(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1Y6RMqs) Congratulations to all you who have been through this 5 step strategic plan to improve your English, today it is only about celebrating the resolutions in 3 simple sentences. I recommended only three resolutions because life is full of so many wishes and dreams and English fluency make be only a few.…
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? (Photo credit http://bit.ly/YXTdL9) ? It makes a lot of sense that if you want to learn a language you should go and live in a country that speaks it. That way you are thinking and breathing English every moment of the day. But not all people have…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1mia86A) This is the final countdown post concerning the review of your English right now and how you plan to improve it in 2016. So let’s take out our notes from last time and take a look at what we have created so far: e.g. Confidence in speaking English (4/10) Benchmark: By the…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1J4ogp9) You are at an exciting part of the process now. You have written your success level, your benchmark of success, now you need to think of how you are going to meet that benchmark. So let’s take a look at your notes that you took last time: e.g. Confidence in speaking English…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1NiLgEN) If you have completed the reviews for No. 4 and 5, you will see that you are now up to the ‘how am I going to measure this?’ point. So let’s take a look at what you wrote last time: e.g. Confidence in speaking English (4/10) Benchmark: By the end of 2016…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1I1o8Mc) If you have followed the previous post at No. 5, you will see that we are up to now No. 4 (just a reminder that this is a countdown so the numbers will go backwards!). This time we are going to look at those three points you discovered in post No. 5.…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/21YVge3) This is the first of 5 steps in a countdown format for an evaluation plan you can start implementing into your daily schedule in 2016. So sit back and review where your English is at right now. For this first step, I want you to have a good think about where you…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1LGap7Y) As teachers (particularly ESL teachers), we are always teaching pretty much the same content for each level of English, and the things that keep ups motivated and interested, fall into two categories, the new techniques and theories of education and the fact that every month or semester we get a different ‘fresh’…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1vAG2gk) One answer: Absolutely! I say this because I know many people who were born in non-English speaking countries, lived in their non native English country for a long time, and are now speaking English like a native. So the question is how did they do it? 3 ways: They all had to…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1SpYAZp) I have never been so amazed at how many words comes from Arabic origin. Let’s look at a few right here. (Taken directly from Wikipedia I’m afraid) coffee, café قهوة qahwa, coffee. Coffee drinking originated in Yemen in the 15th century.[24] Qahwa (itself of uncertain origin) begot Turkish kahve. Turkish phonology does not have a /w/ sound, and the…
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