Translation and Vocabulary Activity...

Translating is a good way to practise your knowledge and skills in the foreign language because it helps you to use the structures you have previously relating them to the new words or vocabulary you start looking up. Besides, it might get you to think the way you should say some ideas or thoughts as many manners as possible, but broadly in the best possible one.

It might be very useful when learners need the security of the mother tongue and the opportunity to relate grammatical structures to mother tongue equivalents (released from wikipedia). Said in other words, it makes pupils practise English structures with their own language by helping them to interpretate and assimilate. :s

Well, that was only for you to have an idea about how this method helps you in your English learning process...                                     
SO DON'T GET BORED PLEASE!!!

THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME SENTENCES/STATEMENTS IN SPANISH FOR YOU TO TRANSLATE THEM INTO ENGLISH IN ORDER TO PRACTISE THE BEST POSSIBLE WAYS. MY SUGGESTIONS ARE:

• NOT TO WRITE, BUT ONLY THINK AND THEN TRY TO SAY THEM... YOU WILL BE SURPRISED ABOUT HOW ABLE YOU ARE TO DO SO...
• USE THE DICTIONARY FOR THE WORDS YOU DON'T KNOW AND THEN TRY TO KEEP THEM IN MIND...
• FINALLY, REPEAT THE SENTENCES MANY TIMES.

TRANSLATE:

Sí yo fuera tu, estaría trabajando en otro lado, pero afortunadamente no lo soy porque o si no preferiría No trabajar.  

Nunca debiste contarle la verdad a María, ella no es buena guardando secretos. Recuerdo una vez que le dijo a mi mama que yo no había ido al colegio.

Me doy cuenta cuan difícil es vivir solo. Cuandovivía con mi familia era más fácil porque tenía todas las cosas que necesitaba a la mano.

Tu me decepcionaste! Nunca esperé eso de ti. Sin embargo, nunca dejaré de confiar en la gente.


No me regañes!!! Se que cometí un error, pero tu ni siquiera eres mi madre para decirme como debo hacer las cosas.

DO YOUR BEST!!!

NEW VOCABULARY: LOOK UP THE MEANING OF THE FOLLOWING WORDS!!!

so-called
embrace
deride
broad
dull
remarkable
wholesale
scold
let down
tell off

HEY HERE YOU CA FIND SEVERAL DICTIONARIES SO IT CAN BE EASIER FOR YOU TO WORK, JUST TRY TO MEMORIZE THESE WORDS SINCE YOU MAY NEED TO USE THEM ANYTIME...

I HOPE YOU ENJOY DOING THE ACTIVITY AND THAT IT IS USEFUL FOR YOUR ENGLISH LEARNING PROCESS!!!  ;)

Reading

Reading is a skill as important as the other three ones (Listening-Speaking-Writing). It is necessary that pupils work on it in order to get a larger development of the communicative competence in the foreign language.


When reading students have the chance to enlarge and practise their vocabulary since it helps by giving them a sort of unknown words that they might get to manage and so to keep on improving their knowledge.


In addition, the understanding of grammar structures during the reading makes students start getting used to it, so it becomes easier for them the comprehension of texts even written or oral. So, for you to have a better fluency when speaking, try to develop all of the skills you need to do so.


You can start practising Reading...


Here is a website which has a lot of reading and interesting texts that you may like...

http://www.englishblog.com/2012/05/cartoon-banning-mobile-phones-from-schools.html

I hope you can find something interesting for you... Remember the clue is practising!!!

Good Lessons by the way!!

Improving my Communicative Skills

When learning any language we have to keep in mind that what's going to make you improve your skills is PRAXIS. It is only when we put in practise and use in our own context what we have learnt that we will be able to speak that language fluently. This has to do with our own necessity to employ what we need for our daily living.

In addition, putting in practise our knowledge helps us develop the abilities that are required to manage the language in a better way, that's why my invitation is for you to take time to study a bit harder in order to improve everyday. I'm pretty sure that if you work a little bit harder you will get the results you would like to.

In my wish to help you with that purpose here you are some links that you can use to practise your skills.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/learningenglish/

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/



Do your best every time when you are studying!!!

A look around the World...

For those who like to be up-to-date with information and news around the world here you are some blogs that might help you to find out what's new at the same time you are improving your reading skill.

http://www.englishblog.com/2012/05/election-day-in-france.html

Welcome to this blog

Hello everyone,

I would like to invite you to enjoy the moment you spend on this blog. It's a really great pleasure to me to show you different ways to learn English and what's best to encourage you to improve your communicative skills by practising.

Just remember:

Learning by doing