How to Study English With Our Videos On YouTube
going to talk about how to study with
our youtube
videos or facebook videos so if you are
watching this
on facebook or maybe somewhere else
maybe you don’t know
we have a youtube channel
101 on youtube so uh this
tutorial video i guess you could call it
is all about
how to use our videos to improve your
english
so lots of you asked me about this i put
together a little guide so i hope it is
helpful for you
no matter what you want to work on so uh
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first i’m going to show you today’s
lesson boards
so you can see what we’re going to talk
about today
uh and you can take a screenshot lots of
you request that
so uh here is what we’re going to cover
today
again no big whiteboard because i’m at
home so
we’re going to talk about first this one
how to study
first i’m going to talk about how to
check yourself
uh to understand what you need to do
what you need to study
second i’m going to talk about like some
beginner
level ideas beginner super super
beginner
and some upper beginner ideas and some
sample courses
and then i’m going to talk about some
more intermediate
ideas to study with our videos and some
tips
and some notes for your studies so i
hope that everyone
can find something in today’s lesson
that will help them
in their studies from home also before i
begin
i made another video very recently about
how to study alone
a live video so you can watch that
search for that on our youtube channel
uh for some more tips about how to study
alone and
check yourself so let’s begin where’s my
pen okay
let’s get started so let’s begin with
where is it my first part for today’s
lesson
the first thing you need to do is
check yourself first thing first this is
a step for everybody
it doesn’t matter what your level is but
check yourself ask what do i need to
work on
what do i need to review so that means
like what do i need to work on it’s like
okay
what is something i know i don’t know
but i know i need to study it that’s
confusing
kind of confusing so for example when
you look at a textbook
and you open the textbook to a grammar
point or maybe
a list of vocabulary words and you go oh
i don’t know this that’s something you
know you need to work on
right you know you don’t know it right
so something to work on and what do i
need to review
review is a super super super important
part of the learning process
you can’t just look at something one
time and remember it forever
yeah so what did you study recently
that you need to review so these are two
good questions
to ask yourself so these are some
examples
of big topics so what do i need to work
on for example
i need to improve my grammar my
vocabulary my pronunciation
my listening skills my speaking skills
or maybe
i don’t know idioms many idioms or
phrasal verbs are hard for me i know
this one is true for many people
or it’s slang and i know that
a lot of you often write to me and say
this
i don’t know what i need to work on
so how do you check yourself how do you
understand what you need to do
i talked about this point uh
i made a whole lesson about this point
right here so if you want information
about this
please search for how to study alone uh
on our youtube channel or facebook
there’s a live lesson but basically the
simple
short version today make a list of
can i questions so can i do something
and work on improving
the things you can do with a little
difficulty
so what does this mean here are some
examples let’s look at this first one
so can i introduce myself this is a
sample i can
question you can ask yourself can i
introduce myself in
english or maybe a different language if
you’re studying that
can i introduce myself yes no or
a little but it’s kind of difficult so
give yourself
three possible answers so maybe
you can say i can introduce myself my
name is alicia okay no problem
i can do it so then go to the next one
can i use my computer
in english or can i use my computer in
the language i’m studying
maybe okay yeah i can do that no problem
how about this one can i read a news
article
in english or in the language i’m
studying it’s like oh
yes but it’s a little difficult okay
so that’s maybe a good place to start
you can do it a little bit
but it’s a little difficult so that’s
good because you know
some things but you have room to grow
right you can challenge yourself
so if the answer to one of these
questions
is no it’s probably a little too
difficult
but if no or if it’s difficult think
about
why so for example if i say can i read a
news article
and i think um no it’s really difficult
or yes but it’s super super hard for me
then think about why why is it difficult
is it because of vocabulary is it
because i don’t know
slang is it because my grammar isn’t
very
good so think about why
something is difficult or why you can’t
do something
and then focus your studies on improving
that item focus your studies on
improving that item
so this is how i want to start today’s
lesson so
yes i’m going to talk about how to use
our videos
but that doesn’t mean it’s just watching
the video
you need to check yourself often all the
time
check yourself check your progress and
think what’s the next thing i need to do
because if you watch the same video
forever you don’t get new information
right so you need to always check and
think about
what the next thing is for you okay cool
uh some people are saying questions uh
someone says i don’t have a computer oh
well you can use your smartphone then in
the example if you like
um someone says alicia we need your
insta it’s in the description check the
description it’s there
uh the link is there uh hello everyone
oh
bunch of people from myanmar and burma
watching hello on facebook
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let’s go to part two if you missed it
today we are talking about
this right here how to study with our
youtube videos
so i just talked about the background
how to check yourself and again i made a
video
all about how to study alone how to
check yourself
again and again so do a search of our
youtube channel
maybe the facebook page too i’ve made a
lesson a search for how to study alone
i have some videos to help you with that
process
okay now let’s go to part two i’ll show
you the lesson boards again for today
we just talked about this how to check
yourself now
let’s look at some sample courses some
ideas
for your studies with our video series
so beginners super super beginners
maybe there are some super beginners
watching uh so
let’s begin with the
some video suggestions for
beginners and upper beginner so what do
i mean beginner
so for our channel for the videos i make
beginners when i think of a beginner for
our channel
i think maybe you studied english in
your native language
but you don’t have a lot of practice
in english so you studied a little bit
maybe when you were a kid or
when you were in uh in high school maybe
university
but maybe you don’t have practice uh
studying
english in english so if you don’t if
you feel really really uncomfortable
you can start with this series again
search you can search
all of these on the english class 101
youtube
english in three minutes is the name of
this series
we made it many years ago but they are
short videos
here are some points they are slow slow
pace
we cover basic phrases we have
culture points and some short lessons so
every lesson each lesson is about is
about
three minutes i think some maybe are
like five
but there are um i think 12
maybe i think there are 12 episodes of
that series this is a good place to
start
to learn some basic phrases and to
practice
your speaking skills as well so there
are chances
to repeat after me in that series this
is a good starting point for
super super super beginners i recommend
this series
then upper beginner so for our channel
for our pages this is
for those of you who have some practice
in english maybe a little practice in
english maybe you have you’ve met like a
native english speaker friend
or you’ve watched some media and so on
so for you i recommend
a few points so i have a few categories
if you want to practice grammar
vocabulary
listening and so on here are some ideas
for grammar i know many of you ask
how do i use your whiteboard videos for
grammar basically
our whiteboard lessons maybe you see
them running
live all the time those are focused on
grammar points
i choose a grammar point or i choose
like
maybe prepositions i chew pretty slowly
and i repeat a lot and
you can practice making example
sentences
with patterns in lessons so by this i
mean
especially in verb tense lessons
i usually introduce a pattern for the
verb
or for the uh for the tense so you can
make your own practice sentences that’s
the idea
so again don’t only watch and listen but
make sure you
create as well here is a
very basic sample course if you have no
idea where to start with whiteboard
videos you don’t know what to study
here is an idea here’s a group of
lessons that you can work on
first sample course tenses
lessons tenses lessons so this means uh
past tense future sense present perfect
tense
and so on there are tenses i’ve made
some tenses lessons
so you can review those
prepositions prepositions so many this
is
super popular at in on by
there are two good uh basic preposition
lessons
you can study prepositions of time and
prepositions of place
check those out then comparisons
making adjective comparisons countable
and uncountable nouns so you can search
for all of these videos
have to must and modal verbs
so all of these if you put these if you
search for these
items in the english class 101 youtube
channel
you will get some whiteboard lessons to
practice with so
these i think this is this is a good
group of lessons to begin with
okay then vocabulary so this is
for if you want to practice uh your
grammar if you want to work on your
grammar
if you want to focus on vocabulary we
have a series called
top words top words what’s top words
maybe many of you have seen this
uh i choose 10 words or phrases in
each lesson and i talk about
the phrase in example sentences
sometimes they’re kind of
entertaining i think of them in the
moment sometimes
but we have sample sentences in each
lesson
so you can understand how to use that
word
and i hope that you can use the
vocabulary you learn in top words
together with the grammar from the
whiteboard lesson so you learn a new
word from top words
you create a sentence using the grammar
you pick up in the whiteboard lesson so
you can use these two
together yeah all right
and finally for listening
of course these are all video lessons so
you can practice your listening skills
with all of these
but we have
a few a few different levels of
listening videos for you to practice
with
so there’s a beginner listening series
that you can search for on the youtube
channel
there are quizzes included in that to
check your
understanding uh so this is uh these are
a few recommendations for
upper beginners upper beginners okay
uh someone sent a question on youtube i
wanted to answer and natalia says alicia
i’m new here my problem is that i can
understand
you but the problem is when i have to
talk i don’t know if what i’m saying is
correct or not and my words are false
friends yes for sure
two points there one many of you say why
can i understand you
but i can’t understand native speakers
that’s because
people like me and other teachers on
youtube and other
people making content we create our
lessons
for the purpose of helping learners to
understand so we choose vocabulary words
and grammar
to match the levels of our learners and
many many people are watching
so we communicate in a way that
is helpful for many people so that’s why
you can understand me
a lot of the time so if you want to
unders or if you want to practice
hearing
actual conversations i have tips for you
in part three
as for not knowing what’s correct that
comes with practice
unfortunately for all of us learning any
language we have to practice
in order to know what’s correct okay uh
facebook comments i’m coming to see you
facebook comments oh my gosh
facebook has lots of spam okay uh
facebook comments
just lots of people saying hello some
people are saying they want us uh thiru
says i want to study your accent
some of you have commented about using
how to sound like me one again remember
i’m trying to speak very clearly
so many people can understand that’s
point one uh
two that’s great if you want to use me
you can
shadow me so if you don’t know what
shadowing is
it’s repeating after something you hear
so you repeat very quickly and you try
to make it sound exactly the same this
is
challenging i recommend something i like
to do when i am
practicing uh this or if i’m practicing
like music or something
i record myself and then listen to it
later and then you hear
errors that it’s hard to hear otherwise
so that’s a good tip too
alrighty um okay i need to go to
the next point because time is running
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so we just did part one and part two
last let’s talk about part three some
intermediate points
and some tips and notes for your studies
onward
also if you have not already please make
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alrighty uh let’s continue part
three where are you part three part
three okay let’s talk about
part three now intermediate so
intermediate when i say intermediate i
mean
you are okay with the basics in english
the basics are cool for you
so you want to move to the next level or
you know there’s some gaps but it’s kind
of hard to find them what should you do
here are a couple of ideas a couple ways
you can use
your youtube skills okay grammar and
vocabulary
if you want to work on your grammar and
vocabulary
we have a series called know your verbs
know your verbs
so in this series
i focus on one verb in each lesson that
might not sound like a lot but there’s a
lot to talk about
so when i made these i
uh i chose verbs specifically
that have many different meanings so
most of the time in these lessons it’s a
verb you probably already know
but uh the aim of this
is to share with you other ways to use
that verb
so in this i focus on one verb and
you learn other meanings idioms
uh and some phrasal verbs sometimes so i
don’t share
all of like the phrasal verbs in every
lesson
it’s impossible for some verbs but i try
to choose
some phrasal verbs and some idioms that
are very common
and that will help you in reading or in
speaking
uh in any in any aspect really
and you practice conjugation so i
created example sentences in this series
that use the verb in many different
grammatical forms
so you can review the basic grammar
structures of english
learn a new way to use a verb
and learn some idioms and phrasal verbs
too so
this one know your verbs is a really
really good one for that
for kind of more general knowledge or if
you have
lots of what’s the difference questions
like what’s the difference between house
and home
those sorts of questions those little
ones i recommend you check out
ask alicia so this is the weekly
question and answer series i always talk
about uh
on our on the live stream every every
every week in the live stream
so questions come from you actually
so viewers send me questions uh general
questions
and i choose five usually i choose five
for each lesson
so we talk about small points grammar
points vocabulary points pronunciation
points and so on
and it’s a little more conversational
it’s just me
explaining things but it’s a little more
casual
and the lesson is maybe 10 to 15 minutes
long
usually so you can listen to this once a
week and pick up a few points
there too for listening for conversation
if you want to work on your listening
skills we have a series called
english topics so in english topics it’s
me and another person
and we have one focused theme
so maybe it’s like food in the usa or
games
childhood game something like that we
have no script
just as just a just a conversation we
have a theme
but we have a conversation and we share
some key points
from our experiences so we’re talking
about
something that you maybe don’t know
about in terms of a culture point or
maybe
you haven’t thought about before but we
do it in a casual way
so this covers culture points okay
so these are a few uh points for
intermediate learners intermediate
to uh and of course i hope advanced
learners can find something
uh in here too especially in ask alicia
okay
lastly last point for today tips
and notes again i cannot stress this
enough uh that expression i cannot
stress this enough
means uh this is very very important and
uh i want you to remember this review
review review
so don’t just watch one time don’t watch
just one time
so you need to continuously
refresh your mind on anything you learn
not just for language
so when you watch a video great you know
take some notes
review your notes watch the video again
a few days later
it cannot just be one time to remember
information it’s a lot of information so
you know make sure you give your brain
the opportunities
it needs to remember and to study
effectively so
review plan plan to review
second please please please this is a
this is a request from me
use the search function use the search
function
that means the search box the youtube
search box i get
so many messages and comments
from people requesting lessons i’ve
already made
sometimes many times how do you avoid
sending a message like that use the
search function so
if you want to know about prepositions
type prepositions
in the search box i’ve made many lessons
whiteboard and live stream about these
topics so please use the search function
you don’t have to wait for me the lesson
is there it’s ready for you
lastly google is your friend google is
your friend
so when you think to yourself i don’t
know if this example sentence is correct
try to google it see if native speakers
are using that
use quotation marks those little dashes
around it so that you can search for the
exact
phrase so you can use that and of course
search on google for
some more like tips as well so if
there’s something that you need to know
use google search too so
those are my tips uh silva says it is
possible to use the playlists
yes there are playlists on the youtube
channel uh according to the series so
like top words playlists
or uh know your verbs playlists but just
please remember though too
it’s important to actively study i know
lots of you
like to turn on like english topics in
the background you’ll be cleaning
uh or maybe you’re studying or something
and you turn it on in the background
oh someone’s in the door but please make
sure to
actively listen actively listen so that
means don’t
just let it come into your ears make
sure you’re practicing
okay all right other questions
um i don’t see any other questions
so if you have any others just
send them to me on escalation okay i
have to finish
up for today’s lesson wow that was good
i hope that it was helpful for you i
hope that you found a way
uh to study uh with our videos
a little bit more effectively uh
yeah i’ll end there for today what is
the next thing i need to do i need to
tell you about next week’s lesson i’ll
be back next week of course
next week september 30th
the end of the month oh my gosh
september 30th
10 p.m eastern standard time that is
wednesday i am going to talk about
phone and video chat expressions
i know many of you are working from home
or studying from home these days or
using the phone a lot
so i wanted to cover some topics that i
hope will help you
um in using uh phone and video chats
more these day so we’re going to cover
this
uh and i think this will be a fun one
actually this will be good
uh so please join me again next week for
next week’s lesson
if you don’t remember the time set a
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all right i’ll say goodbye there that
was really fun okay
uh so thanks so much for your questions
thanks very much for joining me this
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