{"id":1422,"date":"2022-06-24T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T01:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2025-03-12T16:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:20:34","slug":"el%e6%9c%ac%e6%a3%9a%e7%b4%b9%e4%bb%8b51-vocabulary-cartoons-by-new-monic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/1422\/","title":{"rendered":"EL\u672c\u68da\u7d39\u4ecb(51) Vocabulary Cartoons, by New Monic Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<180 words) introductions\/reviews of books in the EL library. They focus on telling you what we think will be interesting for you, a college student and English learner, so use them to help you find the right book for you. You can also use the <\/em>tags<em> to find books about topics you might be interested in.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>_______<\/p>\n<p><em>Vocabulary Cartoons<\/em> is very helpful for teaching you how to study vocabulary. Every page introduces a vocabulary word with a \u201chook,\u201d a funny picture connecting the word and hook, and three example sentences. The \u201chook\u201d is a mnemonic (a memory trick) that sounds a little like the vocabulary word. It is meant to help native speakers study for the SAT, something like the Center Test in the USA. I don\u2019t think the \u201chook\u201d will necessarily be useful for Japanese students, but you can still learn a lot with this book.<\/p>\n<p>When I teach vocabulary, I stress the importance of connecting words with images. \u201cAgile\u201d means \u201csomeone who can run, jump, and balance well,\u201d so I suggest always connecting the word \u201cagile\u201d with the image of a \u201ccat.\u201d This book can help you do this, even if not all of the pictures make sense. For example, the picture for \u201cballistic\u201d (related to bullets, missiles, or shooting) is of \u201clipstick\u201d (the hook word) coming out of a gun. If you connect the word \u201cballistic\u201d with the strange image of the \u201clipstick gun,\u201d you may be more likely to remember it. The three example sentences give more realistic uses of the words in context, though, which is very important.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My two cents:<\/strong> People who compete in memory competitions (e.g. memorizing long lists in a short amount of time) often say that the weirder or more surprising an image is, the easier it is to recall. This may be a good technique to help you learn vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"detail__media__img-thumbnail  js-detail-img  js-detail-img-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.7b5PRubcyXeIUMNr-_LlMAHaKo%26pid%3DApi&#038;f=1\" width=\"248\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-el-book-introductions","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}