Keep in touch with your friends from school
- Make sure you have your friends' addresses and write to them.
- Take your friends' email addresses and send e-mails.
- Tape yourself and all your latest news, send it to your friends and get them to send it back with their news.
- If you have a camcorder, video yourself and your family or friends so you can really get to know each other.
- Create your own website and post your latest news and photos.
Use newspapers and magazines
- Have a loook in your newsagent's for local English newspapers, or subscribe to one.
- Have a look for British newpapers or subscribe to one.
- Look for magazines in Enlish, e.g. Newsweek, Time, National Geographic - if you don't want to buy them, try the library.
- Find out about newspapers or magazines for students of English.
Use your radio or TV
- Record the news and set yourself little exercises:-
Write down any topics that are talked about.
Listen and take detailed notes, write setences, then listen and compare.
Try to transcribe a whole news item; this will help your listening and speaking.
Record the same news in your language and see if the information is the same.
- Record a film or rent on and :-
Watch it for fun.
Keep a diary of new expressions.
Note any body language or gestures.
If you can get subtitles, compare them with what you hear.
Listen to the World Service.
Start an English club
- Get people you know, who speak English, to meet once a week or once a month and speak English to each other.
Exchange teach your language
- Try and find a native English speaker for conversations - advertise at local colleges, universities or language schools or use the internet.
- Find an English speaking pen-friend and write to each toehr in English, or write to them in English and get them to wrtie to you in your language.
Use music
- When you listen to British or American music, try reading or writing the lyrics at the same time.
- Sing along!
Take things with you from England
- Buy the workbook for your level and work through it to revise.
- Buy the next level course book/workbook and work through it.
- Buy yourself a good grammar book, with answers, for you level.
- Take home an English/English dictionary for your level. Make you dictionary your own by highlighting any words you look up.
Use the internet
- There are lots of excellent sites you can user for serious studying, or just to have fun with English.
Here are some you could try:-
towerofenglish.com
onestopenglish.com
englishclub.com
englishclub.com/chatroom.htm
bbc.co.uk/learning
eslcafe.com
bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
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- Make sure you have your friends' addresses and write to them.
- Take your friends' email addresses and send e-mails.
- Tape yourself and all your latest news, send it to your friends and get them to send it back with their news.
- If you have a camcorder, video yourself and your family or friends so you can really get to know each other.
- Create your own website and post your latest news and photos.
Use newspapers and magazines
- Have a loook in your newsagent's for local English newspapers, or subscribe to one.
- Have a look for British newpapers or subscribe to one.
- Look for magazines in Enlish, e.g. Newsweek, Time, National Geographic - if you don't want to buy them, try the library.
- Find out about newspapers or magazines for students of English.
Use your radio or TV
- Record the news and set yourself little exercises:-
Write down any topics that are talked about.
Listen and take detailed notes, write setences, then listen and compare.
Try to transcribe a whole news item; this will help your listening and speaking.
Record the same news in your language and see if the information is the same.
- Record a film or rent on and :-
Watch it for fun.
Keep a diary of new expressions.
Note any body language or gestures.
If you can get subtitles, compare them with what you hear.
Listen to the World Service.
Start an English club
- Get people you know, who speak English, to meet once a week or once a month and speak English to each other.
Exchange teach your language
- Try and find a native English speaker for conversations - advertise at local colleges, universities or language schools or use the internet.
- Find an English speaking pen-friend and write to each toehr in English, or write to them in English and get them to wrtie to you in your language.
Use music
- When you listen to British or American music, try reading or writing the lyrics at the same time.
- Sing along!
Take things with you from England
- Buy the workbook for your level and work through it to revise.
- Buy the next level course book/workbook and work through it.
- Buy yourself a good grammar book, with answers, for you level.
- Take home an English/English dictionary for your level. Make you dictionary your own by highlighting any words you look up.
Use the internet
- There are lots of excellent sites you can user for serious studying, or just to have fun with English.
Here are some you could try:-
towerofenglish.com
onestopenglish.com
englishclub.com
englishclub.com/chatroom.htm
bbc.co.uk/learning
eslcafe.com
bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
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http://www.winbledon-school.ac.uk