LESSON ONE - TWO LETTER WORDS
Paul Kalumba
Tackling the Twos
It should take you about a week to memorize the two-letter words, their meanings and extensions. The two’s are to Scrabble players what one-foot putts are to golfers - they should never be missed. Make a copy of the Two's list (attached herein) and glance at it while watching TV. What’s an AA? A three-toed sloth? No - rough cindery lava. It’s a noun so it takes an-S.
Many of the 121 two letter words will be familiar to you from everyday English.
How much time should you spend learning words?
An average of twenty minutes per day over one year is enough to learn the strategic lists necessary to be competitive in club and tournament play. Just playing regularly will maintain your keenness for studying lists as you start to see the rewards of your work by actually playing the words you have learnt. Experts preparing for the World Championships can often spend up to 12 hours a day memorising and reviewing their lists but that’s not everybody’s cup of tea.
The Lessons I will be posting here are mainly from the Australian Scrabble website http://www.scrabble.org.au/index.html. You are welcome to visit the site directly and get the wealth of lessons from there.
Regards,
Paul Y Kalumba