If you want to improve your English speaking skill in general of level B1, grammar is also an important part for you to improve your English speaking skill, this post will help you in developing grammar speaking skill. Let’s start!
I. The importance of English grammar
+ English grammar is the most important element in English. Unfortunately, it’s also can be the most difficult and complex part
+ Correct grammar is your key to speaking English fluently and confidently. Knowing your grammar will help you avoid errors that make your English sound strange to native speakers.
+ But there are certain situations in which English grammar is especially important. For example, if you’re going for a job interview in an English-speaking country, the employer will be interested in the quality of your spoken and written English. In fact, in a recent survey of U.K. job recruiters, 50% said that bad spelling and grammar was the biggest reason they would dislike an application.
+ Correct grammar won’t just demonstrate your English skills, it’ll also show that you’re diligent and have an eye for detail.
II. Common grammatical structures for speaking
- So to reach level B1 in English, especially in speaking skill, you need to focus on some of the principle grammatical structures that we have provided below.
- Tense in English includes 12 tenses (including tenses in present, future, and past). This is a term used to indicate what time a verb takes place and in what time period the action takes place.
- Passive voice is a sentence used to emphasize the object affected by an action rather than the action itself. The tense of the passive sentence will depend on the tense of the active sentence.
- In English, conditional sentences are used to express and explain something that may happen when the mentioned condition occurs. Most conditional sentences contain "if". A conditional sentence has two clauses. The main clause is called the result clause.
- Comparative sentences are among the most frequently used English grammars. It is used in sentences to show common comparisons, but it is also used to emphasize meaning in a sentence.
- A relative clause is a clause used to clarify the meaning of the noun or pronoun that precedes it, connected to the main clause by relative pronouns/adverbs.
III. Some tips and methods that help you to learn faster and more effective
1. Always think you can do it, encourage yourself is a good thing during studying grammar that will help you step through the fear that everyone scared is afraid of wrong speaking.
2. Practice every day, that right practice makes perfect so you need to practice doing the exercise every day to make sure you remember it, grammar in English is very complicated but if you practice every day one day you will master it.
3. There are multifarious tenses and recipes in English some are very hard to do which is very advance but some are very easy, to handle this I suggest you should learn from the easiest cause during speaking the grammar is very basic, you do not have to use complicated phrases and tense.
4. Make English a habit, if you just only learn from the theory or practice in the book that will make your English speaking skills become stagnation, you should create your self-environment to practice speaking English and use English like having a conversation with foreigners, using it frequently. The best way is for you should participate in some club that speak English, read newspapers, watch film and videos in English subtitles.
5. Be patient, patience is very important, if you want good at grammar believe me it will take you a long time to better you will have to practice every day, nobody can do it in one or two days. Hence, you have to practice every day and from time to time when you have enough knowledge you will be better at grammar.
6. Focus on your needs, after planning what you going to learn, you should put a high concentration on your plan. Specially, is to stay away from the knowledge that does not in your plan. This will help you to reach the goal you have set faster and handle the knowledge you have learned more completely.
7. Practice every day; you need to have a habit in study every day. Every day you should learn new knowledge and also revise the knowledge that you have to learn to make sure you do not forget it. Moreover, every day you should spend 30 minutes to an hour revising the old knowledge that you have learned and practicing the new knowledge as well. Nowadays, the media and technologies has improved a lot, there are multifarious website on the internet for you to study and also for practicing English, you should use it as a tool to improve your knowledge
8. Learn from mistakes a lot of people are afraid of mistakes during learning English. Hence, when you know you were wrong you will remember it and that will become your experience that will help you to remember the structure for a long time, simultaneously, you will know where the reason comes from to fix it and understand more grammar. So, do not be afraid to speak English In front of people, because that is the best way to learn and find your weakness. That is a good way to study.
In conclusion, I believe that people who want to reach the level B1 is not that hard, the hardest thing here is they need to practice and try their best to study grammar because grammar in English is one of the most important elements that they need when they want to speak clearly without any mistake and confidently. If you learn every day and repeat it day after day, I guarantee that you will see the result clearly. That is the end of this post thank you and I hope soon everyone will be good at English and wish to whose want to reach level B1.
By Vi Quoc Thai - English K54
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+ THE OVERVIEW OF SPEAKING SKILL
+ PRONUNCIATION
+ VOCABULARY
+ USEFUL TIPS