Learn English Language

You will find the full article, lesson audio file and transcript here:https://adeptenglish.com/lessons/learn-english-language-2/

How about we talk about the news to help us listen and learn the English language? With the huge reaction to police brutality and racism, the effects of locking people in their homes for lengthy periods of time and the horror of starvation. There is plenty to talk about and lots of listening practise in this weeks lesson.

Normally when I look for a topic to build an English language lesson from, I look to the positive, and search for positive news. But as you can guess from the opening sentence, that’s difficult to do right now, and it would be wrong to just ignore what is happening.

Among the many things needed to acquire an unfamiliar language is input, the quality of the input will make a big difference to speed and ease with which you learn. When we talk about input in Adept English we are really talking about input comprehension. What we mean by this is providing you with rich and interesting story based input which you can follow along and comprehend.

By choosing to talk about stories we are using a medium of communication that all humans know to pay attention to, historically passing stories from generation to generation was a critical way of passing survival knowledge on to future generations, humans are hard wired to focus on this information.

Learning which stems from a well-told story is remembered more accurately, and for far longer, than learning derived from facts and figures.
⭐ Peg Neuhauser, Organizational Psychologist

Talking about news that we should all be aware of, gives us a context to what we are about to hear. It’s much easier to follow something you know a little about already than starting from nothing.

These stories are interesting, interesting enough to focus on while you listen, they are also interesting enough to listen to many times, which helps with our spaced repetition