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Hi All!
Happy Holidays!
I will be arranging some interesting workshops in Barcelona in September 2013. We will try to record as much of it as possible and post something entertaining and educational. Please share this on Facebook & with your friends and family who are learning English.
Your course has finished but learning English hasn’t! Here are some suggestions for maintaining and improving your English.
READING
buy some books to take home with you.
HB Bookworms Library small
newspapers like the Guardian and the Independent have international editions, often available on the day of publication.
subscribe to a weekly/monthly magazine or newspaper e.g. Time, Newsweek, the Guardian Weekly, etc.
use the internet – you can read the news and get lots of other information.
join a library, borrow books in English - contact the nearest British Council/ Centre office.
LISTENING
buy some DVDs to take back with you - remember to check the compatibility of DVD players in your country.
buy some stories/novels on CD – most bookshops have a good selection (buy the book too!).
you can often find English films on DVD with subtitles in English (e.g. Speak Up series).
watch TV – if you have cable or satellite TV, you can usually watch many channels in English.
listen to the radio – why not try the BBC World Service? (you can also get many radio stations via the internet e.g. www.bbc.co.uk/radio).
listen to songs - look on the internet for lyrics.
WRITING
keep in touch with your ex-classmates or host families.
use the internet; e-mail and facebook, of course, but there are many sites for learning English with special chat rooms and forums to write in to (e.g. BBC, British Council, see below).
SPEAKING
try attending conversation classes one or two evenings a week.
check the noticeboards at the British Council or your local university for English speakers looking for an exchange - you usually meet once or twice a week and speak half the time in English and half in your language.
if your friends or colleagues at work are also interested in maintaining their English, why not get together once a month or so, and speak English together - e.g. all read the same story or newspaper article then discuss it together.
INTERNET
The internet is an amazing resource for English. You can practise all of the skills above, and learn grammar and vocabulary. Some interesting sites include:
newspapers.
www.guardian.co.uk.
www.independent.co.uk.
www.ft.com.
reference.
www.dictionary.com.
www.dictionary.cambridge.org.
The BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish .
www.teachingenglish.org.uk .
British Council .
www.learnenglish.org.uk .
short stories.
www.short-stories.co.uk
news videos.
http://abcasiapacific.com/englishbites/archives.htm .
www.bbc.co.uk.
Song lyrics.
www.lyrics.com.
www.thesonglyrics.com .
FCE prep.
www.flo-joe.co.uk.
Info courtesy of ELC Brighton.
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