Hi All.
Destination English will be arranging some interesting interviews and podcasts over the summer period. In collaboration with English Radio - R.K.B. 106.9 F.M. (Barcelona), Zack Qureshi and Abigail Eshun, will be hosting a show and creating educational fun events over the summer. The podcasts will contain several different types of content.
If you are tired of reading, play widget below to listen to this podcast:
1. General question and answer type interviews, with interesting people who have a story to tell.
2. A section explaining, and discussing commonly used phrasal verbs. Examples will be given and where necessary, other meanings explored.
3. Embarrassing mistakes. The ones you really need to know about.
4. Necessary Vocabulary.
5. More about Destination English mission and website developments.
Please share this on Facebook & twitter with your friends and family who are learning English. We welcome your feedback and questions to create future content for learners of English.
Check out our new website at, Destination English. The students site contains dowloadable podcasts for our members. Ideal for the next time you go jogging or cycling, or if you are on a long journey. We have cut the content into bite-sized clips.
Summer is upon us. Your course has finished but learning English hasn’t! Here are some suggestions for maintaining and improving your English over the summer period.
For READING:
1. Go to Librivox. LibriVox audiobooks are free for anyone to listen to, on their computers, iPods or other mobile device, or to burn onto a CD. All the titles are in the public domain, and read by volunteers from all over the planet.
2. Follow the instructions on this link, and find your real reading level.
3. Buy some books to take home with you. We can highly recommend Oxford Bookworm series, from Starters to stage 6.
4. Find newspapers like the Guardian and the Independent have international editions, and are often available on the day of publication.
5. 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.
6. Join a library, borrow books in English - contact your nearest British Council Centre.
For LISTENING:
7. Buy some DVDs to take home with you.
8. Buy some stories or 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).
9. watch TV – if you have cable or satellite TV, you can usually watch many channels in English or follow a series that has many seasons, for example, The Vikings, Breaking Bad, How I met your mother.
10.. 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).
11. Listen to songs - look on the internet for lyrics.
For WRITING:
12. keep in touch with your ex-classmates or host families.
13. 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).
For SPEAKING:
14. Try attending conversation classes one or two evenings a week.
15. Check the noticeboards at your local university or bookstores for English speakers, who are looking for an exchange - you usually meet once or twice a week and speak half the time in English and half in your language. There may be several MEETUP or language exchange groups in your area.
16. 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.
The INTERNET.
The internet is an amazing resource for English. You can practice 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.
Enjoy the summer and remember that reading should be fun. So find something easy and enjoyable. And the same for a TV series.
Until September. This has been a summer post brought to you by Destination English.
If you are interested in taking one to one lessons with Zack, or one of our associated teachers, then go to: destinationEnglish.com and look at our skype page or our contact page.
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