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Your English Learning Toolkit: Explore Daily Lexis and Choose How to Practise
Explore English Listening, Writing, Vocab and Word Defender, then combine dictation, reading, recall and speaking into a purposeful daily routine.
Give every part of the library a purpose
The English home offers Listening, Writing and Vocab: three ways to understand speech, reconstruct sentences and retrieve words. Choose a situation such as travel or work and carry that theme between activities. Writing and Vocab run from A1 to C2; Listening has its own topic catalogue. Level labels guide practice, but do not certify proficiency or imply identical lessons across features.
Listening: hear the whole message, then inspect a sentence
Explore conversations, stories, news, talks and exam-oriented topics. Availability varies by topic, so start with a lesson whose main idea you can follow. Full-lesson listening trains continuity; sentence dictation lets you inspect a particular gap.
- Listen once for the people, situation and message without typing everything.
- Replay a difficult sentence, type what you heard and compare it with the transcript.
- Identify a new word, linked sound, weak ending or spelling error. Replay with the corrected text, then without looking.
Writing: reconstruct instead of copying
Writing presents a Vietnamese prompt and asks you to type the target English sentence. Think about meaning, tense and word order before revealing a hint. Hold the hint control to inspect the current word, release it and try from memory. After completion, use the speech control to hear the sentence.
The exercise checks its model sentence; a different grammatical expression may still differ from the target. Learn this expression, then write a personal variation in your notes. Sentence drills do not provide essay feedback.
Vocab: understand, recognise and actively recall
Vocab introduces meaning, pronunciation information, examples and collocations before recognition and recall tasks. Read the example so the word belongs to a situation. Choose Again when retrieval was difficult and Good when you recalled confidently. The review schedule stays in this browser; account lesson progress and local review scheduling are separate. Keep a personal review list if you change devices.
Add reading, shadowing, speaking and a little play
For extensive practice, read or listen to easier material without stopping at every word. For intensive study, explain the language of one short passage. Before shadowing, understand a sentence, repeat after the speaker, then follow just behind the recording at a comfortable pace.
Try a short English Word Defender session for variety, then reuse a few words in sentences. Record a retelling or discuss the topic with someone. These are activities you organise alongside the library; typing and game results do not assess spontaneous conversation.
A twenty-five-minute loop you can repeat tomorrow
Try five minutes of vocabulary, ten of listening, five of sentence writing and five of spoken retelling. Adjust to your weakest skill. Record one error and one phrase worth reusing, then revisit them later. Use Knowledge for language explanations and Guides for study methods. The links below open the resources: choose one theme and one question to investigate today.