WHAT YOU COULD DO WITH AN OLD CELLPHONE
What would you do with your old cellphone without SIM card? Is it a specimen resting in peace in the corner? Or a useless item lying somewhere covered by dust? But it may turn out to be a perfect tool to learn English if you pick it up and load it up with the things you need.
Every language needs to be heard and spoken frequently to be proficient with. And this helps you improve the oral part of the language. As for the written part, you need to read more for large volume of input to guarantee the quality of output. In the meanwhile, you need to write as much as possible to get what you have accumulated flexibly applicable. To meet the requirements of listening, speaking, reading and writing, we could equipped the cellphone with specific apps and get relevant resources downloaded.
It will be efficient to learn via an old cellphone which could not make phone calls or receive messages since you will be totally pulled away from instant message when the cellphone inside your hand is no longer a communication equipment. You don't even need to connect the WiFi. A total separation from network may make you more concentrated on the limited resources you have. So it is enough to have just the functions listed below with a few materials downloaded.
PLAYER
HIMALAYA & IQIYI & KUGOU
English audio books on HIMALAYA is a good option of English listening. Just download a series of them and listen them over and over again until you could shadow. Have several videos on how to learn English and watch them often, get some English songs in app and hear them until you could sing along.
RECORDER
The most efficient way to improve your spoken English is to know how it sounds when you speak English and what the differences are between yours and the ideal one. Talk to yourself in English, sing along with some English songs or read the passages aloud and get it recorded, then you may realize the gap between your current level and that you have been yearning for.
READER
Have a reader available for PDF, epub and mobi formats, then you could enjoy reading e books in English version whenever you like. Strongly recommend IREADER as the reading app and BOOKZZ as the platform for English edition resources.
NOTEPAD
Writing after reading is a terrific habit for English learning, creating opportunity for you to apply what you get to further output. You could also mark down what's on your mind in English to develop a mode of thinking in English.