A good way to collect and organise vocabulary is using mind maps.

Mind maps allow you to group together related vocabulary. This could be vocabulary for a topic or a situation. You can do it on paper or use a website or app. Here’s an example using the vocabulary from our most recent Word making the headlines article about trade.

Click on the image to investigate the mind map more closely. Or view it on the Popplet website. The black boxes have collocations using trade. The orange boxes have examples sentences using those collocations.

This mind map was made using Popplet. You can create and share Popplet mind maps using their website or iTunes app.

There are lots of mind map apps for Android and Apple.

By Barney

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