A multilingual world ...

We have already started Block 1: A multilingual world.

Right at the beginning of this block, we talked about different types of activities that students can do outside the classroom to improve their English. My students were able to present many different ideas.
Then we read the text: Making cyberfriends is fun! We read this text because having a cyberfriend can be a wonderful way to meet a native speaker and improve your language skills.
At home, many of my students wrote their first email to their American epals. They could put into practice what we had learned at school. They used the educational site: http://www.epals.com/.

In the web I have found a good site about some of the ways to improve our English.

Ways to improve your English
Practice, practice and more practice! It is true that the more you try to speak English the more you will naturally improve. Just by using the English language as much as possible, your fluency will rapidly develop. Speak on the phone, write e-mails and letter, make lists, read as much as possible. Surround yourself with English!

Make contact with native English people. If you have friends who are English then speak with them about as many different topics as possible. The more diverse your subject matter, the wider the vocabulary you will develop. Try mixing with different kinds of English people, those in different jobs and with diverse interests in order to expose yourself to wider varieties of vocabulary and language usage. Speak English whenever you can: in shops, at the pub, in a queue - seize your opportunity to communicate!

Watch English television. Many films are in English and this is a great place to start to listen to faster spoken sentences, colloquial expressions and accent varieties. Be aware of which English you are listening to though as in many mainstream films you will be listening to American accents which are very different from British accents. Television soaps are an excellent way to pick up idiomatic expressions and casual language usage.

Read newspapers. Read all the English text you can find. Newspapers are a good way of reading lots of smaller articles if you do not feel ready to tackle a book. The tabloid newspapers use more basic English vocabulary and sentence structures and will be easier to read than broadsheet newspapers. Cartoons are a excellent way of involving humour in your reading and offer visual clues to the text.

Find a pen friend. Writing skills can be improved by writing to an English person regularly. Perhaps you can find an English person who wants to learn your native language? You could both write half a letter in English and the other half in your native language and correct each other's messages. Exchanging letters, e-mails or chatting on instant messengers on the internet are great ways of making friends. The messages from your English pen friend will expose you to new words and sentence structures.

Make it fun! If your language learning is not enjoyable then you will find it hard to be motivated. What do you find fun, amusing or fulfilling? Try to incorporate the English language into that. If you like computer games, find an English language interactive adventure game where you have to understand and use instructions to play; if you like cartoons, read them in English; if you like comedy, watch English comedies or go to see a English comedian. Play word-based board games, do crosswords, chat in internet chat rooms or read crime thrillers - whatever floats your boat, as long as it is in English!

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