This document provides tips for learning English outside the classroom, including using grammar and vocabulary books, reading books and materials in English, listening to English radio and music, watching English-language films and TV shows with subtitles, studying English online, and discussing learning strategies with a partner. It emphasizes that the learner is in control of their own learning process, not the teacher. Methods for remembering new vocabulary words are also listed, such as reading word lists repeatedly, translating words, drawing pictures, and writing words in sentences or with opposites.

1. How to
learn
English
outside the
classroom?

3. Use grammar and
vocabulary books
at home, such as:

4. Read in English: you’ll learn
new words in an interesting
context & you’ll consolidate
grammar

5. Read graded readers,

7. Listen to an
American, Australian,
Scottish or English
online radio
e.g. BBC

8. Watch films with
subtitles

9. Study English online
e.g. BBC learning
English

11. Watch the news in
English on TV or
online

12. … or your favourite
sitcoms or TV shows

13. listen to your
favourite songs with
lyrics

14. do crosswords

15. Remember!
The person
who decides
what and
how fast
you will
learn is:
YOU

16. ... not your teacher

17. Discuss with a partner:
*Which of the techniques do you find most
effective? Why?
*Which of the techniques have you already
used?
*What other ways of learnig English at home
have you used or heard of?

18. How to remember new
words?
* read the list of words a lot of times
* translate them into Polish
* draw a picture representing the new word
* write it with an opposite (e.g. rough – smooth)
* write synonyms (e.g. awful = terrible, horrible)
* write a sentence with it (Hail destroys farmers’ crops)
* record the words on your MP3 player and listen to them on your
way to school or work
* put the new words in categories or make a mind map
… any other suggestions?

19. THANK YOU
Katarzyna Zakrzewska