Introduction

How to Use This Book

The purpose of this workbook is to help you develop your English skills and increase your faith through activities and stories. This workbook contains two sections: “Personal and Partner Language Study” and “Proficiency Practice.” You should spend time working in both sections each week. Below is a description of each section.

Personal and Partner Language Study

Personal and Partner Language Study

The “Personal and Partner Language Study” section provides you with activities to practice your English with others. This section is broken up into 13 lessons, which each have two parts. The first part is a “Personal Language Study” that prepares you for the second part, a “Practice Partner Language Study.” Be sure to complete these activities in the order they are given.

How quickly you go through these lessons is up to you and your study partners. For example, you could choose to complete one lesson per week, or you could spread a lesson out over two weeks.

The end of each lesson includes an opportunity to reflect on your language learning. Below are some ideas that you could consider using for your reflection:

• Pray and listen. Heavenly Father is eager to help you learn. Ask Him to show you what you need to do, and He will give you thoughts and ideas.

• Create lists of what is going well and what is going poorly. Make plans on how you can improve.

• Write in your journal about all the things that you did in your language study. Evaluate each thing’s effectiveness.

• Be creative. Draw a picture or write a short poem or story that describes how you feel about your learning or how you could improve.

Proficiency Practice

Proficiency Practice

The “Proficiency Practice” section of this workbook provides you with opportunities to improve your reading, writing, listening, and speaking. You should spend time in reading, writing, listening, and speaking each week, even if one takes more effort than the other. If you find you are ahead in the reading questions, then spend more time working on the writing questions until you are around the same place in each. This will help you maintain a balance between your reading, writing, listening, and speaking abilities.

Both the reading and writing sections have four levels. Within each level are four functions (or groups) of questions: “Ask/Answer,” “Describe,” “Narrate,” and “Negotiate.”

You should work on the questions in each function until you feel you have mastered the function at that level. Once you start answering almost all the questions correctly in a function, you can focus on the other functions. When you answer the questions in all four functions correctly, you can go to the next level.

It is not necessary to skip levels. If you prefer, you can start at the beginning of level 1 and work through all the questions in order. More important than trying to find questions that challenge you is to spend time practicing.

Answers

Answers

The last section of this book contains the answers to each lesson’s reading comprehension questions. You will learn best if you try to answer each question before looking at the solution provided.

This section also provides example paragraphs for every “Write” prompt. The examples can help you consider ways to improve your own writing or give feedback on your practice partner’s writing. You will learn best if you write your own paragraphs first and then read the examples afterward.

Summary

Follow the tips below to make your studies effective:

1. Spend time each week working on the “Personal and Partner Language Study” and “Proficiency Practice” sections.

2. In the “Proficiency Practice” section, make sure you can answer the questions correctly in all four functions “Ask/Answer,” “Describe,” “Narrate,” and “Negotiate” before you move to the next level.

3. In the “Proficiency Practice” section, divide your time between the reading, writing, listening, and speaking sections each week, but spend more time on the skill you need to improve most. For example, if you struggle with writing English more than reading it, practice the writing section more.