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Lately it has been fun to prepare some new and exciting additions for our YouTube channel concerning IGCSE Physics and also A-level Physics. We look forward to starting our posts on the exciting new content we are working on for the channel . What you can look forward to in future, will consist of more interactive lessons where topics are also demonstrated along with some equations for practice. We aim to keep the videos short and to the point, while providing maximum content exposure so that it can be used for review purposes and also to help students who might not be native English speakers. We encourage you to view the material we have already posted and comment any questions or suggestions to help us help you more efficiently. Our aim is to create a reviewable foundation that any student in Physics can benefit from as supplementary to their current school/university lessons. We invite you to comment on this blog post and our YouTube content !

The 7 Vocabulary builder methods

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It's important to associate meanings of words together and there are multiple ways out there to do this!  But first we need to make a word forms table of the word or concept that we are trying to learn and then choose one or more of the other association methods to learn the vocabulary. After completing a table like this on an idea, topic or concept you are trying to learn, it's a good idea to look at the options that follow to see which method is most appropriate for learning what you aim to learn. Below are some examples of bubble networds, pictures, diagrams, word trees, the tree-diagram and word forks. The bubble netword system is a system where you have a core idea or thing that you use to then add all the other related word that you know in a bubble network, as shown below. Pictures are used to label all of the different parts which are shown in the picture to help your brain associate the object and word in the appropriate positions, as shown below. The next example look...