The Best Way To Learn English For Intermediate And Advanced English Learners
welcome to speak English with Tiffany I
am teacher Tiffany let’s jump right in
the topical method let’s get started
with step number one so the first thing
you want to do is select topics and
organized questions alright so there are
three different categories that you need
to pay attention to all right the first
category is life and people the second
category is your interests and the third
category is news and politics so let’s
look at this in more detail this section
of part one
alright so life and people what you want
to do is pick five topics that deal with
life and people in general for example
family work friends education etc now
for your interest what you want to do is
think about all of your interests and
pick five that mean the most to you for
example your hobbies your music or
exercise etc and finally news and
politics
check out current newspapers and news
programs then select five of the most
common topics alright so let’s look at
an example of this so what I’ve done is
I’ve decided for life and people I’ve
chosen family friendship education work
and health as the five topics for this
category now for my interests I’ve
chosen exercise art music reading and
travel these are the five topics within
this category and finally for news and
politics I’ve chosen elections crime
weather business and war and I remember
you can pick whichever topics within
these three categories that you want to
this step okay so now what you’re gonna
do after this is you have to pick one
question related to the topic okay so as
you’re seeing right now I have one
question for each topic that falls
underneath the category of life and
people alright so for family I have what
does it mean to be a family let’s say
for work I have what is a typical
workday now I’ve done the same for the
next two categories so for my interests
I’ve said for exercise what are the
benefits of exercise and you’ll see
moving down for art for music for
reading and for travel I’ve picked one
question for each of these topics and
finally for news and politics I’ve
chosen one question for each of the
topics that are underneath this category
okay so that’s what you’re doing for
step one in the topical method now step
two find audio or video about the
questions alright so there are three
different categories of audio or video
that you can look at now there are more
but these are ones that I want to give
you examples of so for example for audio
you have podcast or for visual or video
you have television programs or movies
as well and also you have YouTube so for
this example we’re gonna stick with
these three types of audio or video okay
what’s gonna happen is you’ll notice
again we have the three categories for
the video and audio right here but what
I’ve done is I separated the different
sections that we had for the categories
let’s close this right here and for the
questions related to the topics now all
of the questions that fall under life
and people we’re going to look for
podcasts related to the
life in people’s section now for the
your interest or our interest we’re
gonna use television programs and for
news and politics we’re gonna try to
find YouTube here we go we’re gonna come
back real quick you’re going to try to
find YouTube videos related to these
questions okay alright so as you’ll see
there changing you don’t have to stick
with podcasts automatically for your
interest you can decide which one
however you need to have one apply to
the category okay alright so again you
can choose which one goes with which
category alright so remember to relax
again remember to relax and simply take
the information in don’t stress or write
any notes I’m gonna highlight this don’t
stress and don’t write any notes when
you’re listening to the podcast or
watching a television program or
watching a youtube video it’s important
to remember this because this step
focuses on your listening ability all
right now let’s move on to step number
three find one article about the topic
alright so in this step you will write
the information related to the questions
from each topic so let’s look at the
blog first blog posts can be a good
source of up-to-date information about
various topics on line now books on the
other hand are a good source of
information about many topics and they
give you a variety of useful advanced
English vocabulary words and terms and
magazines are actually useful because
the magazine articles give you current
and/or popular information about many
different topics so let’s look at this a
little closer so again you’re deciding
which you want to use for which
categories again which type of article
style you want to use for which category
so again I’ve chosen for the life and
people category remember I have my
questions based on my topics here I’ve
chosen to find blog posts about this
category now what’s key is when we come
over to the blog post all you’re going
to do is highlight the information that
directly connects to the question okay
what information in this blog post
discusses family and what it means to be
a family now if we move on to books the
same idea again we have our category and
we have the questions based on the topic
and we’re going to find book pages or
books about those questions again moving
over here when we come to the book page
our question is right here what are the
benefits of exercise so on the page of
the book we find every piece of
information that talks about the
benefits of exercise and we just write
it down the same is true for magazines
again the category right here the
questions based on the topics we’re
gonna find magazine articles based on
that topic and the piece of information
inside the magazine article that relate
to the actual question okay
now this again you can switch which ever
blog book or magazine which ever one you
want to use for it with every category
you want to use it’s up to you okay this
is for your reading comprehension this
will help with your reading with English
okay all right number four find another
article about the topic now please pay
attention it’s very important right now
okay so I’ve chosen for the blog post to
be associated with my interests I chosen
for the books to be associated with news
and politics and I’ve chosen the
magazine articles to be associate
with life and people now this is what’s
going to happen for each of the articles
that answer each of the questions this
is what I want to do right here I’m
going to pick five to ten difficult
sentences from the actual article okay
now after I have those sentences I’m
gonna search for the words and the terms
that I don’t know then what you want to
do after that again I’m saying me but
also you underline the patterns okay the
patterns that you recognize in the
sentence then you’re going to memorize
the sentence and then you’re going to
practice saying the sentences this step
is so important so what’s happening is
you are working on your grammar by
looking at the articles and doing these
steps you’re working on your grammar
alright step number five find one more
article about the topic alright so this
is a very simple step what’s gonna
happen is you are literally going to
read the articles three times out loud
that means you need to actually vocalize
what you are reading okay so you’re
going to be saying out loud whatever you
see on the page that you are reading
okay it’s very important to do this okay
gonna read it out loud three times now
this actually helps with your speaking
you get pronunciation practice you will
also become used to the patterns so your
speaking will naturally improve now the
next thing is step six
write about the topic you see what’s
happening is you’ve actually given your
brain so much information about the
topic prior to writing that when you
start writing it’s going to be easier
for you okay
so again what do we have we have life
and people we have questions related to
this category your interest the
questions right here and also news
and politics now each question is
actually gonna get its own essay or its
own writing to answer the question or to
tap the topic okay all right so let’s
actually look at how do you write about
the topic or answer the question now
again in the top right of the screen
I’ve linked to my actual English video
lesson that talks about how to write an
essay in English and how to improve your
writing skills so if you need help click
that in the top right corner of your
screen but what you notice right here
introduction body and conclusion okay so
we have right here general explanation
your opinion and your three supports
then in the body we get into more
details about each of the supports and
also in the conclusion you restate you
summarize and you write your final
statement okay this is gonna happen for
each question from each topic okay all
right now this actually covers your
writing so what’s happened is you’ve
actually using the topical method you’ve
covered English listening English
reading English grammar speaking and
writing and that’s why this is the best
method the best way to study English for
the intermediate and advanced English
Learner now I hope you enjoyed this
English video lesson and I hope that you
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