Progress in a foreign language — especially in speaking — can be greatly supported by recording voice messages and listening to them afterwards with attention and analysis. It sounds simple, but in reality, it is often uncomfortable. Personally, I don’t like recording my own voice and listening to it again. It creates a certain unease. There is something vulnerable about hearing yourself from the outside. The voice sounds different. The mistakes become more obvious. The illusion of fluency can suddenly disappear. And yet — it is extremely useful. If we truly want to become aware of our pronunciation, our rhythm, our intonation, and the mistakes we repeatedly make (especially those that may already be fossilized), then this step is almost necessary. It can be compared to training the body and observing progress in the mirror or in photographs. Without that mirror — without that external reflection — improvement would be very difficult. We would not clearly see where the weaknesses ...
I spontaneously came up with a great way to practice Past Simple with a group of beginners.I already had a board game that I used to practice adverbs of frequency. The fields on the board have different verbs in the infinitive form, so students have to say the Past Simple form of the verb they land on. It was fun and very repetitive, which makes for great practice of regular and irregular verbs in Past Simple. source of board game: isl.collective.com