were borrowed from
http://www.englishclub.net

30. SUCCESS !!!
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