"Speaking is a skill like learning to swim. The more you practise, the better you will become, until finally you can do it without needing to think much about it."
!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
Sunday, August 18, 2013
How to be a better speaker
How to be a better speaker: "How to be a better speaker
What speakers do
In some ways speaking is the most difficult language skill. Every time you speak you have to do many different things but you have very little time to do them. Imagine, for example, that the teacher has asked you a question in class. Here is a list of the things you have to do when giving an answer.
You have to:
understand the question
think what answer you want to give
find the words that you need
make sure the grammar you use is correct
try to get your pronunciation and intonation right.
To make things more difficult, you have to do all this with everyone else in the class looking at you and listening to you! It’s no surprise that some ESL students don’t talk at all for a while when they first come to school."
"Speaking is a skill like learning to swim. The more you practise, the better you will become, until finally you can do it without needing to think much about it."
"Speaking is a skill like learning to swim. The more you practise, the better you will become, until finally you can do it without needing to think much about it."
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