Checking Your Study Progress in English and Setting New Goals
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today’s topic is uh how to check your
study progress and share your goals so
today i made a flow chart ooh long time
no flow chart check it out
so today we’re going to talk about first
how to review your goals
did i reach my goal or not and what to
do if you have questions
second we’re going to talk about how to
know when you reach your goal
so a few different ways to understand
and finally
what do i do next okay
so today’s lesson sorry let me get rid
of this today’s lesson
will be about uh giving you some tools
you can use to
check yourself yeah uh so this will not
be a what like a perfect plan designed
for you but
rather like some ideas you can use to
check your own level and check your own
goals
and find your own plan forward so let’s
begin all right first thing
first the flow chart okay i made this
flow chart
to try to help you um make the decision
making process
easier to understand what you need to do
and why maybe you failed and failing is
okay
failure is fine if you mess up that’s
fine you can always recover right
so let’s talk about it what do we do
first
the first thing i want to talk about is
reviewing
your goals review your goals so if you
joined the lesson
at the beginning of 2020 cool maybe you
set a goal
uh at 20 at the beginning of 2020 if you
have no goal that’s okay you can set a
new goal
uh whatever it is did you reach your
goal oh thanks very
much uh fcoj on youtube for supporting
our channel that’s awesome
much appreciated so let’s see first did
you reach
your goal did you reach your goal yes or
no simple question right
if you set the right goals we’ll talk
about this later
so did you reach your goal yes or no
there’s no a little bit or almost here
if your answer is almost i almost
reached my goal it’s no
the answer is no okay and that’s okay
like don’t freak out it’s okay to fail
okay so let’s talk about no
first so let’s say you study for six
months or
three months or whatever and you didn’t
reach your goal
okay next question why not
why didn’t you reach your goal so here
are some possible answers
you might have a slightly different
answer but i think these uh
cover most things so maybe the goal was
too hard the goal was too hard so you
picked a goal
that was too difficult like the grammar
you needed was too much or maybe
the number of vocabulary words you
wanted to study
was just way too much in like a month
so your goal was maybe too hard okay
that’s a good reason
or maybe you didn’t follow your study
plan
so maybe you created a study plan
and it was too much like you had to wake
up an hour early every day and study or
you had an intensive study course or
something maybe it was too much
or maybe you were just kind of
not motivated okay anyway you didn’t
follow your study plan
that’s another reason or maybe
you don’t have study materials maybe
there’s a
book you need or some video or a
resource
and you don’t have that okay so here are
some reasons you might
not be able to reach your goal or maybe
why you failed
that’s all fine again failing is fine
this is totally fine so what next okay
so my goal was too hard
if you think oh this goal was too hard
now i know this was way too difficult
for me
ugh that was not good fine great okay
now you know that
so make the same goal easier that’s it
so if your goal for example was to learn
300 vocabulary words in one month and
you learned like
that’s okay it’s progress so you know
your pace so for the next month say okay
my goal is to learn 150 vocabulary words
or maybe 175.
so make the goal a little easier think
about how you can
remake the goal just easier right
you’re you want to achieve it right so
set yourself up for that kind of success
okay all right um okay i don’t see
questions if you have some questions
about this please send them i will try
to talk about them live
okay so now let’s talk about this one
what if you didn’t follow your study
plan so you didn’t follow the plan you
created for yourself
and you failed your goal what do i do
okay so
next question why didn’t you follow your
study plan what’s your deal
what happened so why didn’t you follow
your study plan you’re busy so you have
work you have school you have your
personal life whatever
you’re busy okay fine you didn’t follow
your study plan because you’re busy
same way to resolve it make the same
goal
just easier okay so maybe you said i’m
going to study one
hour every day that was too much okay
so maybe say okay i’m going to study 30
minutes three times a week
baby that works for you so create
another steady plan
make the same goal but easier just make
it easier for yourself
make a new goal okay what if
it was just too much it was too much you
were overwhelmed
like you said okay my study plan is to
finish
three textbooks this month and you
finished one
and then you didn’t finish the other two
and you feel horrible and you’re like oh
gosh i’m a failure
it’s fine okay it was too much that’s
fine
okay so just take a step back and think
okay
that was too much i know that now let’s
just remake the goal
right same goal but easier next month
we’re gonna do
one textbook maybe okay so these are
examples
of redefining your goal so set your goal
again but just make it a little bit
easier
on yourself okay make sure you can
success
make sure you can succeed okay thanks
ahmed on youtube that’s cool
much appreciate the support okay yeah
alexandria
uh says i’m not used to setting goals
i’ll try to
yeah a key with this a key with uh
moving like moving forward and making
good progress is this goal setting yeah
if you don’t have a goal
how do you know what to work towards
right so
that’s what we’re focusing on here okay
one more then one more this happens to
all of us
we feel lazy or we feel unmotivated
right like i really just don’t feel like
studying today i
really don’t feel like doing this thing
today that’s
fine that’s fine it happens to us all
right so just when you feel that that
lack of motivation like i really don’t
want to study i am so tired or i just
want to watch
netflix i just want to watch tv that’s
fine like
give yourself that space that’s okay but
don’t let yourself like get stuck there
yeah
remember why are you studying so you
wanted to study this thing for a reason
right so think about why you’re studying
that
and then again make another goal for
yourself
just easier so if you know that you can
do
this goal like if you know it’s super
easy you’ll be like all right cool
i’ve got it i finished my goal for the
week or the day or whatever
so think of why you’re studying to give
yourself that motivation
why do i want to do this and then make
another easier goal for yourself
and then the end here set a new goal
yeah let’s see that’s the end here
this is also what happens if your first
answer is yes so when you reach your
goal
if you answer yes here great set a new
goal
okay so uh this is
a quick uh very simple flow chart i hope
you can use
if you are trying to check your own
progress
yeah okay some of questions i saw some
questions what was it
uh what’s the correct phrase i set a
goal or i set myself a goal both can be
correct it depends on the situation
in which you want to use them okay
javier says you can learn watching
netflix haha that’s true you can pick up
some language watching netflix for sure
it’s fun
facebook do you have any questions uh
nope i do not see your questions
everyone is saying hello
what kind of goals can we set says dante
oh my gosh dante
we are going to talk about that in part
two so please
stick around please wait for that that’s
my next
topic okay so this is part one how to
review your goals how to understand
did i meet my goal or not and why okay
cool all right um let’s take a break
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um let’s see i’m looking at your
comments some comments are coming in on
youtube uh do you have a review plan on
your web page um
i think uh if you are signed up for
lessons with us
if you’re signed up for lessons with us
you can review your past
content to see it all there so maybe
that’s kind of what you mean
i hope that answers your question
alaratam what if there’s no motivation
to continue that’s tough
right when you feel like i just really
don’t want to do this anymore if you
need a break that’s okay
but maybe give yourself like a week
something like that like say okay
i will wait a week and see how i feel
because for sure like sometimes life
just comes at you and you’re like
uh like i don’t have time for this right
now
that’s fine so just maybe set a deadline
maybe is a good thing to do
i know sometimes if i don’t set a
deadline in those cases i’ll just let
stuff
go and then i’m like oh i really wanted
to do that
so maybe try giving yourself a deadline
that could help okay um
i don’t see others how do i organize a
party um
maybe i have some videos about parties
on the channel that’s different from
today’s topic though you could send that
as
an ask alicia question if you want okay
um all right how to set the right goal
yes people are talking about that
so let’s go to setting goals now
if you uh i’m not going to talk a lot
about smart goals which is i’ve talked
about it
many many times on this channel you can
find this
in let’s see if you search on the
youtube and probably the facebook pages
you can find some videos i have there
about study plans
and goal setting so i really recommend
you check those i will put a link
in the youtube description after this
lesson so if you want to check my videos
about goal setting
please check this video after the live
session
i’ll add some reference links for you
there okay um
so let’s talk now about reaching your
goal
and checking your past goals so if you
want to know about goal setting
you will cover it a little bit here and
in part three
so first when you ask yourself
have i reached my goal here are a couple
of ways
to check so first you can check
your previous goal as we did with the
flowchart earlier
for example maybe your goal was learn
300 new vocabulary words did i do it yes
or no
simple answer be able to speak
for one minute maybe you have a speaking
goal for yourself
did i do it yes or no or maybe
learn to write a request email learn to
write a request email did i do it can i
do it yes
or no so check your previous goals did i
do it
okay this is one way to check yourself
to check your progress another one i
strongly i really really recommend you
do
this type of check-in maybe like
once every three months or so to check
your
language learning progress is check your
answers
to can i questions i’ve talked about
this
many many times on this channel
so the idea is you have a list
of questions about things you can and
cannot do
in the language you’re studying for
example
can i introduce myself or
can i explain my hobbies or
can i write a paragraph about a news
article
or can i order food on the phone
these very um like
many different topics about things you
can or maybe cannot do
in the language you’re studying these
types of questions these are called can
do questions
if you don’t have a list of these for
yourself you can do a quick
google search just write like can do
questions english you will find
a lot of sample lists so check that
and answer these questions for yourself
if you started this at the beginning of
2020 or if you have a list
already for yourself check your answers
so we can answer yes
a little bit or it’s it’s kind of hard
or it’s challenging
or no okay so
if you set some goals at the beginning
of the year
and you chose a goal for example can i
explain my hobbies
and you said at the beginning of the
year
a little it’s kind of hard but now
you go to this question again can i
explain my hobbies
and if your answer is yes to the
question that was
difficult before that’s great
that means you made progress so now you
can do
something that was difficult for you in
the past
so this type of like self-check this way
of checking yourself
is really helpful because every day it’s
hard to measure
our progress right it’s really hard to
feel like we’re moving forward
but if you can go back to these
questions
to these um kind of achievements
you can see oh my gosh now i can do that
that’s amazing
so go back to these questions and answer
them
again for yourself okay cool
all right then what if the answer is
still
it’s difficult what if you said okay can
i explain my hobbies
it’s hard at the beginning of the year
and now
you ask the same question oh it’s still
difficult
what do you do you can check your study
plan
what did you do to try to make progress
so that’s when
you have to be honest you have to be
very honest with yourself
and think okay what did i do what what
did i do
to work on my goal did i study did i
forget a lot
what happened so you need to be honest
with yourself
there okay cool uh
all right um okay so
here is uh these are two ways to look at
your goals and
this goal up here like setting a goal
for vocabulary words
or speaking whatever this these these
actions
right here these goals right here are to
become able to do these things that’s
the relationship here
you set this goal to be able to do this
so in the last part in part three of
today’s lesson
we’re going to talk about specifically
how to choose
this next thing for yourself so if you
finish this
great so in part three we’re going to
talk about how to go to the next
question that’s difficult
and choose another goal for yourself
okay
can you read the second paragraph sure
so down here i wrote if you can say
yes to a question that was difficult
before
great you made progress if your answer
is still
it’s difficult to your question check
your study plan
what did you do to try to make progress
so that’s where you need to be honest
with yourself what did i really do
to try to make progress and how can i
change it in the future
okay so let’s finish part two there and
we’ll go to part three
how to go on to your next set of
challenges yeah
all right okie dokie let’s go to
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okay uh let’s go to part three then yeah
let’s go to part three what do i do next
right
everybody wants to know like what do i
do next okay
so here is a suggestion this is my
suggestion
uh following uh
so after you check your answers to your
can i questions uh here is
a guide for what you can do next
okay so check your answers
to your can i questions yes a little or
it’s difficult
and no so next find
questions that you answer it’s difficult
or i can do it a little bit i think i
can do it
for example let’s say i ask myself this
question
i say can i write a paragraph
about a news article can i write a
paragraph about a news article
and i think okay maybe i can
i feel like maybe a little bit but it’s
hard
next why do you think it’s hard
so in this case this goal or this
question is a writing question
right so i need to read a news article
and i need to write something about the
news article
so why is this hard is it
grammar is it vocabulary
is it my reading skills so next i need
to think
what is hard about it maybe for you it’s
everything that’s okay too
that’s fine so break it down break it
down into smaller pieces
if it’s grammar okay so your next goal
is
to study grammar lessons okay i’m going
to study
two grammar lessons every week so two
grammar lessons
new grammar lessons i’m going to review
each lesson so this is my goal so make
your goal to study grammar lessons
okay if the problem is vocabulary
make a vocabulary word goal i’m going to
study 100 vocabulary words
about this topic this month for example
or reading skills make a reading goal
for yourself
i’m going to read three articles a week
in the language i’m studying in english
in this case
so break this down for yourself yeah so
okay this is hard for me now this this
or this these things
are the problem okay i make a goal
to solve this problem then i go back and
ask myself again
can i do this if no okay what do i need
to do next
so break it down into these small parts
and work on the small parts themselves
yeah
so this is one example of how to set a
goal how to
find your next like level how to find
the next
level for you and find the next
thing to focus on yeah because
everybody’s going to be different right
everybody is different everybody has a
different level different goals
different strong points different weak
points yeah
okay all right um byron says how long do
i need to set a goal it depends on you
right it depends on you everyone has a
different schedule
maybe i think oh i can study one hour a
day
no problem but maybe a super busy person
can’t do that
so you need to create goals that fit
your life so again i’ll put
some i have quite a few i have a few
videos about goal setting
i will put in the youtube description
after this live stream
okay okay other questions other
questions
i don’t see other questions from you so
uh i think that i will finish up here
also
i’m on time today look at me usually i
talk too much
okay uh good so i hope that this helps
you
to set your goals and to understand how
to check your progress
and keep moving forward yeah okay so
let’s uh i’ll show you today’s lesson
boards one more time so you can take a
picture
if you want to here you go all right
so we talked about this this kind of
flow of
did you reach your goal yes or no so
this is the overview the base
for today some ways to check if you
reached your goal
and what to do next okay
so i hope that this helps you uh in your
goal setting
okay lupe lara what happens if i go
crazy because my study is too hard oh my
gosh
i covered this in part one if your study
is too hard
make the same goal but easier make it
easier for yourself
if you pick something too hard no
problem it’s too hard take it down
a level perfect okay so slow it down
something like that there’s always an
answer you don’t have to go crazy
so just chill just keep it chill okay
all right so i have to finish up there
again i will put some links after this
stream
has finished in the description if you
want to see my videos about
other goals setting there so let’s let’s
let’s call it a day uh i will show you
uh
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condition and your physical condition so
if you feel
sick like in your body or if you are
like really stressed
or just like oh you’re upset about
something how do you express
that so that’s going to be the topic for
next week
we’ll also talk about positive things
too like how to explain that you feel
good
and how to explain that you feel happy
or cheerful
as well okay so this will be next week’s
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