Goal
Get comfortable hearing your own voice in English.
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The biggest barrier for most people is not knowledge — it is the moment of opening your mouth and accepting that you will sound clumsy for a while. These short, low-pressure exercises are built to get you past that moment, again and again, until it stops being a moment at all.
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Showing 1–12 of 42 exercises
What is something you have learned to do as an adult?
Talk about a time you made a real effort to look after your health.
Talk about the forces — people, places, chance — that have shaped who you are.
Talk about your experience of learning English — what's easy, what's hard, what's helped.
Talk about what, if anything, you'd want people to remember about you.
Talk about the things you like doing and the things you don't.
Introduce yourself the way you would to a new classmate.
Talk about one habit you'd like to change and why it's hard.
Talk about a moment that changed the direction of your life.
Describe where you expect to be and what you'll be doing this time next year. Use 'will be …ing'.
Describe what is happening around you at this moment. Use the present continuous: I'm sitting, someone is walking…
Talk about things you'd like to be different. Use 'I wish + past' for now and 'I wish + past perfect' for the past.