August 02, 2021

More Irregular Verb Practice In This English Speaking Topic - Part 2 Ep 456

11 minutes

Tricky Irregular Verbs Part 2 In This English Speaking Topic ✔Lesson transcript: https://adeptenglish.com/lessons/english-speaking-topics-9/

Back in an English language lesson podcast in May I started talking about tricky irregular English verbs, and we used this to help with your English-speaking practice. Today’s podcast is a follow up to that English lesson with more English-speaking practice to help you with this area of English that some English language learners can find difficult.

In last weeks podcast introduction ( Podcast episode 455 ) I talked about comprehensible input which is a key component of learning a language through acquisition. Now obviously input is great, understanding another language is crucial but ultimately you're doing this so you can speak and write a language not just understand it right?

So building up your listening and comprehension of a new language helps to build a new language model in your brain targeting the new language. I mentioned that one of the cool parts of learning a language in this way is that once you have built your listening language model, it can be reversed and all that listening work suddenly becomes available for output i.e. a tool for speaking and writing in the new target language - English in our case.

To help swap this new language model form input to output, you are going to need to do two things.

Start mimicking what you hear and speaking out loud. This is to help build up the physical part of speaking in a new language, literally using muscles in your throat, mouth and face that are needed for the new language. So in our speaking English lessons we create content that we expect you to speak out aloud and copy what I’m saying as you listen.

Turn the listening ideas process around. The listening (input) model is taking other people’s ideas and concepts and turning them into something you understand. Now you need to take your ideas and concepts and turn them into language (from the listening model you have built in your brain). You can practice doing this by thinking of something you want to communicate and then write this down on paper in English.

Doing these two things will help reverse your input language model into and output language model.

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