would shout the phrase “to proclaim” as you did the gesture at the same
time.
The more loudly you shout and the more energetically you do the
gesture, the stronger the connection you make in your brain. By simply
shouting the phrase and doing the movement vigorously several times, you
will create a stronger and deeper memory of the meaning.
In a recent seminar I did in Vietnam, I taught a number of new words
using this action vocabulary method. The students shouted the new words
with me, while simultaneously using the strong actions I showed them.
Each action was connected to the meaning of the new word or phrase. By
the end of the lesson, they knew those words completely, never to forget
them.
But that’s not all. Since Effortless English™ is a deep learning system,
I repeated those new words again — this time in a story lesson. Each time
I used one of the new words in the story, I asked the students to use the
same strong gesture we had practiced. Through the Mini-Story lesson, the
students got even more repetition of the vocabulary, with emotion and
strong actions.
Finally, I gave the students homework: download the audio of the same
Mini-Story lesson, and listen to that audio every day for one week. If
students do this, they will learn these new vocabulary words very deeply,
and will remember them forever. That is the power of the Effortless
English™ system, and that is the power of using physical movement while
learning!
EIGHT SIMPLE STEPS TO CHANGING YOUR EMOTIONS
1. Find some exciting, energetic music that you LOVE.
