EOT FAQ - Finding and practising with people online?

Nina EnglishBrno who uses EOT with her students just texted me and added me to a call on Skype with one of her students, Sabrina from France. Sabrina said she is quite shy and that she was worried about contacting 'lots' of people on social platforms to ask them to help her to practise her speaking skills as part of her EOT lessons. If you want to know how many partners you need to find and how you should organise and develop your relationships with them. Listen to this clip it will explain. Listen and then read the answer below to see if you understood... Answer: Use the 'Social Media Tools' PDF to copy and paste the special words to contact people on your favourite social networks. Try to create a small group of familiar and trusted English speaking friends and schedule times to talk each week (10-20 mins max). Speak to 3-5 people usingt he language from each lesson. The repetition is good for your brain and it won't be boring because everyone gives different answers and has different accents/uses slightly different vocab. Record the calls and listen again! (v important) The idea of constantly contacting new people at the start is to find and get this 'core' group of people, your own Personal Practice Network you can get to know well and build strong friendships with around your EOT speaking sessions. If you have a good sized group with people in different time zones...you will have someone online whenever you have time to do some EOT and you'll be learning and practising global English!