Poor English skills are limiting employment prospects for many Indian graduates. Nearly 67% of engineering graduates lack the necessary spoken English skills. Speaking English fluently can be difficult due to differences between first and second language acquisition, lack of an English-speaking environment, and an education system focused more on knowledge than skills. The document provides 10 tips for improving spoken English fluency, including being intrinsically motivated to learn, using English in daily situations, listening to and thinking in English more, practicing speaking to oneself, and exposing oneself to English-speaking environments. Repetition and practicing phrases daily is important for learning.

1. How to
Speak English
Fluently:
10 TIPS

2. Unemployment vs employability
• Acc to the World Economic Forum, of the 13 million people who join India’s workforce each year,
only one in four management professionals, one in five engineers, and one in 10 graduates are
employable.
• A new study finds that poor English-speaking skills are limiting the employment and earning
prospects of India’s engineering graduates.
• Nearly 67% of the engineering graduates lack the level of spoken English necessary to compete
for a job (https://monitor.icef.com/)

3. Why - English speaking difficult?
• Process of language acquisition: L1 Vs L2
• ‘Language is caught, not taught’
e.g. child learning mother tongue
transferred employees learning a new language
• Lack of English speaking environment
• Fear of being ridiculed show off
making mistakes

4. Why -English speaking difficult?
• Sentence structure: No water
• Not a phonetic language: cut/put, Queue (funny language), silent letters
• Education system/teaching style: Knowledge vs Skill

5. 10 TIPS: Speak English Fluently
1. Intrinsic motivation to learn

6. 10 TIPS: Speak English Fluently
2. Use the language- understand it’s a skill
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7. TIPS: Speak English Fluently
3. Learn phrases, not single words
e.g. take a seat, make vs do
• Use English in daily-life situations: greeting, suggesting, apologizing, thanking,
inviting, complaining, complimenting, and so on.
e.g. to suggest something: “why don’t we…?” or “what about…?”, “Let’s…”,
• Helps us avoid translating from mother tongue

8. 4. Pay less attention to
grammar
• focus on fluency, instead of grammar
• How kids acquire language, say whatever comes to their
mind and not afraid of making mistakes.
• Focusing too much on grammar stops you from opening
your mouth to speak.

9. 5. Listen to more English
• The more input you have, the more output you can produce. Listening
and reading are two channels of getting input.
• Listen – to speak
• Read - to write
• Authentic resources: TED talks, BBC English news, cartoons and
movies, songs, audiobooks and so on

10. 6. Practice thinking in English
Limit translation as much as possible.
Start using English - English dictionary.
Start with simple expressions:
“let’s go”,
“dinner’s ready, come and get it”,
“good job. You did it”,
“come on”, “come in”

11. 7.Talk to yourself
• How to talk to yourself?
• common situations in your daily life -hobbies,
family, favorites, school, holidays, or jobs.
• When alone, stand in front of the mirror and
practice. Try to use some body language
• When you’re on train or bus, talk to yourself or just
think of something to talk about when you’re in
such situations.
• When you’re doing some housework, talk to
yourself. Try to maximize the amount of speaking
every day.

12. 8. Expose yourself to English speaking
environments
• Join English-speaking clubs,
• Take part in discussions and debates in colleges
• Group discussion sessions in school/college
• speaking English with friends,
• making friends with foreigners
• travel to places where English is used for communication
• practice speaking phrases daily -Make it a habit.

13. 9. Learn deeply
• study people forget 40% of what they
learned in 20 minutes,
77% of what they learned in six days
90% after one month.
‘repetition is the mother of learning’
‘Practice makes man perfect’

14. 10. Use social media to chat with English
speaking friends
• Exchange language learning