Improving your English skills!

Learning is a skill and it can be improved.

Your path to learning effectively is through knowing

• yourself
• your capacity to learn
• processes you have successfully used in the past
• your interest, and knowledge of what you wish to learn

Motivate yourself

If you are not motivated to learn English you will become frustrated and give up. 

Set yourself achievable goals

You know how much time you can dedicate to learning English, but a short time each day will produce better, longer-term results than a full day on the weekend and then nothing for two weeks.

Joining a short intensive course could produce better results than joining a course that takes place once a week for six months.

A good way to meet your goals is to establish a system of rewards and punishments.

Decide on a reward you will give yourself for fulfilling your goals for a month.

Understanding how you learn best may also help you.

British accent!

    

Accents that are peculiar to England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are each different and with practice you can begin to talk with one that sounds genuine. Along with the accents are mannerisms that you will need to assume to affect the part. This video will give you an example of a stereotypical view of how the British talk.

Reading Techniques!

Para quellos que tienen problemas con la lectura en ingles, a continuacion se presentan algunas tecnicas que les ayudaran a mejorar esta dicha área.

1. Preview

Preview the text to be read by skimming it. Skimming is the technique of allowing your eyes to travel rapidly over a page, stopping here and there to register the main idea. When skimming, you should follow the procedure below, adapting it to your purpose

• Read the title.
• Note the writer's name.
• Note the date and place of publication.
• Read the first paragraph completely.
• Read sub-headings and first sentences of remaining paragraphs.

As you read, pick up main ideas, key words

2. Question

Effective reading is active reading. To turn reading from a passive into an active exercise, always ask questions.
To do this, you must be clear about the purpose of your reading. During the preview, note as many questions as you can about the content. The object of the preview and questioning steps is to determine the writer's thesis, that is, her/his main idea and purpose in writing.
As you read, list all the words about which you are uncertain; look them up in the dictionary and write down their definitions.

3. Take notes

Some reasons for taking notes are:

• to maintain attentiveness as you read,
• to focus your attention,
• to familiarise yourself with primary and secondary material on a given subject,
• to analyse the assumptions and rhetorical strategies of the writer,
• to provide you with a summary of the material.

4. Summarise

A summary is a collation of your notes, recording the main points the writer makes. Making a summary from your notes has two main benefits.

• It allows you to test yourself on your understanding of the material you have been reading - sometimes it is only when you try to put the writer's ideas into your own words that you uncover difficulties.
• It provides you with a compact account of the text for further reference.

5. Review and reflect

• Test your understanding of the material by trying to answer your preview questions without referring to your notes.
• Write down the meaning and usefulness the material has for understanding other concepts and principles. Indicate what other ideas the material substantiates, contradicts, or amplifies.
• Evaluate the text in terms of its informativeness, soundness of argument, relevance, and so on. If you are gathering material for an essay or report, decide which points you want to use and think about how you can use them.
• Start a reading journal in which you keep all reading, review, and reflection notes

Evaluacion de los tiempos verbales.

Ahora que estas mas informado de los tiempos verbales en ingles es hora de que evalues tus conocimientos. Para esto se proporciona a continiacion un enlace hacia un quiz a cerca de Tenses in English.

Tiempos Verbales

Aqui les dejo un video para que puedan conocer como se forman los distintos tiempo en ingles!

my voki

Recursos de apoyo 2011

Este blog ha sido creado con la finalidad de ayudar a los alumnos de idiomas en su desepenño academico mediante la falcilitacion de recursos de apoyo.