As a full-time worker, I have to work more than eight hours a day since Monday to Friday. It's really hard for me to find any free time to do anything else. When I arrive home, only one thing that I want to do is relaxing. I think many people may have this problem same as me but now I try to change my mind to be more positive thinking that there are many ways to relax and also can improve myself either. Therefore, I make up an 8-week self-study plan to enhance English skills. I think this plan can help other ESL and EFL learners as well.
Week 1 : Let's Charge your life with vocabulary and grammar
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| http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/ |
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| Words in the News |
This website is recommended by my group's presentation in class. I can say that there are many advantages because you can enhance many skills.
First week, I practiced to learn more vocabularies by listening news. There are many video clips called
Words in the News that you can choose whatever you want. Each clips takes only 3-5 minutes. So just take your time listen to them.
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| Grammar Challenge |
I've got a lot new vocabularies while I practice listening. Of course, my listening also enhances as well. Then I tried new challenging thing to do. I took the challenge by doing the grammar exercise.
Here I can increase my understanding to use more correct grammar. There are many topics for you to choose. So try some to get more challenging in Grammar Challenge.
Week 2 : Enjoy Listening, Watching and Speaking
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| http://www.englishcentral.com/courses
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| Listening More |
As I recommended you in my last blog, I really enjoy listening some interesting clips. It's cool because it didn't take too much time practicing but you will gain benefit very much!
This week I will try to listen more by starting from basic to advanced, which are Media English and Acedemic English. This week you will enjoy watching, listening and speaking tons of video clips there.
This week I will try to listen more by starting from basic to advanced, which are Media English and Acedemic English. This week you will enjoy watching, listening and speaking tons of video clips there.
Week 3 : Let's Have Some Fun!!!
This week will be more relaxing but still learning. Therefore, I choose to visit fun-and-games and play some games to freshen up our memorizing. Here we can learn or review vocabularies which are used in everyday life and so on.
After refreshing our mind, then we will find some more activities to do. I see an interesting section in this website so I want to share it with you. It is word-on-street. This can help you to update how people use English in Everyday life.
Finally, It's time to check your grammar. Just click at grammar-exercises then you can practice and learn more grammar. This week you will get some fun but still learn English at the same time. Enjoy!
Week 4 : Let's Speak!
This week is about practice announcing the correct pronunciation. So I want to recommend you a website by Teacher Phil. There are tons of video clips to help you improve your skills. Although he is not a native speaker as he comes from Vietnam, he has a perfect accent. Let's prove it by yourselves!
After that, we are going to get some more pronunciation tips from BBC learning English. There are many clips that were provided for you. Now you will be able to pronounce correctly. Please keep in mind that the more you practice, the sooner professional you will be. Week 5 : Just Listen.
We will begin with taking the listening quizzes in order to evaluate ourselves by visiting General Listening Quizzes. There are various topics for you to choose.
Next, I suggest you to practice listening Australia English accent by visiting Australia Network. There are many video clips to watch and learn. Moreover, it also provided you with the Study English for IELTS Preparation as well.
Lastly, just spend your time learning some more difficult grammar by visiting English Baby. They were contained with tons of grammar. Week 6 : Time to Read and Write This week we will practice Reading & Writing . There are many tips for you to follow. However, you should keep practicing continuelly then you will enhance these skills better.
Week 7 : Listen More and More
ELLLO is an interesting website that you can find many clips to practice listening English. There are many clips from all over the world. You can listen by pressing "play" button. There will be transcript, audio slide show and vocabularies. Moreover, there are vocabulary quizzes and comprehension quizzes provided you so you will be able to evaluate yourselves as well.
Now let's have some fun with Listening Games. Here, you can enhance your listening skill by play games. How cool! Week 8 : Let's See How You Improve Yourself!  Now we come to the end of the week. Therefore let's take the exams to evaluate yourself how much you improve your English by visit BBC Learning English again. The Exam Skills will provide you with many good tips for all skills such as writing, listening, speaking and reading so you will be able to get more points or good marks easily.
At last, visit English Tests & Quizzes to do some more quizzes by visiting ESL.About.Com This website will be divided in different levels. Choose appropriate level for you then you will get to learn more. |
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