After "just have done" activities.

All we love to watch something what we really like. It's especially pleasant activity if you do it in a target language. Unfortunately most of us, who even do it a lot (reading, watching/listening), don't bother yourself with at least a shortest summarizing of that information we've just received. That's why we have these popular questions like "How to memorize new vocabulary?", "How to express yourself in English language fluently?", "How to start speaking English after nth years of learning?" etc. But the answer to all these questions is only one actually. Just practice a target language every day. How? Well, I can say only that the easiest and hardest way at the same time is the Summarizing or Retelling.

It seems fair to ask "How can I practice summarizing or retelling if I don't even have time on reading?" Yes, that's a good question and I have a fair but strict answer. There isn't such a concept as "I don't have time". But there other concept exists, such as "I do not choose to do it". Start spending one minute after any kind of studying on summarizing what you've just done. Use as a guidance these three questions:

1. What was that about?

2. Why is that so important to me?

3. What can I do with this information?

I have picked up these helpful questions from somewhere on YouTube and I still use them. This formula really helps me to go up in English learning. The most amazing thing of these simple questions is that you have to look on what you read, watch and listen to the other way.

For example, you have read the meaning of a phrase "crack on". That's all you did today, as for the English language. You have five minutes to do something else before leaving to work. Well, let's try to answer these three questions and you'll see how it helps you to become more confident and fluent.

To answer the first question you have to strain your memory. Here is an example of an answer: "I read the meaning of the idiom to crack on. One of them says it means to keep going or start doing something."

To answer the second question you have to speak to yourself: "I think that this idiom is important to me because I can use it instead of keep going in my speech and writing, in my inner dialogues. That will help me to avoid repeating myself and will do my speech richer. It is always nice to listen to a man whos speech is like a nature and beautiful flow. I would prefer to have good synonyms to common phrases and words like keep going. That's why this is so important to me. I just want my tongue sounds as well as it is possible. " When you discuss to yourself what you read and watch you start understanding yourself better, first of all. It turns out later that a content that you watched a week ago maybe is still in your head, you remember it pretty well. Why? That's because you have done a good keen work with it.

I answered the third question partially, as I do it usually. Yeah, it is hard to stop thoughts' flow answering the second question and it happens so that I smoothly move on to the third question. But anyway I ask the third question again and try dive in deeply, writing or saying out loud some situation examples. For instance: "Let's imagine that I am talking to a student, as an English tutor. My student is struggling with understanding some difficult grammar rules. To get him distracted and help to avoid the hate to learning process I can say You have to crack on. Then I start explaining this idiom to him and he is distracted from the annoying grammar rules. I didn't stop him from the learning process but I gave him a break and opportunity to crack on with a renewed strength and new idiom on mind."

As you can see, the summarizing with these helpful questions makes you improve your selfexpression skill as well as your memorizing ability and confidence. Doing this work every day by writing and speaking loudly you give yourself a favorable opportunity to be prepared to different situations and be confident as a result.

To the end I want you to remember one more idiom. Use it or loose it, which means that if you want to be good in English you should do this exercise every day. Use it or loose it.