Emily
16111994
ex-Compassvalite
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Trombonist
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I went for a mindchamps talk yesterday at tpy hub. It was real cool. There was a workshop thingum which teaches an effective way of learning/memorising/understanding the words and knowing the meaning of the words. I'll just list out some of the words I can remember now..
1)spindrift-spray blown across the sea
2)nebulous-difficult to see
3)uxorious-dependent upon one's wife
4)shackled-chained
5)apoplexy-sudden inability to move or feel
6)cheroot-cigar with open ends
7)abject-miserable
8)pyrexia-fever
9)ileum-third and final portion of the small intestines
10)antithesis-opposite, contrast of ideas
YAY mygawd I could remember all 10 words and their meaning, word for word! Haha, looks like mindchamps DOES have a lasting effect. Anyway, we were taught to learn the meaning through drawings, for example apoplexy. Apo sounds like apple, and one would naturally link an apple that causes "inability to move or feel" with Snow White, right! Yeah. So think of snow white who's immobilised and there you go, apoplexy! This is the most ingenious way of learning and the small class of 8 secondary school ppl quickly memorised all the meanings in a short span of half an hour.
Ohyeah, I'm so proud to be a biology student. The trainer asked all of us which word we already knew even before we saw the words, and almost all of them said "shackled" or "dunno", and I'm the only one who said "ileum":D And then he said "You take bio right? Can you tell me what's the other portion of the small intestines?" And whew I remembered, it's the duodenum!;D Throughout the lesson I was the one speaking up most which is really weird, cos I don't like to, so you can tell how quiet the class was like really.
The trainer's really amusing, he's those typical ahpek kind of uncle with belly but he's super humorous, he talks about going gaga over man-u, cracks loads of jokes.
At the end we had to go on stage and have this mini competition btw boys and girls to see who can say the meaning of the words the fastest, just to show the parents that mindchamps does work. Then we had to choose leaders for the group and when the trainer asked us to choose the girls immediately pointed to me._. This goes to show that people tend to put their confidence in those who speak up. Yeah right.
This post feels like an advertiser for mindchamps eh. But it's reallllyyyyy coooooool but super ex..$3000-$4000.
And yes thank me, cos you've just learnt 10 new difficult words.
P.S, my favourite word is uxorious:D Reason being really obvious.
leonard: hi-.-
EMILY