Five tips to improve your English

Our home will always be our safe place, whether we live alone, with our partners or families, in our apartments or at home, we can feel free to practice what we like, in this case as language students we can practice the language we learn and in this occasion, we will see five tips to do it.

Name the parts of your house

It consists of putting the name of each object on a piece of paper and sticking it on itself.

Yes, we write the name of that something and stick it on it to be able to identify it either on a piece of paper with tape or on a small post-it, and to start with we can write a sentence using the word

for example: if you are in the living room of your house you can identify the objects you have and write it on a piece of paper in the target language, if we use it on a little big piece of paper we can write a sentence on the paper, "I sit in the living room on the furniture and use the remote control to watch TV".

When you know more vocabulary to form sentences we can create our own sentences and you decide if they are short or long. 

Ask yourself about your home

Ask yourself questions either in your mind or quietly about what you have around your house or even more advanced around your neighborhood.

For example: what kind of place is your house, is it your own house, an apartment or a cottage, etc.

Ask and answer simple questions about your home

Formulate simple questions such as "What's this, that?", or "What are these or those?", as well as the things in your house such as "What is this or that?" Also to go beyond just words you can ask yourself "What are these or those things?" in your house, the questions you answer yourself using just words or phrases.

for example you can ask yourself at home: "What is this?", "this is a piece of furniture", or better yet, "this is a black piece of furniture or armchair in front of the TV".

Ask yourself about the location of the things

Ask yourself questions about where various specific things are and in which rooms of your house is locate that thing.

You can ask questions like, "Where is it in the toolbox?", you can answer in a simple way like "It's in the garage" or make it even longer or more interesting by saying for example, "The toolbox is under the brown workbench and it contains some blue boxes" it is up to you to experiment with the level of your vocabulary.

Ask about your ingredients in the kitchen

Ask and answer how many ingredients "How many?", and how much "How much?" of each ingredient you need to prepare a recipe at home, also include the utensils you need. You can choose a simple recipe, what you should do is list the ingredients and ask yourself: "How many ingredients do I need?", you can say "four, five, or ten", etc.
Then ask and answer how much of each of them, for example: "how much salt do I need?", and you answer: "half a teaspoon of salt", etc. 

Then comes the best part which is where you have to describe how the recipe is made by mentioning the utensils, for example the simplest recipe; “Pour a little oil in a pan on a stove on high heat, and crack an egg on top. Let it fry until its white borders are dark and crunchy. Add as much salt as you would like to. Turn the stove off, and serve”.

I hope these tips will help you continue to improve your English at home and remember the saying "Practice makes perfect", so try to do it every day.