Watch a movie on Lingual.Net. Different movies feature different themes and lessons. Look at facial expressions or listen to tone inflection. Watch each movie two times; Lingual.Net suggests that the first viewing be with the subtitles on and the second showing without the subtitles. Take the quiz at the end of each movie to see how much you understood.
Make a movie or a photograph slide show, suggests Enjoy English Now. Use the concept of "say it with words"; write a sentence describing a situation or event. Add a few more sentences to tell a story. Record or photograph each sentence with the appropriate facial expressions.
Play a game with Harcourt School. The grammar glossary uses an animated roller coaster to illustrate different verb types. One question asks you to pick if the underlined word is a main or helping verb or a contraction. When you choose the correct answer, the roller coaster lights up and begins to move.
Learn vocabulary using mnemonics, suggests Wiziq. Short animation clips feature a scene and a word used in a sentence. The word "relegated" is illustrated by a green man standing on a block above a red man. The sentence tells you that the red man was relegated to a lower position. Both the man and the word are in red.
Allow yourself several days to master new words.