Advice for Speaking
Skill: Speaking about Campus Situations
Performance Level: Limited
Score Range: 10–17
- Practice speaking English every day. This will develop your fluency and confidence.
- Develop friendships with people who want to speak English with you. Interaction with others will improve your speaking ability. If you can't find a native speaker, find a friend who wants to practice speaking English and promise to speak only English for a certain period of time.
- Practice expressing opinions.
- Read an advice column in the newspaper (such as "Dear Abby" in the United States).
- Identify the problem being described. Tell a friend about the problem (summarize the problem) and then say what you think would be the best advice.
- Read the advice given in the column. Compare your suggestions for a solution to the advice given in the column. Talk about the differences with your friend.
- Read a short newspaper article and give your opinion about it.
- Read an advice column in the newspaper (such as "Dear Abby" in the United States).
- Practice summarizing information you heard or read.
- Read a short newspaper article.
- Write down important vocabulary from the article and look up the pronunciation of these words or ask an English speaker to tell you how to pronounce them.
- Summarize the article using the new words and practice your summary several times. Each time you will become more fluent.
- Watch a short scene from a movie or TV program (about 2 to 3 minutes long). Summarize what each character was doing and explain why the character was doing it.
- Practice the summary and explanation several times; then record yourself as you speak.
- Read a short newspaper article.
- Practice pronunciation and intonation by reading aloud.
- Record yourself so that you can hear your accent; pay attention to your mistakes.
- Work on pronouncing word endings.

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