How to Use a Dictionary

How to Use a Dictionary
Picture Book for Children
《如何使用字典 兒童用圖畫書》
Based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard 

It is a useful book to guide students to use a dictionary. It is simple and easy to understand.
 The illustrations on the book help a lot, too. There are ten units in the book.

• 1. What Is a Dictionary?

(A dictionary is a word book.)

• 2. Dictionaries

(There are many kinds of dictionaries. Most dictionaries are similar.)

• 3. How to Find Words in a Dictionary?

(To use a dictionary well you will have to know the alphabet very well and know where all the letters are very easily.)

(Make good use of the guide words (引導字)on each page of the dictionary.)  

• 4. Pronunciation

(Dictionaries use certain marks and letters to show a word's pronunciation. You'll have to get the know syllables, accent marks, and how the parts of the words should pronounce.)

• 5. Different Ways That Words Are Used

(Some words are used to name things, some words are used to show action, some words describe things. You'll have to know whether a word is a noun, a verb, an adjective, or something else. )  

• 6. Marks and Symbols
  (You'll have to know the marks and symbols used in a dictionary, such as period (.), comma (, ),semicolon (;) and so on.)
• 7. Forms of Words
  (A form of a word is one of the different ways a word can be spoken or written. For example, man is a singular while men is plural. Ate ,eaten, and eating are are forms of eat.
• 8. How Words Are Defined in Dictionaries

(A dictionary gives the information about parts of speech (詞類), singular and plural, and the different forms of w word. It also tells you the different ways in which a word can be used.)

• 9. Using a Dictionary to Understand Words

(Use a dictionary to learn the words that you don't understand.)

• 10. Drills

(Parts of speech drills, punctuation drills, dictionary drills)