Here there is my power point about speaking strategies.
Thank you!
Resources and Strategies on learning a language
viernes, 10 de enero de 2014
jueves, 19 de diciembre de 2013
Strategies for an oral exam
There are also some strategies that will be useful in an oral exam .
The typical oral exams are a mix of formal and informal
speaking because there are two exercices of interacting and two of
describing. So here there are some useful strategies:
- Practise
standard expressions.
-Maintain good eye contact and posture.
-Pay
close attention to the
questions asked.
-Speak
in complete sentences.
-In
this kind of speaking is really important to be careful with the grammar and
vocabulary used.
-When
describing or explaining, try to organise
the explanation before starting.
-Try
not to say Spanish
expressions like “ EMM”
or “Vale”
-If
you are nervous and you don't know how to express yourself, use
other words.
Improving your speaking skills
In each English-speaking country there are usually many different accents and dialentcs, but also in those countries where English is spoken as a second or third language there are also different accents.
It's true that there is a standard of well spoken English, but don't be obsessed with that, it's impossible for you to speak a language in the same way as a native speaker does.
So try to have a good accent but don't be obsessed with it because there are things like stress or intonation that are probably more important than the accent.
Here there are some strategies to improve your speaking:
-The most important point for interacting is having confidence, and this is deppeloped by practising.
- In the classroom make sure you use English not only for doing exercises but also when you are speaking.
- Join English people or people to speak Eenglish to practise with them.
-Try to use English when you travel out of your country.
-Record yourself speaking to see your pronunciation.
-Watch TV programs in English to get used to their accent or their way of intonation. Intonation is important to know what does the speaker mean and what does he feel.
How to speak in public
To do a speech or an oral presentation it's important to do some of these things:
- Be prepared. Know what your subject.
-Know your audience is also important to know how to do the speech
-Know your audience is also important to know how to do the speech
-Don't read or memorise
.
.
-Be self-confident.
-Use visual aids and examples, things that help the audience understand better what you are explaining.
-Maintain eye contact.
-Maintain eye contact.
-Activily involve your audience, this will attract their attention.
lunes, 9 de diciembre de 2013
Useful resources in my bookmark
Here there is my Bookmark, where you will find some interesting websites. These resources will be very useful to practise all of the skills we need to practise to keep learning and improving a foreign language.
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2013
Learning how to write
What do you think about writing in English? Do you make mistakes? Don't you know how to organise your texts? There are some strategies that will help you doing a good writing:
- Write a little every day.
- Before writing, look for examples of other texts depending on the type of writing you want to do.
-Keep your reader in mind.
-Keep your reader in mind.
- Learn useful expressions and connectors.
- Follow an order to write a text :
Plan - Draft - Read through - Rewrite
- Every kind of writing has a different structure and composition.
-Try to writte directly in English, not by translating.
-Try to writte directly in English, not by translating.
-Write the text depending on your public, you have to write something that they can understand.
- Use what you have learned about grammar, vocabulary etc.
-Write texts in different styles depending on the type of text. For example, you can't write an article in informal English, but you can do it when you write a letter to one of your friends.
-Once written, correct your work.
Oh, and don't forget that reading also improves writing!
lunes, 2 de diciembre de 2013
Pieces of advise on listening
Listening is a real-time skill which needs a lot of ability. It's important to listen well even if you are talking with native speakers, or you're listening to the radio, or even if you are doing a listening exercise at school. Remember that listening well is speaking well.
While listening in a quotidian situation it's important to understand what you're hearing. Some advices I can give to you are:
-Predict and anticipate because that will help you to understand.
-Don't try to understand every word, just focus on the main idea that somebody wants to give to you.
-Look at the facial expressions that will always help you to understand (for example in a dialogue or when watching TV).
If you are doing listening exercises you have to put more attention:
- Underline the key words of the questions the ask you to focus on what you need to answear.
- Try to concentrate and listen all the dialogue.
- If there are multiple choises try to think how will the speakers say the possible answears in other words.
-The first time you listen try to find the answear and the second time try to make sure you have chosen the correct one.
If you do some of these things and you practice a little bit every day by watching a foreign TV channel, by listening to music, by doing some exercises etc., you will be a good listener!
While listening in a quotidian situation it's important to understand what you're hearing. Some advices I can give to you are:
-Predict and anticipate because that will help you to understand.
-Don't try to understand every word, just focus on the main idea that somebody wants to give to you.
-Look at the facial expressions that will always help you to understand (for example in a dialogue or when watching TV).
If you are doing listening exercises you have to put more attention:
- Underline the key words of the questions the ask you to focus on what you need to answear.
- Try to concentrate and listen all the dialogue.
- If there are multiple choises try to think how will the speakers say the possible answears in other words.
-The first time you listen try to find the answear and the second time try to make sure you have chosen the correct one.
If you do some of these things and you practice a little bit every day by watching a foreign TV channel, by listening to music, by doing some exercises etc., you will be a good listener!
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2013
How to improve your reading
This is a 10 minutes long but interesting video of how to improve our reading skills.
How to improve your reading
Many people have difficulties with reading. Some of them don't read well the words, others don't understand what they read, some people don't like what they are reading so they don't concentrate etc. Reading is an ability that is important to be improved. Here there are some advices:
- Read things that interest you. This will make easier your improvement.
-Think about your reasons for reading, this will help you, because it is different to read a menu than to read a book.
-Don't choose too difficult readings that you won't be able to understand because you will get lost, and stressed.
-While reading don't stop in every word you don't understand, look for the key words that will help you understand the topic or the main idea that the writer wants to express.
-If it's a short text, not a book, read it twice, the first time looking for the main ideas and the second one reading more carefully.
-Finally, try to read it well by stoping on the comas and the spots and by reading the words like they sound. But don't be too obsessed with that.
- Read things that interest you. This will make easier your improvement.
-Think about your reasons for reading, this will help you, because it is different to read a menu than to read a book.
-Don't choose too difficult readings that you won't be able to understand because you will get lost, and stressed.
-While reading don't stop in every word you don't understand, look for the key words that will help you understand the topic or the main idea that the writer wants to express.
-If it's a short text, not a book, read it twice, the first time looking for the main ideas and the second one reading more carefully.
-Finally, try to read it well by stoping on the comas and the spots and by reading the words like they sound. But don't be too obsessed with that.
miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2013
lunes, 18 de noviembre de 2013
Pieces of advice on learning vocabulary
Leaning all of the vocabulary of a language is really difficult. There's a lot of vocabulary but you don't expect to know all of it. If you want to learn vocabulary or to improve how to interpret the vocabulary that you don't understand of the language you’re learning, follow these advices:
-Read newspapers, books, magazines, and underline new vocabulary.You have to read texts on your level where you don't understand three of four words, but don't chose text with a lot of words you don't know.
-Listen to songs and read their lyrics to learn new words. It's a funny way of learning. Don't try to search words in the dictionary, it's boring and not very useful.
-If you don't know a word try to describe it with other words or just use another word or expression that is closer to it.
-The new words you lear, write them in a Post-it and put it somewhere yo ucan read it every day. Don't try to memorise, just read this vocabulary every day to get used with it.
- If you don’t know some of the word in a text, don’t stop reading; think about their meaning according to the context.
-If you're writing a text and you don't know a word, look for some synonyms that you're more used to write.
If you want to learn a new word you will have to pronouce it well, spell it well, know the situation when you can use it and finally know the positive or negative connotations that it has.
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2013
Learning grammar
Grammar is important when you learn a language because it helps us to learn quicker, it's like a shortcut. Here there are some advices to learn grammar:
-Write schemes of grammar
rules. Write them in the same text. The schemes will help you to revise while writing and to have a specific place where there are all the grammar rules.
-Look for patterns of a language
-Look for patterns of a language
-Practise grammar exercises. You have to practice the rules you have studied. It's important to put into practise what you have studied. Do exercises like: correcting errors of a text, sentence transformation, filling the gaps, etc.
-Write compositions. Give
them to a teacher who will correct your grammar faults.
-Don’t be obsessed only with
grammar.
-If you don't understang a grammar rule of a word use logical deductions using some examples.
What you have to do is just make hypotesis using examples.
What you have to do is just make hypotesis using examples.
-Check everything after writing.
viernes, 8 de noviembre de 2013
Learning styles
As you will see in the power point there are different types of learners. This power point will help you to find what learner you are and some strategies that you can use.
jueves, 31 de octubre de 2013
Advices on learning a language
Learning a foreign language is never easy. Here there are some advices that would be helpful for your language learning. First of all, there are four main points that are essential to learn a language:
-Speaking with native people.
-Listening to the radio, to music, and watching interesting videos in this language.
-Writing summaries of the grammar of the language.
-Having memory
-The input
- The output
To improve these aspects you can do different things, here there are some examples:
-Think about your reasons for learning. Ii'ts important to enjoy what you are doing.
-Think about your goals and priorities before starting learning a language.
-Writing a diary explaining, using this foreign language, what you do every day. It's important to take time and effort.
-Think about your reasons for learning. Ii'ts important to enjoy what you are doing.
-Think about your goals and priorities before starting learning a language.
-Writing a diary explaining, using this foreign language, what you do every day. It's important to take time and effort.
.-Reading articles that attract your attention and underlining the words you don’t understand. You can write these words in a Post-it, and put it somewhere you see it every day.
-Speaking with native people.
-Listening to the radio, to music, and watching interesting videos in this language.
-Writing summaries of the grammar of the language.
miércoles, 30 de octubre de 2013
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