Now the next skill is writing with writing again I have a few tips you can do and journal about your
day.
And the reason I like that one is because you can if you only have a minute.
Like I said on a busy day write one sentence.
Today was crazy.
I was super busy today.
I'm really upset at my partner today.
Whatever you need it can be about what you did what you feel what you're thinking about for tomorrow.
Now if you have more time and journal about what you did you can take it to the next level by maybe
saying a sentence about something happened yesterday.
What happened today.
What you're going to do tomorrow.
Then it's the past the present and the future tenses and no one's going to correct these.
And that's not the point.
You might be thinking but what if I'm making mistakes and I don't even know so I'm just writing them
over and over again.
So if you notice something like I want to talk about tomorrow but I'm not sure how.
You know.
OK.
I need to go practice the future tense a little bit.
If you're writing and you're also reading a book or watching a show and you start noticing the way they
talk about the present or past or future then you can say Oh I think I sent this wrong let me fix it
so don't correct your password but rather fix it in the moment and for future journal entries.
Now another thing you can do for example maybe you're in the fashion industry or you are in science
or you are.
I don't know anything really.
And you want to make sure that you can write about your industry or your field than what I would recommend
for you is copying.
And I don't mean publishing copy work that's plagiarism.
I mean take an article that you like.
Maybe if you are a Ph.D. candidate for example and you're writing about psychology find some psychology
papers or articles or blog posts and I want to copy them.
Also figure out how do you learn best.
Do you learn better by handwriting or by typing for me.
Typing helps me remember faster whereas handwriting I get bored.
To figure out what's good for you.
And you can copy.
I would recommend honestly just copy one paragraph per day so that will probably take you maybe five
to 15 minutes depending on how fast you type or write.
So this is a good activity when you have a little bit of time.
Don't write the whole article because you'll stop paying attention in everything that I want you to
do.
You need to be very mindful.
You need to be present because when you're copying that paragraph you're writing correct English and
I want you to pay attention.
Where does that person use commas.
What kind of sentence structure does someone who's writing about psychology use.
Or you might realize OK there are a lot of words I don't know in this paragraph and I'm a psychologist
so that means that you really need to focus on vocabulary development for your industry and if you're
learning English for fun and not for your field.
If you like a TV show fine article about that TV show.
If you lost style or fashion pick an article from Vogue or a fashion blog and copy that to be open minded.
Find things that you either need or that you just really like.
And again don't copy the whole thing you want if you have a full hour.
Most people will not be able to pay attention for that long.
When you do a full hour do different things.
Just copy one paragraph and then move on to something different.
Now another thing that I love because I am obsessed with instagram and those of you who follow me on
Instagram know this.
Use social media if you already are on Facebook every day or you check your Instagram.
If you follow me if you are on YouTube I want I want you to do is comment.
Now the great thing about this is nobody cares because it is the Internet.
There are so many people on there.
If you make mistakes I'll be honest most people aren't going to read your comment which is good it's
less pressure.
And if you're following English teachers like myself we design things for you to write so I always have
writing prompts or questions.
So you're guided if you are not following English teachers and you're watching a video about cats think
comment and say oh I have a cat and it's so cute.
I want you to get over keeping English to yourself and just get in the habit of putting it out there.
I'll do this sometimes with friends to practice in the first few times.
I was so nervous.
Oh my gosh I'm making mistakes.
I don't know what I'm saying.
But the more you do it it feels kind of cool and you pay attention to what you want to say because then
you might think oh I went on an amazing vacation to Hawaii and I wanted to comment about it and I didn't
know how to talk about being in a resort.
So then you can go back find some vocabulary figure out what you need to learn or strengthen.
And that way you identify your weaknesses and you mediately grow from that and remember have fun follow
English teachers.
Sure.
But also follow other people and just comment honestly.
I'm on Instagram everyday.
So that's why that's a great place for me to practice when I need to comment or learn things.
Fine what medium works for you.
Maybe you love Twitter.
Maybe you love Pinterest whatever it is the beautiful thing is there always comment sections.
So use those to improve your writing.
Let's start right now.
Find me on your favorite social media platform.
Go to my most recent post and leave a comment.
I know it might feel a little weird or might make you a little nervous at first but I promise it's so
much fun and it will help you use english and start interacting in the real world.
I can't wait to meet you.