SPEAKING STRATEGIES

SPEAKING STRATEGIES

A lot of students complain about understanding English, but not feeling confident to join a conversation. Improving your English speaking skills will help you communicate more easily and effectively.

Some of the tips that will help you are:

• Speak to yourself in front of the mirror.
• Interactive with others.
• Maintain smalls talks to your friends or family

Things that a speaker has to do:

• Pronounce the sounds of the language clearly enough so that people can distinguish them. This includes making tonal distinctions.
• Use the correct forms of words. This may mean, for example, changes in the tense, case, or gender.
• Use appropriate vocabulary.
• Use the register that is appropriate to the situation and the relationship to the person.
• Practise where you can, when you can. Any practice is good whether you speak to someone who is a native English speaker or not.
• It's important to be confidence.
• Try to experiment with the English you know. Use words and phrases you know in new situations.
• Try to respond to what people say to you.
• Don't speak too fast! It's important to use a natural rhythm when speaking English, but if you speak too fast it will be difficult for people to understand you.
• Relax when you speak.
• Don't be shy to speak .
• Remember to be polite – use "please" and "thank you" if you ask someone to do something for you.

The first rule of improving speaking skills is to speak, so just practice every day as many times as possible and you’ll see the difference.