How to Learn English in 2019
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Alicia welcome back to our weekly live
stream this week our topic is how to
make an English study plan for 2019 so
this week I’m going to do a little bit
of review from our first live stream of
this year where I talked about goal
setting for your language studies and
then because many of you have asked
about this I’m going to talk about how
to make study plans so I’m going to
introduce a couple of sample study plans
just very simple for a beginner goal and
for an intermediate or an advanced
English study goal for the year so if
you’re kind of looking for some ideas
for how to approach your studies your
English studies this year maybe this can
give you some ideas as always please
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it today we’re going to talk about
making a study plan for English for 2019
so as i said i’m gonna talk about goal
setting we’ve spoken about this before
and then we’re going to talk about some
sample goals some sample study plans you
can use if you are a beginner and if you
are a more intermediate or good
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join us live I want to share my update I
tweeted about this on my way here this
morning there is a new video on the
YouTube channel this is a new like
grammar focused lesson I made a lesson
about the word only so only it’s an
adverb
but native speakers make mistakes with
this like putting it in the wrong place
in the sentence and so I made a lesson
about this and I showed some sample
sentences about like the positioning
where to put the word only in a sentence
to change the meaning this just went up
like 12 hours ago so please check this
out this is a really good grammar lesson
for native speakers and for non-native
speakers so please do check this out you
can find it on the English class 101
YouTube channel I was I’ve been waiting
for that one I’m into that topic okay so
with that I think we’re about five
minutes in so I’m going to start but I
am going to share the video myself as
hope you do and then I am going to begin
with a grammar grammar with a review of
a goal setting so if you joined our
first live stream this year I talked
about this SMART goal setting concept so
this is something we’ve talked about a
few times on this channel and I’m going
to slow down my speaking of it for goal
setting I’ve talked about this this idea
so it’s called SMART goal setting
because the first letter can we see it
there the first letter of each word
spells thanks spells smart smart SMA R T
so to review like why is this important
so I know I’ve seen your comments a lot
of you writes like I want to speak
English fluently or how do I speak like
a native speaker and so on like that’s
my goal but the problem with goals like
that is we can’t track we don’t know
like am i fluent do I speak like a
native speaker I don’t know that so
that’s not a very good goal to have a
SMART goal however is a goal that’s very
clearly defined so we know when we have
achieved that goal so I want to review
how to make a SMART goal and how to make
a study plan for a SMART goal so let’s
begin these are key words for this
lesson the first word for a SMART goal
is a specific goal a specific goal is
not I want to speak English fluently
that is not specific a specific goal for
example is like I want to learn 500
vocabulary words that’s a very specific
number that’s a clear number 500
vocabulary words I want to give a
presentation in English that’s a very
specific goal give a presentation in
English I want to order a pizza
in English if that’s your goal cool
that’s a very useful skill so choose a
very specific
go what is the thing you want to do so
I’m going to go through each point here
some of you are already asking all of
these I’m going to get to it we’ll go
one by one so this make sure your goal
is specific it’s clear there’s a number
or there’s like one action you want to
achieve okay
second point measurable measurable so
let’s break this word down I’ve talked
about this before here we have inside
this word measure measure you can hear
it so that means like when we measure
something we see how long it is or maybe
how much time it takes and we have the
suffix Abel Abel Abel means something we
have the ability to do we can do that
thing
so measurable means something we can
measure something we can track so for
example 500 vocabulary words this is
measurable
I know I’ve learned like 200 words 300
words 400 words 500 words I can measure
how many words give a presentation I can
measure the parts of a presentation if I
want to I can say okay I made the
beginning to my presentation I made the
middle of my presentation I finished
like the end of my presentation my whole
presentation is finished so we can
measure our progress so your goal should
be specific and measurable those are two
points the first two points okay let’s
go on to the next word achievable
achievable so here again we have the
same suffix by the way suffix I’m using
this word suffix these are called
suffixes suf sorry
su FF IX a suffix I made a video about
this on the YouTube channel a suffix is
a group of letters that comes at the end
of a word and it modifies it changes the
meaning of the word so Abel is
Suffolk’s it means can were able to do
something so achievable something
achievable achieve means something like
we can do it’s possible it’s attainable
we can get it
that’s what achievable means so
achievable here means we need to choose
a goal that is possible for us to do so
like a non achievable goal is like for
example I want to speak English or I
want to give a presentation in English
tomorrow that’s not achievable for most
of us unless we’re native speakers and
even then maybe not but an achievable
goal needs to be something that it’s
possible to do it is feasible so make
sure your goal is achievable next point
realistic realistic so a hint is here in
this word real real so this is something
that we can imagine and is also like
useful for you I feel like it’s
important to make sure your goal is
actually useful in some way for you so
don’t just give yourself like a crazy
goal that’s not going to help you or
that’s not going to be useful for your
life make sure it’s a realistic goal
lest someone wrote what does timely mean
timely timely means what is like what is
your your schedule or your time frame
time frame let’s plane what is your time
frame so a timely goal means you decide
you choose your goal yes but you also
choose a time period to finish your goal
within so timely means you can finish
the goal within like six months and it’s
a reasonable or a realistic amount of
time to do your goal to cook like to
achieve your goal so you need to
consider all of these points when you
set your goal somebody said I’d love to
rewatch Pokemon EE
English episodes three three Oh Dublin
left sorry dubbed in English three
episodes a week so that’s a very
specific goal nice one that’s good so
yeah send your goals in the chat maybe
you can give other people some ideas
that’s good so this is the basis this is
the foundation the basic points of
making a smart goal so I’ve said a
couple already like learn 500 vocabulary
words
that’s pretty achievable then we can
choose a time period to do that so like
learn 500 vocabulary words in six months
for example that’s a very realistic
achievable goal or give a presentation
in English in 2019 learn to do that so
I’m going to talk about study plans for
achieving goals like these in the second
part and the third part of today’s
lesson so with this in mind try to try
to send your goal I think that’s a
really good idea send your goal in the
chat and we can take a look and see what
your goals are and maybe we can talk
about how to make them even better so
I’m going to take a quick break and then
we’re going to continue to talking about
sample plans so I talked about that
first goal 500 vocabulary words so if
you are a beginner if you’re just
starting your English Studies or if
you’re not sure about your English
Studies we have so many things that are
perfect for a 500 vocabulary word goal
like if you want to pick up vocabulary
words for your everyday life I show
these all the time are we gonna okay so
I show these all the time these are the
PDFs that you can find there’s this
banner here you can find these below the
video on youtube or above the video on
Facebook these these are free to
download but these have vocabulary words
for everyday life this one is about
family
and phrases to about your hobbies so
like shopping for example there are some
words you can use in the office relating
to business and so on I don’t like that
one for this lesson there’s others about
food I’m a big fan of food so these are
some great free resources you can check
out if you are interested in bumping up
in leveling up your vocabulary and it’s
not just vocabulary there are phrases on
these PDFs to each one each topic is two
pages so you can take a look at the
topic that’s interesting to you and
start there and then download all the
others as well so please check those out
you can find these below the video on
youtube or above the video on Facebook
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okay great if you’re just joining today
we’re talking about how to make an
English study plan for 2019
so I started today’s lesson by talking
about SMART goals how to make a SMART
goal now I’m going to go to some sample
goals first I’m going to talk about a
beginner goal then I’m going to talk
about an advanced or an intermediate
goal so some of you are sending your
goals fantastic good idea someone said
my goal is to watch you every Wednesday
to learn more cool that’s pretty
specific nice and once a week great and
thank you for watching others I saw
another one someone wrote 31 up to get
over 900 points on the TOEIC test whoa
good luck that’s a challenge other ones
oh I’m on on Facebook ask is this a
worksheet no this is not a worksheet
it’s not something to write on this is a
vocabulary of like a vocabulary
reference sheet so here it’s hard to see
there’s vocabulary words on each one
vocabulary words and phrases there to
check so this is just for reference like
you could
this on a wall if it’s like a topic
that’s important to you or just put it
on your phone to study from time to time
okay good so send your goals throughout
the lesson we can check it out all right
with that let’s continue to the first
sample study plan so I want to begin
with a beginner sample study plan so
let’s imagine as I said your goal as a
beginner is to study 500 vocabulary
words in like six months or something
like that so you’re just starting so
this is your goal learn 500 vocabulary
words and let’s choose six months in six
months okay so if this is my goal the
next question is how do I do that like
what do I need to do I know I need
vocabulary words but how do I get the
vocabulary words so a couple of ideas
these are not the only ideas just a
couple first you could check out our
videos I enjoy them but you could use
our videos if you like watching videos
watching media on YouTube or other
things our top word series is good for
vocabulary we introduced 10 vocabulary
words or phrases in each lesson so you
can choose a topic that you’re
interested in and pick up those
vocabulary words but make sure if you’re
using videos if you’re using top words
for example for your studies make sure
that you are using the words yourself so
don’t just listen to me like listen to
me I hope but at the same time like make
sure you like are writing down the words
so pick up the words the new words write
them down make your own sentences with
them so don’t just listen to the words
you need to use them as well
so if you’re watching the video pool
that’s great but make sure that you are
creating something with those words
that’s an important stuff so not just
input but also output
second idea is to choose things in your
everyday life choose things in your
everyday life and check a dictionary so
check a dictionary to get the word in
English so for example if I know that I
need to use the word marker in my
everyday life
a lot I can check a dictionary and find
the word in my native language or the
rather the language I’m studying and
then I know that this is a word for me
to study so I choose 10 objects or maybe
10 actions every day and I check those
words in a dictionary and those are my
10 words for the day for example so
these are a couple of ideas that you can
use there are of course like flashcard
options you can just choose a deck a
deck means like a group of cards a deck
of flashcard pre-made already prepared
flashcards for your studies so there are
many different ways you can choose your
vocabulary words so yeah this is kind of
step one then after you choose your goal
where are where are my words going to
come from so these are a couple of ideas
for that then after that how do you
study how do you study so here’s a
sample study plan so I said in my
example there in my example just now
like I’m going to choose ten words a day
or like in top words there are 10 words
per video so I’m going to watch one
episode every day so if that’s ten words
every day and I decide to study five
days a week that gives me 50 new words
every week so this is another point make
sure you’re studying new words don’t
only like review so make sure you’re
putting new things into yours like into
your studies
so if top words is too easy for you
start looking for something that’s a
little bit more challenging
so if I’m studying 10 words every day
five days a week
cool also inside the study plan maybe
like one time or two times a week you
review the things you’ve learned so
don’t just study one time make sure
you’re reviewing things regularly to
keep them fresh in your mind so ten
words a day times five days a week
there’s fifty words in one week so this
doesn’t seem like a lot of work it’s
like it you just have to continue doing
that for a period of time for example 50
words a week times 10 weeks is 500 new
vocabulary words so 10 weeks that’s it
to learn 500 new vocabulary words our
goal was six months so this should be no
problem 10 weeks for 500 words so if you
break down your goal in this way like
500 words seems like a lot but if you
break it down into smaller pieces it
becomes much easier to understand and to
approach those small parts so this is
just one idea if you’re if your goal is
to learn vocabulary words this is an
idea for how you can do that so I know a
lot of you are working on improving your
vocabulary and your grammar so you could
do this for grammar too like I want to
learn 50 grammar points you can do the
same thing so this is a good plan I
think for a beginner some of you are
writing my goal is to speak like a
native again we talked about these SMART
goals at the beginning of the lesson how
do you know when you speak like a native
like it’s really hard to know that make
your goal specific make your goal
measurable you can’t track whether or
not you speak like a native so make a
goal that is clear to you that you know
you can achieve start by making a good
goal okay other goals I’m looking in the
chat I don’t see someone says how many
times a week do you have this class we
do this class this live class one
a week nine p.m. Eastern Standard Time
that’s New York City time of course we
have many other lessons on YouTube and
Facebook throughout the week nice one
Andre on YouTube wrote one of my goals
is to learn one phrasal verb every day
nice one that’s a good goal that’s a
good goal that’s a lot of work for sure
great good luck with that nice okay I
will take a break and then we’ll go to a
more advanced goal idea study idea
rather so if you missed it I talked
earlier about the free things that we
have the banner is here and you can find
the link for this stuff below the video
on YouTube above the video on Facebook
but as I just talked about if your goal
is to learn vocabulary words this year
if you want to improve your vocabulary
or if you want to even just improve your
language in terms of more natural
phrases picking up some everyday phrases
not just words you can check out the
PDFs the free pdf that we have on the
English class 101 website so I showed
some of these before
but I know lots of you are working on
improving your English for jobs or for
jobs and for travel so the travel one
this says USA but on the back there are
phrases you can use for english-speaking
countries in general especially this
middle part here I know it’s hard to see
sorry but this could be a good one if
you are traveling to an english-speaking
country and you want to pick up a few
extra vocabulary words also good for
travelers is this one for the airport
so there are airport related vocabulary
words here but on the back is this Q&A
section this is a sample
question-and-answer session with an
immigration agent so I know some people
worry a lot about that so this is a very
quick sample
that you can reference so please check
this stuff out and other things this is
all free from the link below or above
the video check the description not the
chat box though I think in the YouTube
chat our chat desk is sending links too
so please do check that out it is free
ok onward I don’t see other goals yet if
you have one send it
okay let’s move on though let’s move on
to the third part of today’s topic if
you’re just joining today we are talking
about making sample study plans for your
English learning in 2019 so the point
here is to review how to achieve your
new year’s resolutions I’m going to go
now to a sample plan for like an
intermediate or an advanced goal so I
know many of you are working on
improving English for career
opportunities so for this goal I want to
imagine that we want to be able to give
a presentation in English so I know that
this is challenging and makes you feel
nervous in many for many people so I
want to look at how to approach your
studies if this is your goal for the
year so here similar to our beginner
goal after you choose the goal think
about then what do I need to do so what
are the things I need to be able to do
to give my presentation in English so I
need to learn words learn vocabulary
words about my topic so maybe if I’m
going to give a presentation about
finance for example or if I’m going to
give a presentation about my research
topic I need to learn those words in
English so that means I need to create
my own vocabulary list in
English for those specific words I need
for my topic so that’s one to-do item
second I need to learn presentation
vocabulary so what are the words we use
to introduce a topic what are the words
we use to go to the next topic smoothly
in a presentation
how should I finish my presentation so
these are small points but too smoothly
and clearly give a presentation they’re
quite important so this is point two
third step after learning these
vocabulary and phrases we need to write
the presentation so I think this is a
really good idea to help you organize
your ideas of course and also to give
you a chance to check the way you have
like written your sentences is it
correct or not and maybe at this step -
you can ask someone to check your
presentation to see if there are any
errors this is a great step I think
finally practicing so you need to
practice your presentation before you
give the presentation so there are these
I think maybe four main things to do and
inside each of these are smaller goals
so let’s focus on these two right here
for this lesson because we don’t have a
lot of time so if we need to learn words
about the topic and learn vocabulary
words about presentations then we need
to create a plan for our studies of
those items so for example if I learn
five presentation words a day and I
learn oops I’m sorry I wrote this twice
if I learned five presentation where is
a day and five topic words a day sorry
everybody five topic words a day by five
topic words I mean five vocabulary words
that are specific to my topic so in this
case if you are topic for presentation
is very like
very specific to you then you might need
to take some time to check a dictionary
or Google to find exactly the correct
word Google is your friend for this I
use this a lot for translation and it
can be super useful for checking the
correct way to make an expression so
that’s the reason I thought maybe five
words five topic words a day would be
good maybe for a beginner ten words a
day is a little bit easier because there
are some content or there is some
content on the internet already like we
have some content to refer to but if you
are researching your own words it might
take you some more time so I thought
maybe five topic words a day and then
maybe five presentation words a day so
if you’re looking to do a presentation
if you’re planning to do a presentation
we have some videos now on the channel I
did a live stream about presentations
last year and in February I’m going to
do an updated refreshed bigger one too
so if you need to look at a presentation
related words you can check the content
on our channel look for business or for
presentation and you can also try to do
some google searching of your own and
look for look on YouTube for sample
presentations so there are great
resources already online for you to
check and pick up some new words so
these are a couple of examples for your
vocabulary study plans and then writing
your presentation too so consider it
like a draft so you write the first
draft and then you review it look at
some problems find some problems write
it again maybe give it to someone else
write at a third time so take each item
here step by step it’s like a draft so
you’re always drafting making a rough
version of something so this is kind of
a quick idea for how to approach
studying for a presentation in English I
know it’s not everything but there’s a
limited time so someone said are you
going to do a class to prepare a
presentation yes on February 20th I
believe is the date near the end of
February yes I’m going to do a live
lesson about giving a presentation I
can’t remember the date off the top of
my head
phrases to use yeah that’s it is that
the Wednesday huh oh 20th yeah 20th 20th
February 20th will be phrases to use
when giving a presentation so yes please
join that livestream I will be doing a
refresher a big one last year I did a
presentation about presentations but it
was very small we had a very small board
so this year in February I will do one
so please join us for that one in
February okay um we are oh my gosh we’re
out of time so I guess I have to stop
there for today
but I hope that this gave you some ideas
about how to set your goals for English
whether you’re a beginner or whether you
are a more intermediate or advanced
student I hope that you found some ideas
or at least got a little motivation to
study even a little bit every day
because just a little bit of study every
day adds up quickly so it’s hard to
track your progress sometimes ah one
more tip just for beginners or her
advance people sorry I can’t resist is
if you record yourself it can be super
helpful like if you record yourself
speaking when you first start your
studies and like record yourself in
every practice session after that and
compare like compare yourself now to
when you were like a beginner it’s
really really amazing so that’s
something kind of fun I like to do when
I practice anything
okay I’m gonna stop talking now because
I’m always late I talk too much okay
we’ll finish there for today so thank
you as always for joining us live this
week we’re going to be back next week of
course next week I guess next week’s is
actually a little bit about
presentations next week’s topic will be
about how to support an idea so this
means like when you give your opinion
how do you give more information to
support your opinion so this will be
good I think for discussions if you like
having discussions or debates or if you
just want to be able to express yourself
more deeply someone said can you provide
a phrasal verbs list for us that would
be very tough there Julianne’s and
bajillions of phrasal verbs check they
know your verbs series if you want a few
phrasal verbs for each verb okay can I
change the time I cannot the good
question the schedule of the class we
will be here at 9 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time every Wednesday that is New York
City time if you do not know your local
time please google it
next week 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
so good luck with your new year’s
resolutions please make SMART goals so
that you set yourself up for success I
wish you all the best thank you very
much for joining us don’t forget to get
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thanks for sending your messages thanks
for sending your goals and I hope you
have a great week a great weekend we’ll
see you again next week bye bye