Today's lesson is a little different. Instead of teaching you a phrase, or some
vocabulary, I just wanted to give you some advice.
- When you have mastered something in English, like answering "I'm fine." and used it successfully a few times, you should try something new. "Great!" or "Fantastic!" or "Pretty good." Don't be afraid to experiment.
- When you get asked the same questions every day ("How was school today?"), prepare for them, and give longer and different answers. "It was great because we learned about the 3rd Conditional."
- If you learned a new word today (or any day) learn words that are related to it. If someone teaches you destroy, you should learn destroyer, destruction, destructive, destructible, indestructible, destructively, and indestructibly. The meanings of all these words are approximately the same. If you dictionary doesn't tell you this information, it isn't a good dictionary.
- Try to find a collocation dictionary. It will change the way you look at English.
- If you have trouble with prepositions, read a newspaper article and highlight all the prepositions. You will remember more of them this way.
- If you want to practice reading in English, get a book translated from your language into English. You won't have to worry about names and cultural issues because you will already understand them.
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