Speak English FAST Episode 2 About Your Future Plans and Goals

hey do you have a hard time speaking

English do you struggle to speak fast do

you feel like you always use the exact

same words over and over again well if

so today’s lesson is for you because I’m

gonna give you the formula to speak

English fast I’m teacher Tiffany let’s

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alright so here we go let’s get started

with today’s lesson first we have the

formula C + G + I now remember this is

the formula you are going to use to

speak English fast specifically about

your goals and future plans so let’s see

how to use this formula here we go

alright so again C + G + I now we have

different goals in our lives and you are

the same so you have English study goals

you have family goals you have work and

business goals you have exercise goals

and you even have financial goals all of

these goals you can speak about using

this simple formula C + G + I so let’s

start with the C now the letter C stands

for current and basically what you’re

gonna do is describe your current

situation

this is the first thing you want to do

whenever you’re speaking about a future

plan or a future goal okay so how can we

do this here we go

let’s say for example you’re talking

about your English study goals you can

say currently I am studying

English by watching various youtube

videos like this one right here let’s

get right every morning I study English

for an hour before I go to work I

usually start by memorizing ten English

vocabulary words then I write in my

English journal while listening to

English music so you see what happened I

just explained very simply my current

situation related to English you can do

the same you don’t have to worry about

the amount of sentences just explain

your situation simply okay now what if

we’re talking about let’s say family

goals my boyfriend and I have been

together for about two years this is not

true it’s just an example I know you

guys are gonna ask me in the comments

who teach you your boyfriend no not

right now

alright so my boyfriend and I have been

together for about two years we are in a

long-distance relationship because he

has to work in California and I live in

New York but he makes it a point to come

and visit me every month now I want to

explain something to you makes it a

point this is an amazing expression that

you can use when you speak in English

now make it a point just means to make

something a priority to make something

important to make sure you do something

no matter what we say make it a point to

dot dot dot okay alright so again I

explain my current situation then let’s

move on to work and business goals at

the beginning of last year I got a job

at Google working as a web developer

things have been going well so far and I

really enjoy my co-workers my boss

always looks for new ways to enhance our

website so our team focuses on coming up

with creative design strategies now

really quickly I have to apologize for

my voice and I may have to sniffle a few

times ah sniffling is this that’s what

sniffling is I think I’m catching a

little bit of a cold I feel okay but I

want to let you know what you’re hearing

in the background if you ever hear me

sniffle alright okay so I want to

explain one of

words okay one of the words let me show

you again enhance our website now the

word enhanced just means to make better

to make something more beautiful to make

it more useful we say in hands all right

okay so now moving on to the next one

now we have exercise goals I usually get

up around 5:00 a.m. and head straight to

the gym head straight to we use head

straight to when we want to say that we

don’t do anything else we immediately go

somewhere okay we say head straight to

like head that’s all we say head

straight to okay then let’s continue

when I get to the gym I stretch and then

run for three miles my run typically

lasts about 30 minutes okay

and finally financial goals last year I

started listening to a podcast about the

importance of saving money after

listening to the podcast I decided to

save 10% of my entire income so for the

last several months I have been putting

10% of my income away in a separate

savings account now I said putting

something away putting away something

that I’ve earned now when we use this

about money putting away just means to

save it just means save and also to not

touch it okay now what happened I gave

you the current situation for each of

the categories right my financial goals

my exercise goals my family goals I have

to tell you first letter C the first

part of the formula my current situation

because you met we want to make sure

that the person listening to you

understands what’s going on first you

want them to be able to picture in their

mind ah this is what’s currently going

on and then they’ll be able to connect

with your goal and understand why it’s

your goal okay alright so now moving on

to the second part of the formula here

we go letter G the goal so you’re going

to describe your future goal in

detail all right so here’s what’s gonna

happen now you’ll notice at the top

right there are three circles there are

three colored circles alright these

circles give us an idea of how we can

lay out what we’re gonna say

all right we’re speaking about our goal

but look at the circles again basic goal

goal explanation and the reason for the

goal alright so here’s what’s going to

look like here’s what its gonna look

like my goal is to do a road trip across

America next year with three of my

friends now this is true I want to do a

road trip so bad for those that may not

know a road trip is just a trip you go

on by car so I’m gonna drive across

America as opposed to flying across

America we call that a road trip okay

alright so again I’m giving you my basic

goal first now I’m gonna move into

explaining the goal alright so here we

go the plan is to arrive in New York

rent a car and then spend three weeks

driving all the way to California I have

always wanted to visit America but it is

a large country now you notice how I

started to give you the reason for this

goal I’ve always wanted to what visit

America and it’s a large country now

again I’m American but I’m speaking as

if I was a student like you okay now I

continue so the best way to truly

experience it is to drive around in a

car alright now what about family goals

here we go honestly my goal is for us to

get married

remember I’m speaking about my boyfriend

alright I want to start a family with

him as soon as possible he is truly the

man of my dreams

and I know that he is going to be an

amazing father Wow can let me explain

that to you

so I said man of my dreams this is

something this is an expression we use

in English to kind of explain my ideal

or the type of man I desire think about

it when you were growing up and you can

also say woman of your dreams for the

guys watching this okay so think about

when you were growing up and we

you just kind of sit and think oh man

when I get married ooh he’s gonna be

this he’s gonna be that it’s kind of a

dream right so we say man of my dreams

because he’s the man I imagined he

matches everything that I want in a man

that makes sense and again for the guys

you can use this for women as well the

woman of your dreams okay it’s a really

useful expression that we use in English

okay all right so let’s keep going

what about our work and business goals

my goal is to start my own web

development business next year again the

basic goal now moving into the

explanation I want to employ new web

developers right out of college so that

they can develop and hone their creative

skills all right now we have a new

vocabulary word home now home just means

to perfect something to make something

better to improve I want to hone my

skills right now you’re watching this

English video this English video lesson

because you want to hone your English

skills you want to improve you want to

be better and I know you can do it I

believe in you okay so you want to hone

your English skills all right let’s keep

going now the reason the main reason I

want to do this is because someone did

the same thing for me all right now what

about exercise goals my goal is to get

up to five miles a day now get up to

means I want to reach this right now I’m

running three miles a day

right I want to move up to five miles a

day running five miles a day

my basic goal now I need to explain it

okay so here we go basically I want to

build up my endurance and run at a

consistent pace for five miles now the

reason I read some studies that

explained how running five miles a day

can add years to your life now this is

true exercise does really help so if

you’re not exercising come on join me

exercise every day and you will feel

amazing your body man you’ll feel so

much more

Juvenal now i want you to look that word

up rejuvenate it okay I’ll tell you just

means to have more energy and to feel

more alive okay all right now moving on

to our next one we have the financial

goals my long-term goal is to buy a new

house for my parents now this is also

true all right now I specifically would

like to buy a house that they can grow

old in and never have to worry about any

bills the reason I want to do this is

because they have supported me so much

throughout my life now really quickly as

you’re following along with this lesson

don’t worry

remember you can always download the PDF

connect it to this lesson so you can

review after so just watch it and follow

along and then the link at the bottom

you can download the PDF for free it has

all of the text inside of it okay why

because I care and I want you to learn

English alright now we have to move on

to the third part of our formula the

first one was C excellent job which

stands for you got it current then we

have G which stands for come on

excellent it stands for goal now we’re

gonna move to the third part of our

formula here we go the third part is the

letter I influence so explain how your

current situation will influence you as

you try to reach your goal this is so

important remember English is all about

being able to explain and express your

ideas so we start off with our current

situation right and in the middle we

explain our goal and now we have

influence basically we’re connecting how

does my goal connect with my current

situation like this all right so here we

go against plain explain how your

current situation will influence you as

you try to reach your goal so English

study goes the fact that I am

consistently studying English every

single day for an hour will help my

English improve faster now this is

definitely true all right let’s keep

going this will help me feel more

comfortable speaking English when I go

on the road

with my friends now it makes sense if

I’m gonna go on a road trip and I’m a

student like you learning English and I

want to go on a road trip the fact that

I’m studying consistently every single

day I actually will speak really well

when I go on the road trip make sense

all right now what about family goals

okay so here we go the fact that he is

so happy to come see me every month

despite having a busy work schedule

makes me love him even more this is

actually what led me to start thinking

about having a family with him let’s

have a short pause now I’m not teacher

Tiffany I’m your sister for the guys

that are watching this video take care

of your women take care of your

girlfriend or your wife let her know

that she’s special trust me as a woman

it’s the small things the little things

that count so if you send your wife or

your girlfriend a message just letting

her know that you care about her oh my

goodness

she is gonna feel amazing just wanted to

give you that tip real quick all right

now go back to teacher Tiffany all right

so here we go now let’s say for example

we’re talking about our work and

business goals since my boss is such a

great leader I’m learning how to

properly manage and inspire a team these

skills will help me run my business

better and inspire my own team all right

moving on to exercise goals waking up

early to run 3 miles a day is helping me

build up the endurance I will need to

move up to 5 miles a day this

consistency will also help me not give

up on my goal so you’re seeing now how

we’re connecting our current situation

with actually achieving our goals again

when you do this when you have

everything organized and when you say it

in a way that is very easy to understand

the person listening to you will say wow

your English is amazing just because you

know how to organize your thoughts well

and you’ll be able to speak faster

because everything makes sense and

you’re following the formula all right

so let’s say we’re talking about

financial goals okay now financial goals

since I am already saving 10%

of my income it will be easy for me to

put aside a little more each month so

that I can purchase their house it all

makes sense

okay so again what do we have as the

equation the formula come on

excellent job that’s right we have the

formula again C + G + I excellent now I

want to remind you if you’re in the

Academy you can automatically watch part

2 and I give you the action plan for

using this formula to speak English fast

alright so again if you want to find out

part two if you want to watch part two

and actually get the action plan where I

show you how to start using this formula

right now just click below in the

description and you can watch part two I

really hope you enjoyed this video I

hope it helps you to speak English fast

and to have the confidence you need to

sound like a native English speaker well

I’ll talk to you in the next video but

as always remember to speak English you

know what time it is it’s story time

alright now for today’s story time I’m

actually going to give you kind of the

opportunity to see a lot about my past

so many of you have asked me about my

videos and the graphics and the images

and I’ve told you that you know worked

for NASA and I love my job I was a web

developer but you guys also have asked

me about art now I have been an artist

my entire life and I started drawing

when I was maybe around four yeah very

young again I think I’ve mentioned this

to you before my sister was an artist

and we were both artists but I didn’t

tell you about my transition from

leaving NASA I told you I left NASA and

then I can went to career to be a

missionary but there was a two-year

period where I was doing something

different so when I left NASA I actually

did art

full-time that’s right so when I left

NASA I wanted to do something that mmm

really touched into the lives of people

touched of them in a different way

and I had a heart for homeless people

remember last week and during story time

I told you about the encounter I had

with the homeless lady when I was in

Korea I’ve always had a heart for

homeless people so when I left NASA I

decided to do a series of portraits

related to homeless people so that I can

help others realize that hey even though

people are homeless we have to realize

that there’s still people and we can

help them so I did an entire series and

I’m going to show you some of the

artwork so you guys really get to get a

sneak peek into my life so here we go

this is the first one let me slide it

over really quickly so this is the first

one from the series this is a quite a

large painting I’m not a painting this

is actually a pencil drawing I did and I

was doing portraits of homeless people

so I wanted to show the emotion and kind

of the things that they go through and I

always did portraits just to FYI

Oh fYI just means for your information

we say that in English a lot so as an

FYI I’ve always been interested in

drawing people and painting people I

love drawing faces and there’s something

about facial expressions that really

intrigues me so again this is one of the

portraits I did this is of a lady um and

I wanted to show again you know she’s a

person but she’s had a hard life this is

a pencil drawing and it’s pretty large

pretty large the next one here we go so

the next one is this one and I wanted to

show that they are dads also that are

homeless and they have to take care of

their children sometimes so I wanted to

show the intensity via or using pencil

and also showing his facial expressions

the next one is this one right here

another lady and you can tell that like

her hair is untidy let me explain what

that means so untidy means messy or not

together are you guys I’ve commented on

my hair and how you like it

my hair is tidy right but it’s lady in

the picture

her hair was untidy I’m you know she’s

homeless so she didn’t have the

opportunity to do her hair next I have

this one right here it may be a little

small moving to the middle so this one

is actually showing how we reach out and

God is always willing I’ll slide over

and God is always willing to help us no

matter what we’re going through so I

wanted to show that in the series as

well the next one is right here again

this is just let’s go this way that you

can’t see me

I go this way this one is just let me

slide it over hold on one second guys

this one there we go this one is showing

you know lifting your hands up and

looking to God and trusting and

believing that he’ll help you no matter

what your situation and again you guys

know I’m a Christian and I believe that

God helps us in every situation so I

wanted to kind of portray that and again

these are all very large portraits but

on the string they’re a little bit

smaller but they’re very large then I

have this one right here now it’s hard

to see but these are actually words

words that are um it’s a poem that I

wrote so you know what um hold on one

second guys I’m gonna see if I can make

it a little bit larger bear with me ah

bear with me just means one second or be

patient bear with me so I want to see if

I can show you this picture a little bit

larger hold on one second guys let’s see

okay I’m gonna open this picture here

and let’s see I’m gonna go back you guys

can see me but I’m on my screen trying

to see if I can share it with you guys

here we go

let’s see alright here we go I can share

with you now okay so this is a picture

and let me zoom in so you can see the

words they’re really tiny and I used

these words to actually create the

picture so I I loved it I loved it I

really enjoyed that that period of time

when I was doing these portraits alright

let’s do the next one the next one

is this one right here I’m gonna take it

a little bit bigger this is also

portrait and it’s a poem and it’s a poem

I wrote about this lady and again living

on the streets then the next one is this

one right here this is also what a lady

and just kind of showing how you know

how do I put in the middle for you all

right here uh the reason I wanted to do

these types of portraits was because you

know when there’s a storm outside or

it’s raining or it’s windy or it’s cold

we just go inside we go home but people

that are homeless they can’t they have

to stay outside so I wanted to kind of

show that in my portraits let’s see the

next one is this one right here this one

is just showing you know sometimes you

have to when you go through things and

it’s a little bit difficult and just

kind of the struggle then I have this

one right here and these are these are

pen and ink and I have always enjoyed

lines so I usually draw my pictures

using lines and just multiple lines over

and over and over again and let’s see

the next one this one is that of a guy

and I wanted to show again I also like

eyes and I want to I feel like the eyes

are the windows to the soul so if you

look in someone’s eyes you can tell kind

of how they’re feeling so I wanted to

focus on that with this portrait of this

gentleman then the next one is this lady

and again an older lady and I wanted to

show again using the eyes and explaining

showing kind of like how she feels I try

to go on the side sorry guys alright

then next we have this one right here

again this one I wanted to show kind of

a veteran veteran is someone who served

in the military and either fought in the

war because there are a lot of homeless

people in America who there are veterans

they used to fight they were soldiers

but unfortunately their lives kind of

took a turn for the worse

that just means went downhill so a lot

of them are home some of them are

homeless there are a lot of veterans

that are homeless and this one right

here can just another portrait just

showing the intensity and how people may

feel bad

and this one is ah can let me explain

what this is so on the bottom what your

let me see what you’re seeing on the

bottom this is um this is covers the

drains on the streets in America and

sometimes heat comes up from it so

sometimes you can see someone laying on

top of it to get warm so again you can

see that I was trying to portray the

life of a homeless person just so that

we can be aware and we could help them

so then the next one okay now this is

different so this is not from the

homeless series I just wanted to draw

and I wanted to paint this is actually a

painting on wood

so of a girl and it’s kind of like can

you see me but you don’t really see me

so sometimes children also go through

things then this one okay this is just

was an expressive one I did have a guy

and people are turning their back on him

but he wants to be recognized and now

the next few pictures just gonna be from

my sketchbook and these ones you know

throughout over time my style changed

and evolved or developed and yeah so

these ones are just from my sketchbook

again like you can see I like lines a

lot on the rocks then we have this one

right here oh this is a little bit tiny

hold on one second guys I’ll make it

bigger for you again I like patterns and

I like lines a lot then we have this one

right here now this is a bird and I was

just I was in the mood to draw something

that had a pattern and nice colors so I

do that in my notebook and I’ll show you

some of my current ones these are all

the the art shows about 14 years ago and

the ones that I’m showing you right now

mmm I think they’re about six years old

so yeah these are some of my older

pieces but again this one right here I

was like kind of like an African pattern

and focusing on that then I have this

one right here I was getting more into

into color and using lines again to

express color I mean to express an

emotion and this one right here let’s

make this a little bit bigger

okay so now what I’m gonna do is show

you my current sketchbook and you’ll see

how things have developed and changed

over time so hold on one second this is

happening in real time hold on one

second okay so this is my sketchbook I

think I told you guys about this my

niece gave me this sketchbook for

Christmas I love it

she’s awesome alright so now some of you

to follow me on Instagram I’ve seen a

few of these let’s see if I can get this

in front of you this is current all

right and getting more expressive more

abstract but you’ll see the lines and

the colors are still there now this is

another one let’s see if you can see it

alright again you still see the colors

and the lines about two more this is

another one and my current one that I’m

working on just the line work is this

one right here so you’ve learned a lot

about me today during today’s storytime

but yes I am an artist I do in my free

time I draw in my free time which is not

that often these days I’m quite busy you

know making videos and teaching you all

and talking to you and man I’m so

excited to be talking to you guys and

also making videos for you guys so even

though I’m not able to draw as much I’m

still so happy so again when I do get

the opportunity to draw I usually post

it on Instagram so you guys can follow

me there oh let me show you where I am

for those of you who have not followed

me yet on Instagram this is my Instagram

handle right here speak English with

Tiffany’s the exact same so if you want

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daily lessons there too but yes I hope

you guys enjoy today’s storytime

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look forward to seeing you next week

but as

always remember to speak English