UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA

PROGRAMA DE EXTENSIÓN
ENGLISH LEVEL 3B

Dear students:

This is part of the essential information for our class.

I. Weekly activities

As we will discuss in class, it is advisable that you set up a weekly schedule for you to study and
practice English. Here are some of the activities recommended for you to carry out during the
week:

1. Vocabulary notebook: organize newly learned vocabulary as to be able to remember and

review it. You can use different strategies that you already know or those that we will
learn as we move along the semester.
2. Homework: allot enough time to do homework
3. Review: If you cannot recall it readily, you need more reviewing and practice
4. Laboratory visits: Go to the laboratory and find out what’s there for you to do. You can
find English Language Tutors who can help you, too.
5. Practice the four skills: Reading, listening, speaking and writing.

Reading: try to find interesting texts to read at least twice a week.

Listening: Among other activities, you can watch TV programs or movies, videos in
You Tube, podcasts, listen to music, or find a partner to talk to.

Speaking: You can read out loud to practice pronunciation. You can also find a partner
to talk to. Sing.

Writing: See if you can find time to write a journal.

If you find at least 20 minutes a day to do these activities, you will see improvement really soon.

II. On the web

You can easily find a lot of webpages to practice anything you would like to. In my experience, I
have found that some pages are difficult to find, though. So here are some of the ones you may
find useful:

Pronunciation: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/

Grammar: http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/index.html
Writing: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/index.htm#uobcms-
content
http://grammar.about.com/od/developingessays/a/profemails.htm
Vocabulary:
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/