Partner Up

• Find a couple people to work on English together. Commit to spending a couple hours a week together and having fun while you are working on your language skills as a pair or a group. Set rules for how the group will work and how often you will use your native language to communicate. Ask a native English speaker take a part, if one is available in your area. When things get mundane, spice up your meetings with comic strips, joke books and expanding on the ideas listed here.
  
  

Be a Music Detective

• Listen to English music as much as possible. Try to figure out what the artist is saying in the song. Write down what you think is being said in the chorus or one of the verses. With your study partners, compare notes and vote on whose interpretation you like the best and whose is most likely closest to the real song. Look up the song's real lyrics and any words you do not understand in an English dictionary.
  
  

Make a Scene

• Recreate your favorite American or British movie in English. Transcribe the scene from the movie as you hear it or by reading the subtitles. Rehearse it a few times before you gather an audience to view it. Invite friends and family to view the scene and inform them it is meant to be entertaining, not an exact replication of the American classic. Give the scene your all and your own twist.
  
  

Write a Moment

• Record funny moments from your day or week in English and share them with your English study partners. Listen to each person share their story in English and take notes about key words and phrases. Refrain from speaking in your native language to communicate. After the writer is done sharing, retell the story to the writer in your native language communicating what you heard. Move on to the next story and repeat the exercise until everyone has shared their stories.