How to improve your spoken english

Happy New Year! I hope you wrote down your New Year's Resolution. 

Here you have some tips to improve your spoken english:

1. READ ALOUD. Take a short text and read parts of it out loud.

2. REPETITION. Repeat key sentences and expressions over and over again until they become automatic. 

3. STORIES. Practice telling your favourite stories or anecdotes. Write them out first. Then, make notes and practise saying them to yourself or a friend. 

4. MEMORY. Memorise typical phrases, expressions and sentences. A lot of the language we use when speaking consists of set expressions and chunks of language. For example, "That's interesting / I never knew that / That must have been scary!"

5. SIMULTANEOUS SPEAKING. Sing along to your favourite songs, or try to speak at the same time as the character in a video clip or an audio recording you're familiar with. Simply press play and then start speaking along with the news presenter, actors, singers, etc.

6. QUESTIONS. Practice forming questions. Take a piece of text and make questions from sentences in the article or paragraph. For example, "She's seen it.  - Has she seen it?" Asking questions is a good way of participating in a conversation without having to say much. 

7. LISTENING. Work on improving your listening skills so you can follow what people are saying. Yo can do this by listening to audio files from course books, watching films or TV series, listening to music or watching videos on YouTube. Spend at least 70% of your study time listening to English.