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To name your story, you have to think about the overall message and what you want your audience to understand from the story. Also, make it relevant and easy to remember.

Writing

Include all the knowledge and abilities related to expressing ideas through the written word.

Writing is the primary basis upon which one's work, learning, and intellect will be judged—in college, in the work place and in the community.

Readability-Score is useful for begginers in writing, analyzing their mistakes and how to improve.

Thesaurus has an arsenal of tools for writing and correct texts.

Grammarly, special for essays and large text

Hemmingway App is one of the most popular apps to practice writing and analyzing a text.

Listening

The ending of a story is essential. We all know that if the ending is weak, what happened before loses its importance. So make it unpredictable, but fair. A resolved ending answers all the questions and ties up any loose threads from the plot.

This is the closure section of the story.
See examples of possible outcomes below:

• all problems have been solved
• it's clear how each one of your characters ends up
• your main character is transformed by the challenge

Allow one to make sense of and understand what another person is saying

The ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process.

Try answering these questions to come up with a closure:
- Have all the problems been solved?
- Is there a clear picture of what happens with each character in the story?
- Has the challenge transformed your main character?
- How do the characters feel in the end?

Good listening skills make workers more productive.

English Podcast availables on Spotify, iTunes or Anchor, there are free on each service.

TED Talks for paying attention to the way that is sopken.

For conversational englis, ellio.org

Reading

The middle of the story is where you add layers of complications that will lead to the end. Reveal more about the character's journey. Did their personality go through changes? How did they overcome the challenges? And as you build up the story’s central conflict, make it more personal to that character. Also, from the middle act, you have to lead into the final act.

The ability of an individual to read, comprehend and interpret written words on a page of an article or any other reading material.

By developing the reading skills, the readers can diversify their field of knowledge.

ManyBooks.net provides a gallery of classic readings to practice.

Clilstore is a very useful tool to practice in all the languages.

Lingua.com provides different readings to practice including with a test about the reading.

Speaking

In the beginning of the story (or the exposition), you will need to introduce the setting and characters. You might also want to introduce the main conflict. This part of the story is important because it gives the reader necessary background information and maybe even a first insight into a character’s personality.

Definition

The skills that give us the ability to communicate effectively. These skills allow the speaker, to convey his message in a passionate, thoughtful, and convincing manner.

Why is so important?

It allows us to form connections, influence decisions, and motivate change. Without communication skills.

How can we practice?

Fluent U's is free and is applied to all the skills, you can speak through the microphone of the cellphone.

Duoling app explores different skills, emphasizing speaking.

learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org for explore different accents practicing speaking.

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