Improve your English in 7 Days ACTION PLAN
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hello everyone
and welcome back to english with lucy
today
i’m going to talk to you about how you
can implement a plan
to improve your english as quickly as
possible
these are five things that you will want
to do every single week
some of them are also daily tasks i can
pretty much promise you that if you
follow these tips
you will notice a huge difference in
your language skills
let’s get started with tip number one
the first tip
is to create a realistic schedule
incorporating a variety of english
skills
whether you write this on an excel
spreadsheet or you write it
beautifully on paper and stick it to
your wall try to practice
at least one different language skill
every single day
each week this doesn’t need to be boring
you can plan to watch an english movie
or series
you can even schedule in listening to
english music
just as long as you get into the habit
of constantly immersing yourself in
english
other ideas include listening to a
podcast reading a newspaper
i really recommend the happy news and
the positive news companies
every quarter they send you a newspaper
and they’ve collated all of the best
most positive news stories
you could follow a recipe in english you
could attend a virtual conversation
class
the possibilities are endless my next
tip comes thanks to the sponsor of
today’s video
italki the tip is to schedule in
a weekly conversation class even more
frequently if you can but a weekly one
is a really good place to start and
there has never been a better time to do
this
because italki are celebrating their
14th anniversary
and they have got an amazing
one-of-a-kind offer
you will save so much money it’s absurd
i actually have quite a lovely story to
share about the magic
of weekly english classes i started
giving
one-to-one online english lessons to
students from all around the world
when i was at university my final year
of university was
a really really hard time for me both in
my personal life
and in my professional life and i
honestly think that
teaching those students from all across
the world is what drew me out of that
darker place
it was seeing them improve each week and
pick up on new things i could just
see a real difference in them i loved
seeing them become proud of themselves
and so confident as well
i just find it really funny because they
were paying me to provide them a service
but they had no idea
how much they were helping me too so
yeah i hope that you can find a teacher
that you really bond with
and italki is a great place to start to
search for that
if you haven’t heard of italki before
it’s a huge online database of language
teachers
who give one-to-one video lessons 24
hours a day
seven days a week so you can schedule in
that class at any time you’d like
you can learn english and over 130 other
languages from
anywhere in the world it’s an incredibly
affordable way of learning a language
much cheaper than language academies or
offline tutors
so many people message me and ask me how
they can meet
and talk to english speakers because
they don’t have the opportunity to meet
many in their everyday life
italki is a really good option because
not only do they have qualified teachers
they also have community teachers who
will practice conversation with you
italki started in 2007 and to celebrate
their 14th anniversary
they are offering 140
worth of italki credits for free when
you sign up
just click on the link down below to
read all of the relevant information
sign up and claim those coupons right
let’s move on to tip number three
tip number three is to use a habit
tracker
and this is a tool that i’ve discovered
only recently only over the past few
months
but oh my word it has changed my
productivity
and i think it will help you change and
transform
the way you learn a language it’s such a
simple concept it’s a grid
and you use this grid to write out some
habits that you either want to eliminate
or you want to do with more frequency or
more consistency
and then as you go through each day you
color in a square
if you have performed or avoided that
particular habit
and at the end of the month you’ll have
a really really nice visualization
of how you’ve progressed whether you’ve
performed really well in some areas
you’ve
done your writing every day but you’ve
not practiced speaking every day for
example
and the really beautiful thing is
achieving a sort of pattern when all of
these different squares are filled in at
the end of the month
you can find lots of templates for habit
trackers online or you can make one
yourself
as well if you so wish just a really
nice way of keeping yourself accountable
and also
i just find that filling in that little
box
gives me so much satisfaction so it’d be
great if you can have that too
with your english learning journey my
next tip tip number four
is take the lead from somebody that you
enjoy
listening to so every week i want you to
schedule in
dates with a celebrity
or somebody that has a great voice that
you enjoy listening to or you find them
really interesting
somebody that you aspire to be like i
know for a lot of people this is emma
watson
she seems to be somebody that comes up a
lot for me i really enjoy
listening to stephen fry i find that
when i listen to him i pick up on
so much vocabulary and i find myself
mimicking him later on and that’s
exactly what you want to achieve
find somebody who speaks english in a
way that you find inspiring
and follow them around follow them on
social media
search for their interviews search for
their podcast episodes
it’s fine to get a little bit stalkerish
i’m not consu
i’m not condoning stalker behavior but
really find
everything that they have to offer
you’ll find that they start rubbing off
on you if somebody rubs off on someone
it means that parts of them
start transferring to you hopefully
hopefully little elements of their
pronunciation or you pick up on some of
their vocabulary or on some of their
mannerisms and confidence
i really recommend this technique it’s
um it’s quite a pleasurable one to do
and if you are finding it boring then
you’ve picked the wrong person and you
need to find somebody else
my last tip is incredibly important it
is actively take note
of new vocabulary you may or may not
know but i have recently released
a series of vocabulary diaries and study
planners
but this tip is relevant for everyone
whether you want to purchase one or not
every single day of the week you need to
write down the vocabulary that you’re
acquiring because
trust me your brain will be a little bit
like a sieve
and you’ll pick up on words and you’ll
think yeah i’ll remember that and then
the next day
you absolutely won’t remember it it’s
like when you come up with a really good
song
or tune in your head and you think ah
i’ll remember that tomorrow and then you
never ever ever think of that tune again
it’s like me with video ideas i come up
with the perfect
concept of a lesson for you guys i don’t
write it down
and then i never ever make that video i
will die without making that video
that’s so depressing
so this is why you really need to take
charge of your vocabulary so i’m talking
about going through your daily life
thinking do i know that do i know that
what’s this in english if there are any
gaps in your vocabulary
write it down and then when you get home
you can search for these words in
english
and you will slowly start building up
this amazing portfolio vocabulary
that you can refer back to and review
from time to time making sure you’re
forgetting none of it
having a vocab diary and actively using
that vocab diary
was such an important part of my journey
to fluency in my second language which
is spanish
i was obsessed i would not let a single
word go
if you are interested in learning a
little bit more about the vocab diaries
i’ve created which is called the english
plan
then i have recently posted a video
where i explain all about them i will
link that down below
and you can go straight to the website
shop.englishwithlucy.co.uk
where you can see all the pages and see
everything that this book has to offer
they come in four colors each one is 90
days and each one has a different set of
idioms within it because each page
has an idiom of the day if you buy the
four book bundle then one of the books
is free at the moment we are running
just a two week sale on these books we
don’t know if we’re going to release
them again
so do hurry if you want to get your
hands on them right that’s it for
today’s lesson i really hope these tips
have helped you
don’t forget to check out italki you can
click on the link in the description box
down below
to claim your 140 italki credits
that is in celebration of their 14th
anniversary
i cannot believe that 2007 was 14 years
ago
oh my word don’t forget to connect with
me on all of my social media i’ve got my
instagram and i’ve got my website
englishwithlucy.com where i’ve got a
really cool pronunciation tool
that you can use to hear how different
phonemes are pronounced and you can hear
me
saying those phonemes and words that
contain those phonemes
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it’s very cool if i do say so myself you
can also check out my vlogging channel
where i document my life here
in the english countryside and every
single vlog is fully
subtitled so you can use it for
listening and vocabulary practice
i will see you soon for another lesson
my first tip is to create
a realistic schedule oops i
mispronounced schedule who am i
you this doesn’t need to be boring just
scheduling in
a movie or a film that’s the same thing
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