24HOUR ENGLISH CHALLENGE English With Tiffani
hey so i’m excited to tell you about our
24 hour
challenge and there are going to be five
winners
that’s right five winners are going to
receive the think in
english package and i want you
to be one of the five winners so you
must stay
until the very end so that you can
understand fully
what the challenge is and how you can
win
all right i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump
right in
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all right so the 24 hour challenge has
five steps
step one pick step two find step three
divide
step four define and step five use
so step number one you’re going to pick
one word that you already know the goal
of this step is for you to find a word
that you
already can use comfortably in
conversation so let me show you some
examples
happy english
learning now you see that these are
words that you already know
very simple words that’s how you start
step number one pick a word you already
know now step number two for this 24
hour
challenge is find you’re going to find
one word for each letter
remember that they need to be words you
don’t
already know i’m going to explain this
to you again
you basically have to find a word for
each
letter but the words you find they can’t
be words you
already know so let’s look at the words
that i chose in step
one happy here we go h
hyper a analogy
p pedantic now let me pause really
quickly because
you may be saying to yourself whoa
teacher tiff
i don’t know what pedantic means don’t
you worry all right so after me
pedantic good pedantic
excellent now the next p is peruse
peruse another one really quickly watch
my mouth
peruse excellent again
peruse good job now
for the last letter i can say yield
now what if my word is english so i can
say for the letter e
endeavor the letter n negate
really quickly pronunciation practice
negate
oh good job negate
excellent remember all we’re doing for
this step so far
is finding words for each letter all
right
now after negate i’ve chosen gouge
all right next livid real quick that’s a
tricky one after me
you ready livid
job last time livid
excellent job all right so we have livid
then we have
ingenious saturate
and horrendous what about learning again
you’re only choosing one word but i’m
just showing you three different
examples so
if i chose learning my words would be
lavish
edible arduous
whoa let’s do that together arduous
great again arduous
excellent very good so then i have
repetitive
next novice next indecent
next notable and finally galore
so again for step two the find step
we found a word for each letter of the
easy word that we had
right now what happens in step 3 for
this 24 hour challenge
now what we have to do is divide you’re
going to
divide your day based on the
number of words you have so here we go
let me show you how this looks so we
have happy
english and learning so my day
starts at 4 00 am it’s true
i am an early bird so you have to look
at your day all right
step three is divide so look at the time
you wake up
and the time you normally go to sleep
and you’re gonna count the number of
hours
so for me i wake up at 4 a.m and go to
bed at 9 00 pm so that’s
17 hours so if i chose
happy happiest five letters so 17
hours divided by 5 is approximately
3.4 so what’s gonna happen is
i’m going to break up my day now into
certain blocks and those blocks are
going to be about three and a half
hours here we go three and a half hours
long so you’ll see right here
4 a.m to 7 30 p.m 7 30
sorry 7 30 a.m then 7 30 a.m to 11 a.m
and i continue all the way down until i
get to
9 00 p.m now we’re going to do the same
thing for the word
english and the word learning again just
showing you examples
you’re only going to choose one word but
i want to show you three examples so
what if i chose english well english is
seven letters
so now that 17 hour period will be
divided by
seven as you can see here on the screen
and learning
is eight letters so my day of 17 hours
will be divided by
eight so you see what’s happening now
again
you are going to do the same thing now
here’s what happens the reason why we’re
dividing our day is because
you are going to have one word
for each block of time whoa i love this
challenge all right
so here we go for happy from 4 a.m to 7
30 a.m i’m only focusing on
hyper 7 30 to 11 only focusing on
analogy 11 to 2 30 only focusing on
pedantic
and the same is true for the other
time slots this is what you’re gonna do
so again
step three is very important you’re
gonna do a little bit of math
you’re gonna break your day down and
then apply the words to each
block now step four is very important
here we go
step number four is define
so you’re going to learn the various
meanings
of each word now what i did for this one
is i decided to only look at one of the
examples because
i didn’t want you sitting here listening
to so many definitions
but i chose the word learning now
remember learning has how many letters
good job you remember eight letters and
i divided my day
up into eight separate blocks and each
block has a word
so for step four now i have to define
the word
and learn the meaning so here we go
lavish
the first one it means using or giving
in great amounts large in quantity
and expensive or impressive
very lavish stay with me we’re going to
get to it how we’re going to use it
right
so for the first block i’m only focused
on the word
lavish and now i know the meaning now
what about the second one
edible what does edible mean suitable
or safe for eating so for example
an apple is suitable for eating right so
i can say an
apple is edible right you got it right
however a book or a phone
no that’s not safe for eating so it’s
not edible
they aren’t edible makes sense right
okay good
now from 8 to 10 am the word i have is
arduous and that means difficult or
needing a lot of
effort and energy so an arduous
task think of something very difficult
and hard to do
an arduous task again that word
is going to be my focus from 8 a.m to 10
a.m again this is my example right just
helping you see
how to do it now from 10 a.m to 12 p.m
repetitive that means containing or
characterized
by repetition especially when
unnecessary
or tiresome something that’s done over
and over and over again right
okay now let’s move on to the next time
period again remember they’re going to
be five winners so hang in there
you know you’re about to do it i know
you can win so 12 to 2 p.m
novice a person new to
or inexperienced in a field or
situation so when i first became
an english teacher i was a novice why
because my initial
my first career was in web development
i had never taught english before i
was a novice makes sense
all right good now when i get to the two
o’clock time period
the word that i have to look at is
indecent
which means not appropriate or fitting
not conforming with generally accepted
standards of behavior
so for example normally when you go
outside you wear clothes
right but if someone walks outside and
has no clothes on you can say
oh that’s a little bit indecent that’s
not proper that’s not acceptable
makes sense good now we’re moving to the
4pm time period
and i’ve chosen the word notable but
what does notable mean
worthy of attention or notice remarkable
prominent or important think about your
favorite singer
when they grab the mic and they start
singing
call to belong to jesus
you can say oh that’s a notable singer
remarkable prominent important you like
my song
all right now when i get toward the end
of my day after i
chose learning to be my word the last
letter of learning is
g and the word i selected was galore
so galore means in great numbers
or in abundance so
large amounts we say galore there’s
candy galore there right
lots of candy so this is step four
but what about step number five here’s
where it gets
interesting the use step you need to use
the words throughout the day in other
words use them to describe
different things about your day
so here we go again my word is learning
i have my eight
time slots right then i have these
images
now these images are showing you what i
do throughout the day during specific
time slots what’s going to happen is
the word that i have placed for that
time slot
now i need to use that word to describe
what i’m doing
that’s what you’re going to do as well
during this 24 hour challenge
you need to describe what’s happening
during that time slot
using the word so for example from 4am
to 6am you see i have food there we have
lavish then we have edible
arduous repetitive all of these words
but
let’s look at them in more detail here
we go
so from 4am to 6am i usually cook
breakfast so i can say i decided to make
a lavish breakfast
for my family this morning
you you see right a lavish extravagant
amazing
breakfast i used the word lavish
during that first time block to describe
what i do
during that time period now here we go
next
6 a.m to 8 a.m the word is edible i can
say
oh the apples were not edible so i used
strawberries instead again during that
time period i’m still preparing
breakfast
and i recognized shoot the apples are
bad
we can’t eat them they’re not edible so
i described the situation using the word
edible makes sense right now what about
the next time period
8 a.m to 10 a.m responding to
all the emails was a very arduous
task now this is something i actually do
around this time i check emails from you
all
and i respond to them and sometimes it’s
a very difficult task because
because there are so many emails so i
can say
it’s a very arduous task
makes sense right now i’ll never forget
that word because i applied it to an
action that i actually did
the same is true for you now right about
the 10 a.m
to 12 p.m time period recording podcasts
i can say
recording the same podcast intro
over and over again was a repetitive
task over and over and over again
saying the same thing a very repetitive
task makes sense right good job now what
about 12 p.m to 2 p.m here we go
i used to be a novice video editor
but now i am an expert and that’s true
i edit videos around that time and in
the past i was a beginner i didn’t
really know how to edit
but now i’m quite good at it i’m not a
novice anymore
makes sense all right now what about 2
p.m again the word that i have for 2 p.m
is indecent so i can say that comment
under the youtube video was very in
decent again you’re seeing how i’m
applying the word
to what happened during that time period
what about
4 pm to 6 pm i decided to purchase a
notable business book from the bookstore
down the street now this actually
happened i’ll show you
i bought this book around that time this
is a business book
right so i can say i decided to purchase
a notable this is a very popular if
you’re into business this is a great
book
right a very popular business book all
right
here we go next 6 p.m to 9 p.m
my friend’s freezer had ice cream
galore lots and lots of ice cream now
i’m vegan but i eat vegan ice cream made
with soy milk or almond milk so
there was ice cream galore in the
freezer so you see now with this
24 hour challenge you’ll be able to
learn
so many words and also learn how to use
them
properly as you follow this 24 hour
challenge
now again i said they’re going to be
five winners so here’s the deal if you
want to win
here’s what you need to do in order to
win you need to
pick a word just like he said in step
number one
pick a word what you’re going to do is
find a word
for each letter remember we talked about
this
if the word is happy final word for each
of the letters
then what you need to do in order to win
is you need to write
the word and the extra words in the
comment section and i will announce the
winner
in 24 hours they’re gonna be five
winners now
the thinking english package is what you
need and it’s a compliment to this
challenge
because this package will teach you how
to make sentences
properly in english how to organize your
thoughts and how to finally think
in english so all of these words you’ll
be learning
now you’ll also be able to learn how to
make the sentence properly
using the think in english package so
again i hope you enjoyed this lesson
participate all you have to do again is
pick a word
find a word for each letter and then
write the word and the extra words in
the comment section
and in 24 hours i will select a winner
to get
the think in english package now i’m
excited i can’t wait to see all of your
words
in the comment section and i am looking
forward to picking
five lucky winners alright
let’s jump right in i’ll see you guys
next time i hope you have an amazing day
remember to speak
english
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you still there you know what time it is
it’s story time
i said it story time
all right so today’s story time guys is
honestly about a
challenge that i had to face so
challenges are amazing again we talked
about our 24 hour challenge for today
but when i was in grad school in south
korea
i had to write my thesis completely in
korean
now that was already a challenge in and
of itself very difficult very
challenging
and i spent months and hours working on
my thesis
now in order to get your thesis approved
you have to go through kind of this
this approval phase with your professors
and it’s not easy so i remember going
into my first
meeting with the professors it was a
little bit nerve-racking very nervous
so i walked into the room there were
about five professors sitting at
some tables and about maybe four or five
of us
uh students who were trying to get our
thesis uh
approved so it was my turn they called
me up and i sat down
at this uh it wasn’t even a desk it was
a small chair
and i was looking at all of the
professors it was very intimidating
so one of the professors opened up my my
thesis they had already read through it
and for the next 20 minutes he proceeded
to
totally tear my thesis
apart i mean he said tiffany does this
make sense
i don’t understand why you wrote this i
mean it was horrible
to the point i was like wow okay like it
was bad
even my my classmates were like oh kind
of looking down
it was really bad at the end he said
you’re gonna have to start over
i said okay now again i was very polite
very respectful i was like
thank you so much sir yes sir it was so
bad though when he finished and all the
professors walked out my professor that
was the one helping with writing the
thesis
she said are you okay tiff i said i’m
i’m okay
um i just realized that i have to start
over
um and that’s a little bit aggressive
and she said she said tiff i know it’s
aggressive
i know it’s difficult and it was all
happening in korean
she said but i think if you are up to
the challenge
your thesis will really turn out a lot
better than it is right now
so i went home to my apartment and i
thought about it and i was like man
at that point in time i was like why why
am i doing this why am i going through
all of this stress
because i was working at the same time
living in south korea away from my
family
and the thesis that i had spent months
on was just totally
torn apart and i had to start from
square one
so i said you know what i have two
choices either i can quit and say you
know what i don’t need this i can go
back home i’m fine i can find a job i
don’t need to stress about this
or i can accept the challenge and try to
make my thesis better
so i contacted my professor the next day
and i told her i said you know what i do
want to try to make the thesis better
so for the next several weeks she and i
met on a regular basis and she told me
tiff
you need to change this you need to
update this and she told me all of the
things i had to do
remember i was working a full-time job
at that point in time
and i had to write this thesis so for
the next several months
i think it was about two months excuse
me i had to write
a lot i had to do lots of research but i
had accepted the challenge because
i said you know what the other professor
that tore my thesis apart
he was just trying to make me better he
knew that it would be very challenging
for me to have to go back and edit
everything but he also knew that i could
do better
so i went through the next two months i
would go to work come home
take a nap and start writing researching
all the time and i even had some friends
helping me and
at the end of the two months i had the
next meeting with the professors
i was a little nervous because again the
first time i went he tore
my thesis apart so i finally got the
second
the revision done i started it over and
i walked into the meeting with the
professors and they were sitting there
and i was prepared
i was prepared to really just get a lot
of complaints
uh a lot of things that needed to be
changed so i sat down
and they all you know they looked at me
and i was like is this a movie
they they were all quiet sat down and i
was like do i start speaking do they
because normally they speak first so
they looked at me and then the one
professor that had tore my
tore my thesis apart he opened it
he looked at me and he said tiffany good
job
i didn’t say that and i was just like
means thank you
and they proceeded to tell me the things
that they recognized were
updated to things that were better
easier to understand they made a few
comments that things that like hey this
could have been a little bit clearer but
overall was very clear and they said
this
is a really good thesis so i realized in
that moment that if i hadn’t accepted
the challenge
even though it was difficult and it
wasn’t easy and it required a lot of
work on my part
i would have never become a better
writer i would have never become
the individual i am today i’m able to
explain myself better
and to make difficult concepts simple
and i really appreciate that professor
for pushing me harder
and for giving me that challenge so i
hope this is encouraging for you this 24
hour challenge is going to help
you so much and i want you
to participate and i want you to find a
word and then find the extra words and
put them in the comment section so that
you
can not only improve your english but
also get an opportunity
to win the prize so again remember guys
in the comment section you need to
put your words and then you’ll have an
opportunity to win the think in english
package
thank you so much i hope you enjoyed
story time guys i will talk to you later
have an amazing week bye bye