Tips for maintaining your English skills over the summer:
1) Read
Reading is the perfect way to improve your spelling, vocabulary, and keep up your English skills. Even just one book over the summer will help to keep your mind focused on English. So don’t forget to read this summer. Check out the FCPS summer reading lists.
2) Get a job
You have to try harder to find opportunities to speak English. Putting yourself in a position in which you have to speak English daily is a great way to get practice. It will also help you to gain more confidence in your English speaking skills.
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Watch TV
Try to watch 30 minutes of TV per day; but don’t just sit there! While you watch, test yourself. See if you can really understand what is being said. Mix it up—watch the news to get practice understanding formal speech, and watch soap operas or sitcoms to get practice understanding more informal speech and slang.
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Do you want to have a way to keep those English language skills sharp during the summer? Check out these websites!
www.funbrain.com
This website will help you with basic English grammar. Try playing the Grammar Gorillas game; it’s great practice with parts of speech.
www.dailygrammar.com
Here, you can take quizzes and get extra practice with grammar exercises. You can also subscribe to the newsletter—this means you’ll get a grammar lesson emailed to you every day.
grammar.englishclub.com
This website is especially for ESL/ESOL learners! There are great explanations of the eight parts of speech and verb tenses. You can take quizzes, too. This website is really good for practicing English verbs.
www.english-zone.com/
This website has many different exercises and covers most of the important English grammar subjects. There area a lot of activities, so read all the options first… |
