Are you a planner or a procrastinator Advanced English Lesson

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continue to learn English with me

because you are planning for your future

you’re planning for your next job or

when you travel or when you meet someone

who is an English speaker in your city

this is what we’re doing here we are

planning for the next time that you want

or need to use English I’m so glad that

all of you are here right now excellent

excellent thank you for coming I’m

pleased that uh we’ve got lots of great

people all Saudi Arabia Thailand Rio

London UK Pakistan welcome welcome

so I have a question for you today and

if you saw the title of today’s video

you probably already know are you a

planner this means that you think ahead

maybe you have a notebook I have a

notebook actually I just started a new

notebook so there’s not much here yet

but almost every day I write notes and

and ideas are you a planner do you plan

for things that are going to happen or

on the other hand are you a

procrastinator procrastinator a

procrastinator is the opposite that’s

someone who waits until the last minute

maybe you have a report due at work and

it’s due on Friday

well maybe you wait until Wednesday and

you realize I have a report and then on

Thursday you say I have a report I need

to work hard and on Thursday you work

really hard so you still do your work

but you wait until the last minute and

there are a couple expressions with this

that I want to share with you one of

them is if you are a planner you can say

I plan ahead I’m gonna write this in my

my notebook here actually I’m going to

go over here and get another pen maybe

one that uh-huh a darker pen one that’s

going to be a little bit better I want

to know are you a planner if you are a

planner you can say I plan ahead we

could say I plan ahead this means maybe

usually I plan ahead I plan ahead if you

are not a planner the opposite is I wait

until the last moment or second and

maybe it’s not really the last second

maybe it’s the last day or even the last

week if it’s a big project

so do you plan ahead or do you wait

until the last second

Oh Gil says I’m a planner oh ma no

dishes I plan ahead Louis says it’s very

common to procrastinate in our daily

lives all jihad says I plan ahead

chiana’s I plan ahead oh we’ve got lots

of planners here if you are a

procrastinator don’t worry you’re not

alone

maybe the planners are the ones who come

to the live lesson and the

procrastinators watch it later maybe I

know a lot of people are working at this

time so they can’t come Wow Wow lots of

people plan ahead

Oh June is as I the second one I wait

unto the last second I wonder - OH Paul

says 30% planner or 70% planner 30%

procrastinator Oh

adilyn says I’m a terrible

procrastinator interesting idea Oh Multi

Tsar has a great idea yes he said for a

while I use a system called the 5-minute

journal and you know what I have the

same journal it’s called the 5-minute

journal and every day you make a little

list of your priorities and things that

you’re thankful for and then at the end

of the day you look at the list and

think was I successful was I not

successful what did I do

and it could be useful but do you know

what I did this for about two weeks and

then not again for some reason I think I

like a freestyle freestyle type of

planning so in my notebook I write lots

of lists and stars and personal ideas

about what I would like to do with

English how I can help you better lots

of ideas so for me I’m usually a planner

but occasionally

I procrastinate or completely forget

lately there have been a couple things

not too important but some things I’ve

just completely forgotten and it’s okay

we’re human it’s normal I I would like

to also share with you how we can use

the word procrastinate as different

forms so we might say procrastination

procrastination is a problem for me this

is the noun procrastination is not a

problem for me I always plan I never

wait hmm maybe you also lie

procrastination is not a problem so that

is our first word here already here

procrastination procrastination this is

our noun form procrastination and the

second form we’d already talked about

today the name of the person

procrastinator I’m a procrastinator I’m

not a procrastinator or we could talk

about the verb the verb so maybe you

have a big project maybe you have an

English exam and it’s coming up soon we

might be able to say I procrastinate

often I procrastinate often this is the

verb we might say last week I

procrastinated last week I

procrastinated because I’m a

procrastinator last week I

procrastinated because I’m a

procrastinator who that is a good

exercise I would like to help you really

quick with the pronunciation for these

two expressions well really now three

Russians are you ready to work your

pronunciation muscles we are gonna read

these sentences together kind of slowly

and if you’re somewhere private or quiet

you have no excuse you need to read it

out loud with me

are you ready we’re gonna read the first

one the first one which is a planner for

planners I plan ahead there’s a little H

here not too strong I plan ahead are you

repeating after me I plan ahead or maybe

we should add I want to plan ahead I

want to plan ahead but I don’t often we

could add this here oh I want to plan

ahead the next sentence let’s read it

together I wait until the last second I

wait until the last second I wait until

the last second

this word until I wait until usually we

link those together so this almost

sounds like one word wait until this is

kind of linked together here I wait

until I wait until the last second are

you ready for the biggest word here at

the end hmm exercise those pronunciation

muscles procrastination

I don’t like procrastination

procrastination I am a procrastinator I

am a procrastinator thankfully we say

all of the word all of the letters in

this word so if you just read the full

word your

pronounce it correctly let’s read the

final sentence I procrastinate often I

procrastinate often I procrastinate

often do you procrastinate often I hope

that this little repetition here is

useful for you because I think that your

pronunciation and hearing your own voice

using English is useful something that

can help you to be able to speak

confidently when you’re used to hearing

your own voice using English maybe you

have never used these expressions before

no problem now you have heard your voice

use that and you can use it again so if

you plan ahead if you are a planner if

you wait until let the last second if

you are a procrastinator I hope I hope

that for you you are motivated and

continue to practice and study English

and enjoy it we have one more great

expression here in the comment box thank

you uh you did mom for joining me live

he says you are putting off what you

have to do putting off this means

procrastinating you are delaying

something that you have to do I usually

put off what I need to do I don’t

usually put off what I need to do this

is a great phrasal verb thank you for

bringing it up we can add to our

vocabulary here and talk about planning

ahead procrastinating waiting until the

last second putting off the big project

oh I put off my project until this week

but it’s gonna be so much work so I hope

that for you you don’t put off in

important things I hope that for you of

course there’s some things in life that

it’s not a priority it’s okay if you put

it off you don’t need to do everything

right now you need to relax you need to

have some entertainment or family time

or spend time with your friends but for

valuable important priorities

try not to great word in the chat box

postpone don’t postpone something

important make sure that we plan ahead

for those things I want to write those

final words that we just talked about

here the first one is put off and the

second one is postponed oh man I love

how you guys are giving some great

expressions in addition to what we’re

talking about put off put off something

I put off my project until this week and

now I have no time to finish it i

postponed my project this is a little

bit more responsible maybe you had other

things that you needed to do so you said

I need to postpone my project because I

have to work on another project that’s

more important that’s okay so maybe

postponing is is fine it’s just talking

about your priorities but maybe

sometimes it’s not make sure that you

are procrastinating with putting off and

postponing things that are not too

important things that are not priorities

so with English make sure that you are

active and planning for your future with

English and I think this is something

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ahead thank you so much for joining me

I’m so glad you’re here Truong and Frank

and Danielle welcome whoahhh

I’m so glad that you’re here from all

around the world you guys are awesome

keep up the good work keep planning for

English this is important because in the

future you will want or you will need to

use it and if you haven’t planned if you

haven’t prepared it’s not going to work

well so this is your time to prepare

your time to plan and you can do it

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