How to Use Your Daily Life for Your English Studies
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we are going to talk about how to use
your daily life
for your studies in this lesson i’m
going to talk about
making good study habits so how to
integrate
your studies with your daily life so
integrate means put together
your studies with your daily life and
then i’m going to talk about some ideas
some
things you can do in your daily life to
make a good
study schedule for yourself so we have a
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using your daily life
for your studies so we’re going to talk
about uh some study ideas some different
ways
uh to approach your study okay
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okay today we are going to talk about
using your daily life for your studies
here are today’s lesson boards if you
want to take a screenshot but um
okay first i’m going to talk about
making
habits how do we make good habits what
can you do
for your studies to make good habits
second
uh some ideas basically study strategy
ideas about
media and then third uh some
miscellaneous so many
different ideas for your studies okay so
let’s get into it first i want to start
this lesson
i want to start by talking about your
habits
so habit something you do regularly
it could be a good habit like studying
or exercising or
sleeping or a bad habit like eating lots
of junk food or
biting your nails or whatever so
i’m going to talk about making good
study habits
for example like i have a habit like i
just did now i
share the video when i started the
broadcast so that’s an example
of a habit something you always do
so i want to start this lesson
by talking about habits because they’re
important
for your studies not just language
studies
any study anything you want to improve
right
so first to make a habit for your
studies it’s a good idea to make your
study a habit
so that means you have to think about
how to do something consistently so
consistently means
you do it at the same time or in the
same place or
in the same sequence so when you
create a study a study habit
you can for example choose the same
time for your studies every day so
school is a great example like
every day at three o’clock i go to
english class
maybe so maybe you choose the same 30
minutes
every day to study great okay
this actually for me this doesn’t work
very well for me
this second tip is best for me and my
life
so if you don’t like to choose the same
time every day
or if it’s difficult for you to choose
the same time
every day you can try this follow the
same
sequence of activities follow the same
sequence of activities
means you always do one action after
another so for example this
for example you wake up then brush your
teeth then
eat breakfast then steady vocabulary for
15 minutes
then take a shower for example so this
is
this is a sample morning routine
sequence so in this sequence you always
have some kind of study
activity inside it right so this this
pattern is really good for me
so if you have a flexible schedule
then maybe this kind of habit is good
for you
yeah so think about when you study every
day like
is it always during your break or maybe
on your commute
that’s another good thing that was
really really helpful for me actually
studying on my commute
okay all right uh fadia says study in
the same
room these habits help you yeah being in
the same place when you study
can help you as well you mentally uh
get into you prepare yourself for study
okay
then uh the next tip about your habits
is to choose something that fits your
schedule choose something that fits your
schedule
so one problem i think everybody has
sometimes when we start something new
we try to use a lot of our energy for it
for example like i’m going to wake up at
six
in the morning and go jogging every day
like
that’s a big change really quickly we
get tired right
so try not to make a big schedule change
for your studies like waking up an hour
early
maybe short term so for like a week or
maybe a couple months maybe maybe it
might be helpful
if you have something special to prepare
for
but long term you might get tired so
you might get tired and maybe you know
the expression
out right so you might lose your energy
and lose your motivation
and quit completely so try to choose
something that
fits in your schedule naturally now you
don’t have to make a huge
change actually one tip uh something i
love to do is when i when it’s difficult
for me
to get motivated to study i use i use my
phone
i set a timer i say okay i’m going to do
this activity for 15 minutes or 20
minutes i set the timer i start my
studies or i start my activity
and i do it until the timer finishes
that’s really helpful for me
sometimes it’s just hard to start hard
to get motivated
so that’s my recently that’s my favorite
way uh to study
it’s using a timer uh and then i take a
break and then come back
maybe so that’s a tip i personally like
but choose something that fits
your schedule now okay all right
then this last tip about building a
study habit is to
choose things you enjoy and that
challenge you choose things that you
enjoy and
that challenge you don’t forget you need
to do things that are a little bit
difficult right so don’t just watch how
to introduce yourself or how to talk
about your hobbies
videos so these are some ideas
right what can you do how can you go
outside of a textbook or outside of a
classroom
you can use media your hobbies you can
go to a discussion group
online it’s easier now maybe i don’t
know you can use social media accounts
you can keep a journal
you can do sports read the news more
whatever
so you can choose something that you
enjoy and that’s a little
challenging for you so you always are
building
your studies okay andres guadamus
on youtube says i’ve been using
flashcards that you recommended oh yeah
i love flashcards
and it helped me dominate 300 new words
in only a month
wow nice job that’s fantastic that’s
super good okay
awesome jermaine says my workout habit
is monday wednesday saturday 10 to 12.
okay
that sounds good that sounds good
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um all right so this is the first part
for today
talking about habits how do you make a
good
habit uh and how do you make a habit
that
makes sure you like helps you make sure
you will continue
that habit with your studies it’s
important to review
and do new things at the same time so
consistency is key
okay good all right so in part two and
part three today we are going to talk
about some ideas some ways you can use
your favorite topics to study but
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let’s start to look at some ideas for
your studies i want to talk about using
media lots of people write about using
uh
media for your studies so let’s take a
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hopefully get some good tips yeah okay
all right so how do we use media
these are just a few ideas if you have
more you can send them in the chat
yeah send them in the chat and then uh
your digital classmates can also get
some ideas
oh someone says advice for teenagers
like advice for teenagers learning yeah
i think media is great for young people
when i was a teenager
i was when i was studying japanese as a
teenager i used
media a lot so i hope this is helpful
for you
okay let’s go to study strategy ideas
this part too will be about media movies
music tv youtube videos podcasts
that kind of thing okay so
movies and tv let’s look at this type of
media first
these are some ideas but i put
on this side here a day so
i imagine like a one week study schedule
if you want to use media for your
studies great
but how do you do it so that you don’t
for example
just watch a movie one time and then bye
you’re done you finish
how do you use media to review
to learn new words here are some ideas
and a study schedule this is just a
guide just an idea
something you can do okay so for example
you can watch one movie in english a
week
so choose a movie in english every week
i think uh
from my experience studying other
languages
uh it’s sometimes difficult uh to
learn new words from like science
fiction or fantasy movies they’re really
exciting and cool
but those might be a little bit
difficult to start with but it’s up to
you you can choose
so for example on day one of your
schedule
watch one movie in english week
okay then maybe two google that means
google search
google the script so the script means
the words
in the movie yeah the lines the things
the actors
say google the script and study your
favorite scene from the movie so your
favorite scene means your favorite part
so you don’t have to study the whole
movie like
two hours of english right maybe choose
your favorite scene
or choose a scene you thought was really
interesting or cool
and try to study that for a couple days
yes
and maybe day two then day four
to review you can write the lines so
write the words
from your favorite scene in a notebook
and practice saying those words practice
saying the lines
out loud yourself then
on the last day of the week on day six
or maybe later
you can watch the scene again or watch
the movie again
and check to see if you understood
so this is this is just an idea of
course you can do other things and
practice
more but uh oh someone also writes yeah
karim writes with subtitles too yeah you
can watch with or without subtitles in
your language
in english whatever is helpful for you
but make sure you review right so don’t
just go
one time and then be done right so you
need to review
and think about these new words think
about how the actors said the words
and this could be one way that you can
do that
okay all right so um
rosia says a good idea a scene maybe
five or ten minutes
i think 10 minutes it depends on your
level really
like if you are if you’re a super super
beginner
10 minutes is a lot of time right and
if the actors are speaking very quickly
with lots and lots of new words that
might be too much
right so for yourself try to think about
uh choosing choose something that’s a
little challenging
and you feel you can pick up some new
words from that scene
yeah so it’s up to you a little bit
okay um let’s see i don’t see other
questions
uh facebook do you have any questions uh
imeji i hope i said your name right on
facebook says i’m not sure that in
english movies they speak english so
difficult to follow they speak very fast
i know
so a lot of you write to me to say like
why do i understand you
but i don’t understand english movies
i’m speaking more slowly
and i’m trying to speak clearly so that
many people can understand and it
becomes
easier to pick up new words so i use
uh like a clean simple way a simpler way
of speaking because we have
many learners from many different levels
right
all around the world so that’s why
movies sound
much more difficult right that’s why
movies are harder to
understand those actors are speaking
native speed
native pace uh native pace they’re
they’re not thinking about vocabulary
choice or grammar
right so that’s why but that’s
also why checking a script this tip here
that’s why this is super important
check the script so that you can catch
all the words
and you can try reading the script as
you
listen to the movie to hear how the
actors
connect their words together because
they don’t connect words the same way
that i do
in these lessons yeah so make sure you
practice with different materials
not just me but thank you for watching
okay
let’s go to the next group of tips
youtube videos woohoo
youtube all right we love youtube right
youtube and other videos so if you’re
watching a face
facebook for example how do we use
youtube videos or
we have video lessons of course at our
website at english class 101
so maybe many of you are using those how
do you use this so
for example you can watch a youtube
video
every day great check the captions
for new words yeah check the captions if
you are on
youtube there’s a caption caption means
the words yeah
uh or subtitles uh on the video so you
can check those captions for new words
um
youtube isn’t always perfect with the
captions but i try to speak clearly
so you should be able to find some new
words there
okay then you can use the video for
shadowing practice too
so shadowing shadowing means repeating
after someone
yeah so when you are listening like if
you are listening to one of my videos
you can try to say the same thing that i
say right
right after i say it to practice your
intonation your rhythm
your pronunciation and so on okay
cindy sms on youtube one of our uh
youtube members hi
says i use it a lot yeah youtube for
sure many people
love to use youtube okay another idea
is to write your own sentences with new
words write your own sentences with new
words
this is something i do i have a journal
uh
i have a like a book like a notebook and
when i’m studying
new topics when i’m studying something
new i write questions and i
write sentences with the new words that
i’m studying and that helps me a lot
like creating something new with the new
things that i learned
okay and if you have other tips uh if
you have other tips
for your youtube uh video uh
use please send them in the chat so
other people can get some ideas
uh patty holmes on facebook says i put
the captions on movies
and news anchors ah so i can understand
them maybe more clearly that’s a good
tip
yeah so you can use captions for news i
do that actually in japanese i use the
captions
on uh my tv like there’s a special news
broadcast with captions that’s so
helpful for me
to catch more information okay good
can you tell us about a single movie
some people are asking for movie
recommendations oh
it’s so difficult because everyone has a
different level
if you are a super beginner don’t
be shy about watching kids movies in
english they are great
like native english speaker kids watched
english movies for kids to learn uh
and to enjoy so you can start there if
you like
there are songs which can help you to
understand the rhythm
of things if you’re a super beginner
don’t be afraid of kids movies
they’re great right okay then let’s
continue on
let’s continue on to music music how do
we
how do we use music okay so for music
some ideas you can listen to a song or
an album so just just listen of course
but don’t just listen right so
what else can you do read the lyrics
lyrics means the words in the song yeah
the words in the song so google do a
google search
or maybe you can use uh you can use the
book
inside the cd if you have a cd i don’t
know
okay you can try to sing along with the
song too
this is a good way to practice uh
your spoken skills a bit more you can
try to sing the song from memory so
after you listen to it a few times you
can try to sing the song from memory
this is really really challenging i
think
i’ve i heard a song in in korean
that i thought was interesting and i
tried to i tried to sing it myself
i’m not studying korean i just heard it
and i tried to sing it myself and it was
really hard so make sure you try to
try to say the words yourself yeah it
seems
easy when you listen to it but when you
try to say it
it’s kind of challenging sometimes okay
another idea i did this when i was a
teenager a lot
this was one of my favorite things to do
i tried to
translate the song into my language
translating just on paper and with a
dictionary and with google search
so i searched for the lyrics i search
for the words in the song
and then i try to translate the song and
don’t worry about a perfect translation
the translation doesn’t have to be
perfect
but you’re thinking about how the words
are connected you’re thinking about the
vocabulary choices
you’re using your brain to try to
understand the language
so this is something that i did that was
really really fun
for me so maybe it will be fun for you
too
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the last part i have uh some other
topics some other ideas
for putting your studies together in
your daily life how do you do this
next one is social media
social media this is great to do uh i
know many of you
follow me on social media and see my
goofy updates
my goofy pictures uh and so on that’s
cool thanks very much but
you can follow accounts that are
interesting to you
follow accounts that are interesting to
you not
just language learning accounts so why
why do i suggest this because language
learning accounts are good
and like videos are good because we
share information directly right like a
lesson
yeah you learn new vocabulary words or a
new grammar point
but it’s important to follow just a
regular
person regular people using the language
naturally
so you can understand how to use it
naturally yourself you can understand
what kind of person uses this vocabulary
word or
why did that person use that grammar or
those kinds of things so follow regular
accounts maybe your favorite celebrity
or maybe a writer or someone related to
your hobby or your favorite
sport so follow accounts that are
interesting to you
not just learning accounts okay
all right then uh next try writing
updates
in english so if you are comfortable you
can try
writing on twitter or maybe instagram or
facebook i don’t know
you can try writing your own updates
about your daily life
in english if you are shy that’s okay
too
you can make a private account yeah so
only for you to write and maybe you can
follow
some people you’re interested in twitter
can be good for that
uh or maybe a private instagram account
too is helpful
so you can try writing updates yourself
in english
okay all right let’s go to the next tip
journals i mentioned this a little bit a
journal journal or a diary
as well this can be digital on your
computer
on your phone i prefer to use a physical
like i have
over there on the other side of my room
an actual journal where i write like new
uh new words when i’m studying it’s like
my study journal
you can write about your day in english
write about your day in english so what
did you do
how was your day how did you feel all
those kinds of topics
you can practice lots of grammar points
by writing a daily update
you can try writing about upcoming
events
so that means you can try writing about
what you are going to do
yeah so you practice future tense that
way
you can try writing a story about your
past to practice past tense
so a journal keeping a journal like
every day
can be a great way to practice as well
so
this goes back to making a habit maybe
at the end of every day
you write a journal entry in your study
journal so that’s another idea
okay some other points hobbies sports
news and so on you can
read an article in english or listen to
a broadcast in
english so this can be a really
interesting point this can be something
interesting because
if it’s a popular topic like a soccer
game
for example you can check the
information
in your language so for example maybe in
the morning in the news you read
something about a sport you like a
soccer game you really like
and then in the evening you read an
english article
about the same topic so you already know
the information right but you use your
brain
to understand it in english so
read an article in english or listen to
broadcast like a podcast or radio show
maybe
something like that try to do that uh
just to think about
the topics you already know about in
english okay uh
okay other questions i don’t see other
questions a la rattam says do you think
reading a book
is a good idea before you can pronounce
the words yeah i think it’s okay
and you can you can get uh new if you
find a new
word you don’t know in your book that’s
great that means you can learn something
so you can write it down or if you don’t
know the pronunciation
you can do a google search for
pronunciation just type the word into
google search
and type pronunciation and you’ll get an
audio file so check that out
okay all right finally flash cards my
favorite oh
i forgot try participating in a hobby
group in english or join a sports team
so if you have a hobby
and you live in a city with an
english-speaking sports team or hobby
group or something like that
you can try joining that group and
practicing as well
okay finally my favorite always for
vocabulary study i love
flashcards they’re just so helpful for
me and for me
they’re for me they’re very easy to be
consistent about
when i have something to focus on i
write i like to write flashcards myself
and then i throw my flash cards in my
purse in my bag and i practice
like uh while i go somewhere else you
can use digital flash cards too we have
uh
smart flash cards at english class 101
so you can check those out
if you need some ideas but i love
flashcards
uh for vocabulary study uh just to pick
up some new words here and there
okay so that is everything for today
those are some ideas
for uh integrating your studies how to
use
your daily life for your study so i hope
that that’s helpful for you
this was this using language in my case
using japanese in my everyday life was
great and of course the biggest tip if
you live in a country
where english is spoken or the other
language you’re studying is spoken
go out and talk to people and make
friends and
read the things that they write on
social media like i’ve learned so much
just from checking my friends
updates on social media vocabulary words
all kinds of things so please check that
out
and please try to use the language in
your everyday life it becomes a lot more
fun
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