My first entry

Hello I am Ivan, I am fifteen years old and I am from Ecuador. I like to play videogames with my friends and watching videos on Youtube. My favorite subject is Science and my favorite color is black. I am really interested in learning English and I hope you can understand me. Thank you for reading!

Well done Ivan.

We say 'I like to watch' or 'I like watching'. Because you said 'I like to play...' we then say 'watch' instead of 'watching'. 

Good luck with your English study!

The perfect study plan.

Does your stress increases when the exam season arrives? Are you one of those who leaves everything to the last day? Well, here are some tips that could help for next time.

First of all, you must establish a plan of study. This plan must be realistic since the objective is to try to comply as much as possible. I count the number of pages that I have to study and the days available to me until the day of the exam. Then, I divide the number of pages between days available to establish how many pages I´ll study each day. Thus, you can know that what you have to do each day. The day before the exam you can leave it to rest or review.

Second, study during the hours that your concentration is greater. If you´re an eary bird you can get up early and take advantage of the early hours of the morning to do the hardest work. If instead you are a night owl the last hours of the day will be better to study. Anyway, don´t forget to take breaks at least every two hours.

Finally, don´t waste time checking your email or social networks. Especially if you need the computer to study and you are one of those who use multiple social networks and email many times, you must control yourself because it makes you lose uselessly a lot of time to study, use your breaks for do it that.

These are simple steps that can help you study and remember that if you come to class every days, you've paid pay attention and understand all everything, study afterwards will be even easier.

Good luck!

Very good work! Very advanced english. Well done and some great steps for studying!

Today's plan

A few minutes ago I got up, but I'm very sleepy…
I'm going to the Beauty parlor!
Because it's (it has) been a long time since I've gone, I'm looking forward to it.
And When I come back home, I'll study for school!

Nice work Sayuri! well done. Enjoy the Beauty Parlour!

29/Jan/2014

Recently I have practiced speaking with my language partner Jon. As we meet encounter some new words, we teach them to each other. I'm not sure if my skills is are getting better or not, but I'm certainly enjoying it. I would like to continue to do it in order to be confident with it.

Nice work! 'encounter' means 'meeting something new or unexpected'. Because you are learning the words for the first time you can say 'encounter' and all the girls on the gold coast will think you are really smart! We use 'skill<em>s</em>' when talking about languages because there are more than one, for example 'reading, writing, speaking, listening'.

You've improved a lot in 6 months! Australia is good for you. Hope you're enjoying your trip and let's skype again soon.

29/Jan/2014

Recently I have practiced speaking with my language partner Jon. As we encounter new words, we teach them to each other. I'm not sure if my skills are getting better or not, but I'm certainly enjoying it. I would like to continue to do it in order to be confident with it.