hello my loves welcome back to go natural English if you're having a busy week then keep watching
because I'm going to show you five ways to improve your English in five minutes or less
so this is perfect for you if you are a busy busy person which I know you are very smart and busy
so first of all you can choose an article to read in five minutes some of the shorter faster easier
articles I recommend come from voiceofamerica.com you can also find some shorter articles on other
websites maybe the BBC CNN New York Times tends to be longer so I would save that for when you
want a more focused longer study session I would also recommend a blog post at gonaturalenglish.com
you can improve your English while you're reading about how to improve your English pay attention to
any new vocabulary words you may want to write them down for future review doing these simple
five-minute English tasks may not seem like a way to significantly improve your English but over
time when you do these things consistently every day you will improve you will see a difference so
it's much better to do these five minute routines than nothing at all what I mean is you could even
add these ideas to your existing routine so while you're eating lunch you could watch a video on
YouTube like this one you could choose a video about English learning or just about a topic that
you're interested in but make sure it's not too long because we're focused on five minutes here
just try to understand the main idea and also note any new vocabulary or Expressions another idea is
to practice your pronunciation try thinking of a few words that you find difficult challenging
maybe even embarrassing to pronounce and look them up on a reputable online audio dictionary
site so you can listen to how they're correctly pronounced and then practice them you could
even record yourself using a smartphone or other recording device to check how you sound compared
to the online audio dictionary in five minutes you can easily review some Advanced grammar rules
check out YouTube videos from go natural English or other channels that talk about Advanced tenses
that you might want to review such as the present perfect tense or conditional tenses or any tense
that you've been struggling with or not feeling super confident about you could look for a grammar
cheat sheets online Googling them and looking for images may give you some great worksheets
to fill out and then practice using the grammar with a few sentences of your own in five minutes
you can create vocabulary flash cards use a site like Anki and Ki or simply use good old-fashioned
flash cards index cards paper you can create these how you prefer but this will help you
to review vocabulary and if you're not sure what vocabulary to put on the cards use a site like a
vocab fabulary word of the day site or you can search Google for academic vocabulary words to
see if there are some new ones that might help you improve your English level so there you have
it five ideas to improve your English in five minutes you can do one of these each day of
the week do them all depending on your schedule you could do them all in one day within half an
hour but tell me do you have any ideas to add to this list let's share them in the comments don't
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