Notetaking Tips

Have 5 sections in your vocab notebook for the following:

1. Prepositional verbs

• want to
• listen to
• love to
• have to

2. Phrasal Verbs

• get up
• get off
• get on
• get out

3. Set Phrases & Idioms
An English idiom is a phrase that doesn't "add up to" the sum of its parts. As in She can't work amicably with family members, "much less" strangers. [Both "add up to" and "much less" are idioms. Would you like to learn more about idioms?]

4. New Vocabulary. You should note:

• the translation into your own language
• the part of speech, ie: noun, verb
• the word-family, or different formations as you find them, for example: to excite (v), excitement (n), exciting (adj), excitedly (adv)
• a sample sentence in English
  

5. Miscellaneous
Use this section for things that don't belong elsewhere.