The Key To Excellent English
Fluency is the ability to speak (and understand) English quickly and easily... WITHOUT translation. Fluency means you can talk easily with native speakers, they easily understand you, and you easily understand them. In fact, you speak and understand instantly.
The research is clear, there is only ONE way to get fluency. You do not get fluency by reading textbooks. You do not get fluency by studying grammar rules.
Listening Is The Key
To get English fluency, you must have a lot of understandable repetitive listening. That is the ONLY way. To be a FANTASTIC English speaker, you must learn English with your ears, not with your eyes. In other words, you must listen. Your ears are the key to excellent speaking.
What kind of listening is best? Well, it must be understandable and must be repetitive. If you don't understand, you learn nothing. You will not improve. That's why listening to English TV does not help your beginner student. You don't understand most of it. It is too difficult. It is too fast.
Understanding is not enough. You must also have a lot of repetition. If you hear a new word only once, you will soon forget it. If you hear it 5 times, you will still probably forget it! You must hear new words and new grammar many times before you will understand them instantly.
How many times is necessary? Most people must hear a new word 30 times to remember it forever. To know a word and instantly understand it, you probably need to hear it 50-100 times!
That's why you have to say to your students to listen to all of our lessons many times. We’ll tell them to listen to the conversation book, the input and output lessons everyday. We recommend that they listen to each lesson at least 30 times (for example, 4 times a day for one week). So, the two most important points are: listen to the student book and the conversation book.
Listen To Movies
Movies are great for learning English BUT you must use them correctly. Only watch one scene or segment per week (maybe 2-3 minutes).
Follow this method:
a) First, watch the scene with subtitles in your language. This will help you understand the general meaning. (Beginners). Book 1 – 4.
b) Second, watch the scene with English subtitles. Pause. Use a dictionary to find new words you don’t understand. Write the new sentences in a notebook.
c) Listen to the scene a few times, with English subtitles. Do not pause.
d) Listen to the scene a few times, without subtitles.
e) Repeat a) - d) everyday for one week.
Read and Listen at the Same Time
Listening and Reading together are very powerful. While you listen to something, also read it. This will improve your pronunciation.
Reading while listening also helps you understand more difficult material. Read and listen to learn faster. After you do this a few times, put away the text and just listen.
After that that’s the words you’re going to use to recommend these important exercise to your students.
Best Regards,
Teacher Fabricio Santos.
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