Easy Daily Study Routine to Improve English DO THIS DAILY for FAST results
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
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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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