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The Pending Subject: How to use sport and exercise to improve your English!
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One of my principles for learning English is to make it fun. If it is fun you will enjoy yourself; if you enjoy yourself then you will repeat the practice and convert it into a routine; if you make it a routine you will reach your goals. Simple! One way of making your English learning fun is to combine it with a sport or an exercise you like (or any hobby of course). In the behavioural psychology world this is called habit-stacking, habit-pairing, or anchoring a current habit to a new one you would like to implement. All of this basically means combining one habit with another so you make it easier for yourself to do the new one. So, how can you pair sport and/or exercise with English? Here is how you can do it... TIPS
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There are many sports websites with lots of great content. Some of my personal favourites are: https://www.bbc.com/sport https://espndeportes.espn.com/ https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/uk/ A CHALLENGECombine a sport you like or an exercise routine with English for a week. See how you progress. Remember: When you make it fun, you make it a routine, and when you make it a routine you make progress! You just need to start... (A great place to start is the 5-5-5 Progress Plan). AN INSPIRING QUOTE"No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part." Tiger Woods (my favourite sports player!). Think of progress as exciting like Tiger! If you really want to learn English, you can also read the How to (finally) learn English book: https://benpalmercoach.com/books/ Out now on Amazon! Find out more at https://benpalmercoach.com/ Until next week, Ben PS: Keep learning! |
The Pending Subject
Hi! People often tell me about the difficulties they have to learn English.. So, every Thursday I write a free newsletter that you can read in less than 5 minutes, which is full of tips, content and more to help you improve your English! If you want to join the 1000+ subscribers, sign up below... I'd love to help you learn English!
The Week In English Perfect Practice Makes Perfect... Here is a summary of my posts from the last seven days, as well as a couple of articles from the web about something important in the world of news and sport. Ted Talk Tuesday- Which Sunscreen Should You Use? To really practise your listening skills, you should use short audios/videos that can be repeated. Every Tuesday I share a Ted Talk that allows you to do exactly that. I want to improve my listening skills! The Pending Subject...
Welcome to The Pending Subject Newsletter Every Thursday you will receive: Tips to improve your English English language content to keep you in touch with the language A weekly challenge to keep you progressing A quote to inspire your learning Today, AI can detect diseases, drive cars, process massive amounts of data to solve problems faster than humans, and be an English teacher wherever and whenever you need it. A teacher, not a creator, or a translator! Because AI shouldn't be a shortcut...
Welcome to The Pending Subject Newsletter Every Thursday you will receive: Tips to improve your English English language content to keep you in touch with the language A weekly challenge to keep you progressing A quote to inspire your learning Students often say to me they want to sound more 'native.' A fine way of doing that is to learn metaphors. A metaphor is a comparison between two otherwise unrelated things. That’s the boring, standard definition of a metaphor. I prefer a more exciting...