mprove your fluency skills with chunks What are chunks and how can they help improve my fluency in English? Knowing the meaning of a word is useful, but knowing how to use it in context is vital. Words aren’t used in isolation and will often form part of an expression or fixed set of words. Being able to call on these ‘chunks’ of vocabulary will help you to improve English fluency skills. Chunks appear in all sorts of ways: as collocations and idioms, in set phrases such as ‘I was wondering if’ and ‘all the best’ and what teachers call ‘discourse markers’ like ‘as I was saying’ or ‘as far as I know’. In this post we’ll look at some common polite expressions. Chunks like ‘See you later’ or ‘Take a seat’ are often used in everyday communication and learning them can help you improve English fluency. How many chunks can you spot in the image below? Improve fluency skills with chunks
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:08:45 +0000
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