Presented by:

Marcelo Vinicios Melo Martins

What will we Learn?

Learn English: principles methods

Do a little review.

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* Methods
Is there the best method to learn a language?
Is search for an efficient method is pointless!

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* Basic cognitive principles:

1) attitude

A positive mindset
Make mistakes, we all have limits.

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* Basic cognitive principles:

2) Make the time

I dont have the time!

It is not that we dont have time,
It is that we make poor use of it
Quintilian(roman rhetorician)

How do we make the time?

Portable devices are a revolution!

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* Basic cognitive principles:

3) consistency

Learn a little bit every single day.

Use your dead time by listening (mp3)

Advantages:
feeding your brain.
The brain learns small chunks better
no burn-out

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* Basic cognitive principles:

4) variation

Intelligible, interesting input, lots of it.

Vary your work
For example: read, read and listen, listen, read out loud
Speak with yourself

Advantages:
Vary your work keeps you interested
and motivated.

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* Basic cognitive principles:

5) motivation

Having Ferrari (method) and no fuel (motivation) is like

having no Ferrari at all.
Think about what you can do after months of affective
study.

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* Basic cognitive principles:

6) action

The art of imperfection: you have to learn something

poorly before speaking it well.
kids
Language is a communication tool, you perfect it by
using it. It becomes automatic

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* 1 Chapter: Please call me Beth.

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* 2 Chapter: What do you do?

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* 3 Chapter: How much is it?

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* 4 Chapter: I really like hip-hop

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* 5 Chapter: I come from a big family.

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* 6 Chapter: How often do you exercise?

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* 7 Chapter: I had a great time.

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* 8 Chapter: What is your neighborhood like?

What have you Learned?

* Any Questions?

Thank you!