Александр Чумаков – A Fantastic English Course. Change your mind, change your English, change your life (страница 2)

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Okay, now you have a clear picture of what you are going to do in this fantastic English course called “Change your Mind, Change your English, Change your Life”

Good luck to you! And see you soon.

How to do this Course

The name of the course “Change your Minds, Change your English, Change your life” speaks for itself. You start with an idea, right? Now it is in your head. You are preoccupied with this fantastic idea, wonderful thought and burning desire to speak English better than you are doing now. You already understand that all you have to do is change things around you. But how? Let me walk you through this process.

Now you conjure your vivid imagination to help you. You literally say, “My vivid imagination come to me. Come to me now. I need you now!” Yes, we need help sometimes. It is your vivid imagination that can make your dreams to speak Russian, more powerful, more colorful and clearer.

It is your vivid imagination that can give your dream the energy, the vitality and most importantly hope that everything will come out okay and you will certainly become successful at speaking English. Now I want you to imagine yourself speaking English. It is very easy, right? See yourself in your head speaking Russian wherever you want to: at a restaurant, on the plane, on the phone. Use that powerful instrument, that powerful weapon you have at your disposal, which is called imagination. Do it! This is your first step to make.

Second step: You believe that your desire to speak English can be real.

Now look around and find a person who already speaks English very well. In other words, you look around and you begin to look for your role model. The person who has already done what you are just going to do. This person shows you that what you want to do is possible. If he has done it, so you can do it too.

If you learned English before, let’s say in school, you took English courses or you tried to learn English by yourself. Now I want you to remember some moments from your past where you were already successful. It maybe a small victory: you were successful at saying a few sentences in English; maybe you learned a little poem or a rhyme in English. I don’t know. But one thing I know for sure is that if you did it before and if you were successful, you can do it again, but this time you are going to do it much faster and far better.

If it happened to you before, it can happen again. If you did it once, you can do it again.

All this will give you confidence, and it will give you the emotional boost to start working at this fantastic course.

Third step: Make it real. Make it tangible. Make it viable. Breath life into it

Every single day you listen, read and say loudly one lesson. You do it as many times as you can. Not one time, not two times and not three times. No! You do it as many times as you can. One time is never enough. One time never works.

And finally step number four which is discipline. Discipline is the last piece of miracle. This is the most critical step, because discipline is the bridge between your wish to speak English and your ultimate goal to become an excellent English speaker. Every single day you have to build that bridge by listening to my voice and by answering the questions.

Every day (except Saturday and Sunday) you train your brain. Every day you help yourself become better at English. Every day you make another small step across that bridge, you endeavor in the direction of your dream which is to speak true, real and excellent English.

So let’s sum it up:

1. You imagine yourself speaking English.

2. You believe in yourself. You believe that you can do it. You believe that you will speak English better than you are doing now, much better.

3. You work hard to breathe life into your dream.

4. You discipline yourself. Every single day you listen to me and answer the questions.

That’s it. This is a very easy formula, but it is very powerful. It does work!

If you follow this simple formula, I promise, you will certainly understand English better and you will speak English better than you are doing now. You are changing now, so your English is changing with you.

Good luck to you!

See you soon.

With love and respect,

Your English teacher Alex.

Unit 1 “What does it take to be an English Learner?”

Hi there! This is Alex and this is our first lesson of our fantastic English course called “Change your English, Change your life”.

In this lesson I am going to talk about things that English learners can face with while learning English. Actually, I am answering the question “What does it take to be an English learner?” In other words, what you should do to become what you want to become – a fantastic English learner.

And then you are going to have your vocabulary lesson where I am going to explain some words you may not know to help you establish, make deep, meaningful and strong connections between words to learn them faster and better and to remember them faster and longer.

And then there is going to be your mini-story lesson where I am going to tell a crazy, funny and stupid story and ask a lot of easy questions and answer them.

And finally, you will listen to my comments on this video where I am going to tell you about what it is there between the lines, how to improve faster and how to become a better English speaker and a fantastic human being.

Let’s get started.

Here is the QR code that you can scan with your phone’s camera and watch the video on my YouTube channel where I am answering this question or you can stay here and keep reading and listening to this lesson. It’s your choice. But if I were you would do both. I would watch the video and then I would read and I would listen to it.

Here we go.

Hey there! Welcome to Alex says, where you ask questions and I answer them.

My goal is to help you speak English like never before. Let’s begin.

Today’s question comes from Laura and Laura wants to know “What does it take to be an English learner?”

It is not an easy question to answer, but let me try.

Learning a foreign language, English, in particular, is certainly a huge challenge. And it literally can take years. It is not an easy process. And why should it be easy? No one said it should be easy.

But you should take it as an adventure. If you see learning English as a wonderful, fantastic and interesting journey, it will certainly change everything.

For example, let’s see an English learner as a marathon runner, not a sprinter. Of course, there are forces that pull you to left and right, but you have to stay on your course. And that involves a huge effort. And as I said it is not this day and that day. It takes time.

That’s what my parents taught me, by the way. Good things take: a long time, a huge commitment and they are difficult. And you have to be prepared for that.

Simply to say, you have to be a big believer. You have to be an optimist, believing that future will be brighter tomorrow. You have to see the end results. See yourself speaking true, real and excellent English and feel proud of yourself when you speak English.

If you do this, I promise you will certainly start speaking English like never before.

Thanks for the question. Take care of yourself. Take care of each other.

Okay, this is the end of this lesson. I mean you have watched or listened to the video and now, I am sure, you have a better understanding what it takes to be an English learner. But if you still have some difficulties understanding some words, don’t worry. I’ll explain them to you in the vocabulary lesson. You can watch this video as many times as you want to and you can share it with your friends to help them know it really takes to become an English learner.

Have a great day and see you soon. Bye for now.

The vocabulary lesson

Hi, this is Alex and this is the vocabulary lesson for “What does it take to be an English Learner?” Let’s get started.

Let me briefly remind you of what we need the vocabulary lessons for and how you can improve your English from them.

First of all the vocabulary lessons teach us the meaning of the words you might know and you may not remember well. Secondly, you it teachers us one very important thing which is the ability to paraphrase the sentence. and thirdly, it liberates you from the story by offering you a choice, a variety of similar verbs, I am talking about synonyms so that you could speak true, real and excellent English. By changing your vocabulary, you change everything around you. People begin to notice you. They remember you better and as a result, they treat you better. Isn’t it wonderful?

So let’s dive into our vocabulary lesson.