Find your own way of learning

1.
a.) Download the following app to your tablet:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dripgrind.mindly

b.) Create a mind map about your hobby/a topic you are interested in. Collect your ideas about what the parts of this topic are which would be useful to be able to speak in English about. (e.g. If you like football, you can talk about matches, championships, teams, rules, equipments etc.)

Send the mind map to yourself via email to save it for tomorrow.

c.) Discuss with your partner if you can give any further ideas to each other's mind maps.


2.
a.) Choose one/some of the subtopics. Find an English text (webpage/article/news/blog entry/Facebook post etc.) about it. Read the text.

b.) Summarise the content of the text to your partner.


3.
a.) Open the following webpage. Create a user account if you don't have one.

https://quizlet.com/

b.) Choose 5 new words and 5 new expressions (e.g. more words that you can understand separately but you didn't know that they have to be put together this way) from your previous text. Create flashcards from your words and expressions. You can check the meaning of the words in online dictionaries:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://www.ldoceonline.com/
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english
https://www.merriam-webster.com/ (American English)

c.) Try the functions of Quizlet to learn the new words and check your knowledge.


4.
a.) Find a max. 5 minute long (or a 5 min part of a longer) English Youtube video related to your topic. Watch the video.

b.) Tell your partner what you have seen in the video.

c.) Add at least 3 more new words or expressions from the video to your flashcards.


5.
Write a blog entry about your topic. Use the internet if you need any information or help with the language.