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= 100 Things You Can Do To Improve Your English = 31.10.2012

Hester is the Director of Studies at our Langports Brisbane school. She has a strong passion for education and has set up her own website and blog to help her students.

Her blog for this week is a list of:

= 100 things you can do to improve your English = Have a read of the below list and we are sure you will find a lot of helpful tips to improve your English!


 * 1) Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Be confident. People can only correct your mistakes when they hear you make them.
 * 2) Surround yourself in English. Put yourself in an all English speaking environment where you can learn passively. The best way to learn is through speaking.
 * 3) Practise every day. Make yourself a study plan. Decide how much time a week you are going to spend studying and stick to it. Establish a routine.
 * 4) Tell your family and friends about your study plan. Get them to push you to study and also don’t let them interrupt you.
 * 5) Practise the 4 core skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. They all need to be worked on for you to improve.
 * 6) Keep a notebook of new words you learn. Use them in sentences and try to say them at least 3 times when you speak.
 * 7) Do a lesson at least once a day.
 * 8) Memorisation of lists is one of the most common ways of learning vocabulary for a test. It’s only a good exercise for short term studying because you often do not retain the information that you have learned for a test.
 * 9) Use your body clock. If you’re not a morning person, study in the afternoon.
 * 10) You will find words easier to remember if you try to remember an example sentence using that word rather the word on its own.
 * 11) Plan to take a test. You’ll find that you work harder when you need to study for something.
 * 12) Saying that, it’s better not to study just to take a test. Think of the bigger picture. What can you do when you have a good command of English? How will the quality of your life improve?
 * 13) Give yourself a long term goal. Focus on working towards it.