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hello everyone and welcome back to

english with lucy

today i have brought you to my favorite

window and outside of this window is my

favorite tree

it’s a willow tree many of you

might not know this about me some of you

might know this

but i live on a farm in england

and i thought it would be nice for you

to see some of the surroundings in the

farm

whilst we do this lesson let me know if

you like it

or if you find it distracting now in

this lesson

i’m going to talk to you about

motivation

but more importantly about the perfect

study routine i know that lots of you

feel that you

lack motivation and one thing that can

really really help is implementing

a good study routine but that can feel

quite daunting daunting means

intimidating or something that seems

very difficult or scary

in this video i am going to help you out

i’m going to show you

how you can incorporate and include

every english language skill

into different parts of your day we will

start with the morning

move on to the day time then to the

afternoon

and then to the evening ah quickly i

have some housekeeping

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shall we get started

so let’s start with the morning now are

you a morning person

that’s the first question a morning

person is someone who is

great in the mornings you can also call

them an early bird

the opposite of this would be a night

owl somebody who thrives in the night

time

tell me if you’re an early bird or a

night owl my problem is

that in the mornings my eyes are blurry

and i can’t read anything i can’t watch

anything on the tv

so i think that the best skill to

practice in the morning

is your listening skills and this is a

good thing to do

because for many students the listening

skills are their least

favorite skills to learn it’s the skill

that they

struggle the most with i know this

because i learnt

spanish and italian and i was always

petrified really really scared of the

listening exams

can anyone else relate to this reading

up here

speaking maybe here writing

up here listening down here

it’s a hard skill it really really is so

don’t beat yourself up about it

don’t give yourself a hard time instead

make your listening skills the first

thing that you practice

every single morning i love it when my

students

ask for listening practice

recommendations because i have so

many recommendations and i’m going to

put them

in the description box but i’ll talk

about some of them here

a great one is to find a daily podcast

a nice short podcast something that you

enjoy

listening to in english and make a habit

of listening to it first thing every

morning maybe you’re in bed

maybe you’ve just got up and you’re

having a coffee one that’s really

relevant at the moment

the bbc have a global coronavirus update

every morning and it’s only around six

minutes long

and it covers the world so you can know

what’s going on with the coronavirus

around the world

that’s a good recommendation if you want

to know relevant

vocabulary another is bbc news

i especially like radio 4. another

really great one

is luke’s english podcast

this is one i often recommend to my

students i will leave his website down

there as well

he started that podcast in 2009 and he

has made so many

fantastic episodes one thing i will

recommend

if you’re listening to a shorter episode

try to listen to it twice i know it can

be boring

but it’s so helpful if you can do that

and if you can find one with a

transcript

listen to it with no transcript first

and then read along with it the second

time

this is more appropriate for the shorter

podcasts

right so i recommend listening skills

for the morning

obviously you can mix these around these

are just really good ideas

for incorporating english practice into

your daily life

this is what i would ideally do if i

were learning a language

but let’s move on to speaking skills you

can do this at

any time of the day i prefer to do it in

the daytime

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what are you waiting for so we’ve

covered speaking with a partner there

what about practicing speaking alone

because that’s something i know

a lot of people have been asking about

throughout the pandemic especially well

there are so many

options and resources available for you

many of them

free something that i loved doing when i

was learning spanish and italian

spanish in particular was mimicking

people

and they have no idea that i did this

but i found someone with an accent that

i liked

and i would pause them and repeat it and

pause them and repeat it

i have actually uploaded quite a few

videos with space for you to repeat the

word after me or the phrase after me

i think i’ve done common idioms common

adjectives common nouns as well

recently i’ll link those down below but

definitely

take advantage of the space i leave

afterwards to repeat

after me because it does work another

thing i

really love to do is to narrate what i’m

doing i act as if i’m in a movie

and that somebody is narrating my life

but

there is one very specific situation

where i do actually explain out loud

what i’m doing as i’m doing it in

another language so for you this is

probably english

for me it’s normally spanish i like to

create

my own personal cooking shows i live on

a farm i’m marrying a farmer i spend a

lot of time alone

so when i cook i try to make it a little

more

exciting for myself and i explain

to an invisible audience an invisible tv

camera

what i’m doing and it is so good for

practicing your speaking

honestly try it and if you dare film

yourself

and watch it later hilarious those

videos will go with me

to the grave that means that i will die

with these videos no one else will see

them

right shall we move on to the afternoon

so in the afternoon

i recommend that you practice your

writing and your reading skills

i just feel that this is the perfect

relaxing time of day

if you are a student you can take a

break from studying

if you have a job and you work

throughout the day then i’m talking

about taking a short break

or doing this when you get home from

work now reading’s quite an obvious one

i can recommend any sort of media

like books fiction non-fiction

newspapers

one thing that i’ve discovered recently

that i absolutely love

is the happy newspaper i was getting

really really down

and depressed about all of the negative

news in the world and whilst

i still think it’s important to read

that news

i needed something that i could have for

a bit of me time a bit of positivity

and there is a newspaper called the

happy newspaper

i’ve checked and it’s available

internationally

it’s a small newspaper that shares

only happy good stories and so that

could be a really nice option for you

if every afternoon you just sit down and

choose

a number of good happy stories that

you’re going to read

it could be five it could be seven

they’re quite addictive

or you could time yourself and say right

i’m gonna do 10 minutes

of happy reading i will link that

particular newspaper down below i am a

subscriber

let me know if you go for it because i’d

love to share opinions on the stories i

absolutely love it what a great idea now

obviously there are books as well i feel

like i should make a separate video

on books that are appropriate for each

level of english but there is one in

particular that i will mention

and it’s actually a series it’s ollie

richards he runs the website i will

teach you a language

and he has a series of books called

short stories

in so many languages there is one in

english

i’ve just ordered the swedish one as

well because i’m feeling

particularly drawn to that language at

the moment

so they’re stories for beginners but you

can read at a nice

pace pick up new vocabulary they’re

really really fantastic

again link down below i just think it’s

so lovely that there are short stories

available for

any beginner in a language now let’s

move on to writing

so in the afternoon or potentially the

evening i feel like some people

might prefer the evening it depends on

how chaotic your household is

if you have a more peaceful time in the

afternoon then

the afternoon is best one thing i really

recommend is looking into

bullet journaling this is something that

has been talked about

extensively on youtube there was a real

trend

a couple of years ago with people

showing their bullet journals

but don’t discount how effective this

can be

for language learning you can use bullet

journals to track your exercise your

sleep your food

but i would use it to track your

vocabulary

and your language skills that you’ve

picked up and how you’ve been

feeling when speaking in that other

language and documenting what you’ve

practiced

another thing i will recommend is real

pen pals okay so a pen pal is somebody

who you write to um and now there are

lots of language exchange websites which

are fantastic i also recommend that you

do that but one thing that

must not be forgotten is the power of a

written letter and how it can make you

feel

and how it can motivate you receiving a

letter that somebody has

written to you by hand and having to

write a written response

it almost provides an obligation to you

you feel that you

must understand it completely and you

must respond

adequately sometimes in english when we

want to refer to

postal mail not email or anything online

we call it snail mail because it takes

such a long time to travel like a snail

and there’s a website called

globalpenfriends.com and you can use

that website

to find a physical snail mail

pen pal see if you can find an

english-speaking

pen pal or maybe another pen pal that is

also

learning english and start a pen

friendship with them you can send gifts

postcards

talk about where you’re from what you

like to do it’s a really fantastic way

of practicing your writing

and if the other person agrees to it you

can ask them to send back your letter

with corrections but only if they are up

for it

if they are writing to you in your

language that they are learning you can

also return the corrections

right back to the evening i really

really recommend

going back to listening skills you want

to rest your eyes

and just have something that will help

you drift to sleep and i found a

fantastic

app for this it’s called calm a friend

actually recommended this app to me

because i was having some trouble with

some stress

and i was struggling to go to sleep i

was struggling to

let go of my phone as well so now i can

use this app

put my phone away and just listen this

app

calm has guided meditations and relaxing

music

but most importantly it has bedtime

stories

in english and sometimes these stories

are read by celebrities with very

appealing voices and as soon as i heard

these stories i just thought of my

students

what a lovely way to go to sleep with

english in your brain but in a relaxing

way

one final bit of language practice

before you hit the pillow

there are also many other apps that have

bedtime stories as well i’m sure you can

search for those

but i found calm very good right that’s

it for today’s video i hope you enjoyed

it

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