Nothing to Cry About

In the past I have talked with some people about what I think they should do in reading class when the instructor has not shown up for some reason. This is never a reason to do "nothing" or "just sit." If you have an Internet connection for Facebook, you can use the same Internet connection to download short stories in English from the Internet, or from web sites like breakingnewsenglish.com. Heavy reading isn't always necessary to improve your vocabulary. You can read one or two paragraphs at a a time while your neighbor does the same thing, then do a "turn and tell." This means that you spend three minutes comparing what you understood from the paragraph with what your neighbor understood from the paragraph.

Get a set of portable laptop speakers, and download the mp3 files for a listen-and-read activity. :)