Research and Learning skills: English and maths skills

Studying in Australia is an excellent opportunity to improve your English, but you need to practise your English in as many ways as possible:

• Make friends with other students, both local students and those from other language backgrounds to yours.

• Watch movies or TV in English and listen to music with English lyrics. Sing along!

• Be prepared: read notes and look at any presentation before class so you are more familiar with the language used.

• If you spend a lot of time with students who speak your language, agree to set times when you only speak English.

• Set a goal to ask a question or speak up in each class.

• Join a club, attend events, or join a sports team with English speakers.

• Find work in an English-speaking workplace.