Speak English!
When learning English, many students like to read articles, do exercises and watch movies and television. These exercises are easy in the sense that you don’t have to really speak or think about how to create sentences at all. While these exercises are good for your reading, grammar and listening skills, they don’t improve your English speaking. In later posts we will look at how you can turn these different exercises into a English speaking exercise, but today we’re going to discuss English speaking in general and hopefully this will give you some motivation.
There are many different ways that you can increase the amount of time you spend speaking English, and this can be summarised into two categories:
- Take advantage of every opportunity you get to speak English
- Increase the number of opportunities to speak English.
How to take advantage of opportunities
In your English course are you the student that is always speaking or the one who only speaks when the teacher asks you a question? Speaking as much as you can in class (without taking away speaking time from others) is our number one tip when it comes to taking advantage of opportunies. Language classrooms can be intimidating and it is sometimes difficult to speak up in class. But once you get over this fear you will realise what you have been missing. If you can’t speak because the level is too difficult then you need to speak with your school and changes courses. The next time the teacher asks a question, be the one who answers. We all make mistakes, that is part of learning a new language, we learn from them.
Other ways to take advantage of speaking opportunities:
- If you have English speaking friends, go and do something with them and speak to them as much as possible.
- If you have an intercambio, don’t just listen in English, speak in English. And make sure that they help you with this.
- If you live in an English speaking country, go out and speak to people in ‘natural situations.’
Increase the opportunities to speak English
There are many ways that you can increase the amount of time you spend speaking English. You can:
- Start a new course.
- Get a private tutor.
- Start an intercambio.
- Join a Skype conversation group.
- Make English speaking friends.
These are just a few ways that you can increase the time you spend speaking English.
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