attention this video is aimed at pre-intermediate speakers and
intermediate speakers but if you are an Advanced one hey you're welcome too
many people misunderstand the concept of thinking in English in today's video I'm
going to give you three practical exercises that are going to help you
think in English and consequently become a better and more confident English
speaker hey friends Teacher Prix here to help you talk to anyone anywhere
anytime in English thanks for coming back for another video and if it's your
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live videos so in this video I'm going to give you three practical exercises
okay that you can do anytime anywhere so here we go exercise number one
connect your exercises to mental work priscila what do you mean I imagine
that you study English I believe that most of my subscribers and
followers try to study English at home so the idea of this exercise is to use
all those reading exercises you do and combine them with mental exercises I'm
gonna give you a more practical example imagine you are going to spend this
afternoon reading an article on the internet or reading a few pages of a
book you like or reading about a subject you like on the Internet now what are
you going to do during this moment while you are reading the article on the
internet or on the book you are going to start asking yourself questions but not
out loud right here you are going to think og questions what kind of
questions for example what's the main idea of this article what do we
understand here in this paragraph what are the main ideas of this subject maybe
it's a subject you like and that you know very well so you can ask yourself
am i learning something new here what new information Am I learning
here you can also ask yourself questions about the vocabulary what new words am i
learning here in this article or in this paragraph and then think about the
meaning of the words that you're learning try to find the meaning if you
need to try to look up the words in the dictionary
so all this mental work will induce your brain to think in English when you start
doing this it will be a little bit difficult a little challenging but as
you persist every time you start reading something on the internet or reading a
magazine or reading a paper you will start asking yourself questions but here
many students like to read out loud and there are moments when you should do
this exercise but to practice thinking in English doing the mental work
thinking to yourself is a wonderful way to practice thinking in English with
time you will be thinking in English without realizing you are and that's my
goal with this exercise now let's talk about exercise number two come up with a
routine that will help you think in English now this is an interesting
exercise because many times the students believe that they need to go above and
beyond when it comes to thinking in English what do I mean by that they need
to change their routine completely they need to start doing different exercises
studying different things and the truth is you need to be simple the small
things in your routine will help you think in English what I'm trying to say
is actually what can you do during your routine that will help you think in
English I'll give you some practical examples you can ask questions to
yourself throughout the day for example every time you are doing something and
you have a moment to think because sometimes you're just too busy but let's
imagine you had dinner and now you are washing the dishes
this is a perfect moment when you can think about things in English okay why
am i washing the dishes hmm because I had dinner Oh what did I eat for dinner
oh I had chicken I had salad I had some vegetables but now I'm washing the
dishes how am I feeling I don't like washing the dishes
it's boring so all these questions that you can ask yourself while you are
washing the dishes you didn't need to change your routine or stop everything
you're doing just to think in English you're there and you're trying and let
me tell you one thing there will be moments when you try to do this and you
won't know all the words you need and it's okay no pressure
don't pressure yourself into knowing all the words when you're trying to think in
English this is practice you're exercising okay so this is a good moment
when you can think in English without any pressure and without having to
change your routine completely so that's my idea for exercise number two for
whatever you do try to bring English into your life all the exercise I'm
going to suggest here are really connected to mental conversation instead
of speaking verbally you will be here thinking and that's a very powerful
activity that if you persist you will be very successful hmm nice tips don't you
think are you enjoying today's video I hope so I have one more exercise for you
but before I move on to exercise number three how about you share this video
with someone special got it nice let's go to exercise number three
which is listening to podcasts listening to podcasts is something that I believe
most of my students do I believe most of you guys do I have some podcasts on my
blog you can go check it out I'll leave the link in the descriptions but
listening to podcasts is something that everybody does consequently it's an
amazing opportunity for you to think in English okay well how do you do that
I'll show you whenever I am listening choice speaker during the podcast I
imagine myself talking to the person you know the the the speaker is saying
something that I agree with so I start to think yes you're right I agree with
you uh-huh yeah that's a good point exactly and I do all this conversation
this internal conversation in English because I want to practice thinking in
English so while you do the listening while you listen to the podcast
this is a perfect moments to explore that many
students get caught up in just understanding the podcast and even
translating why not think about it and ask yourself questions hmm what did I
understand here did I understand this part do I need to go back and listen
again so all this communication can happen
right here with the podcasts you can do that because it's something that you
probably already do it's probably an exercise that you already do but now you
can explore this mental practice of checking if you can understand if you
are following the the ideas in the podcasts and the good thing is it's
nothing new it's something you probably already do but now with the thinking
part after you finish listening to the podcast you can stop for a minute or two
and think about it what was the main message you can do the same thing you do
with the article but here with the podcast what was the main message what
did the speaker want to say so you can think about these things and remember
you can start thinking in English today do exercises in combination with
thinking in English and I am sure you will see wonderful results thank you so
much friends and I'll see you next time bye