How keep your language fit for the holiday time
A 2-week break in language is not a disaster. But if you still mock, here is a list of holiday activities with which will not only entertain you on holidays, but keep your linguistic muscles fit :)
- The food recipe in English. What did you plan to cook? Traditional salad? So come on, make your menu with all the recipes and ingredients in English.
- Go to the store, so the shopping list is in English only!
- Challenge English among friends. Agreeing with friends about a pub crawl or a party? I’m sure you use instant messengers. Create a group where you chat. BUT only in English!
- Do you respect New Year Resolutions – here is a pencil in your hand. Write your list of wishes, promises, plans for 2020 and yes - how did you guess ? - also in English!
In December 2020, you will open a letter to yourself and from a height of a new level (you after all have guessed to level up your English !?) you will see how they grew.
- List of Top 25 Christmas films according to Forbes. They are all classics, which means that they are is available in absolute access in the original and in good quality!
- On a tour in English. You will be on holidays in the capital, look at the exhibitions in museums. It is very informative to visit there again, but with an English-speaking guide this time.
- Have guests been invited and they speak English, even a bit? FINE! Write down the names of board games that are widely available in English. Scrabble, Monopoly, Sequence, Word Up, Millionaire. You don’t have to bother, there are a lot of games without a playing field - Mafia, Edible-Inedible, Cities, etc.
And if you’re ready to fool around, then you can plan a Quest in the apartment - on Pinterest you can read more about the idea and navigation of the script in English.
- Retell in details the holiday things that will happen to you. Don’t want to put them to paper? - no problem. Try the video-diary, replace the folder and pens to record your monologue on the camera by phone. I do not invoke to post your masterpiece in social networks. Let yourself take a look at your set of holiday memories and assess your English from another angle!
Ideas by Helen Kupriyanova
Teacher of English and founder of Red Arrow English Studio
