Aim: to increase learners' awareness of
strategies to improve their
speaking and listening
Checldist: learning strategies
Here is another version you could use. (See Activity Worksheets p.45)
If you're talking to someone and they
don't understand you, do you try to
say it a different way?
After you've Ieamt something new
in English, do you try to practise it
outside the classroom?
Ycs Sometimes No
Yes Sometimes No
When you're listening to a
conversation in English and you
don't understand everything, do
you try to guess the rest?
If you have an appointment with
someone and you know you'll have
to speak English, do you practise
first?
Yes Sometimes No
Yes Someone No
Do you listen to yourself
speaking English so you can find
your mistakes and try to correct
them?
Yes Sometimes No
Do you think about the things you
can't do in English (and would like
to be able to do) and try to find
ways to learn them?
Yes Sometimes No
If you see or hear something in
English that you don't understand,
do you ask someone to explain it
to you?
Yes Sometimes No .
If you would like to improve your
typing (or dessmaking, or carpentry
etc.) would you enrol in a course
that was only in English?
Yes Perhaps No
Ifyou really want to explain
something, do you try even if you
aren't sure of the right English?
Yes Sometimes No
When you're learning English,
what do you do that you think is
most helpful?
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