It’s easier to achieve our goals when we tell other people our commitments. Build a support system to improve your English!
Choose activities that help you to commit to English publicly. Please share ideas of your own that are not on the list!
Post your NEI Target Score and English Goals in a visible area (on your refrigerator, in your office, etc.). Tell people about your goals for English!
<Reading>
- Read an English storybook to your children at bedtime.
- Go to an English news site and find interesting articles.
- Read an English storybook to your children at bedtime.
- Go to an English news site and find interesting articles.
<Vocabulary>
When writing sentences with new vocabulary, making them as applicable to your life helps with remembering them.
When writing sentences with new vocabulary, making them as applicable to your life helps with remembering them.
<Listening>
Watch TV dramas and/or Youtube in English without subtitles once a week with a friend or spouse. Discuss the movie in English.
Watch TV dramas and/or Youtube in English without subtitles once a week with a friend or spouse. Discuss the movie in English.
<Speaking>
- Treat the Replay Challenge Question (RCQ) like a mini-presentation each week. You don't read from a piece of paper for a presentation, so you shouldn't for your RCQ either! Practice a couple of times in the mirror working from NOTES before you record your answer, and then deliver it again at the 1:1.
- Make English-speaking friends. Or speak English with your Japanse friends or colleagues during lunch. Please make sure to schedule this event such as Meet Jack on Wednesdays at 19:00.
- Treat the Replay Challenge Question (RCQ) like a mini-presentation each week. You don't read from a piece of paper for a presentation, so you shouldn't for your RCQ either! Practice a couple of times in the mirror working from NOTES before you record your answer, and then deliver it again at the 1:1.
- Make English-speaking friends. Or speak English with your Japanse friends or colleagues during lunch. Please make sure to schedule this event such as Meet Jack on Wednesdays at 19:00.
<Writing>
- Write at least 200 words for Extra English.
- Keep a journal in English everyday. Do not worry about being right or wrong or your handwriting. You will be switching into English mode.
- Write at least 200 words for Extra English.
- Keep a journal in English everyday. Do not worry about being right or wrong or your handwriting. You will be switching into English mode.