Fluency Matters!
An activity to improve fluency in spoken and written English By Dharmendra Sheth and Hasmukh Umaria Hello everyone, The following may interest you if you are a teacher or a learner of English.Speaking in one’s mother tongue is easy; speaking in any other tongue is difficult. Let’s accept it. Non-native learners of English often face two problems when they try to express their views in English. One, they can’t find the right word or expression to convey their message. And two, they find it hard to string words together and form grammatically correct sentences. These problems are particularly noticeable in one’s speech. A number of activities can be carried out to overcome this problem. One of them is “expansion”. Take an idea, and flesh it out by adding some details, explanation or examples. To begin with, write just two or three lines to expand the main idea. Once you get a grip on how to do that in writing, you might like to expand ideas orally. This activity will invariably help you to build up your fluency in written and spoken English. Let me show you how to expand an idea using some proverbs. You can in fact take any …