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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia and today we're going
to talk about 10 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 uh in
the in the upwards direction you can
always try to be pushing
um 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
going to be really difficult to meet
your goal it's going to 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 can 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
of 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 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
enroll 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 responsibility
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 fifty
dollars 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 in
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
every day 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
ways 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
30 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 and 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 study 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 30 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
high score in the game so scrabble is
one way that you could do it for
children one that's good is sort of like
a 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've
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 10 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
procrastination let us know in the
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