It’s almost Valentine’s Day and love is in the air! I spotted this site in the news today. It’s for people who want to speed-date online. Speed-dating is when you have a short 5-minute discussion with a potential partner to find out if you like him or her. I’m married so a speed-dating site isn’t [...] → Continue Reading Valentine’s Day English Tip
One of the characteristics of an advanced language learner is having dreams in his or her second language. I can remember my first dream in my second language. I was a chat show host in the dream and I was interviewing guests and playing the piano for an audience. It was a very strange experience! [...] → Continue Reading How to dream in English
There are loads of great English podcasts out there. Some focus on specific grammar points and others are more conversation-based. Whatever your preference, there’s something out there for you. If you are a busy person, it can be hard to find time to listen to podcasts, though. Here are five fun ways to listen to [...] → Continue Reading Five fun ways to listen to English podcasts
It’s unlikely that you will need to read more than a few paragraphs in this style. Most of the time, you will be skimming or scanning first. Once you have found the information you want, then you will need to switch to reading for detail. Here’s how to do it. 1. Read the whole paragraph [...] → Continue Reading An easy way of reading for detail
Continuing with our Improve your English reading skills series, this week let’s look at scan-reading. When do we ‘scan’? We scan-read when we already know what information we are looking for. For example: when we are reading a train timetable when we are looking for an entry in a dictionary when we are looking for [...] → Continue Reading Improve your English reading skills – Part 3: Scan-reading
Last week, we had a look at different types of English reading skills. This week, let’s focus on skim reading in more detail. Skim reading is a useful skill to develop and it’s easy to learn. The most common uses of skim reading are: browsing the news reading a magazine looking through long e-mails looking [...] → Continue Reading Improve your English reading skills – Part 2: Skim reading
Before you can start to improve your English reading skills, you need to decide on which which styles of reading you will use most and where your strengths and weaknesses are. Let’s have a look at the four main styles of reading and work out which aspects you need to work on in order to [...] → Continue Reading Improve your English reading skills – Part 1: Styles of reading
Over the last two weeks, we’ve seen some tips for visual learners and auditory learners. Now, let’s have a look at some for kinaesthetic learners. Kinaesthetic learners learn things best by actually doing them. If you are a kinaesthetic learner, try using these tips to help you practise English. 1. Matching games. Kids love these [...] → Continue Reading 6 great tips for kinaesthetic learners
