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Learning Styles and How to Improve Them

Due to a high demand for this topic, let us discuss various learning styles you are currently using for studying and practicing English. Take a quiz about your learning patterns, more precisely on your listening activities.

And now let me share with you my secrets to learning a foreign language:

The pros and cons of taking language tests

One of the questions in the Quiz was about how you view language tests. Some people view them as very important in their learning, others fear them deeply. Of course, one can't deny the importance of testing the efficiency of the learning we all do - ultimately everything has to be tested.

Let me show you the kind of tests students are subjected to in various countries, at different stages in their education. Check out this example here.

Thoughts about learning

Last but not least, if you ever find yourself uninspired or lacking motivation; or when your engine is not running on its full capacity, you'll find some helpful food for thought here.

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Pronunciation

Our lessons in the names and sounds of letters, short & long vowel sounds, CVCs, CCVCs, CVCCs, sight words, vowel and consonant contrasts, etc.

Reading

Our lessons will help increase your vocabulary, word recognition, find meaning in context, skills for TOEFL tests and other games, for fun.

Writing

Here we shall build some lessons to help you improve your writing skills.

Grammar

Lots of lessons: cause & effect, comparisons, linking signals, relative clauses, presenting information, expressing emotions and grammar games, of course. We had more lessons on: intensifying adverbs and phrasal verbs, expressing various concepts such as addition, exception, restriction and ambiguity. Lately we started some exercises: likes/dislikes, frequency adverbs (twice), verb tenses, etc.

Website Building

Learn how to build a website, by using the SBI! system - start from the basics, developing a site concept and a niche, supply and demand, learn about profitability and monetization, payment processing, register domain, website structure and content as a pyramid. Also learn about the tools I'm using to build this website. We also covered how to build traffic, working with search engines, building a good system of inbound links, using social marketing and blogs with the SBI system, how to use Socialize It and Form Build It, how to publish an e-zine and how to build a social network in your niche

Our Weekly Game

We looked at a few games by now: Countable & uncountable nouns, Free Rice, Name That Thing, Spell It, Spelloween, the Phrasal Verbs Game, Preposition Desert, The Sentence Game, Word Confusion, Word Wangling, Buzzing Bees, and The Verb Viper Game.

Be prepared to play and learn  more pretty soon.