Learn spoken English at Home with Dhanya R

To get a good job or have a proper conversation with foreign clients knowing English language and speaking it properly is necessary. We know that it is a language of international communication. So to socialise and for entertainment purposes, one should know the way to pronounce English.

Dhanya R being a teacher herself has shared a few tricks to improve proficiency in spoken English. This tutorial is appropriate for basic, intermediate, and advanced levels of students. This means people who do not have the basic knowledge of spoken English can enrol themselves for the course. Apart from that school, college-goer students who know English but are not fluent can also do the same. Working professionals looking forward to improving their communication skills to get a promotion will benefit from this tutorial. Besides, the school dropouts and homemakers can also avail this course.

The given video will help you with the course.

To start with, we first need to understand what could be the sources to learn English. Watching television, reading books, checking social media are some of the most common ones. Besides, there are a few other ways.

How To Learn Spoken English At Home

·          Enroll for online class 

Many teachers teach online. You can enrol yourself in those courses and get the training accordingly. Nowadays, with the easy availability of the internet, it has become an easy affair. If you have any doubts, you can quickly get the answers online.

·        Improve communication skills

For beginners, it is better to relate to a situation and ask a question. Suppose you are at home and you have the option to have tea or coffee. So what you need to do here is ask yourself a question. ‘Do I like tea or coffee?’ Similarly, when you are in a textile shop, you need to ask,’ Do I like sari or jeans?’ This is how you can ask yourself and find out the right answer. While having a conversation with yourself, it develops your communication skills. However, to achieve success, you need to practice it several times. Only then this trick would work.

·         Understand Basic English Grammar

To speak fluently, knowing Basic English Grammar is very important. Most people fail to understand where to use ‘is,’ ‘are,’ ‘on,’ ‘of,’ etc. Many students do not know where to use ‘are’ or ‘is.’ Once they get a grip on where to use these words, they can speak English properly. For someone who is trying this method should start with speaking simple sentences.

·        Enrich Your  Vocabulary

One of the best ways to enrich your vocabulary is by going through the daily newspapers. Find out the English words and then use those words to frame sentences. For a better result, you need to practice this daily.

·        Practice  Conversation at home

Suppose you are a salesperson or an employer in an office, you need to speak to the clients. So the conversation is an excellent way to improve your English speaking skills.

·         Improve Writing skills

Writing proper English is also very important. Employers who need to write emails to their clients in America, Europe, etc need to know right English. So, in such a scenario, you can start by writing various types of letters. Gradually once you understand the style and formation, you can quickly draft an email.

So now, we will be discussing those above-mentioned points elaborately:

Preposition

Preposition of time

Here are a few sentences to help us understand the Preposition. Think of the appropriate word you can fill in the blanks.

1.  We get up____morning ( at, in, on)

2. We go to bed _______night. ( at, in, on)

3. We go to the temple_____Friday. ( at, in, on)

·         In the first sentence, you can see there are three options: at, in, on. Here we have to use ‘in’ because whenever you see morning, afternoon, evening, we use ‘in.’

·         In the second sentence, the options are at, in, on. In a situation like this, we always use ‘at.’ Whenever there is mention of noon, mid-day, or night, we must use ‘at.’

·         The last sentence has three options: at, in, on. The correct answer would be ‘on.’ Whenever there is a mention of particular ‘days,’ we have to use ‘on.’

Preposition of while/during

·         During+Noun.

Example -  She kept texting during the meeting.

Here the ‘meeting’ is a noun. Before ‘meeting,’ we need to use ‘during.’

·         While+Gerund

Example -   I met Susan while learning French.

The verb ending with ‘ing’ is Gerund. You can use while in the middle or the start of a sentence as required.

·         While+Noun+Verb

Example - Please do not interrupt while I am speaking.

In this sentence, next to ‘while,’ we have used a noun that is ‘I.’ Next to the noun, we have used the verb ‘speaking.’

 

 Vocabulary

We would take words from newspapers and then construct sentences with those. However, the choice of vocabulary would be different according to the age group. It can generally be categorized into three types: the basic, the intermediate, and the advanced level.

·         Very Tired-Exhausted  (In place of ‘very tired,’ we can use ‘exhausted.’ It sounds more professional). The same applies to all the below examples.

·         Very Stupid - Idiotic

·         Very Tasty - Delicious

·         Very Angry - Furious

·         Very Cold - Freezing

Practising Basic English Grammar, vocabulary, conversation, writing skills etc. daily is the key to perfect your Spoken and writing skills in English.

Teacher Bio - Dhanya R is a teacher who has taught various boards like CBSE, IB, IGCSE, and subjects like science, social science, mathematics, political science, environment, business mathematics, accountancy, triply subjects. She is also a spoken English teacher for children and adults.