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things you need & things to help you in your English study
Materials & Resources
You should make your own style of notes. For this, lines
and squares are not good.
Recommendation: brown notebook from Mujirushi (180
yen); or Sketch book by Maruman (180 yen),
available at Amatrias, etc.
Notebooks
You should make many notes. You should fill at least 1
notebook in the semester.
Making notes helps you remember. Making notes in a
different way of the same information helps even more.
A good way is to take quick notes in a class; then make
better notes after class on the opposite page.
Notebooks 2
Visual mapping is a way to help you write things in a
meaningful and attractive way.
It helps you see the RELATIONSHIPS between
things and ideas.
Visual Mapping
see the book “Mapping Inner Space”,
by Margulies, Nancy Call no.: 153.1||Ma 51
An example (high school science)
Another science example
Lecture notes
If the notes are meaningful and useful for you, don’t
worry what they look like.
Your notebook should look different from other students’
notebooks.
Make your own style
I give every student a file for the TALK system.
If you’re lucky and have a big one, you may like to keep
your B5 papers in the file.
Anyway is OK, but make sure you don’t lose
handouts.
Files, folders
An English-English dictionary is very useful for your
study.
It’s important that definitions & explanations are easy
to understand.
Dictionaries
Oxford Learner’s Wordfinder Dictionary
WordPower Fully-Bilingual Dictionary (Ei-Ei-Wa
Jiten)
Longman Essential Activator
Longman Kirihara Shoten Gendai Ei-Ei Jiten
Some good dictionaries
Most English books are on the third floor.
English readers are usually in the 800’s (around 830)
Search the library at:
http://wwwlib.pu-kumamoto.ac.jp/cgi-bin/limedio/limewwwopac/
The library
The tape library has many videos (mainly movies)
There are a few DVDs, too. Some have English and
Japanese subtitles (jimaku).Music DVDs are hidden.
You need to search or ask.
Search the tape library at:
http://www-flec.pu-kumamoto.ac.jp/
Tape library (language center)
Use English subtitles (at least sometimes) if available.
Choose a short segment (2-5 minutes). Watch 10 times.
Buy the Screenplay book (daihon, available in
Kinokuniya).
If you enjoy a movie, watch the same one 2 or 3 times.
Learning English with movies:a few hints