HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS

1.        Write down important information from the recording

Important information conveyed by the man in this audio is:

1.      You have to practice and speak if you want to improve your English speaking skills

2.      Studying grammar and listening to English alone will never improve your speaking

3.      There’s a technique that allows you to learn to speak English by yourself

4.      No speaking partner is required

5.      This technique can help improve many aspects of your spoken English

That aspect is:                                           

a.       Sentence structure

b.      Grammar

c.       Vocabulary

d.      Most importantly Your ability to express your thoughts and ideas effectively

6.      What is this technique?

a.       Learning to speak English through imitation, something a little more advanced than that.

b.      Here’s how it works , you listen to a conversation, a story, or some kind of speech, and then try to deliver that speech in your own words

c.       This technique in action, instead of imitating small portions of speech like phrases and short sentences, you can imitate larger portions of speech.

7.      In this case, you wait until the speaker completes a thought or an idea, then pause and try to express that idea yourself

8.      Another approach is to simply listen to the whole speech and then try to deliver that entire speech yourself

9.      Combine them all together, and this approach easy-to-hard imitation

10.  Easy-to-hard imitation is based on the concept of progressive training

The concept of progressive training, among others;

a.       The idea is that you start with something easy

b.      Increase the difficulty of the activity

c.       Forcing yourself to get better

11.  How you can apply this concept

a.       Start by imitating small portions of speech, like phrases and short sentences

b.      Move on to imitating larger portions of speech, like long sentences or even groups of sentences

c.       Try to deliver the entire speech on your own

12.  This technique offers many benefits

The benefit is:

a.       You get to listen and imitate correct English

b.      Which helps you learn to form sentences properly

c.       You get to learn idioms, expressions

d.      Other speaking patterns that are used in day to day conversation

e.       You get to learn grammar

13.  When you imitate, you don’t think about grammar

14.  You’re focused on communication on understanding and expressing ideas.

15.  You’re still learning grammar but you’re not aware that it’s happening

16.  This is one of the proper ways to learn grammar.

 

2.      Write new vocabularies you got in recording

Ø  Importantly = penting

Ø  Imitating = meniru

Ø  Patterns = pola

Ø  Proper = layak

Ø  Idioms = idiom

Ø  Larger = lebih besar

Ø  Increase = meningkatkan

Ø  Approach = pendekatan

 

3.      Write at least 5 questions about the recording together with answer

1.      How to improve English speaking skills?

Ø  You have to practice and speak if you want to improve your English speaking skills.

2.      Whether learning grammar and listening to English can improve speaking skills?

Ø  Studying grammar and listening to English alone will never improve your speaking.

3.      These techniques can help improve many aspects of your spoken English, what are those aspects?

Ø  Sentence structure, Grammar, Vocabulary, Most importantly Your ability to express your thoughts and ideas effectively.

4.      What is included in the concept of progressive training?

Ø  The idea is that you start with something easy, Increase the difficulty of the activity, Forcing yourself to get better .

5.      What are the benefits offered by the technique?

Ø  The benefit is:

·         You get to listen and imitate correct English

·         Which helps you learn to form sentences properly

·         You get to learn idioms, expressions

·         Other speaking patterns that are used in day to day conversation

·         You get to learn grammar.