Ways To Improve Your English

Ways To Improve Your English

Listening

• Follow TV and radio news in both your native language and in English. Understanding the ideas in your native language first will help you understand the English.
• Listen to songs in English.
• Watch films in English with English subtitles.
• Practice communicating with your friends in English.

Speaking

• Learn the words to English songs and sing.
• Practice with English cassettes, CDs or internet sites.
• Read aloud (articles, stories, dialogues, film scripts).
• Watch English films and read the dialogue aloud from the subtitles.
• Talk to yourself in English.
• Talk to your friends in English.
• Make an “interest group” with friends/colleagues/classmates to speak in English while you do something you enjoy together (singing, eating, exercise, playing cards…).

Reading

• Read about topics that interest you in English (e.g. sports, fashion, business…) in newspapers, library books or on the internet.
• Follow the news in both your native language and in English. Understanding the ideas in your native language first will help you understand the English.
• Read simple, modern short stories and novels in English.
• Read letters and emails from your friends in English.

Writing

• Keep a diary in English. Just write freely about whatever you like. This helps you “think in English” more easily.
• Email or write notes to your friends in English.
• Write a song or a poem.
• Write the story of your life: past, present and future.
• Join an internet e-group and communicate with people who share your interests from all over the world.
• Chat in English on the internet with people from other countries.