2. There’s a serious risk at advanced
level of not making progress.
There are
two basic
reasons:

3. You know enough English to make
yourself understood and to understand
at a basic level, consequently you lack
a direct incentive to learn more.

4. The vocabulary and grammar that
you know is enough for managing
communication and be
understood.
The vocabulary and grammar that
you don’t know is rare, and so
you’ll not become familiar with it
simply by meeting it frequently.

5. You need to devote more time to your
study of English
and be more organised with it.

6. More homework than you have before, more
reading and writing.
More dedication to the use of dictionaries in
order to record words.
More time spent using English outside the class
for things that are fun:
Reading novels, newspapers, magazines
Browsing the web,
Chatting with foreign people,
Watching films and series in English,
Listening to and sing songs, etc

7. Make formal lists of vocabulary and learn
them. Learn also set expressions.
Revise any new grammar frequently and
every time you doubt about how to employ it.

8. Push yourself when speaking and writing to use
new vocabulary and grammar.
EXAMPLE: your teacher asks you to write a
composition. You begin:
Last summer I went to Valencia. There’s a
nice beach in Valencia where I enjoyed
myself a lot.
This is a complete waste of
your time and your
teacher’s too!
You’re not learning
anything in this
composition.

9. COMPARE THIS…
.
Last summer I took myself off to Valencia to
a luxuriate on the glorious Caribbean-style
beach which stretches for miles for the coast.
Here, the student is experimenting with new
language!
HE IS LEARNING!!!

10. He has made a mistake (along the
coast), however, mistakes are a sign of
experimentation, they are a way to
learn.
DON’T BE AFRAID OF MAKING MISTAKES!
He may have used a dictionary and he
has also tried to incorporate new
expressions and grammar that he has
studied.
He’s made a CONSCIOUS EFFORT to push past
the barrier from the English he already knows to
the English he doesn’t know yet.

11. Do a lot of writing…
When you’re writing you’re, or
should be, experimenting beyond
the limits of your knowledge of
English. The value of experiments
is that afterwards you can analyse
them and learn from them.
Speaking lacks the same
permanence: unless you record
what you say, you cannot analyse
your speech experiment in the
same detailed way.

12. Realise that is
YOU who’s
RESPONSIBLE for
Just coming to classes LEARNING the language!!!
and taking down notes
are not a kind of magic
at the end of which you
will know more English.
The only way to
IMPROVE your
knowledge is by
making a big
EFFORT YOURSELF!

13. A very small minority of those
who start to learn English become
proficient in the language
You’re half way there already…
DON’T GIVE UP!
DON’T GET DEMORALISED!

14. You know the
difficulties
but
you also know the
solutions!
Go for
them!!!