T-Room Summer 2023 PL

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7+8/23

YOUR VOICE DIARY FOR THE SUMMER


Looking for a way to stay in touch with English over the VOCABULARY
summer? Ever heard of voice diaries? Read on, T-Room gives
you a few #NIFTY TRICKS
IDIOMS WITH ‘VOICE’
1. Make it your own

Keeping a voice diary is a great way to improve your English,


to have a voice in sth - to have an active role in
especially when you only need your smartphone for it. Moreover, making or influencing a decision about sth
it’s only you who have a voice in its format - you can talk about
what you’ve experienced, ideas that suddenly came to you, to give voice to sth - to express your thoughts or
things you’ve seen and want to remember. There’s no limit to the feelings in words
length as well.
to talk to hear the sound of one’s own voice - to
2. Be ready to talk about your holidays talk about useless or pointless things

Summer is usually the time when you get to see and do things you
normally don’t. And it’s so easy to forget interesting details. If
you give voice to all of those experiences through your voice
diary, it will be much easier to talk about them later. It’s not an
enjoyable conversation, when everything was fine, nice and cool.
Stay specific and describe in detail!

3. Keep your grammar and vocabulary active PODCAST


Listen to our podcast and get more
No, it’s not just talking to hear the sound of your own voice. It can in-depth information about this
really help you with maintaining active knowledge of everything month’s topic!
you’ve learned so far. Even without direct feedback, just thinking
about which words to use and how to order them to formulate
your thoughts will have a great impact on your further study.

COMPETITION
What other word(s) do you know that are synonymous to a diary? If you know the answer, email it to troom@jcl.pl by August 20th and get a
chance to win a 100 PLN voucher from Empik. Last month’s winner is Marek Cichy from Skanska. Congratulations! The correct answer was
e.g. the use of articles, verb tenses.

POP CULTURE CORNER


Watch this video to learn more about the advantages of a voice diary. Did you know it can help you travel in time? How?
Check it out yourself in this TED-Ed video.

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