Learning happens every day.
It is a regular practice, which needs to be incorporated into your daily
routine. Here are a few helpful tips to improve your English:
Each week ask yourself, “what’s are your learning goals?”
and most of all, your action steps to attain these goals. Having a moment to consider your learning
goals, will help you stay focus. It will
boost your confidence and effort as you see the results each week, keeping your
excited even during those weeks or days when avoidance or fatigue set in.
Before ending your day review important new information -- every night. As you sleep your brain will work
at the information you provided as you nod off to dreamland! Quiet moments help
us retain information. Most importantly, the information stays with us!
Listen to English each day.
Set a goal of 5 to 10 minutes of listening each day, adding more time to
listening each week. Don’t set a goal of
listening to English for an hour. It may
happen one day, but the following day, you might every excuse not to listen to
English. This daily exercise will help
increase your speed of comprehension while developing a good habit to listen to
English regularly. Here’s a list of
Canadian radio stations online: http://www.surfmusic.de/country/canada.html
Find ways to use your English be it -- speaking, listening
or reading English in real life settings.
Learning English in the classroom is important, however applying your
English skills and practice them helps improve your fluency and confidence in
the language. Our Explore Canada programs
are uniquely design to bridge in class lessons and real world, fun lessons. If you are struggling to find real world situations to apply
your English than decide for yourself how and what you will do to create your
own experiences. Use the Internet to
listen the news. Visit Canadian news channels at www.cbc.ca
or www.ctv.ca or world news at www.bbc.com, however as you learn to listen to
English to one accent as it may pose a challenge to your learning efforts at
the beginning.
Read an English book a month. As a first Canada book read Lucy Maud
Montgomery’s book, “Anne of Green Gables”.
It’s online at http://www.publicbookshelf.com/fiction/green-gables/
. Find online book discussion. Response to the
questions offered as it will help you remember the book, while bridging
comprehension, critical thinking and expression into a fun writing exercise. Be sure to add new words to your list of
vocabulary book too.
Have fun!
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