Keeping our English afloat

Hi there! This blog has been created by students from EOI Tortosa (3rd level English), as a way to practice English during the summer. We have finished classes recently, and we won't start them again until September; so if we don't want to forget many things we have learned, we must keep practicing! In order to, we have designed a plan to train our English skills during next several weeks on the four main flanks: reading, listening, speaking and writing.

READING. We will borrow a few books from library. There are many books, with differents genres. It's a proper way to assimilate and consolidate the grammar contents, and much easier and funnier than revise the whole notes from the course. Remember: EOI library will be open during June (only mornings, until 1.15 pm) and will be closed on July and August. You can borrow until five books and you will be able to return in September. As well, you can find many English-written books in other libraries. Finally, you also can read the posts that will be published here ;)

LISTENING. It's the weakest part for many of us, so it would be a good idea to practise listenings. As teacher showed, there are lots of resources on the Internet: 6 minutes English is fantastic because they speak easy and you can read the transcription (you can find the podcast in the BBC Learning English site or in YouTube); you also can watch documentaries, just type "documentary English subtitles" in YouTube and you will get a lot of them, choose your favourite subjects; watching movies or TV series in original versions (teacher recommended us Miranda, Friends and New Girl, because of their non-excessive difficulty) and paying attention to the lyrics from your favourite songs are other funny ways to practise listening.

SPEAKING. It's the hardest skill to train, because you need to find English-speaking people, and that is not always easy. Just take all opportunities you can to speak: talk to some tourist or foreign people living in your city or maybe when you are abroad on a trip; and there a few places you can go to do conversation with natives: Forn de la Canonja, Tradicionàrius, Botànic and public libraries of Roquetes and Tortosa. And of course, you can meet with people from your class to have a drink and speak in the "super hot chair" mode :)

WRITING. This is the main reason of our blog. We want to write some compositions as we used to do in class. We wrote around eight compositions during the course, why not to keep writing and publishing here? It's a good way to revise and maintain our vocabulary and grammar structures. Just choose a subject you like and write a few lines. Actually, I'm doing right now meanwhile I'm writting this post ;) Unfortunately, there will be no correction from a capable teacher, but the mere fact of writing will help us to revise and remember important things in our English career.

Welcome and go ahead!


If you want to publish your compositions here, please let me know it and I will enable you as an editor. You can post a comment or send us an e-mail to inpresentperfect@tortosins.com.