Week 5 Worksheet
Page 8 of 9Section 3: Mnemonics (remembering vocabulary)
SECTION THREE: Mnemonics (Remembering Vocabulary)
1) What is the target word you’d like to remember? This could be a foreign language word, a technical
denition, part of anatomy or chemical name:
2) What is the plain-English equivalent of this word. For foreign languages, this is simply the English
translation. For jargon or technical words you may not have an exact plain-English equivalent. Instead
you should use a plain-English “hint” that suggests what you need to remember (e.g. “Cuneate tract”
could be “nger touch” since it is the part of the spinal cord transmitting sensory information from the
arms)
3) Using the sounds-like method, take your target word and turn it into a set of English words you can
easily visualize (chavirer = “shave an ear”, changmun = “chum moon”, “cuneate” = “cue Nate”)
4) If your plain-English word is also abstract, translate it into a visual symbol as well. This can also
be done using the sounds-like method, but it will work as well with a symbol that can stand in for the
abstract idea (i.e. hour => hourglass, innity => universe)