Counting sheep can help you fall asleep because the English word sheep and sleep are similar. From this, Chinese users can count dumplings, which is homophonic to sleep.

The logic here is very simple, but many adults cannot think of alternative solutions in a short period of time, or in other words, most people will not think about this aspect.

Obviously, it is not an intellectual problem that this girl can't remember words.

"You..." Yao Yi looked at Xigua seriously and asked, "How is your math grade?"

"I often get the first place in mathematics!" Xiguahu raised her head slightly, and she became confident when talking about mathematics. "Others say that mathematics is difficult, but I think mathematics is very simple. I think English is difficult, and I can't remember it no matter how you remember it."

Yao Yi asked: "Where are mathematical formulas? Do you remember?"

Even for subjects like mathematics and physics, which mainly focus on "understanding of logic and concepts", you must memorize some formulas and theorems to ensure the speed of solving problems. Since you can get the first place in the class, it means that the watermelon head should not have any memory problems.

Xigua Head nodded vigorously: "Yeah, remember, just do a few more questions and remember some formulas. I often forget them, but I can deduce them during the exam."

Sure enough, the little girl is not having a problem with her mind, but is not good at Chinese-English comparisons and has no logic to remember words.

According to her way of thinking, it is difficult to achieve results when she cannot understand the logic in it.

As long as the teacher finds the correct teaching ideas and uses the little girl's thinking ability, she can quickly improve her vocabulary and English scores.

But if you don’t meet a good teacher who is willing to observe and find another way for her, the little girl may fall into a vicious cycle of failure and self-denial, and then give up this subject.

Children need encouragement. If they fail after working hard again and again, and are criticized by teachers and parents again and again, they are not careful enough and hard enough, but not hard enough, and then their fragile psychological defense will collapse quickly. At the least, they will hate English, and at the worst, they will become learned helpless and cannot learn foreign languages ​​well for life.

Thinking of those poor students who could have learned well but were not lucky but failed to meet a good teacher, Yao Yi sighed and said to Xigua Tou: "You are very smart. Many adults cannot be like you. They think of changing 'counting sheep' to 'counting dumplings' so quickly, and you work very hard, so it's not your fault that you can't remember the words, but you are not suitable for this memory method. Do you understand?"

"Really?" Xigua Tou was half-believing and half-doubting.

"Really." Yao Yi suddenly asked after giving a positive answer, "What are the English words of sleep and sheep? Can it be spelled out?"

"Sleep,s,l,e,e,p,sheep,s,h,e,e,p." Xigua Head replied without thinking, and was surprised after saying that, "I remember!"

Yao Yi verified her judgment and smiled from the bottom of her heart: "Well, you remember."

"How did I... remember?" Xigua Head couldn't believe it, "I have memorized it before, but I always forgot it."

"Because you like logical things, you are very interested in the inner logic of the story of Sheep, so while you remember the words sheep and sleep."

In order to establish confidence for the little girl, Yao Yi gave a logical explanation.

The watermelon head wiped the tears on his face and said in surprise: "Then, can I remember the words as long as I make up a story for each word?"

It is very good for the little girl to learn from one example, but there is no need to be such trouble. Yao Yi shook her head and said, "There are 3,000 vocabulary in the middle school entrance examination. Can you make 3,000 stories related to words and interesting internal logic? Even if you make 3,000 stories, such a large amount of memory will not only take up time and energy, but also easily confusing."

Before the hope in the little girl's eyes turned into disappointment, Yao Yi continued: "But don't worry, we can use other methods. Do you know that most English words are related, so we can start from here."

The watermelon head sniffed, looking confused.

"For example, the words you want to memorize today, look at these, teacher, worker, dancer, singer, driver, writer."

Yao Yi picked up the chalk, wrote the words he had read on the blackboard one by one, and turned around and asked, "What are their common points?"

This rule is easy to summarize, and Xigua Head answered without thinking: "They all end in er."

"What else?"

"And..." Xigua head looked down at the word book and clapped her hands, "What do they mean! Teachers, workers, bakers, dancers, singers, drivers, writers, are all professions."

"So?" Yao Yi was very tempted, which was one of the easiest rules to summarize in English words. He believed that Watermelon Head could find the answer by himself.

"So, er is placed at the end of the word to indicate a certain person. Teach is the verb 'teaching', so teacher is the teacher, work is the work, so worker is the worker, dance is the dancer..." Xigua Tou became more and more excited as he spoke, but after speaking, he was depressed, "But I still can't remember the words "teach, work, dance."

"First, remember that these rules are not absolute and will change under different circumstances. Secondly, it doesn't matter. For these words, you can connect them, create a sentence, and put the words into specific sentences and specific contexts to memorize them."

"For example, my teacher likes to sing and dance, and dreams of becoming a writer. Remember the six words "teacher", "sing", "dance", "dream", "become", and "writer". Your workload will be much smaller and your memory will be much better."

"And, as long as you write down these basic words and master the skills of creating words, your vocabulary will increase several times." Yao Yi smiled, "You know, there are many more and many other skills in memory of English words."

"A lot?" The watermelon head's eyes flashed, and the light of hope appeared.

"Many, including those words that people think are not logically related. For example, the teenager you want to memorize today." Yao Yi wrote this word, then drew two bars, and split it into teen|ag|er.

"Did you see something?"

Xigua stared at the blackboard and thought for a while, bulged her cheeks and shook her head.

"Give you a little tip." Yao Yi pointed at teen and pointed at him, "Thirteen, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, seventeen."

"Oh! They all end with teen, so teen means more than a dozen!"

"Yes, then, what about age? What does it mean?"

"Age! Age!"

"What does er mean?"

"Some kind of person!"

“Put together?”

"Teenager, teenager!" Xigua looked at the blackboard, her little mouth wider and wider.

"Close your eyes and tell me what the teenager's words are and how to spell it?"

"teenager!t,e,e,n,a,g,e,r!" After the little girl finished spelling the words, she couldn't wait to open her eyes and look at the blackboard. Seeing Yao Yi give her a thumbs up, tears burst out from her eyes again.
Chapter completed!