At home
Review:
Go over your day’s work
Do your homework – after corrections do it again!
Make vocabulary lists – don’t forget pronunciation!
Speaking
Talk to your homestay family or share house mates
Go shopping, Woolies, the chemist, yoga class, art gallery and speak to the locals
Make a friend from another country and chat over coffee
Writing
Keep a diary in English – give it to your teacher once a week
Write e mails, facebook posts and text messages in English
Write a blog, weblog for your friends and family back home
Listening
Watch English language DVDs
Watch TV – especially comedies and soap operas: The Simpsons, ABC 2, Friends!
Listen to a podcast
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en
http://www.abc.net.au/services/podcasting
Reading
Read English readers – you can borrow them from the school
Read the newspaper, The Northern Star or the Echo
