Learn the Top 10 Ways to Stop procrastinating and Study in English
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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is Alisha and today we’re going
to talk about ten ways to stop
procrastinating and study let’s go
register for a challenging test register
for a challenging test to register for a
challenging test that means registering
for a test that is slightly more
difficult than your current level so if
you think you’re of yourself as like a
beginner right now maybe try registering
for a test that is at like the lower
intermediate level so if you always
register for a test or give yourself
some goal that is slightly more
difficult than your current level you
can always try to be pushing in the in
the upwards direction you can always try
to be pushing to to improve
little by little so I say challenging I
don’t say difficult because if you’re a
beginner and you register for an
advanced level test it’s gonna be really
difficult to meet your goal it’s gonna
be really difficult to study everything
to pass the advanced test but if you set
smaller goals smaller test goals maybe
you have a better chance of achieving
those goals and your motivation will
stay up so try registering for a
challenging test to give yourself a goal
find a movie or TV show to understand
the next idea is to find a movie or a TV
show to understand so finding a movie or
a TV show that you can watch every week
or just maybe your favorite movie in the
language you’re studying can be a really
fun way to motivate yourself so if you
have like a TV show you want to watch
every week you can focus your energy on
trying to learn the vocabulary words or
to learn the expressions that are used
in that TV show and perhaps week after
week you’ll start to hear some similar
things and start to pick up the way that
people speak in that show so having
something that’s kind of fun and a
little bit entertaining to use as you
study can help you enjoy what you’re
doing a little bit more so the same
thing
apply to a movie if you find a movie
that you really like or you really are
inspired by that movie it can help you
as you study because it can motivate you
and inspire you to want to know all live
like the aspects of that movie to know
everything all the details of that movie
so finding something that’s kind of a
little entertaining to help you study
can be a good way to stop
procrastinating sometimes get a study
buddy the next idea is to get a study
buddy a study buddy so what is a study
buddy so buddy is a word we use for a
friend so a study buddy then is a friend
that you study with or a friend that you
tell your study goals to someone who can
make sure you are responsible for your
behavior so if you have a study buddy
you can maybe check in with them every
few days or like once a week maybe you
go to a study group together or maybe
you practice conversation together you
can set goals with your study buddy so
you don’t feel like you’re studying
alone all the time if you study alone
all the time you might feel like I have
nobody to practice with or nobody
understands my goals or I feel like I’m
the only person with my goal so having a
friend having a study buddy can help you
to feel a little bit more like part of a
team and to help you like through
questions that you might not understand
or maybe they have some resources that
you don’t have and that can help you as
you study so getting a study buddy can
be both really fun and really helpful
for you and roll in a course the next
idea is to enroll in a course enroll in
a course so like to enroll in a course
means to start a course or to register
for a course so in this case we’re
talking about a course of study like a
language course if you’re studying
English enrolling in a course can be
helpful because it creates
accountability it creates
responsibilities if you enroll in a
course you’re paying money presumably
and if you miss a class if you miss a
session of your course you can think of
it as money wasted essentially so if I’m
paying maybe $50 for each lesson in a
course and I don’t attend that means
that I’m wasting $50 so if you think of
it this way and you are enrolled in a
course then
maybe this can help you study because
you don’t want to waste your money so by
attending class you’re using your money
well you’re using your time well to
study and you also have the option to
talk to your classmates and to the
teacher there about any questions that
you have so enrolling in a course
especially like a weekly course or maybe
even like a daily course or intensive
course can help you in a lot of
different ways I think create a social
media account for your studies the next
idea is to create a social media account
for your studies so this is a popular
way to get some daily practice actually
creating with the language that you’re
studying so a really common tool for
this is Twitter I’ve seen many people
use Twitter to do this they create a
Twitter account that’s specifically for
their English language studies so people
will write about their day in English if
they’re studying English so if they
don’t have a chance to maybe speak with
colleagues and the language they’re
studying or to write an email for
example if they don’t have a way to
practice making outputs many people
choose to use social media to do that so
it’s kind of a way to reach out to find
other people who are studying or to find
resources to read everyday about the
thing you’re studying but you also have
the chance to create something yourself
so if you like you could try making a
social media account that’s devoted only
to your studies so try that out sign up
for a regular event in your studies the
next idea is to sign up for a regular
event in your studies so that means if
you’re studying English for example
maybe you can try to attend like a
monthly get-together in English
somewhere so this can be about your
hobbies it can be about just something
in your community a school event for
example if you find something that you
are able to do in English in this case
that’s also related to your hobbies it
can be helpful for you because you start
to see the ways that you can use English
in a situation outside of just your
textbook maybe or a situation that’s
outside of just your studies but getting
an idea of how other people are using
the language and getting an idea of like
how you can potentially use the language
in other way
so going to a regular like a monthly
event or maybe something twice a month
or whatever that’s maybe outside your
course or outside of your test studies
can be another good way to get some
exposure to have a chance to actually
use the things you’re learning and to
learn new things make studying part of
your daily routine the next idea is to
make studying a part of your daily
routine
so by this I mean for example taking 30
minutes in the morning or 30 minutes at
night or maybe thirty minutes at lunch
whatever it is for you finding time in
your day every day to do a little bit of
study so even if you’re only doing 10
minutes in the morning in 10 minutes at
night it’s better than zero so that’s 20
minutes over the course of one day which
is still better than zero minutes ever
if you can find a way to make studying
part of your day and you can kind of
create a routine that studying is part
of it can help you just kind of become
used to doing that so steady doesn’t
feel like a job or studying doesn’t feel
like a chore it’s just something you do
like brushing your teeth or cooking
breakfast or having a cup of coffee or
whatever so if you make studying part of
your routine then after a while it might
not feel like work it might not feel
like study it might just feel like okay
this is just the thing I do at this time
of the day so give that a try try to
integrate study try to put study into
your daily routine reward yourself when
you finish studying the next idea is to
reward yourself when you finish studying
so when you finish your studies whatever
that time period might be whether it’s
thirty minutes or one hour or you went
to your course for the week try finding
a way to reward yourself for studying
this can be a very simple thing like for
example buying yourself a cup of coffee
or you get to have a piece of chocolate
or after you finish studying you can
watch your favorite TV show so find a
way to put reward into your study
routine so once you finish studying
there’s something good that happens that
you can expect at the end of your study
period so kind of reward yourself like
so that it helps you
develop and feel motivated to continue
doing that study routine make your goals
public the next idea is to make your
goals public so make your goals public
means share your goals with people so if
you don’t want to share your goals with
everybody maybe you can just tell a few
friends about your goal so if that goal
is to pass a test for example or if that
goal is to master a certain grammar
point or maybe the goal is to learn a
certain number of vocabulary words
whatever that is try telling people
about that goal because then it kind of
creates some responsibility for you like
if you tell people about that goal they
might ask you about it in the future and
if you say I didn’t do it or I couldn’t
do it or I’m not studying at all you
might feel kind of bad about that
actually
so actually telling people about your
goal creates that accountability and
that responsibility for you so try
sharing your goal with the people around
you also they might support you there’s
a chance that they can support you or
they can offer help they can offer
something to help you achieve your goal
so try that make studying a game the
last idea is to make studying a game to
make studying a game so in some cases
you can find applications or you can
find games you can find ways to study
where like someone has already
programmed a game like especially for
vocabulary words for example you can
find a way to enjoy your studies if that
doesn’t already exist try to invent a
game especially if you have a study
group or a study buddy try to find
creative and fun ways to use the things
that you’re studying then you can
actually enjoy your studies you don’t
have to think of it as work but you can
actually see how your studies can be fun
some examples of games that you could
use when you study English you could use
there’s like a game called Scrabble
where you you get points by creating
words so the more words you know the
better chance you have of getting a
highest score in the game so Scrabble is
one way that you could do it for
children one that’s good is sort of like
it looks like a worksheet actually but
it’s called
mad libs it’s called mad libs this is
something that my brother and I used to
play when we were little
it’s a worksheet but some of the words
are missing in the worksheet and we
can’t see the whole story really it’s
good to play this game with two people
so one person reads the worksheet and
there are blank spaces on the worksheet
that say adverb or adjective or verb so
you ask the other person to give you an
adjective to give you a verb and you
write those words in the story when
they’ve given you all the words that you
need to make the story complete you then
read the full story to the person using
the words that they have given you and
it usually becomes something kind of
funny so this can be a good way to test
your grammar and also just to get kind
of creative with the sorts of words that
you’re choosing so that might be good
for kids as well so there are a lot of
different things that you can do of
course you can create your own games as
well so those are ten ways to stop
procrastinating and study I hope that
those are helpful for you if there’s
something that you like to do or
something that you think has been
helpful for you in the past to stop your
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