Aubrey I have a question for you have you ever participated in any challenges yes I actually
just signed up for a mud run have you ever done a mud run fun no but I've always wanted
to I tell you what that means so it's um sort of an obstacle course run that's intentionally
muddy they make up there's like a lot of water and dirt so you're just covered in mud the whole time
sounds kind of miserable but also fun we'll see I we have some neighbors doing it and they convinced
us to sign up for it too and I'm excited because I don't usually run so it's pushing
me it's motivating me to get out there and run because I don't want to be the slowest one I'm
so glad you said that like this is the idea of a challenge it's I mean part of it is a challenge
always pull you up to another level it's always forcing you to do better than you did before right
um and doing the challenge itself it teaches you things it pushes you in that time frame but I
think the other half of accepting a challenge is to be motivated to prepare for that challenge you
know what I mean because it's like this is what I hear from students all the time as busy adults
it's really hard to find motivation to study and I know for IELTS students that's like a whole extra
pressure because you have to study so much IELTS is a big Challenge and finding the time time to
do all of this or knowing how to accomplish all this is really hard and staying motivated right
if you're not fun your brain's not taking but your your mind is wandering you have to stay engaged
you have to find fun ways to do it so that's like this motivation for me is going to it's
more fun it's like I have a goal at the end and that's the same as it is for IELTS you have your
goal but it needs to be fun along the way too yes exactly exactly so guys that's why we created a
new challenge for you students for your English a fluency package challenge um and guys we are going
I almost dropped my crutch just then off camera guys we are gonna teach you two idioms today
um to talk about working hard and facing a challenge but I want to uh tell you a little
bit about this special challenge we made for you because it's completely new we've never done
this before at all ears English or Isles energy it's amazing so the first part of the challenge
consists of learning 30 new words and phrases in 30 days so when you sign up for this challenge you
guys all earsenglish.com challenge it today is the first day it's available it goes away September
20th it's gone forever um so sign up today but guys I will be sending you weekly emails two
emails every week challenging you with new words and phrases and all of these words and phrases
we'll have extra examples in these emails to teach you more but also they come from our connected
Communicator fluency course speaking fluency and listening skills so guys if you're IELTS students
I know you're listening right now and you're thinking I need all of those skills for a seven
or higher for IELTS and that's totally true you do um so besides all of that I've already said you
also get four free live group classes so how will these classes help our IELTS students Aubry well
first of all it's speaking practice we're giving you all of these speaking Partners which sometimes
it's hard to find a speaking partner or to make the time to chat with them and it's really fun
you guys it's built around some very interesting discussion questions you learn some grammar some
very native phrases and then you have a chance to practice using them with other language Learners
with Jessica and Lindsay and myself they're so fun you learn so much vocabulary but in a very fun way
yeah every class guys that has has a very specific structure you learn four new vocab phrases
you learn a specific pronunciation point to make yourself understandable to help your native accent
um using the new vocabulary and then there's also role plays and fluency questions these classes
are amazing guys so um go to ollersenglish.com challenge get in on this guys it's only 99 like
I can't even I don't even know how we're doing this for only 99 but this is so nuts so again
it's only available till September 20th okay so we did promise to teach you some new vocab today in
this bonus episode so the first phrase is nose to the grindstone and this is what we want to
challenge you to do um what does that phrase mean yeah it means to study hard so every one of you
preparing for IELTS you've got your nose to the grindstone and this is a perfect idiom to use
on IELTS speaking to get that idiomatic language because there are tons of questions about studying
learning classes education where you can use it to talk about the past and say I had my nose to
the grindstone when I was studying so hard or of class you want to take in the future I can't
wait to put my nose to the grindstone it's so useful it's so impressive you could also use
it to talk about work I mean we use this anytime we're working really hard on something so it could
be it could be studying for sure um it could be uh grinding out a new project at work right you'd be
like I've really had my nose to the grindstone lately because we're under deadline to publish
two new titles by next month or something so it can be used for work too and the last phrase guys
is laser focus so um this is a fun phrase to have laser focus it's a good idiom and it just means
you are like single-mindedly focused on one thing that we want you to be laser focused on improving
your English right now and that's why we created this incredibly affordable fluency package this
this 30 for 30 challenge I like to say so check it out guys alllersenglish.com challenge it's only 99
so get in guys before September 20th awesome so fun Jessica love it all right uh all right
awesome thanks for joining me on this bonus thank you alright see you later bye bye