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Source: http://www.doksinet Name: Date: Some advice to get better marks ! Targets (“Objectifs”) Set small, achievable targets, e.g: • • • • • • • learn 10 new English words or phrases every day, Mondays to Fridays (repeat on Saturdays, relax on Sundays) unlearn one typical mistake before the next test study 15 minutes every day read the lyrics of an English song every week and try to understand its main content read and try to understand one short English text every week STUDY ENGLISH EVERY DAY Writing doesnt have to be hard! Here is how to your English Writing Skills 1. Keep your descriptions short and simple Keep your writing short and to the point 2. Use words that the reader is familiar with 3. Dont use words that the reader might find difficult to understand 4. Keep your sentences simple and clear 5. Dont use to many complicated sentences 6. Dont make all the sentences the same length It is a good idea to vary the length of the sentences 7. Make some
sentences longer, while keeping some sentences shorter 8. It is better to use the active tense, than the passive tense 9. Dont use abbreviations unless you are sure that the reader will understand 10. It is better to use nouns and verbs, instead of adjectives and adverbs Writing with a Positive Tone What is writing with a positive tone? It is important to write clearly and with a positive tone. It is generally easier to get your point across when using positive statements as opposed to negative statements. When ever you can try to avoid negative statements or negative connotations. If you need to use negative statements or negative connotations try to keep them down to minimum. What are positive statement? Positive statements dont have to have a positive meaning. It is possible to have a sentence that is positive grammatically with a negative connotation. Example: I know you you will fail your test. We forgot to do our homework. What are negative statements? Negative states are
statements that contain the word(s) not, dont, cant etc. Negative statements can be grammatically negative with a positive connotation. I know you didnt fail your test. We did not forget to do our homework Source: http://www.doksinet Advice Study English every day ! How many English words can I learn per day? 10 English words or phrases per day aren’t too many, are they? Just give it a try. You will find that you can learn them in next to no time. So why not take a little time each day (Monday to Friday) to learn 10 new words? Use the weekend to revise what you have learned during the past week(s). This way you’ll enrich your English vocabulary by 50 new words per week. (That’s 200 new English words after a month!) Remember: “Little strokes fell big oaks. ” Learn English through Reading Read English texts as often as you can. This could be the news, short stories or novels, texts from your textbook or ego4u. Choose an interesting text that is not too difficult for you
(otherwise it wouldn’t be fun). Don’t look up every word which is new to you – even without a dictionary you will understand a lot. Just concentrate on what you do understand and try to find out the rest by intelligent guessing. That works rather well, especially if you are interested in the topic. If you are a football fanatic for example, you probably won’t have problems understanding an English text about football. On the other hand, someone who is better in English than you but not interested in football will have more problems understanding the same text. Do also watch the news in your native language and try to find English news to some of the topics. Even if you dont understand every word in the English text, you will get the message as you already know what the text is about. Learn English through Movies Thanks to DVD, watching films in English has become an easy thing to do. Choose your favourite film – you’ve watched that film a dozen times and probably know all
the dialogues off by heart in your native language. So following the story will be easy for you Have paper and pen ready as you may want to jot down useful words or phrases that you wish to learn. English subtitles might be useful for that (although they might differ from what is actually being said). If you are not used to watching films in English, choose a only few episodes – at the beginning it isn’t easy to concentrate on listening to the foreign language for a long time. Learn English through Songs Vocabulary needs to be revised again and again. Well, what could be better than studying vocabulary by listening to your favourite songs? Read the lyrics first and try to understand them. You don’t have to translate the lyrics word by word, just try to find out what the song is all about. (Note: ‘Rap’ might not be practical as those songs usually contain slang words that not even ‘ordinary’ English native speakers know.) Pick some words or phrases from the song that you
would like to learn. If necessary, look up their exact meaning in a dictionary. A dictionary might also be useful to find other interesting phrases with the word Now, to learn the vocabulary, all you have to do is listening to the song again and again (that shouldn’t be a problem if it’s one of your favourite songs)
sentences longer, while keeping some sentences shorter 8. It is better to use the active tense, than the passive tense 9. Dont use abbreviations unless you are sure that the reader will understand 10. It is better to use nouns and verbs, instead of adjectives and adverbs Writing with a Positive Tone What is writing with a positive tone? It is important to write clearly and with a positive tone. It is generally easier to get your point across when using positive statements as opposed to negative statements. When ever you can try to avoid negative statements or negative connotations. If you need to use negative statements or negative connotations try to keep them down to minimum. What are positive statement? Positive statements dont have to have a positive meaning. It is possible to have a sentence that is positive grammatically with a negative connotation. Example: I know you you will fail your test. We forgot to do our homework. What are negative statements? Negative states are
statements that contain the word(s) not, dont, cant etc. Negative statements can be grammatically negative with a positive connotation. I know you didnt fail your test. We did not forget to do our homework Source: http://www.doksinet Advice Study English every day ! How many English words can I learn per day? 10 English words or phrases per day aren’t too many, are they? Just give it a try. You will find that you can learn them in next to no time. So why not take a little time each day (Monday to Friday) to learn 10 new words? Use the weekend to revise what you have learned during the past week(s). This way you’ll enrich your English vocabulary by 50 new words per week. (That’s 200 new English words after a month!) Remember: “Little strokes fell big oaks. ” Learn English through Reading Read English texts as often as you can. This could be the news, short stories or novels, texts from your textbook or ego4u. Choose an interesting text that is not too difficult for you
(otherwise it wouldn’t be fun). Don’t look up every word which is new to you – even without a dictionary you will understand a lot. Just concentrate on what you do understand and try to find out the rest by intelligent guessing. That works rather well, especially if you are interested in the topic. If you are a football fanatic for example, you probably won’t have problems understanding an English text about football. On the other hand, someone who is better in English than you but not interested in football will have more problems understanding the same text. Do also watch the news in your native language and try to find English news to some of the topics. Even if you dont understand every word in the English text, you will get the message as you already know what the text is about. Learn English through Movies Thanks to DVD, watching films in English has become an easy thing to do. Choose your favourite film – you’ve watched that film a dozen times and probably know all
the dialogues off by heart in your native language. So following the story will be easy for you Have paper and pen ready as you may want to jot down useful words or phrases that you wish to learn. English subtitles might be useful for that (although they might differ from what is actually being said). If you are not used to watching films in English, choose a only few episodes – at the beginning it isn’t easy to concentrate on listening to the foreign language for a long time. Learn English through Songs Vocabulary needs to be revised again and again. Well, what could be better than studying vocabulary by listening to your favourite songs? Read the lyrics first and try to understand them. You don’t have to translate the lyrics word by word, just try to find out what the song is all about. (Note: ‘Rap’ might not be practical as those songs usually contain slang words that not even ‘ordinary’ English native speakers know.) Pick some words or phrases from the song that you
would like to learn. If necessary, look up their exact meaning in a dictionary. A dictionary might also be useful to find other interesting phrases with the word Now, to learn the vocabulary, all you have to do is listening to the song again and again (that shouldn’t be a problem if it’s one of your favourite songs)
