Did The Cat Get Your Tongue?
What you can do to improve your spoken English?
One of the English teachers at our university got into a taxi one day, and as she talked with the driver, she noticed that he had very good spoken English, better, in fact, than that of some of her students ! “Where did you learn your English?” she asked. “Oh” he replied, “I never went to secondary school. I drive a taxi everyday, but while I’m driving around, I listen to the English radio stations. And if an English-speaking passengers gets in, I try to start a conversation with them. That’s how I learn my English!”
There are many things which contribute to good spoken English, but an important question for you is this: to what extent are your attitudes similar to those of the taxi drives? Are you willing to try to start a conversation with an English speaker? Or do you feel as if “the cat did get your tongue”? –That whenever you try to speak English, your tongue won’t behave it self and you can hardly make a sound?
How then can you improve your spoken English? How can you try to put your resolution to improve into practice? In the ELT Unit Fact Sheet No.1, we have given some important advice about your attitude towards language learning and towards making a plan for improvement. Here we will suggest some concrete things you can do on your own (for little or no money) to improve your English – spoken English in particular.
What you can do to improve your spoken English?
One of the English teachers at our university got into a taxi one day, and as she talked with the driver, she noticed that he had very good spoken English, better, in fact, than that of some of her students ! “Where did you learn your English?” she asked. “Oh” he replied, “I never went to secondary school. I drive a taxi everyday, but while I’m driving around, I listen to the English radio stations. And if an English-speaking passengers gets in, I try to start a conversation with them. That’s how I learn my English!”
There are many things which contribute to good spoken English, but an important question for you is this: to what extent are your attitudes similar to those of the taxi drives? Are you willing to try to start a conversation with an English speaker? Or do you feel as if “the cat did get your tongue”? –That whenever you try to speak English, your tongue won’t behave it self and you can hardly make a sound?
How then can you improve your spoken English? How can you try to put your resolution to improve into practice? In the ELT Unit Fact Sheet No.1, we have given some important advice about your attitude towards language learning and towards making a plan for improvement. Here we will suggest some concrete things you can do on your own (for little or no money) to improve your English – spoken English in particular.
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