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Is Learning English Online Confusing You?Are you getting confused by learning English online? Too many websites saying too many different things?I was looking for good sites to recommend to my students and I began to feel confused. There are simply too many sites. Below I will give you some good ideas, and you can also find lots of good ideas in this e-book, Click Here! Don't Choose Just OneThen I saw that some sites try to do too much. The sites that specialized in one aspect of English learning did better. I told my students, "Choose three or four sites. Each site is good at a different part of English."Know Your NeedsYou have to decide what you need to study. Make a list of the areas you think you need to study and then choose the top three or four.The next step is to find one site that is good at the first area on your list. Then find a site that is good for the second area. Then the third. MotivationYou have to go back to your learning English online regularly. Motivation is important. I find that the best way to motivate myself is to sit down for ten minutes and make a mental image of myself. I make it positive, and attractive. I make the image include the new skills that I want to have. I clear my mind and then remember the image. Each time I make the image stronger and brighter, and a little bigger. Each time I make the skills I want to have even better. I can see the skills. I can feel the new skills. Then before I start to study, I recall this image that I have made.A Real Teacher?If you are learning English online do you need a real teacher? Yes!! This is the best way. You can go to a class. Or go to a virtual class (online). Either way, a real teacher is still better than a computer for some things. The computer is good for helping you building simple skills.Flashcards help you learn vocabulary. Recordings help you build listening skills. Grammar quizzes help you test your grammar and study it. Online chats give you a chance to use English in a real conversation (important!). But a teacher can help guide you. You don't need a guide, but you can progress faster with a guide. SummaryLearning English online can be cost effective (cheap) and fast. Remember these points:
You can find more ideas about how to study English on the internet in this e-book, Click Here! Payback Time Verb List 1. Lay into to attack or criticize someone in an angry way 2. Pay back to pay someone money that you owe them 3. Slip off to leave a place quietly so that other people do not notice you going 4. Arrive at to achieve an agreement or decision, especially after thinking about it or discussing it for a long time 5. Beaver away to work hard at something for a long time, especially something you are writing This text will be replaced
The last three months felt like hell to Kaiko-san. She has been beavering away at her work, and saving every yen she earned. Her husband borrowed a lot of money a while back, and then slipped off quietly, leaving Keiko with the debt. For one month, she prayed she could meet him one more time so she could lay into him for such foolishness. Then she met with the loan company and they arrived at an agreement about how fast to pay back the money. Now, all she wants to do is pay back the money.
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