Learning English vocabulary on the Smarte platform

The top 5 most popular queries related to learning English include vocabulary study. Of course, everything starts with words. That’s why working with vocabulary needs to be both enjoyable and effective.

When developing the Smarte platform and its additional service – the digital learning tool Smarte+ – we aimed to simplify and optimize the process of learning English vocabulary for students. How did we achieve this?

Extensive functionality and maximizing the platform’s potential

The main asset of the platform is the builder, which features 24 types of tasks. Our authors, curriculum developers, and teachers can combine them in various ways to create English vocabulary exercises for any taste, need, and level. These exercises deserve special mention, so let’s discuss them in more detail below.

Everything in our online textbooks, which can be supplemented with audio or video materials, contains relevant content. This approach brings the learning material to life and is more likely to engage students, making English vocabulary learning more comfortable and not requiring constant teacher presence.

Nice Feature! The platform has a built-in dictionary. Click on any unfamiliar word and get its meaning with the option to add it to your personal vocabulary with your own comments (translation or example usage in context).

After each completed lesson, a small summary test and a report on your progress await you. It calculates the number of tasks completed and correct answers in the Vocabulary, Skills, Functional Language, and Grammar blocks. This is very convenient for error analysis and understanding your status in the process of learning English vocabulary.

Accessibility

To learn English vocabulary using effective methods and exercises, there’s no need to prepare printouts or install additional software on your computer. The Smarte platform works online and opens via a link from the student's Green Forest account.

Nice Feature! During power outages and unstable internet connections, the function of full offline operation will come in handy. The main thing is to open the necessary page in the interactive textbook in advance so that the materials are cached. Everything is designed so that you can continue learning!

The desktop and mobile versions of the platform are synchronized. No matter which device you use, you’ll see your task progress and can continue from where you left off last time.

A wide variety of exercises for learning and remembering english vocabulary

One of the students' favorites and most effective options is flashcards – interactive cards for learning words. In each lesson, students have access to 20 cards dedicated to a specific vocabulary topic. On one side, there’s a new word, phrase, or expression with the option to listen to its pronunciation, and on the other side, its meaning, a textual or illustrative description. You can also add your vocabulary to such cards, along with examples of usage in sentences. Flip through the flashcards at any convenient moment and remember words with ease.

Additionally, depending on your level of English, the platform offers you the following exercises:

• match pictures with words;
• choose the correct option;
• fill in the gaps;
• complete the sentence/collocation;
• matching task;
• multiple choice;
• correct the mistakes;
• spelling task – recall the correct spelling of a word;
• unscramble the word;
• memory game – flip cards and find pairs (word and its meaning or translation);
• matching game – find pairs (word and its meaning or translation) as quickly as possible;
• listening task – choose from a list the word you hear;
• vocabulary word – definition test – read the definition and choose the word with the appropriate meaning from several options or vice versa.

By the way, you can try a few vocabulary exercises for free in this introductory lesson.

Students love the exercises on Smarte for minimizing unnecessary actions. There’s no need to rewrite or switch between pages – just a few clicks, and the task is completed. And teachers are delighted since they don’t have to check students’ work – the platform does it for them.

Nice Feature! After completing an exercise for English vocabulary, students can instantly check their answers and view the correct ones. You can repeat the tasks at any time (and even more than once).

Just imagine how much time you can save with interactive tasks. Schools that offer English vocabulary learning with printed textbooks or PDFs will tell you that writing by hand helps retain information. But even better is a variety of tasks and processes that keep you engaged. Switching from one activity to another prevents boredom and fatigue, and keeps your attention from wandering.

OK, does it really work?

The head of the Smarte educational platform, Olga Yankova, talks about the benefits of our innovations for students learning English vocabulary:

One of the questions my students constantly ask me is: 'How can I remember all these words and phrases? Is it even possible?'.

I always recommend flashcards and regular use of words. You need not only to repeat them but also to learn how to catch them in speech and texts of all kinds: when we talk to friends in English, listen to songs, watch series and movies, read books, articles, or Instagram posts. And also practice in exercises, for which our platform and online trainer are perfect.

The exercises listed above were developed by our teachers and with the help of artificial intelligence so that students can see examples of word usage in all possible contexts and situations. Each target vocabulary list includes the lesson context and a wealth of tasks to understand the cases of English vocabulary use by topics.

And for memorizing the meaning or translation of a word, nothing works better than flashcards, interactive tasks, and games (like memory games or spelling games) in textbooks and Smarte+.

We are currently developing several more cool tasks for learning English vocabulary and plan to present something exciting to our students soon.

In fact, it doesn’t take much time to effectively learn vocabulary – up to 10 minutes a day. And a convenient platform like Smarte, of course. Join Green Forest courses and try it out!