Sub-Topic 3: IMPROVING ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION, VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR THROUGH READING !

Tada!!! Now, it is a time to give away you some tips for improving your English language. We know, mostly for the beginner English Language Learner (ELL), facing much troubles with wrong pronunciation, grammatical errors and lack of English vocabulary.  NO WORRIES!  we guarantee with these tips you can diminish all problems BUT only with constant works in reading.


READING TIPS TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION

• Choose  a paragraph and read it aloud.
• mark sentence with Sound Script( words stress & intonation within sentences ). This will help you reading more naturally and thus you can pronounce correctly.
• Pick up few sentences/ highlight content words. Read these sentences focusing on accenting these content words.
• Read for an entire page, once you feel comfortable to read a single paragraph. Read it aloud for the first reading, then switch to silent for the second times of your reading.
• Read using nursery ryhmes, as you can practice pronounce the English words through rhythm. 
• Read the English text to your friend who is also studying English. Make a comparison and discuss all the difference pronunciation
• Dictionary! Use Oxford Dictionary or online dictionary as your resource to help you learn the precise pronunciation.

READING TIPS TO IMPROVE VOCABULARY

• Construct vocabulary charts from a story you are reading.
• Build up a mind-maps  based on the story you are reading.
• Highlight all the difficult words - then look-up the words in dictionary & add then into your vocabulary diary
• Play a guessing game first for the words that you do not understand based on the context.
• Focusing on Prefixes - Suffixes & find the examples. Try to provide antonyms by your own (Impossible - possible)
• Rewrite/retell the story you've read as much vocabulary from the story as possible
• Jotting down the unfamiliar nouns & adjectives

READING TIPS TO IMPROVE GRAMMAR

• Focus on various tenses/ forms
• Highlight all auxiliary verbs in a text that you are reading, identify then which tenses take the highlighted auxiliary verbs
• Find linking words ( but, and, however, thus, etc.). Try to understand how they relate sentences to each other
• Mark-up a few sentences from an reading material selecting subject, auxiliary verb, main verb, adjectives, etc.

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 For FUN!!!

 Message:  This is one of the funny parts in PINK PANTHER's film. We've just love this movie. Listen for his pronunciation for "HAMBURGER"...hahaha! so hillarious!

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