Language Learning Ideas

Speaking

• Use the telephone more with English-speaking contacts.
• Organise English-speaking zones at work.
• Organise English-speaking break times, lunches or dinners
• Record yourself speaking and learn from the playback.
• Sing along to English songs.
• Look at the pronunciation practise page.

Listening

• Listen to English language radio.
• Watch television in VO without French subtitles.
• Listen to English music.
• Listen to yourself when you speak English - record yourself.
• Look at the listening practise page.

Vocabulary / Reading

• Read an English newspaper or magazine regularly.
• Read English books.
• Visit English language sites on the internet.
• Read aloud.
• When watching a dvd (in French) turn on the subtitles in English.
• Keep a notebook of new vocabulary that you learn.
• Look at the vocabulary resources page.

Grammar

• Do exercises in a self-study grammar book or online.
• Keep a notebook of tenses and irregular verbs that you learn.
• Pay attention to the grammar when you read.
• Learn examples as well as rules and then practise using what you have learnt.
• Notice when you make a grammar mistake and try to correct it in the future.
• Look at the grammar resources page.