earlier that day
hello this is Jack from tofluency.com.
Welcome to this English lesson which is
going to be a vlog. Many of you have
asked me to film what a typical day is
like and for me to take you out and
about and show you different things, so
that's what I'm going to do in this
video. It's currently 10:30 AM - I'm just about
to go to the gym and I've already had a
very busy morning. I haven't got any work
done yet but that's okay because I'm
going to get some time this weekend. I'm
going to go to the gym now because it might
snow later and, hopefully, it will because it
will make for more interest vlog, so
i'll see you after the gym.
45 minutes later.
I've just had a fantastic workout.
One of my goals, like I said in a
different video, is to get in the best
shape of my life and, it's a big goal - it's a really
big goal, but anyway what I've decided to
do is to have more intense workouts but
shorter workout. So today, I worked on my
shoulders and I lifted really heavy
weights. So, I'm really pleased with that.
I saw a couple of friends while I was there...
I spoke to them for a while and I'm gonna
grab coffee with one of my friends next
week - we decided to meet up next week,
get some coffee in the morning, talk
about business, talk about goals, talk
about life with children and yeah it's
gonna be good fun. This is the new
building that I see from my office
it's very grey. It's very grey. They're taking
a long time to build - it was meant to be
completed by the end of last year but
it's gonna take a bit longer.
I've been in this office for a few
months now. I love it here. It's my place
just to escape - it's a place where I can
actually get work done, so i don't have
to work at home and I've got quite busy day...
iIm going to go into a couple of
meetings, and then have some lunch, do some
admin - do lot's of admin and see
what else I can do in the afternoon.
But before I do all that, I'm going to check
the stats for this video, and if you haven't
seen this yet, I'll leave a link in the
description... I was kinda nervous about
publishing this video because it's a
little bit different. It talks about
inspiration and there's a different kind
of theme that I'm using or a format
of video that I'm using - but let me know
what you think about it if you've seen
it, check it out there's a link
below. One of the great things (about it)... I've just had
so many great comments on this video so
far. There was one especially that I read that I thought
wow this is amazing. So, read the
comments and leave your own after
watching it.
Let's do a little Q&A... I've be going
through some of the comments and there
are some people who are getting confused about
my book. So, I have a book that you can
download for free. It's called the
five-step plan for english fluency - if you go
to tofluency.com / book there's a
link in the description you'll be able
to enter your details and download this
for free. Now, some people are calling me
a liar -
they're saying you are liar ,you can't
get this book for free.
I think what is confusing people is
either one of two things: either when you
get to the thank you page, what it says
is this: it says you can share my book to
get my audio book as well. So, after you
enter your details, I send you my book
for free. But if you share it with other
people and other people downloaded it,
then you can also get the audiobook, some
PDF lessons and a couple of private
videos too.
Now, the other thing that I think
confuses people as well is sometimes
they enter the wrong email address or
sometimes the book goes to the spam
folder. So, if you have entered your
details, check the spam folder and then
add my email address as a safe email
address. And also just try again if you
don't see it because maybe you entered
your email address incorrectly I also got
a question from Hsu Hsu the other day asking
about how he can improve his writing and
this is obviously one of the skills of
English and in most cases, you'll need to
have good writing skills. It, obviously,
depends on how you are going to use your
English but it's always a good idea to
improve your writing because it helps
improve other skills as well. And the
best way you can improve is by practice.
Adding to your vocabulary is going to
help... being able to
understand what words mean is going to
help so then you can use those words
correctly. Also having a good idea of
grammar is going to help too. Check out
the description and learn more about the
Sentence Method. But it's important that
you practice as well. What's interesting
is that there are two main ways that you
can practice, so you can write naturally
and have your teacher correct this for
you. You can practice by leaving a
comment on my video - you can practice
your writing in many ways in a natural
way. But there's also something called
deliberate practice and to help me
explain that, think about a soccer player
or a football player. Soccer - football -
soccer - football. But think about a
football player -I'm going to use British
english - they do some drills when they
are training. So, they'll practice
sprint,=s, crossing the ball, heading the
ball, kicking the ball, passing, shooting
etc., they'll do those drills on a daily
basis,
repeating these drills over and over again
to get better at that specific skill. But
then they'll have a practice match or
when they actually play a match that's
when they get natural practice. And you
can think about that when learning
English as well, so,
when it comes to deliberate practice,
what you can do is copy somebody's
article. Now i'm not talking about
copying an exam but basically you can
just take any kind of writing and just
copy it down -
read it, copy. Read it, copy - and that way,
you're getting this deliberate practice
and you're focusing on the type of writing
that you want to use. So, let's say in
your job you send lots of emails... you can
search on Google for email templates,
read them (and) copy them down. So, that is a
great way to get deliberate practice. A
final question for today's from Vasco and
he asks: can you explain the difference
between come and go back? Now, I actually
made a video on this.
I've made a video and I'll leave a link
in the description you'll be able to
watch that full lesson but basically,
what we're talking about here is a point
of reference of the speaker. And I can
say, for example, I'm going to go back
home soon - I'm going to go back home soon -
Because i'm not at home I'm somewhere
else and I go back home. But imagine that
I had a lot of co-workers and they were
late for the meeting...
I can tell them: come back to the office
now, the meeting is going to start
because I am here and I'm telling them
to come to me to come back to me. But
check that video to get a full
explanation.
Okay, back to the admin and then i'm going
to have some lunch.
It's now time to go live on Facebook.
Let's do it.
Hello, everybody, this is Jack from
tofluency.com and welcome..
I'm somebody who is constantly thinking
about how to get more energy and a few
years ago, I was reading the importance
of standing and more specifically,
the importance of not sitting all day and a
few studies that came out - a few reports - that
talked about how when you sit down all
day,
it really makes dramatic changes to your
body and not in a good way.
So, a couple years ago, I bought this
stand-up desk. I love it, it's fantastic
because you can crank it up and you can
crank it back down again. Sometimes, you
know, I sit down all day, you know, I'm
tired, sometimes, I don't have that
motivation just to stand up. But I've
just been standing up for two and a half
hours or so here in the office and my
feet are starting to hurt so I decided to crank
it down and sit down for a bit. I'm just
gonna edit some videos now and then I
need to take a walk today - I need to get
outside and do something so, er, I'll
see you outside.
It's snowing!
This is the balcony that comes with my
office. Now, this is fantastic in spring,
summer, fall... but right now, I don't spend
too much time out here because it's
freezing but it's currently snowing
I'm super excited about that my son will be
too - he's been talking about the snow so
much recently and I'm gonna show you why
can see from this office building.
Depending on how heavy the snow gets, I
may go home early but I think the roads
should be clear enough and I was going to
go for a walk but it's too cold. as you
can see the snow is getting heavier so
I'm gonna head on home pick up my son
from school and then cook dinner for the
evening.
Now, if you have enjoyed this style of
video, then please let me know in the
comments section. Also please let me know
by giving it the thumbs up and sharing
it with anyone who would find it useful.
Look at the description because I'll
leave some vocab words I used in this
lesson and that means you can learn new
words and phrases. And thank you for
watching,
it's great to have you here, speak to you
soon!