CAN DO STATEMENTS

You feel confident about your reading comprehension and are ready to move on. You can stop for a moment and reflect on your score. What's the reason you evaluated your reading comprehension so well? If the reason is you did all the reading tasks carefully, then this is the strategy to use. If your score is high because you read a lot in English, keep doing this. There is a wealth of good literature and internet sources on the family topic.

You feel your reading comprehension is fairly good. You can move on if you like, or you can go over the texts in this set and read them again. This will help you notice the words and language structures you perhaps overlooked the first time. You can also google for texts and news articles about family life, learn interesting things about issues related to them, and at the same time practise reading. Or find an interesting English book on the topic and read a little bit every day.

You are aware of your weak reading comprehension. You can do a number of things to improve it. Read again all the texts and do the related activities in these 4 units. Pick an interesting English book and do a little reading every day. You will notice that some words are constantly repeated. Get used to using a dictionary for unknown words. You will start noticing different language structures and become comfortable with reading them.

Speaking English doesn't seem to be a problem for you. That's very good. Continue doing what you do and remember that you can always play around with pronouncing difficult words aloud, reading the texts pretending to be someone else or speak with different accents. To avoid getting rusty, find a schoolmate, friend or family member and speak English with them. Practice discussing family related issues to brush up your spoken English.

You are quite happy with your English speaking ability but you don't think it's excellent. How can you bring it to that higher level? You can go over the units again and practise reading and pronouncing words aloud. You can exaggerate and read the texts extremely slowly or imitate your favourite celebrity’s accent... You get the idea, don't you? Also try to find a schoolmate, friend or family member and chat in English about any family related issues.

You are definitely not happy with your English speaking ability. If you did the units in this block carelessly and hastily, perhaps you can do them again and this time practise reading and pronouncing words aloud. If you have little chance to actually speak English with someone, simply ask a schoolmate, friend or family member to speak English with you. You will be surprised how quickly your spoken English can get better.

Congratulations! Your listening comprehension seems very good. To further practice your listening skill, you can view online English videos about family life, watch English TV programmes and news on topics related to young people, view English movies without subtitles about family issues. But you are probably doing this anyway, aren't you?

Your listening comprehension seems good but there is still room for improvement. You can repeat the listening tasks in this section, view online English videos about family life, watch English TV programmes and news on topics related to family issues, view English movies without subtitles about teenagers. Pick some of these activities and decide when you are going to do them. Listening and video viewing on a daily basis can substantially improve your listening comprehension.

It seems that your listening comprehension is minimal. To improve your listening skill, make a plan on how and when you are going to do listening activities (for example: repeating all the listening tasks in these units, viewing online English videos about family life, watching English TV programmes and / or movies without subtitles on topics related to family issues). Be realistic and consider all the other daily activities you have to do.