Speak English FAST Episode 2 About Your Future Plans and Goals
hey do you have a hard time speaking
English do you struggle to speak fast do
you feel like you always use the exact
same words over and over again well if
so today’s lesson is for you because I’m
gonna give you the formula to speak
English fast I’m teacher Tiffany let’s
jump right in alright I have a special
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alright so here we go let’s get started
with today’s lesson first we have the
formula C + G + I now remember this is
the formula you are going to use to
speak English fast specifically about
your goals and future plans so let’s see
how to use this formula here we go
alright so again C + G + I now we have
different goals in our lives and you are
the same so you have English study goals
you have family goals you have work and
business goals you have exercise goals
and you even have financial goals all of
these goals you can speak about using
this simple formula C + G + I so let’s
start with the C now the letter C stands
for current and basically what you’re
gonna do is describe your current
situation
this is the first thing you want to do
whenever you’re speaking about a future
plan or a future goal okay so how can we
do this here we go
let’s say for example you’re talking
about your English study goals you can
say currently I am studying
English by watching various youtube
videos like this one right here let’s
get right every morning I study English
for an hour before I go to work I
usually start by memorizing ten English
vocabulary words then I write in my
English journal while listening to
English music so you see what happened I
just explained very simply my current
situation related to English you can do
the same you don’t have to worry about
the amount of sentences just explain
your situation simply okay now what if
we’re talking about let’s say family
goals my boyfriend and I have been
together for about two years this is not
true it’s just an example I know you
guys are gonna ask me in the comments
who teach you your boyfriend no not
right now
alright so my boyfriend and I have been
together for about two years we are in a
long-distance relationship because he
has to work in California and I live in
New York but he makes it a point to come
and visit me every month now I want to
explain something to you makes it a
point this is an amazing expression that
you can use when you speak in English
now make it a point just means to make
something a priority to make something
important to make sure you do something
no matter what we say make it a point to
dot dot dot okay alright so again I
explain my current situation then let’s
move on to work and business goals at
the beginning of last year I got a job
at Google working as a web developer
things have been going well so far and I
really enjoy my co-workers my boss
always looks for new ways to enhance our
website so our team focuses on coming up
with creative design strategies now
really quickly I have to apologize for
my voice and I may have to sniffle a few
times ah sniffling is this that’s what
sniffling is I think I’m catching a
little bit of a cold I feel okay but I
want to let you know what you’re hearing
in the background if you ever hear me
sniffle alright okay so I want to
explain one of
words okay one of the words let me show
you again enhance our website now the
word enhanced just means to make better
to make something more beautiful to make
it more useful we say in hands all right
okay so now moving on to the next one
now we have exercise goals I usually get
up around 5:00 a.m. and head straight to
the gym head straight to we use head
straight to when we want to say that we
don’t do anything else we immediately go
somewhere okay we say head straight to
like head that’s all we say head
straight to okay then let’s continue
when I get to the gym I stretch and then
run for three miles my run typically
lasts about 30 minutes okay
and finally financial goals last year I
started listening to a podcast about the
importance of saving money after
listening to the podcast I decided to
save 10% of my entire income so for the
last several months I have been putting
10% of my income away in a separate
savings account now I said putting
something away putting away something
that I’ve earned now when we use this
about money putting away just means to
save it just means save and also to not
touch it okay now what happened I gave
you the current situation for each of
the categories right my financial goals
my exercise goals my family goals I have
to tell you first letter C the first
part of the formula my current situation
because you met we want to make sure
that the person listening to you
understands what’s going on first you
want them to be able to picture in their
mind ah this is what’s currently going
on and then they’ll be able to connect
with your goal and understand why it’s
your goal okay alright so now moving on
to the second part of the formula here
we go letter G the goal so you’re going
to describe your future goal in
detail all right so here’s what’s gonna
happen now you’ll notice at the top
right there are three circles there are
three colored circles alright these
circles give us an idea of how we can
lay out what we’re gonna say
all right we’re speaking about our goal
but look at the circles again basic goal
goal explanation and the reason for the
goal alright so here’s what’s going to
look like here’s what its gonna look
like my goal is to do a road trip across
America next year with three of my
friends now this is true I want to do a
road trip so bad for those that may not
know a road trip is just a trip you go
on by car so I’m gonna drive across
America as opposed to flying across
America we call that a road trip okay
alright so again I’m giving you my basic
goal first now I’m gonna move into
explaining the goal alright so here we
go the plan is to arrive in New York
rent a car and then spend three weeks
driving all the way to California I have
always wanted to visit America but it is
a large country now you notice how I
started to give you the reason for this
goal I’ve always wanted to what visit
America and it’s a large country now
again I’m American but I’m speaking as
if I was a student like you okay now I
continue so the best way to truly
experience it is to drive around in a
car alright now what about family goals
here we go honestly my goal is for us to
get married
remember I’m speaking about my boyfriend
alright I want to start a family with
him as soon as possible he is truly the
man of my dreams
and I know that he is going to be an
amazing father Wow can let me explain
that to you
so I said man of my dreams this is
something this is an expression we use
in English to kind of explain my ideal
or the type of man I desire think about
it when you were growing up and you can
also say woman of your dreams for the
guys watching this okay so think about
when you were growing up and we
you just kind of sit and think oh man
when I get married ooh he’s gonna be
this he’s gonna be that it’s kind of a
dream right so we say man of my dreams
because he’s the man I imagined he
matches everything that I want in a man
that makes sense and again for the guys
you can use this for women as well the
woman of your dreams okay it’s a really
useful expression that we use in English
okay all right so let’s keep going
what about our work and business goals
my goal is to start my own web
development business next year again the
basic goal now moving into the
explanation I want to employ new web
developers right out of college so that
they can develop and hone their creative
skills all right now we have a new
vocabulary word home now home just means
to perfect something to make something
better to improve I want to hone my
skills right now you’re watching this
English video this English video lesson
because you want to hone your English
skills you want to improve you want to
be better and I know you can do it I
believe in you okay so you want to hone
your English skills all right let’s keep
going now the reason the main reason I
want to do this is because someone did
the same thing for me all right now what
about exercise goals my goal is to get
up to five miles a day now get up to
means I want to reach this right now I’m
running three miles a day
right I want to move up to five miles a
day running five miles a day
my basic goal now I need to explain it
okay so here we go basically I want to
build up my endurance and run at a
consistent pace for five miles now the
reason I read some studies that
explained how running five miles a day
can add years to your life now this is
true exercise does really help so if
you’re not exercising come on join me
exercise every day and you will feel
amazing your body man you’ll feel so
much more
Juvenal now i want you to look that word
up rejuvenate it okay I’ll tell you just
means to have more energy and to feel
more alive okay all right now moving on
to our next one we have the financial
goals my long-term goal is to buy a new
house for my parents now this is also
true all right now I specifically would
like to buy a house that they can grow
old in and never have to worry about any
bills the reason I want to do this is
because they have supported me so much
throughout my life now really quickly as
you’re following along with this lesson
don’t worry
remember you can always download the PDF
connect it to this lesson so you can
review after so just watch it and follow
along and then the link at the bottom
you can download the PDF for free it has
all of the text inside of it okay why
because I care and I want you to learn
English alright now we have to move on
to the third part of our formula the
first one was C excellent job which
stands for you got it current then we
have G which stands for come on
excellent it stands for goal now we’re
gonna move to the third part of our
formula here we go the third part is the
letter I influence so explain how your
current situation will influence you as
you try to reach your goal this is so
important remember English is all about
being able to explain and express your
ideas so we start off with our current
situation right and in the middle we
explain our goal and now we have
influence basically we’re connecting how
does my goal connect with my current
situation like this all right so here we
go against plain explain how your
current situation will influence you as
you try to reach your goal so English
study goes the fact that I am
consistently studying English every
single day for an hour will help my
English improve faster now this is
definitely true all right let’s keep
going this will help me feel more
comfortable speaking English when I go
on the road
with my friends now it makes sense if
I’m gonna go on a road trip and I’m a
student like you learning English and I
want to go on a road trip the fact that
I’m studying consistently every single
day I actually will speak really well
when I go on the road trip make sense
all right now what about family goals
okay so here we go the fact that he is
so happy to come see me every month
despite having a busy work schedule
makes me love him even more this is
actually what led me to start thinking
about having a family with him let’s
have a short pause now I’m not teacher
Tiffany I’m your sister for the guys
that are watching this video take care
of your women take care of your
girlfriend or your wife let her know
that she’s special trust me as a woman
it’s the small things the little things
that count so if you send your wife or
your girlfriend a message just letting
her know that you care about her oh my
goodness
she is gonna feel amazing just wanted to
give you that tip real quick all right
now go back to teacher Tiffany all right
so here we go now let’s say for example
we’re talking about our work and
business goals since my boss is such a
great leader I’m learning how to
properly manage and inspire a team these
skills will help me run my business
better and inspire my own team all right
moving on to exercise goals waking up
early to run 3 miles a day is helping me
build up the endurance I will need to
move up to 5 miles a day this
consistency will also help me not give
up on my goal so you’re seeing now how
we’re connecting our current situation
with actually achieving our goals again
when you do this when you have
everything organized and when you say it
in a way that is very easy to understand
the person listening to you will say wow
your English is amazing just because you
know how to organize your thoughts well
and you’ll be able to speak faster
because everything makes sense and
you’re following the formula all right
so let’s say we’re talking about
financial goals okay now financial goals
since I am already saving 10%
of my income it will be easy for me to
put aside a little more each month so
that I can purchase their house it all
makes sense
okay so again what do we have as the
equation the formula come on
excellent job that’s right we have the
formula again C + G + I excellent now I
want to remind you if you’re in the
Academy you can automatically watch part
2 and I give you the action plan for
using this formula to speak English fast
alright so again if you want to find out
part two if you want to watch part two
and actually get the action plan where I
show you how to start using this formula
right now just click below in the
description and you can watch part two I
really hope you enjoyed this video I
hope it helps you to speak English fast
and to have the confidence you need to
sound like a native English speaker well
I’ll talk to you in the next video but
as always remember to speak English you
know what time it is it’s story time
alright now for today’s story time I’m
actually going to give you kind of the
opportunity to see a lot about my past
so many of you have asked me about my
videos and the graphics and the images
and I’ve told you that you know worked
for NASA and I love my job I was a web
developer but you guys also have asked
me about art now I have been an artist
my entire life and I started drawing
when I was maybe around four yeah very
young again I think I’ve mentioned this
to you before my sister was an artist
and we were both artists but I didn’t
tell you about my transition from
leaving NASA I told you I left NASA and
then I can went to career to be a
missionary but there was a two-year
period where I was doing something
different so when I left NASA I actually
did art
full-time that’s right so when I left
NASA I wanted to do something that mmm
really touched into the lives of people
touched of them in a different way
and I had a heart for homeless people
remember last week and during story time
I told you about the encounter I had
with the homeless lady when I was in
Korea I’ve always had a heart for
homeless people so when I left NASA I
decided to do a series of portraits
related to homeless people so that I can
help others realize that hey even though
people are homeless we have to realize
that there’s still people and we can
help them so I did an entire series and
I’m going to show you some of the
artwork so you guys really get to get a
sneak peek into my life so here we go
this is the first one let me slide it
over really quickly so this is the first
one from the series this is a quite a
large painting I’m not a painting this
is actually a pencil drawing I did and I
was doing portraits of homeless people
so I wanted to show the emotion and kind
of the things that they go through and I
always did portraits just to FYI
Oh fYI just means for your information
we say that in English a lot so as an
FYI I’ve always been interested in
drawing people and painting people I
love drawing faces and there’s something
about facial expressions that really
intrigues me so again this is one of the
portraits I did this is of a lady um and
I wanted to show again you know she’s a
person but she’s had a hard life this is
a pencil drawing and it’s pretty large
pretty large the next one here we go so
the next one is this one and I wanted to
show that they are dads also that are
homeless and they have to take care of
their children sometimes so I wanted to
show the intensity via or using pencil
and also showing his facial expressions
the next one is this one right here
another lady and you can tell that like
her hair is untidy let me explain what
that means so untidy means messy or not
together are you guys I’ve commented on
my hair and how you like it
my hair is tidy right but it’s lady in
the picture
her hair was untidy I’m you know she’s
homeless so she didn’t have the
opportunity to do her hair next I have
this one right here it may be a little
small moving to the middle so this one
is actually showing how we reach out and
God is always willing I’ll slide over
and God is always willing to help us no
matter what we’re going through so I
wanted to show that in the series as
well the next one is right here again
this is just let’s go this way that you
can’t see me
I go this way this one is just let me
slide it over hold on one second guys
this one there we go this one is showing
you know lifting your hands up and
looking to God and trusting and
believing that he’ll help you no matter
what your situation and again you guys
know I’m a Christian and I believe that
God helps us in every situation so I
wanted to kind of portray that and again
these are all very large portraits but
on the string they’re a little bit
smaller but they’re very large then I
have this one right here now it’s hard
to see but these are actually words
words that are um it’s a poem that I
wrote so you know what um hold on one
second guys I’m gonna see if I can make
it a little bit larger bear with me ah
bear with me just means one second or be
patient bear with me so I want to see if
I can show you this picture a little bit
larger hold on one second guys let’s see
okay I’m gonna open this picture here
and let’s see I’m gonna go back you guys
can see me but I’m on my screen trying
to see if I can share it with you guys
here we go
let’s see alright here we go I can share
with you now okay so this is a picture
and let me zoom in so you can see the
words they’re really tiny and I used
these words to actually create the
picture so I I loved it I loved it I
really enjoyed that that period of time
when I was doing these portraits alright
let’s do the next one the next one
is this one right here I’m gonna take it
a little bit bigger this is also
portrait and it’s a poem and it’s a poem
I wrote about this lady and again living
on the streets then the next one is this
one right here this is also what a lady
and just kind of showing how you know
how do I put in the middle for you all
right here uh the reason I wanted to do
these types of portraits was because you
know when there’s a storm outside or
it’s raining or it’s windy or it’s cold
we just go inside we go home but people
that are homeless they can’t they have
to stay outside so I wanted to kind of
show that in my portraits let’s see the
next one is this one right here this one
is just showing you know sometimes you
have to when you go through things and
it’s a little bit difficult and just
kind of the struggle then I have this
one right here and these are these are
pen and ink and I have always enjoyed
lines so I usually draw my pictures
using lines and just multiple lines over
and over and over again and let’s see
the next one this one is that of a guy
and I wanted to show again I also like
eyes and I want to I feel like the eyes
are the windows to the soul so if you
look in someone’s eyes you can tell kind
of how they’re feeling so I wanted to
focus on that with this portrait of this
gentleman then the next one is this lady
and again an older lady and I wanted to
show again using the eyes and explaining
showing kind of like how she feels I try
to go on the side sorry guys alright
then next we have this one right here
again this one I wanted to show kind of
a veteran veteran is someone who served
in the military and either fought in the
war because there are a lot of homeless
people in America who there are veterans
they used to fight they were soldiers
but unfortunately their lives kind of
took a turn for the worse
that just means went downhill so a lot
of them are home some of them are
homeless there are a lot of veterans
that are homeless and this one right
here can just another portrait just
showing the intensity and how people may
feel bad
and this one is ah can let me explain
what this is so on the bottom what your
let me see what you’re seeing on the
bottom this is um this is covers the
drains on the streets in America and
sometimes heat comes up from it so
sometimes you can see someone laying on
top of it to get warm so again you can
see that I was trying to portray the
life of a homeless person just so that
we can be aware and we could help them
so then the next one okay now this is
different so this is not from the
homeless series I just wanted to draw
and I wanted to paint this is actually a
painting on wood
so of a girl and it’s kind of like can
you see me but you don’t really see me
so sometimes children also go through
things then this one okay this is just
was an expressive one I did have a guy
and people are turning their back on him
but he wants to be recognized and now
the next few pictures just gonna be from
my sketchbook and these ones you know
throughout over time my style changed
and evolved or developed and yeah so
these ones are just from my sketchbook
again like you can see I like lines a
lot on the rocks then we have this one
right here oh this is a little bit tiny
hold on one second guys I’ll make it
bigger for you again I like patterns and
I like lines a lot then we have this one
right here now this is a bird and I was
just I was in the mood to draw something
that had a pattern and nice colors so I
do that in my notebook and I’ll show you
some of my current ones these are all
the the art shows about 14 years ago and
the ones that I’m showing you right now
mmm I think they’re about six years old
so yeah these are some of my older
pieces but again this one right here I
was like kind of like an African pattern
and focusing on that then I have this
one right here I was getting more into
into color and using lines again to
express color I mean to express an
emotion and this one right here let’s
make this a little bit bigger
okay so now what I’m gonna do is show
you my current sketchbook and you’ll see
how things have developed and changed
over time so hold on one second this is
happening in real time hold on one
second okay so this is my sketchbook I
think I told you guys about this my
niece gave me this sketchbook for
Christmas I love it
she’s awesome alright so now some of you
to follow me on Instagram I’ve seen a
few of these let’s see if I can get this
in front of you this is current all
right and getting more expressive more
abstract but you’ll see the lines and
the colors are still there now this is
another one let’s see if you can see it
alright again you still see the colors
and the lines about two more this is
another one and my current one that I’m
working on just the line work is this
one right here so you’ve learned a lot
about me today during today’s storytime
but yes I am an artist I do in my free
time I draw in my free time which is not
that often these days I’m quite busy you
know making videos and teaching you all
and talking to you and man I’m so
excited to be talking to you guys and
also making videos for you guys so even
though I’m not able to draw as much I’m
still so happy so again when I do get
the opportunity to draw I usually post
it on Instagram so you guys can follow
me there oh let me show you where I am
for those of you who have not followed
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handle right here speak English with
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look forward to seeing you next week
but as
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