English Brain Training: Start Thinking In English (2025)

1. Welcome to the Course: Hi, guys. My name is Shane and welcome to this course on English brain training. In this course, you will. Learn how to think in English and stop translating in your head. So what does thinking in English actually mean? Well, it means, in your head, you hear English words. This is a skill that most English learners never practice, and it's a big problem because if you want to be fluent in English, you must be able to think in English. If you can't think in English, your English may sound a bit unnatural. Slow and a bit weird because you always have to translate in your head. This may make it very difficult for you to reach fluency in English. Now, at the start of this course, I'm going to show you a simple four step process you can follow to train yourself to think in English. And the best thing is, you can follow these steps by yourself. You can do them anywhere and you can start today. After you learn the steps, I will show you some practice exercises for you to start training your brain to think in English. If you do these exercises many times, it will help your brain to start thinking in English. Now, here's a quick preview of what's inside the course. If you want to start thinking in English and improving your English fluency, I will see you in this English brain training course. 2. The Mindset You Need: All right, guys, welcome to the first lesson of this course. In this lesson, we're going to be talking about some things you need to know before starting the course. So let's get right into it. The first thing you need to know is, if you want to be fluent in English, you must be able to think in English. Now, we're going to talk about this more in the next lesson. But think about this. Do native speakers think in English? Are they fluent? Yes, of course they are. So if you want to be fluent as well, then you also need to be able to think in English. And like I said, we'll talk about this more in the next lesson. So I don't want to go into detail right now. Next thing, you need to practice. You must practice. This is the same for anything in life. If you want to get good at something, you must practice. It doesn't matter what it is, whether it's something with your brain or something with your body, like boxing, you need to practice. Guys, if you don't practice thinking in English, you will never get better. It's the same for anything else regarding English. If it's pronunciation, if it's grammar, if it's vocabulary, you need to practice. You can't just do nothing and then hope to get better. You need to do something. So for example, think about your first language. How many times have you spoken your first language, thousands, tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands. That's why you're really good at it, because you've practiced for many, many years, right? Now, thinking in English is a skill. It's something that you can develop, something you can make better. It is like a muscle. If you want to make that muscle stronger, then you need to practice. It's like if you want to build bigger arms or you want to build a stronger body, you need to go to the gym. You need to train that muscle. Otherwise, it won't grow. If you don't do anything, it's not going to get better. So you need to practice. Just watching this course, just listening to this course is not enough, guys. You need to take some time out of your day to do some practice thinking in English. Yes, it might be a little bit tough. Yes, it might be frustrating at times, but that doesn't matter. You need to keep going. Never stop, never give up, and always believe you can do it. If other people can do it, you can do it, too, right? Okay, so there's no other way to get better. You actually have to do it. Like I said, just sitting there, just watching the course, just listening to the course is not going to make you be able to think in English. So you need to practice. Next one, it takes hard work. It's not going to be easy. It's not going to happen in just one day. It's going to take time. Like I said, already, you're not going to get better if you just watch the course. You actually have to do something. Not just for one day, not for a month. It needs to be a habit. It needs to be something you practice all the time, and you need to put it into your daily life. And we'll talk about how to do that a bit later on. But if you put something into your daily life and you make it a habit, you will do that thing without thinking about it. You won't have to sit down and concentrate because it will be part of your routine. You will be doing it every day anyway. And like I said before, guys, it might feel difficult. It might feel frustrating, but it doesn't matter. Keep going. Don't stop. If other people can do it, you can do it, too, right? And the best things in life are difficult and take time. For example, if you want a really good body, it takes time, it takes dedication, it takes years of hard work. It takes years of doing the right thing or things. And if it was easy, everyone would do it. So you should be happy that this is not easy because you can make yourself better than other people. If you can think in English, your English will be better than other people, and you will have an opportunity to show that you are better than other people. You are more skilled than other people. So don't give up. Never stop trying. Never stop. But, guys, if you don't want to do any hard work, if you're not willing to do any hard work, then this course is not for you. So you should probably stop the video, close the course, and find something else to do because this course, you need to actually do something. You need to take action, and you need to do some hard work. But if you're willing to do the hard work, let's keep going. Next one, you will make mistakes, and you will hear your first language in your head. And that is 100% okay. It's not a problem. It's just natural because you've been speaking and thinking in your first language for many, many years. So it's just normal that you'll hear your first language. So if it happens, don't worry, that's fine. What you need to do is learn from mistakes. If you make a mistake, that is fine. Don't worry about it. It's normal. Everyone makes mistakes. But what you need to do is learn from those mistakes. If you make a mistake and then don't learn from it, then you're never going to get any better. So don't worry if you make a mistake, learn from it and keep going. Just accept it, try again, and most importantly, don't stop if you make a mistake. Just start again. Try again. It's normal. You're a human being, nobody's perfect, so keep going and keep learning. So nobody is perfect when they first do or learn something new. Think about the people who are the best at chess, for example, or people who are the best boxers. When they first started, they were not perfect. They were not very good. They were not very competent. But over years and years of practice, they have become masters. They have become experts. So this is the same with learning to think in English, it takes time, and you're going to make mistakes, and that's fine. Don't worry about it. It's normal. It is fine. Okay, next, try to surround yourself with English. Try to have English around you, if possible. Try to have an environment which teaches you English because the more you hear, the more you see, and the more you use English, the easier it will be for you to start thinking like a native English speaker. Because if you've always got English coming into your head, if you're always seeing English, it will start to train your brain to think in English. And if you never use or have English around you, your brain probably won't think in English. Why would it? Why would your brain think in English? It has no reason to think in English. However, if you've always got English coming into your head, coming into your ears, if you're always seeing English, then your brain will probably start to think more in English. So it's very important. Always try to have English around you where possible. Because you're going to learn vocabulary, you're going to learn phrases. You're going to learn some grammar. You'll see how native speakers use the language and you can copy them. And you can put that into your brain. So for example, if you always see native speakers using a certain word to talk about something, that word will go into your brain. And the next time you see that thing, you'll probably think in English because you keep hearing that word, you keep seeing that thing. So it's very important have English around you where possible. And another good thing is, you may learn automatically without even thinking about it and without even knowing. If you always watch English, if you always listen to English, you're going to learn things and you probably won't even know that you're learning. And this is fantastic because you don't have to concentrate on it. You just have that English around you, and it's going to help you to learn English and more importantly, help you to start thinking in English like a native speaker. Now, you're probably thinking Shane, how can I surround myself with English? How can I have English all around me? Well, there are many, many different ways you can do it. You can change your phone's language to English. So whenever you're using your phone, you're always going to be seeing English words and English phrases and English sentences. For example, if you're on your calendar, you will see Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, you'll see January, February, you're not going to see the months in your language. So this will help you to start thinking about days and months in English. You can watch TV in English. This is very simple, and it's a great way to see how native English speakers interact with each other. And this will also help you to think in English because you're seeing how they interact with each other, what words they use, what words they don't use, and sentences and grammar and other things. Now, you can change your computer's language to English as well, similar to on your phone. You can also do things on your computer in English. So if you're trying to learn something, you can learn it in English. Go to YouTube and type what you're trying to learn in English. You can make friends who speak English. So that means you always have to be thinking in English because you're talking to other English speakers. You can do your hobbies in English. This is one of the best ways to surround yourself with English. And it's also one of the most enjoyable because hobbies are things that you already like, right? So if you're doing your hobbies in English, you're going to learn how to talk about certain things. You're going to learn what vocabulary we use. You're going to learn about what phrases to use, what grammar to use, because you'll be seeing all of that all the time and you'll be hearing it. And another thing you can do if you enjoy reading is read in English. It doesn't mean you have to read a big book. It could be reading the news. It could be reading about your hobbies. It could be reading about something you want to learn. The most important thing is read in English. Do everything you possibly can in English. Yes, it'll be hard. Yes, it might be frustrating, however, that's just the way it is. If you want to get better, you have to do things that are difficult. 3. When You Learn A New Word: All right. Let's talk about number six, when you learn a new word, if you want to put that word really deep into your brain and really understand it, there's a few things you need to do. So the first thing you need to do is, of course, understand the meaning. You need to know what the word means. Otherwise, you won't be able to use it. You should use an English dictionary to find the meaning. If you're listening to me right now and you understand most of what I'm saying, that means your English is pretty good. You can learn English words by reading an English dictionary because your English is good enough already. Now, one dictionary I always recommend for my students is the Cambridge language learners dictionary. We're going to talk more about this a little bit later, but let me just quickly show you. Let's pretend you don't know what the word student means. Type in student. Click Enter and it gives you a very simple definition. Someone who is studying at a school or a university, very, very simple. Now, it also gives you the pronunciation. So if we zoom in a little bit here, you can see the pronunciation. You can listen to the pronunciation if you click here. You can also see if it's a noun, if the noun is countable or uncountable, countable is C, uncountable is. It also gives you some examples, a law student, a foreign student. Each student has their own dictionary. You see how you can learn the meaning of a word by using English. Also with the pronunciation, it tells you where the stress is. This little symbol that I've put in blue now shows you where the stress is. We know the stress is on the first sound of English, the first syllable of English. Now the next thing you need to do is get the pronunciation correct. You must get the pronunciation correct from the start. Please check the pronunciation. Go to a dictionary and listen to the pronunciation and copy that pronunciation. I know sometimes you might think you know the pronunciation, but please check because so many of my students, they pronounce basic words incorrectly. I'll show you an example a little bit later in the course. So please check. Even if you think you know, please check. It'll take 5 seconds, and then you'll know if you're saying it correctly or incorrectly. And when you're learning the pronunciation, listen and copy the native speaker. Don't use sounds from your language. Use sounds from English. And if you haven't learned the sounds of English, you need to learn the sounds of English. This is very important if you want to be fluent in English. Now, you also need to know the part of speech. Is it a noun? Is it an adjective? Is it a verb? Is it a preposition? And again, on an English dictionary, it will tell you what the part of speech is. Now, it's important to know what part of speech the word is because if you think a word is a noun, but it's actually an adjective, then you may use it incorrectly and you may not be speaking English correctly. So make sure you know the part of speech, very important. Next one, know any collocations. That means know which words are used with the word you just learned. I'll give you an example, commit a crime. This is a collocation. If we're talking about a crime, we often use the word commit with crime. Commit means to do. For example, we don't say to do a crime. We say to commit a crime. This is an example of a collocation because it's two words that we use together. And if you want to sound like a native speaker, you need to know collocations, very important. Now you also need to know if the word is formal or not formal because if you're using formal words when you're speaking, then of course, you may sound a little bit funny, you may sound not very natural. However, if you're using informal words when you're writing, then you also may sound a little bit funny, a little bit strange. Find out if the word is formal or informal. This is very important. You need to feel the meaning of the word if possible. For example, if you learn the word hot. You can feel in your body heat, warmth, hot. If you learn the word cold, you need to feel. You need to learn to feel the meaning of the word. Why? Because this is going to help you to think in English. And that's what this course is about, training you to think in English. If possible, guys, try to feel the meaning of the word and see the meaning in your head. For example, if I say the word laptop, in your head, you should see this right here, you should see a laptop. Try to feel the meaning and try to see the meaning of the word in your head, very important. Now, know all forms of the word. If you learn a new word, know the noun, know the adjective, know the verb. For example, beauty is the noun. Beautiful is the adjective. Beautify is the verb. So you've just learned three new words, but it's come from the same word. So you've learned three new words very, very quickly and very easily. So always try to know all forms, very important. Use and learn the word in context. So if you learn a new word, try to learn it in context. In context means in a real sentence. So you need to see how the word is used. You need to know, is it used with other words? Is it formal? Is it polite? Is it not polite? Do I have to use it with the verb to be? Do I have to use it with a preposition? You need to learn the word in context. Don't just learn a word and not look at any example sentences. You must, you must, you must always look at example sentences. And then when you have seen the word in context, you need to start using the word. You need to start speaking and use that word or write and use that word. If you don't use the word, you may forget it, but using the word will help you to think more in English to understand English more naturally. Another thing you can do guys is write it down. Many times. This will also help you to remember it and make sure your spelling is correct, like when you're speaking, always think about your pronunciation and always check your pronunciation. Very important. Second, last thing, guys, perfect practice makes perfect. What does that mean? Well, let's have a look at these two words. If I say i oi, above above, I'm practicing. Yes, I am. Am I practicing correctly? No, because this word is oil. This word is above. So if I keep saying oi oi oi, above above above, yes, I'm practicing, but I'm practicing incorrectly. I'm doing it wrong, so it's not going to help me get better. So when you practice, guys, practice perfectly, say things correctly. If you're not sure, look at the pronunciation and copy it. Go to the dictionary, listen to the pronunciation and copy it. However, if I say oil, Oil ten times, 20 times. I'm practicing and I'm practicing perfectly because I'm saying it correctly. And this word, if I say above above ten times, 20 times, I am practicing correctly, so I'm going to get better. But if I practice and I'm practicing wrong, I'm not going to get better. Do you see what I mean? When you practice, guys, you must practice correctly. If you're not sure, check the pronunciation. Very important. Like I've said here, always check your saying things correctly and check you're making correct sentences. Because if you keep saying something wrong, you're going to just make a bad habit. You're making a bad habit for yourself, and it will be hard for you to change that habit. And again, like I said, if you keep practicing and you're saying it wrong, you won't become a better speaker. You'll only become a better speaker if you practice perfectly. So this is super important, guys. If you want to improve in English and you want to start thinking in English correctly, practice perfectly. Be 100% sure you're saying things correctly. And the last thing, guys, is enjoy the course and have fun. This course is meant to be fun. This course is meant to be interesting. This course is meant to be very, very helpful. So when you're using the course, please enjoy it. Have fun. Please do the activities because they're very, very helpful, and I've tried to make them as interesting and engaging as possible. I've tried to ask a lot of questions, and I've tried to make it a very interactive course where you have to actually do something and you're not just sitting like this, doing nothing. So enjoy the course, guys. Have fun, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 4. Why Learn To Think In English?: Welcome to the second lesson in this course. In this lesson, we're going to be talking about why you need to think in English. Now, you will learn by the end of this lesson that it's super important for you to know how to think in English, if you want to speak English like a native speaker and if you want to use English like a native speaker. So let's get into it right now. Now, the first reason is translating from your language to English will make you speak slowly. If you have to, first, think about the word in your language, and that goes into your brain, and then you have to translate it to English. And then you speak it. This will make your English become very slow. And this is going to make having conversations in English very difficult because you always have to translate. And when you're speaking to other people or even listening, this happens very quickly. When someone says something to you, they say it very quickly. They speak very fast, and then they're waiting for a response. And if you have to think about what the person said, translate it, and then you have to think about your answer and translate it, you're going to respond very slowly. And if you respond very slowly, you are not fluent in English. A fluent English speaker can respond like that, and that's what you want to be able to do. So that's why you need to practice thinking in English. Number two, it may make your English sound not natural if you translate, because all languages have different ways of saying things. All languages have different grammar. Now, if you use the grammar and the vocab from your language and you translate this into English, it might sound a little bit weird because in English, we might say it a little bit differently. One example is in Thai, the Thai language, I Thai people are talking about how long something takes, they normally say it uses 10 minutes. It uses 1 hour. However, we don't say this in English. So for example, if someone said to me, Shane, how long does it take for you to get to work? And I say, it uses time 20 minutes. This sounds a bit funny. It sounds a bit strange. Yes, I understand. And yes, other native speakers will understand, but your English will sound a bit weird, a bit strange. I will sound not natural because in English, we don't use those words. In English, we would say it takes 20 minutes. If you want to sound like a native speaker and you want your English to sound very natural, you need to think in English and not translate. Now, let me show you what I mean. Al. Want Guido. Noodles. Cap. Want noodles. Okay, let's get back to the lesson. Now, the third reason is, if you want to speak like a native English speaker, and I know you do because that's why you're taking this course, and that's great. You have big goals, you have dreams, that is fantastic. So if you want to speak like a native speaker, you need to think in English because that's what native English speakers do. So if you want to speak like a native English speaker, you have to do the same things that native English speakers do. And what do native speakers do they think in English. They don't think in another language. Fourth, thinking in English will allow you to have more natural conversations, like we talked about before. In English, we say it takes 20 minutes. We don't say it uses time 20 minutes. So if you can think in English, your conversations will be more natural, and they will be faster because you don't have to keep translating from your language to English, to your language to English. Okay, fifth, you need to be able to switch from your mother tongue to English immediately. You need to be able to switch very, very quickly, and it should be effortless. It should be very easy because each language you learn, it has a different system. It has a different part in your brain because each language has different sounds, grammar and vocabulary and uses different ways and different methods to express, to share, to describe things, and to talk about ideas. For me, I speak Thai and I speak English and I can easily switch from Thai to English like that immediately, very, very quickly, and that includes pronunciation, accent, and grammar. Accent is another thing that's important, guys, because in your language, you have a certain accent. You use certain sounds, and that's great. That's good. English, we also have a certain accent, and we also use different sounds. So you need to be able to switch from your language's sounds and accent and grammar to English's accent pronunciation and grammar, because they are different guys, they are two different languages. They are not the same. They are not the same. And each language has a different system of sounds, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, like I talked about before. So for me, I can turn Thai on anytime. And I can turn English on anytime, anytime, anywhere. And it's interesting because when you speak a certain language, your mouth changes because you're using different sounds and your brain changes because you're using different grammar. You're using different vocabulary and different structures. Let me show you what I mean. So let's have a look at this sentence right here. In English, I'd say, What are you doing? What are you doing? That's my English brain, that's my English grammar. Now, if I said this sentence with a Thai accent, I'm going to turn on my Thai brain now. I'd say, What are you doing? What are you doing? This is my Thai brain. This is my Thai pronunciation, my Thai accent. Now, if I want to express this idea in Thai, I'd say, Kamala oka. Tu lay, walk up. Now, I didn't translate this sentence because the Thai grammar and the English grammar is different. In English, we start the sentence with what? In Thai, we start the sentence with um Tam. Tam means to do. You see how the grammar is different. The pronunciation is different and the accent is different. So you need to practice changing from English to your language, from your language to English. You should be able to do this very quickly. It's like you just click a button and you have changed. You have changed to a different language. Now, this is very important, guys. So practice this and you will be able to speak English more fluent. Alright, now it's time to get started. I really hope you enjoyed this lesson, and I hope it was useful for you and you can see now why you need to think in English and why it is super important. Now, part one of this course is learning the steps you need to take to start to think in English. So you learn what you need to do first, second and third, and so on. Part two is the exercises, practice, and the brain training. So in Part two, guys, we're going to do some exercises and things that will help you to train your brain to think in English, so you can stop thinking in your language, stop translating and just think in English only. So when you're ready, guys, get started, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 5. Step 1: All right guys. In this section, we're going to talk about the steps that you need to take to start thinking in English, to start training your brain to think in English. So let's have a look at step number one. Step number one is very, very simple. Name things in English. Very, very, very simple. Look around you. And name things in English in your head. You cannot speak. This is the most important thing. You cannot speak. You need to look around, and if you see something, put the name for that thing in your head. Don't speak, only think. Only think. So now, let me show you how to do this. Remote Cup. Tissues. TV. Phone. Watch. Flowers. Beautiful flowers. Cupboard. Now, one of the most important things is when you're doing this, think about your pronunciation and make sure you're getting it right. Remember we talked about this in the last lesson. You need to get your pronunciation right. Remember we talked about this in the first lesson of the course. You need to get your pronunciation right and you need to check that your pronunciation is correct. Why? Because perfect practice makes perfect. What's this? What do you see? Name it in English. What is it called in English? Correct. It's an apple of course. Okay, now, if you're not sure about your pronunciation, you can listen to native speakers, see how they pronounce the word, see how they say the word. You can use an English dictionary. So remember, we've talked about the Cambridge dictionary. So, for example, maybe you don't know how to pronounce this word. Is it to da tosta Is it Testa? You're not sure. So type it into the Learner's dictionary, and you can listen to the pronunciation. You can listen to the British pronunciation and the American pronunciation. Or you can know the pronunciation from reading the IPA. The IPA is the international phonetic alphabet. And if you haven't learned this already, guys, I would highly recommend that you learn it because it tells you the exact pronunciation of words. Now, another thing you can use is a website called U glish. Let me show you. So just go to uglish.com. Type in the word you're looking for. We're looking for toaster. Click Enter, and here it is. So you can play this video and you'll hear the speaker saying the word. And it's also got the transcript here so you can read along as well. If you're not happy with that one, you can go to the next one. And again, it's got the transcript. It's got the words written down here. Still not happy, go to the next one. Maybe you want to hear the US pronunciation. So click US and again, it will have a video for you. Click Play and you'll hear the pronunciation. This is a fantastic resource, guys, so please use it. Okay, so where should you do this? Well, what's this? Correct. Chair. Now, you can do this anywhere, guys. You can name things in English anywhere. You can start in your house, and then you can move to other places. So, for example, staircase. Clock, couch. Then maybe you can do it in a shopping mall. Tree, person, people, window, light. Then maybe you can go to the park. Tree, grass, branch, people blue bike. Then maybe you can go to the office and do it. So tablet, mouse, mouse mat, pencil, sticky note. You can do it on the train, person, commuter, door, window, paper, headphones. You can do it when you're on the street. Taxi, traffic light, building, flag. Crane. You can do it when you're watching movies or watching TV. You can do this anywhere and everywhere you are, look around you and look at the objects, look at the things, and name them. Now, that doesn't just include nouns. So you don't just have to say laptop, cord, hand. You can use adjectives to describe them. So I can say this is black. This chord is also black. I could say heavy table. So you can use adjectives as well. You can also use verbs. You can use any word that comes into your head to name and describe that thing. So, what should you do if you don't know words? Well, it's very, very simple. What's this? Correct. Coins. You can look them up in a dictionary and learn the word in English. Now, remember the things I told you in the first lesson. When you're learning a word, you need to know the meaning. You need to check the pronunciation. You need to know the part of speech and all those other things. Because remember, you're training yourself to think in English. Now, what's this? Correct. Washing machine. Alright, guys, that is the end of step number one, which is name things in English. So you can start doing that now. You can start doing that today. This is a very simple step, and it's going to help you to start training your brain to think in English. I hope you enjoyed that lesson, guys. In the next lesson, we're going to look at step number two. And like I told you before, after we've looked at all the steps, then we'll do some practice for this step and the other steps. What's this? Correct. Family. You could also say, man, woman, child, daughter, son, grandma, grandfather, stroller, dress, T shirt. There are many different words we could say for this one. 6. Step 2: All right, we have talked about step number one. In this lesson, we're going to talk about step number two for starting to think in English. Step number two is make basic sentences. That's it. Very, very simple. Because you've already learned to name some things. Now it's time to put those words together so you can make some basic sentences, not complex sentences, not long and difficult sentences, just some basic sentences. For example, I'm hot. I'm thirsty. He is drinking. The sun is hot. These are all very basic sentences. Now, what about this one? I'm cold. She is wearing white. Her hair is curly. Just some very basic sentences, guys. Nothing complicated. Now, remember, guys, you need to be doing this in your head. No speaking, no talking, all in your head. Do not speak. Now, I'm going to give you some basic ways. You can start a sentence, and you need to finish the sentence. Now, when you're finishing the sentence, think about the tents. One more time, I'm going to show you some basic ways. You can start a sentence and you need to finish the sentence. Think about the tents. Are you ready? Let's go. This morning, I had breakfast. Tomorrow, I'm going to work. Now, I'm learning English with Shane. Now, I hope you made some very basic and simple sentences, and I hope that the sentences that I put on the screen were helpful for you. Now, what should you do if you don't know what sentence to use? Well, that is a great question. You need to listen to native speakers. Watch them and copy them. So what do native speakers say in a certain situation? Watch that and copy that. Maybe you watch someone and they say, I'm gonna finish work late tonight. You can start your sentence with I'm gonna. And look here, I'm gonna finish work late tonight. So tonight is into the future. So you know this pattern can talk about the future. Now, I want you to make a sentence with I'm gonna. So stop the video, make a sentence, and when you're ready, I'll give you an example. Okay, so for me, I would say, I'm gonna go to the gym this afternoon. That's my sentence. Very simple sentence, guys. Nothing complicated, nothing difficult. And remember, you should be doing this in your head. Do not speak, please. Okay, another thing you can do is look around where you are and describe what you see. An example, this laptop is very beautiful. This screen is very clear. Okay? Just look around you, talk about what you see. Very, very simple. So look at this. Look at this room here. What room is it? Tell me in your head. Don't answer out loud. It's the laundry. We can say there is a sink. You can say there are one, two, three cupboards. There are one, two, three pictures. There is a washing machine. There are many objects on the shelf, very, very basic sentences, guys. Now, you can also talk about how you feel, how you are feeling in a certain situation. O so look at this picture here. How would you feel if you were here? If I was here, I would say, This place is beautiful. The weather is very nice. I love the fresh air. So there are many different things you could say, guys, about how you feel about this place. So these are the two main things you can do. You can look around where you are and describe what you see, and you can also talk about how you feel. Now, if you're not sure about a word, learn the word. So if you're in a place and you don't know the word for something, learn the word if you don't know how to describe something, if you don't know how to express your feelings, learn, learn the word, learn the phrase. Very, very important to continually improve and to always put new words into your head and to always keep thinking in English and making your English brain stronger. Now, as usual guys, always check the pronunciation. Always, always, always. Even if you think you are correct, check, okay? Go to a language learners dictionary and check the pronunciation. Why? Because perfect practice makes perfect. Now, let me show you a very common example of a word that students say incorrectly. This word here, many students say Iland. So let's find out the correct pronunciation. I learned. I learned. Again, you can click here to hear the pronunciation for UK and US. So the pronunciation is not Iceland, it's Ireland. It's not island, it's island. And note here, this A is pronounced as an U. Iland. Now, this sound here is very, very important. It's called the Schwa sound. Now, this is not a pronunciation course, so I'm not going to talk about it, but I'm just showing you that a lot of students, they think they are saying words correctly, but they are not. So always, guys, check the pronunciation of words, use the IPA and listen. Now, the website I just showed you, and I've showed you, I think, two or three times already, was a language learners dictionary. A language learners dictionary from Cambridge. If you need to look up a word, please use a language learners dictionary because it uses easier words than a normal dictionary because the dictionary was made for people who were learning English just like you. So language learners dictionaries always have very simple, very easy, very clear explanations. So please use them. And the one I was just using before is called the Cambridge language learners dictionary. So you can simply type it in in Google. And it will be the first one at the top. The word island again, look at how they explain it. An area of land that has water around it. It's very, very simple and very easy to understand. However, if you look at normal dictionaries, the explanation may use more difficult words, but a learner's dictionary uses very simple and easy words to describe a word. So please use a learner's dictionary guys because it's designed for people just like you. Now using language learners dictionaries will also help you to think in English because you're using English to learn English. You're learning new words by looking at English definitions or explanations. This is fantastic guys because you are training your brain to think in English, training your brain to learn in English, training your brain to understand words in English. You're making that muscle stronger. You're making that muscle better. Now it will also help you to understand the word better because you're learning the word in English. You're learning the definition in English. You're learning what it means in English. You're not translating because sometimes, if you translate one word from one language to another language, it has a slightly different meaning. Because each language, remember, has its own system and own vocabulary for expressing ideas, for describing things, for talking about things. And if you translate something from one language to another language, the meaning might be a little bit different. So it's always better to learn the word in English and learn the word by using a language learners dictionary because then you'll get the true meaning of the word. Now, if you don't know what sentences to make, think about words you already know and describe those words without using the word itself. So, for example, maybe you know the word light bulb. What is a light bulb? Well, it's a thing that we use to make light. So you're practicing to make basic sentences, and you're describing things you already know. This is a great way to practice your English and to start thinking in English. Now, when you've described the word or words, use a language learners dictionary to check. So let's have a look at the meaning of light bulb. Was I correct or was I incorrect? Let's have a look. A glass object containing a wire which produces light from electricity. So I was right, guys, because I said it's a thing which makes light. However, I didn't talk about electricity. So this is a great activity you can do to practice making basic sentences in English. Let's do some examples. I'm going to show you some words, and I want you to describe the word in English, like we did before. Light bulb. It's a thing which produces light from electricity. So I will show you some words, and I want you to think, not speak, think about the meaning of the word, and make basic sentences in your head. Are you ready? Let's go. To move at a speed that is much faster than walking. Something that comes from a plant which has petals and is very beautiful. Something that has walls and a roof and people do things inside it. All right, guys, how were your definitions? I hope they were correct, and I hope you could make some sentences in your head. Remember, you can use a language learners dictionary to check. So let's have a look at the word run. So we'll type it in at the top here, UN run to move on your feet at a faster speed than walking. So that's similar to what I said. What did you say? I hope it was correct. Now, after you can make basic sentences in your head, without speaking, so do it in your head. You can start making more complex sentences, start making longer sentences. But again, make sure you're doing it correctly. Check your sentences are correct. Remember, perfect practice makes perfect. So you can use words to join sentences together because since unless use these words to join sentences together. Let me show you what I mean. I love pizza. Unless it has pepperoni on it. So you see how we've made a longer sentence. This man is wearing white. Was this man is wearing yellow. I've used a word to join two sentences together, whereas, All guys, that is the end of step two. I really hope you enjoyed that. Remember step two is make basic sentences. Make them anywhere, make them about anything when you are comfortable with this step, you can start making longer sentences. Now remember this lesson was just describing the step. Now, you can start doing these steps whenever you are ready. So you can start now. You can start tomorrow. You can start in 5 minutes whenever you are ready. And again, in the next section, in the next part, we're going to do lots of practice for step one, step two, and all of the other steps. However, if you do start step one, don't move to step two until you are comfortable with step one. Never move too quickly. Take things slowly. Get comfortable with step one first, and then move on to step number two. And again, don't move on to step number three until you are comfortable with doing this step. Remember, make basic sentences in your head. All right, that's the end of this lesson. I'll see you in the next lesson, which is step number three. 7. Step 3: The last lesson, which was step two, we talked about starting to think in small sentences. Now, this is step three. So after you are able to think in small sentences, the next thing you need to learn is how to have small conversations, how to have basic conversations. Now, there are two ways you can undertake or do this step. The first way is that you can talk to yourself in your head. Yes, it sounds a bit funny, but it's a great thing to do to start building your brain to think in English. Secondly, you can respond to language that you hear. And in this lesson, we're going to talk about both methods, and we'll go into detail about both methods. So first, let's talk about talking to yourself in your head. Remember, you need to do this with no speaking. You can only think in your head in English only. So maybe you say in your head, Hmm. What should I have for dinner tonight? And then you respond to yourself by saying, I think I want to have some fried rice. Okay, very basic, simple conversation, not long sentences, not difficult topics, just very basic conversations. Now remember, in English only and no speaking. And if your language comes into your head, that's fine. That's no problem. Just stop and start again. So let me show you how you can do it. What do I want for dinner tonight? Pizza sounds good. No, that's not healthy. What about some fried rice? Okay. Sounds good. The second way you can have conversations is by responding to language that you hear. So, for example, you can do this by listening to anything. TV, radio, YouTube, news, real life, whatever. Just listen to something, receive the language, listen to the language, and then answer in your head. Don't speak, answer in your head. So maybe you're watching the weather on TV, and it says something like, Well, the weather's going to be wet and cold next week. In your head, you can think that's not good. I prefer hot weather. So listen to something and then respond in your head. Don't speak. So like I've said here, listen and respond in your head. Remember, English only, English only. And if your language comes into your head, no problem. Stop and start again. Now, this might seem quite difficult at first to have conversations with yourself or by responding to what you hear in English, in your head, but keep trying. Don't stop and don't give up. Mm. Oh most things are always hardest at the start, and when you get better and better and better, they become easier. It takes time. It's not going to happen in one day or one week. You need to practice consistently. So again, and again, and again, and again, and you'll slowly get better and better and better. Keep trying, guys. Don't stop. And remember, like I've told you 100 times, if your language comes into your head, it's okay. That's fine. Just stop and keep going. Start again, try again and learn from your mistakes and never stop. Now, I recommend you do this for 2 minutes twice a day for 30 days. So when you wake up, you can do this just for 2 minutes. And maybe before you go to bed, you can do this for 2 minutes and do it for 30 days. At the end of the 30 days, you will see a huge improvement in your ability to think in English in just 4 minutes per day. That's 4 minutes per day. The most important part is you are consistent and do it every day. So if you just do it one day here, and then maybe three days later, you do it again. And four days later, you do it again. That's not enough, guys. You need to make it a habit. You need to make it consistent and do it again and again and again. Alright, guys, that's the end of this step. It's a pretty simple step. Have conversations in English, in your brain with yourself or respond to what you hear. And again, the best thing about this one is you can do it anywhere anytime if you're at home, if you're on the couch, if you're on the train, if you're at work, you can do it anywhere. So please try to make this a habit. Please try to make this something that you do all the time. Now we've got two more steps to talk about, and then we're going to get into the exciting part, which is the brain training and the exercises. So I hope you enjoy this lesson, guys, and I'll see you in the next lesson, which is step number four. 8. Step 4: Welcome to step number four. In the last step, we talked about having conversations with yourself in English, in your brain or by responding to what you hear in English, in your brain to help train your brain to think in English. Now, step number four, we are taking that to another level again. We're moving up another level. So step number four is switch one part of your life to English. Can be any part of your life, but change that part of your life to English. So like I've said, you can have basic conversations now in English, so it's time to really start to use English. And one of the best ways to use English is by switching one part of your life to English. So something you normally do in your language, change that to English. You can do your hobbies in English. So for example, if you like to read the news in your language, read the news in English. This is a great and very simple way to start to train your brain to think in English. When you're reading, try to picture what the words are saying in your head. So if the words that you're reading are talking about a red apple, picture a red apple in your head. Remember, this course is about thinking in English. It's about training your brain to have English inside of it. If you see English, if you hear English, you want to see the meaning in your head, and sometimes you want to feel the meaning as well. Another thing you can do is switch your phone to English. I think we've talked about this before. This is a great and simple way for you to start thinking in English because if your phone is in English, that means whenever you use English, you will be seeing English. It will be teaching you, it will be training you to think in English. For example, when you're on your calendar app, you'll see Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. You won't see the names of the days in your language. If you do this again and again and again, it's going to train your brain to start to think in English. Next thing you can do is watch TV in English. Again, don't just watch the TV and think in your language, watch the TV and try to think in English. For example, try to respond to what the speakers are saying in your head, like we talked about in step number three. Try to picture the meaning of what the speaker is saying in your head. Try to feel the meaning. Remember, this course is about thinking in English. It's not just about sitting there watching TV. You need to be training your brain to think in English. Another one, you can read books. This is similar to watching TV. Don't just read the books, read the book, and think in English. See the meaning of the sentence in your head. Feel the meaning, see the meaning of words, see the meanings of phrases. Another one which is very simple but very useful, make your shopping lists in English. If you're going to buy some fruit and vegetables or you're going to buy some groceries from the shop, write your list in English. Don't use your language, write your list in English. This is a great way again to train your brain to think in English, because if you need something, you want the picture for that thing to come into your head, and then you want the English word for that thing to come into your head. Again, a very simple way to start thinking in English. The most important thing is, guys, that you do something in English, which you normally do in your first language. So I don't know what your hobbies are. I don't know what you normally do in your language. So it's up to you choose one thing that you normally do in your language and change it to English. Now, after you have switched one part of your life to English, and you've done it for a while, two weeks, one month, six weeks, you can switch two parts of your life to English. So maybe you've changed your phones language to English, and that's great. You've been doing that for two weeks, four weeks, and you feel quite comfortable, maybe you can change your laptops language to English or your computer's language to English. Now, after you've done two parts, you can do three parts and four parts and five parts. And eventually, you can switch most of your life to English because this is going to be training your brain to think in English. So again, this is a very simple step but a very useful step for starting to make your brain better at thinking in English. And after you've changed most of your life into English, that is great that is fantastic because you will be training yourself daily to think in English. When you have switched most of your life to English, thinking in English should be very simple for you because you've been doing it for quite some time. And when you do things for a long time, normally they become easy. That's the end of this lesson, guys. If you are going to start this step yourself, please make sure you are comfortable with step number three about having conversations with yourself or by responding to what you hear in your head in English. Now, we've got one more step that we need to talk about. In the next lesson, we're going to talk about extra steps you can do every day to start thinking in English and training your brain to think in English. So I hope you enjoyed that lesson, guys, and I hope it was useful for you, and I'll see you in the next lesson, which is about extra steps. 9. Extra Steps: Okay, guys, we've talked about the first four steps for starting to think in English. Let's quickly have a recap. Let's do a revision. What's number one? Name objects. Good. What's number two? Make simple sentences. Number three, have conversations, and number four, switch one part of your life to English. Perfect. Now, this is step number five. And in this step, we're going to talk about extra steps you can take every day to help you to think in English even more. So let's look at the first one. The first one is narrate your day. This means talk to yourself about what you are doing. So if you are doing some work, talk to yourself about your work. If you are cooking, talk to yourself about cooking. Now, you can also talk to yourself about what you will do. So what you're doing this evening, what you're doing after work. Whatever, guys, it doesn't matter what you say, it doesn't matter what you talk about. What's important is that in your brain, you are using English. You are hearing English. That's the most important thing. And again, you could talk about what you have already done, so you could talk about the past. For example, this morning, I was so tired, but I feel better now. Whatever it is, doesn't matter, guys, but this is a great step. You can take, narrate your day. That means talk to yourself about what you're doing now. Right now I'm cutting some garlic. The garlic smells a bit strong, but I cannot wait to put it in my dinner tonight. It will be delicious. Okay, next step, learn to do something in English. This is a great way to start thinking in English because you are going to be seeing how native speakers use certain words, certain phrases, certain sentences when they are talking about a specific topic, and you're thinking in English. This is a great way to train your brain to think in English because you're thinking in English and you're doing something in English at the same time. Now, you can learn anything you like. It's totally up to you. Learn something that you want to learn. It could be something really, really basic like how to boil an egg. Doesn't matter what it is. What's important is your learning to do something in English. Now the most important thing is, guys, when you're learning, maybe it's from a video, maybe it's from a book, maybe it's from something you're listening to. The most important thing is the language is in English, if possible, it will be great if the speaker is a native English speaker. Remember, same as watching TV, reading books. Don't just watch, don't just read. Make sure you are thinking in English. Make sure you're letting the English come into you. You are seeing the meanings, you are feeling the meanings, you are thinking English. That's the most important thing because if you're just listening to English, if you're just watching English, it doesn't mean you'll be thinking in English. So never forget this course is about thinking in English. Next one, talk about your day in English. Talk about what was good, talk about what was not good. Now, you can do this after you wake up and you can tell yourself what you're going to do today. So maybe you wake up at 7:00 A.M. You can tell yourself what your plans are for the day in English in your head. You can also do this before you go to bed, and you can say what was good in your day and what was not so good. There are many different things to talk about. Again, the most important thing is you're thinking in English, and it's in your head and you're not speaking. So try this one, guys, when you wake up and before you go to bed, talk about your day in English. Oh, that was a great sleep. I'm not sure what I'm going to do today. I think the first thing I need to do is go to the gym. Then I need to do some shopping. After that, I'm probably going to come back and finish making this course. Alright, I think it's time to get out of bed. Let's go. Next one, record yourself speaking English. Record yourself and listen to yourself speaking English. Now, I know this is a course about thinking in English, but we'll get to the thinking in just 1 minute. So record yourself speaking English. Now, the most important thing I want you to think about is see which words you always use. For example, maybe you always say the word good, okay? That's fine. Think about that. Now, try to think of different ways to say those things. Now, this is where the thinking happens. Try to think of different ways to say those things. So maybe you always say bad. Well, maybe you can say terrible. Maybe you always say tired. Well, maybe you can use the word exhausted. So listen to yourself, see which words you always use, and try to think in your head in English, of different ways to say those things. Next one, use a random generator. This is a very fun and interesting one, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it a lot. So what you need to do is go to Google and type in Random Question generator. Click Enter and choose whichever one you like. Let's try this one at the top. Now, when you click here, a question will appear, let's have a look. What languages do you speak? So what you can do is you can read this in your head and answer in your head. You could say, Well, at the moment, I'm able to speak two languages. And when you answer the questions, guys, try not to copy the words they use. Try to use different words. Another one, what would you do on a free afternoon in the middle of the week? So again, read the question in your head and answer in your head. Don't speak. Remember, this course is about thinking in English. Let's have a look. One more. Who inspires you to be better? Now, what should you do if you don't know a word? Correct. Look it up in a language learners dictionary. Let's have a look right now in Spire. To make someone feel that they want to do something and can do it. You see you guys how simple this definition is. Inspire is a word that's not used very often, and look how simple the definition is. So make sure if you're learning a new word, use a learner's dictionary. Very important, it will make your life very, very easy. Now, also look at the pronunciation, look at the IPA, or guys listen to the pronunciation and copy. Remember, get the pronunciation right from the start. Make sure you sound exactly like a native speaker. This is very, very important because you want to be practicing perfectly. Very important. Okay, in summary, guys, you can use a random question generator to help you think in English. Remember, when you see the question, read it in your head and think about it in English and answer in English in your head. Don't speak because remember this course is about thinking in English. Next one, use an English to English dictionary. Like I just showed you before, this is going to help you to learn new words in English. What will this do? It will train your English brain because you're learning English words with English. Look here how I said English to English. That means a dictionary that is only in English. There's none of your language. There's only English. So again, this is going to train your English brain, and that's exactly what you want. That's perfect. That is fantastic. And just remember, guys, please use a language learners dictionary. Very, very important because the definitions and the meanings are very, very simple and they'll be easy for you to understand. Okay, and the last one, guys, we've already talked about this, so I won't talk about it for long at all. Read in English. However, when you're reading, try not to let your language come into your head. So when you're reading, try to think about the meaning in English. Try to feel the meaning. However, if you hear your language, that's fine. It doesn't matter. Stop and start again. Now, if you don't know a word, of course, you need to use a language learners dictionary. But don't look up every single word. Only look up the words that are very important and the words that you see again and again and again. Because if you look up every word, then you'll probably be stopping all the time. It might be hard for you to have the meaning of the sentence come into your brain. So don't stop all the time. Only stop for important words and words you see again and again. All right, they are the four main steps and the extra steps for you to start thinking in English. Make sure you follow these steps. So do step one first. When you're comfortable, go to step two. When you're comfortable with step two, go to step three, and then, of course, go to step four and do the other steps. Now, in the next section, we're going to be doing some brain training and some exercises. So I'll see you there. This is the exciting bit, so I hope you're ready. 10. Words: All right, guys, welcome to the first lesson in the brain training and the exercise section of this course. In this lesson, you're going to get some practice with the first step, which was naming objects in your head, naming different things, using just one word to describe something. So first, you will see a picture. An arrow will point to a noun. An arrow will point to a thing. Name that noun in English, in your head. Please don't speak. Then after that, guys, we will do adjectives and verbs. So now we're going to do nouns, and after we'll do some adjectives and verbs. It's going to be pretty fast. So are you ready? Here we go. Let's go. Name these nouns in English in your head. Are you ready? Three, two, one. Student or students. Table or desk. Paper, or maybe book. Teacher. Blackboard. Television or TV. That's an easy one. Bag. Okay, that was the noun section. I hope you enjoyed that one, and I hope you got all of them right because they were pretty simple nouns that you needed to name. Now, guys, we're going to do adjectives. Okay? So you've got 10 seconds to think of as many adjectives as you can. You're going to see a clock. I will give you 10 seconds. And then when the clock has got to zero, we'll talk about some adjectives. Now, what is an adjective? Well, an adjective is a word that we can use to describe a noun. So for example, hot, it's a hot day. It's a cold drink. So hot and cold are adjectives. So again, guys, 10 seconds, think of as many adjectives in your head as possible. Please don't speak, and then we'll talk about it together. Are you ready? Let's go. The first one could be loud or quiet. Maybe the students are loud, maybe they are quiet. Next one, colors. We've got purple, we've got white, we've got orange. Colors are adjectives. Happy, maybe the students are happy. Maybe the students are bored. Maybe the class is interesting, maybe the topic is very interesting. Wide. It looks like the classroom is very wide. It's quite big. Packed, packed. That means there are lots of students and there's not much room because there are many students in the room. Okay, they were some of the adjectives. Now, please note that they weren't all of the adjectives. There are many, many, many different adjectives we could use to describe that picture. Again, this is just an exercise to get you thinking in English about adjectives. Okay, now let's do verbs. Same again. You've got 10 seconds. Think of as many verbs as possible in English in your head, but don't speak. Now remember, a verb is a doing word. Run, drink, play. Are you ready? Let's go. Write is the first one that I thought of. Maybe the students are writing on the paper. Read is another one. It looks like this boy here is looking at his book, so maybe he is reading. Learn, the students are learning new things in the classroom. Move. Maybe they are moving. They are changing their position. Teach the teacher, she Teachers smile. Maybe the kids are smiling when they are enjoying the lesson. Sit. It looks like all of these students are sitting. Stand. These four students are standing. All of the students sitting down, they are looking at the students who are standing up. Okay, guys, I hope you enjoyed that. That was picture number one. We've got four more pictures to go. We're going to do exactly the same thing. We'll talk about the nouns first, the adjectives, and then the verbs. If you're ready, let's have a look at picture number two. What are these? Shop signs. Window. Tree. Bin. Pole, light pole or street lamp. Person, people or shoppers. Dog. Pavement or sidewalk. Flowers. Okay, guys, they were the nouns. Now we're going to do adjectives. Remember, 10 seconds to think about as many adjectives as you can and remember in your head in English. Warm. It looks like the weather is quite warm. Busy. It looks quite busy. There are lots of people and lots of cars. Friendly, I think the people look quite friendly. This girl here is smiling, and I think this girl here is also smiling. They look quite friendly. Same again, guys. We can talk about colors, black, brown, pink, white, and green for the trees and the poles. Open and closed. The shops are open. The shops are closed. These are adjectives. Large. So the letters are quite large, and the trees are quite large. All right, guys, now we're going to do verbs. Same again, 10 seconds. Think of as many verbs as you can. Sit. The man is sitting. The dog is also sitting. Stand. The girls are standing. Bye, it looks like this woman here. She has bought something. Drink. It looks like this man here has a drink and he will probably drink it. Talk, chat. These girls are talking and chatting. Park. The cars have parked on the side of the road. Water, maybe someone will water the flowers and put water into the flowers. Open. Close. Open and close can also be verbs. So we opened the shop at 8:00 A.M. Eat. It looks like some of the people might be eating. Hold or carry. So this woman here she is carrying her bag. This man here is holding a drink. Alright, guys, that was the end of picture two. I hope you enjoyed that one. Now we're going to do picture number three. Now, I'm not going to stop between noun, adjective and verb this time. We're just going to do nouns, adjectives and verbs. Here we go. Headphones. Laptop. Phone. Coffee Cup. Coffee, I think it looks like coffee. Saucer. Saucer is what we put to the coffee cup on. Spoon. Hand, Notebook, or you could say paper. Pen. Adjectives. Here we go. 10 seconds. Hot, maybe the coffee is hot. Busy, maybe I think this is a woman is busy, hardworking. Maybe the woman is very hardworking. Stressed, maybe she's stressed. Charged charged. The phone might be charged. The laptop might be charged. Half full. Delicious, tasty. Colors white and red. Beautiful. Her writing is beautiful. Hard. This laptop is probably quite hard, and the table is hard, and the saucer and the cup are probably very hard. Smooth. Smooth. The table looks smooth. Okay, verbs. 10 seconds. Right. She is writing. Use. She is using a laptop. Drink drinking coffee. Sit. Stress. She is stressing about the homework. Place. She placed the laptop on the table. Put She put her spoon on the saucer. Highlight. She highlighted something on her page. Stir. She stirred her coffee. Tap. She tapped the spoon on the coffee cup. Okay, guys, that is the end of the lesson. I really hope you enjoyed that, and I hope it was useful for you. So now you can see how to do this first step, which is just naming objects or thinking about adjectives and verbs. Now remember this lesson was to show you how to do it. You can do this anywhere anytime you like. So please do it because it's a very simple thing you can do and you can do it anywhere, anytime. Now, if you don't know a word, please look up that word. So, for example, if there were any words in this lesson that you didn't know, please look them up. Please find the meaning for these words. Now, I'd recommend you do this for probably about a week before you go to the next stage, but you should be very comfortable in this stage of naming things around you before you move on to step two and to brain training step two. Now, in the next lesson, guys, we're going to be doing some brain training and exercises regarding making sentences, so I'll see you there. 11. Sentences and Seeing: Welcome back to the brain training and exercise part of the course. In this lesson, we're going to be doing some practice with making sentences. Now we're going to make some short, simple sentences. Nothing complicated, just short simple sentences. Same rules apply, guys. Same rules as normal. Please don't speak and please think in English in your head. Now, there's going to be five parts to this section on sentences. The first part will be describing what you see. That will be this lesson you're doing now. The next lesson will be describing what you feel. The third one will be finishing the sentence. The fourth one will be describing a word or object. And finally, the last part will be make your own sentence. Now, like I said, in this lesson, we're going to do the first part. I'm going to show you a picture. Please describe what you see in a short, simple sentence. You can use any sentence structure you like. It's entirely up to you. The important thing is your thinking in English. So for example, you could say, there are some trees outside. You could say, I see, I see a table. Whatever, it's up to you. The most important thing is you're making basic sentences and they're in English and you're thinking them. Again, it's entirely up to you. I'm going to show you a picture and you have 15 seconds to make as many sentences as you can. Remember, you can talk about anything you like. Just describe what you see. And after that, guys, I'm going to show you some answers. Obviously, they won't be all of the answers, but they will just be some possible answers. Are you ready? Let's have a look at picture number one. The car has four wheels. The car is very clean. The car is silver. There are mountains behind the car. The windows are very shiny. It looks like a cold place. Now, if you don't know what the word shiny means, what should you do? Correct. Look it up in a language learners dictionary. Okay, picture number two 15 seconds. Think of as many sentences as you can to describe the picture. Let's go. I There is a computer on the table. The room is very white. I can see a pen on the table. The woman is thinking. I think she's a doctor. The plant is small. All right, now let's have a look at picture number three. 15 seconds. Here we go. The lights are on. They are playing basketball. I see five players. They look tall. The court looks very clean. I can see a crowd. Okay, picture number four. Here we go. The woman is smiling. The man is opening the oven. I see a big hamburger. The woman has a nice smile. The food looks delicious. There are two chefs. Okay, last picture. Here we go. There are many people. They are shopping. It looks expensive. It's a shopping mall. The ceiling is very high. It's very bright. Now, if you don't know what the word ceiling means, again, guys, look it up in a language learners dictionary. Alright, guys, I hope you enjoyed that one, and I hope you can see that you can do this brain training exercise anywhere anytime. You can look around you and describe what you see. Now, in the next part, we're going to do a similar brain training. We're going to do a similar exercise, but you will describe how you feel. I'll see you there. 12. Sentences and Feeling: Okay, guys, welcome to part two of the sentences brain training. Now, we're still going to be focusing on making simple sentences. But in this lesson, we're going to be describing how you feel. Well, not me, but you. You're going to be describing how you feel. Same rules apply. What are they? Correct. English in your head, please. Now, this is P two, like I just talked about, where you describe what you feel in simple sentences. So I'm going to show you a picture, and I want you to describe how you feel or would feel if you were there. That's it. Very, very simple. Describe how you feel or describe how you would feel if you were there. Again, you have 15 seconds to make as many sentences as you can. Are you ready? Let's go. I feel very excited. The match will be awesome. I wish I had some headphones. I hope my team wins. I want the match to start now. Okay, picture number two, same thing. Here we go. The food is delicious. I think this will be expensive. I hope I don't get drunk. We should order more food. I'm happy to be with friends. Picture number three. I feel tired. This is hard work. I'm a bit thirsty. My feet hurt. The weather is nice. Next picture. This subject is great. I hope I can finish before seven. It's warm in here. I want to listen to some music. Studying is boring. Next picture. I they are cute. I want a glass of wine. Turn the sound up. I feel a bit tired. What's for dinner tomorrow? Alright, guys, I hope you enjoyed that. Again, I hope you can see now that this step here, you can do anywhere, anytime. Look around you, describe how you feel about that situation, or describe how you feel right now. Now the next lesson is going to be about you seeing a sentence, and you have to finish that sentence, so I'll see you there. 13. Sentences and Finishing: Welcome back to the brain training and exercises for sentences. Again, we're still focusing on making very simple sentences. Same rules apply, guys. Nothing has changed. Now, this is Part three, where you will complete some sentences. So I'm going to show you some sentences, but the sentences are not finished. Think of three different ways to finish the sentence. Again, you can say anything, you can talk about anything you want, but please think in English. Now, after you have thought of three different ways, I will show you some possible answers. Are you ready? 15 seconds per sentence? Let's go. Sentence one, I'm. Okay, so here are some examples. You could say, I'm hungry. I'm a bit bored. I'm going to the gym tonight. Sentence number two. I went to Okay, you could say I went to the beach last week because Went is talking about the past. You could say I went to work yesterday. I went to meet my friend this morning. Sentence number three. I like I like Pizza. I like playing sport. I like when it rains. Number four, I think I think Pizza is not healthy. I think I am lazy. I think I love learning English. And last sentence, sentence number five, he is. I he is a nice person. He is working. He wants to be a doctor. Alright, guys, I hope you enjoyed that lesson. And again, the answers that I showed you are not the only possible answers. There are many, many, many different answers. The most important thing is you're training your brain to think in English. Now the next lesson will still be on sentences, and it will be about you describing words and describing objects. I'll see you there. 14. Sentences and Describing: All right. Welcome back to brain training. This is sentences, Part four. So again, we're still going to focus on making simple sentences, and the same rules apply. So think in your head in English, please. Now, this is Part four, where you are going to describe an object or what a word means. So I will show you a word or an object. If it's a word, describe the meaning of the word. If it's an object, describe the object. Now, after that, I'm going to show you some answers so you can compare what you thought to the answer. So are you ready? Let's go. Number one, cat. A cat is an animal with four legs, fur, and a tail, which people keep as a pet. Number two, pillow. A soft thing that is used to put your head on when you are resting. Question three. A chair, an object that is used for sitting on. Four. A ball or soccer ball, a round thing that is used in a game which can be kicked. Five, a camera, a machine that is used for taking photos and videos. Game. An activity that people play or do normally for fun. Seven, computer. An electronic machine that is used to do different tasks and store information. Eight, Bread, a food that is made with flour, yeast, and water. Nine. Shoe or shoes, a thing that is worn on the feet. Last one, question ten. To. A soft piece of fabric used to dry yourself or dry something. I hope you enjoyed that bit of brain training. Remember, you can do this activity anywhere anytime. If you hear a word, for example, or you see a thing, you can describe that word or that thing in your head in English. Now the next lesson will be about you making your own sentences, so I'll see you there. 15. You Decide: Welcome back. This is another brain training lesson on sentences. Again, we're still going to focus on making simple sentences, and the same rules apply. Think in your head in English. Now, this is Part five, where you will say the first thing that comes into your head in English. So remember, not in your language, but in English. So I'm going to show you something. It could be anything. Maybe it'll be a picture. Maybe it will be an object. Maybe it will be a word and your job is to say the first thing that comes into your head in English. So after you make a sentence, I will show you some possible answers so you can compare what you thought to some of my answers. Now, for each thing I'm going to show you, you have 5 seconds to think, so you need to think quickly. This training is designed to teach you to think quickly in English. After you see what I'm going to show you, you have 5 seconds to think. Are you ready? Let's go. Okay, some of the things that came into my head were, life is amazing. This is amazing, or I can do anything. So your answers might have been a little bit different to mine. The most important thing is you're thinking in English and you're thinking very quickly. Alright, let's have a look at the next one. Question two. Some things that I thought of were, I hate clowns. A lot of people are scared of clowns. That clown looks cute. Again, your answers might be a little bit different from these, so don't worry if they are. The important thing is you're thinking in English. Let's have a look at number three. The reason is that I'm just too tired. The reason is he is sick at the moment. The reason is they aren't fans of sport. Okay, question number four. What's your favorite type of music? It would have to be rock. I love pop music. I'm a fan of all types of music. Or you could simply say, My favorite type of music is rock, pop. But when you're doing this, try to use your own words and try to not copy the words from the question. Okay, let's have a look at number five. Here are some things that I thought of. They look nice. I'm thirsty. A lot of people like alcohol. Okay, let's look at number six. These are some things that came into my head. I love my laptop. Laptops are an amazing invention. Laptops can do so many things. So for me, guys, this is what I thought of. I thought of laptops, but maybe you thought of something different. Maybe you thought about working. Maybe you thought about reading. Maybe you thought about drinking. Maybe you thought about sitting too long. It doesn't matter. The most important thing is your thinking in English. Okay, question seven. Let's have a look. These are some things I thought of. What is he doing? Is he drunk? That's my favorite Emoji. Another one could be something like he is crazy. Alright, let's look at number eight. So this is the Earth or the globe. Some thoughts I had were, I want to go traveling. Earth is so beautiful. How did life start? Again, your answers might have been different. Just remember. Think in English. All right, question nine. What is your Biggest fear. Favorite TV show. Mother's name. All right, last question, question ten. Some things I thought of were snails are very slow. I'm glad I am not a snail. Finally, the green colors are beautiful. All right. I hope you enjoyed that brain training as well. Again, you can do this anywhere, anytime. Just look around, see something, listen to something, and give your opinion. What do you think about it? Now, the next lesson will be about you responding to questions. I'll see you there. 16. Responding: This brain training exercise, I am going to ask you ten questions and I want you to respond by either thinking in English or you can respond by actually speaking English. It's up to you. I'm going to ask you ten questions, and for each question, try to respond for about 10 seconds. Don't say a very short answer like I live in Tokyo. Are you ready? Question number one. Where do you live? Question number two, what is your favorite hobby? Question number three, did you like going to school? Question number four, what's your favorite type of music? Question number five. What did you do last weekend? Question number six, what would you like to do in the future? Question number seven, do you like traveling? Question number eight, what is your favorite outfit? Question number nine, do you prefer hot weather or cold weather? Question number ten, would you prefer to go to the beach or to the mountains? Okay, that's the end of the lesson. I hope you enjoyed that one, and I hope it was useful for you. Again, you can do this anywhere anytime. You can listen to English, and then you can respond to it. 17. Seeing and Opinions: Okay, welcome back to another brain training exercise. In this lesson. We're still going to focus on making sentences. But you are going to practice seeing something. I'm not going to tell you what you're going to see. You're going to practice seeing something and give an opinion in your head in English. So I'm going to show you a sentence or a picture. It could be any sentence or any picture. All you have to do is give your opinion. What do you think about that thing or that sentence? For example, you could say something like, Well, I disagree because or you could say, I think that and then give your opinion. Now, for each sentence or picture, you have 10 seconds to give your opinion. Again, with the last lesson, don't give a short answer. Try to give a longer answer for about 10 seconds. Remember, when you give your opinion, it must be in English in your head, please. Are you ready? Let's go. Number one, learning English is fun. Now, an example could be, Yes, I think that's true because it's interesting to learn new things, grammar, and pronunciation. You see how this is not a short answer. We've given a full sentence with a few different ideas. We've said it's interesting, and we've talked about learning new things. Question two, So you could say something like, I think playing sport as a kid is super important. And then you could say, why. Okay, question number three. An example could be, Well, I think less and less people are deciding to get married nowadays. And then, again, you could expand your answer and say, why you think that way. Okay, next one question four. I think that all children should go to mixed gender schools. An example could be, Yes, I 100% agree because it can allow boys and girls to learn how to talk to each other. Okay, Question five. Pizza is the best food in the world. An example could be, I disagree with that. There are foods which are much more delicious. And then, of course, you could give some examples and you could say why or how. Okay, that's the end of this lesson. I hope you enjoyed that one. Now, again, I know I've said it 1,000 times, but you can do these brain trainings anywhere, anytime. Look at something, see something, and then give your opinion on that thing. What do you think about it? Now, in the next few lessons, we're going to talk about some other brain training exercises you can do, so I'll see you there. 18. Short Transformations: Okay. Welcome back to another lesson. In this lesson, we're going to be doing some transformations. This is one of the best exercises you can do in English, not just for training your brain to think in English, but just for improving your English in general. So let's have a look. So again, we're still going to be focusing on making sentences. But like I said, we're going to be doing some transformations. What does transform mean? Correct? Transform means to change something, normally to something better. Look at this example right here. I am a teacher. How can we say that in a different way? What's another way to say that? I'll give you 5 seconds to think about it. We could say something like, My job is a teacher. We could say, I work as a teacher. We could say, I am employed as a teacher. This sentence, this sentence and this sentence all have the same meaning as this sentence. So what did we just do there? What did we do? Correct. We changed the first sentence and we said it in a different way, but it still had the same meaning or a very, very similar meaning. Now it's your turn. I'm going to show you ten very simple sentences. Think of two different ways to say each sentence. Now remember, do this in your head, please, in English. Just think about it. Now, the meaning does not have to be exactly 100% the same. It can be a little bit different. That's okay, but it should be very, very, very similar. Are you ready? Let's have a look at number one. Number one, I like going to the gym. We could say, I'm a fan of going to the gym. We could say I enjoy working out at the gym, or we could say something like going to the gym is a hobby of mine. So all of these three sentences have the same meaning or a very similar meaning to this sentence in the Black. So these are not the only ways we could transform this sentence, but these are three possible ways. There are many, many, many different ways, but these are just three examples. Let's look at question number two. What are your hobbies? We could say, what do you do in your free time? Do you have any hobbies? What do you like doing when you're free? Again, these three sentences in red are transformations. We have changed this sentence and we have asked the question in a different way, in a different manner. Number three, the chair is made from wood. It's a wooden chair. The chair is wooden. The thing is made from timber. Question four. I can't cook. We could say, I'm not a good chef. I'm not able to cook. I'm not a competent chef at all. So again, all of these sentences have a very, very similar meaning as this one here. Number five, why are you not working today? How come you're not at work? How come means why. Why are you not working now? Why aren't you at the office? Question six. He's a nice person. He's very friendly. He's kind. The man is very pleasant. All of these sentences mean he is a nice person or have a very similar meaning. Question seven. Where do you want to live? Where would you like to stay? Which area would you like to reside in? Which suburb or district or state or city would you like to live in? So again, you can see how we can change this, and we can express the same meaning, but we're using different words or different structures. Okay, number eight, Coca Cola is not healthy. Coke is not good for you. Coke is a short way to say Coca Cola. Drinking coke is not beneficial. Having coke is not good for your body. Question number nine. I want to go to the beach. I would like to visit the beach. I would love to go to the coast. It would be good to go to the beach. Okay, last one, question number ten. Did you get my message? Did you receive my message? Did my message go through? Was my message received? Okay, that's the end of another brain training lesson. So just remember with this one with transformations, you can do this again anywhere, anytime. You can be reading something, and then you can think, hmm, how can I say this in a different way? You can be listening to something. You can hear it, and then you can think, hm how can I say this in a different way? This is called transformations and it's a great way to practice thinking in English. And it's just a great way to improve your English in general because a lot of the time when we are speaking a language or we're learning a new language, we like to say the same things again and again and again and we don't really learn anything new, and we don't really say things in a different way. But this exercise here, transformations can help you to start thinking how to express things, how to say things in a different way. Now in the next lesson, guys, we're going to do some much longer transformations, so I'll see you there. 19. Long Transformations: Welcome back to this lesson on transformations. In the last lesson, we did some short transformations. But in this lesson, yes, we're going to be making sentences, but we're going to be doing some long transformations. What's going to happen is you're going to read a full paragraph or three or four sentences. Your mission, your task, your job is to transform the paragraph into your own words. Remember from last time, when you do this, the meaning should be the same or very, very similar. Remember also no speaking, please try to think in your head in English. Let's do one example together and then I'll let you do some examples by yourself. Example, let me read it for you. The man is employed as a receptionist and would like to get a better job. This is why he applied for the manager position. The results will come out tomorrow. This is the paragraph. This is the example. Now, let's change it. Let's say it in some different words. So we could say the male, that's a different way to say man, works as a receptionist, that's a different way to say employed and wants to get a promotion. That's another way to say would like to get a better job. Next one, that's the reason. So similar to saying that this is why. That's the reason why he completed an application for the manager role. Manager position, manager role. And finally, he will find out the outcome tomorrow. This is the same meaning as the results will come out tomorrow because the results will come out. That means he will find out. He will learn the outcome tomorrow. Guys, this is a very simple example of doing a long transformation. Just do it sentence by sentence. Do sentence number one first. Do sentence number two, and then do sentence number three and four and five or however many sentences there are. Another way you can do this is you can just read it, and then you can say it in your own words. Maybe you could have four sentences, but this one only has three. Maybe you could have two sentences when you transform it, but this one only has three. It's up to you how you do it. Most important thing is you're saying it in different words and you're thinking in English. Now, you are going to see three paragraphs. Transform the language in your head in English. Please don't speak. Are you ready? Let's go. Paragraph one. Playing sport is good for your health. It provides many benefits to the player. One main example is it can make the player's muscles stronger. Everyone should do some type of exercise. Paragraph two, choosing where to live can be difficult because there are many things you need to consider. For example, the price of rent and size of the house are important. People are in their homes every day, so it's important to choose the right one. Paragraph three. The movie was about a man who went to school where he learned to do magic. He was the best student in the class and everyone wanted to learn from him. After he graduated, he started his own school and many students went to study with him. A Again, you can do this exercise anywhere anytime, especially when you're reading. If you read a paragraph, think about the meaning of that paragraph and transform it into your own words in your head in English. This is a great exercise you can do, especially when you're reading because you can read something, stop, think about the meaning. You can even write it down if you want, and then go to the next paragraph. You can do this again and again and again, and it will help to train your brain and build your English brain so you can start thinking in English more easily. 20. Writing: Okay, welcome back to another brain training exercise. In this lesson, we're going to talk all about writing because sometimes it is hard to find someone to practice speaking English with. However, you can write about anything, any time, anytime you like, and you can write about any topic you like. A lot of people ask me, Shane, should I be writing? Should I be practicing writing? And my answer is absolutely yes. Writing is super important if you want to develop your fluency in English. Why? Well, I think the main reason is that it keeps English in your mind, and it does help you to think in English. If you're doing it the right way. If you have a word from your language come into your head, and then you translate it to English, and then you write it. Okay, this is a problem. However, if you're thinking in English and then you write in English, this is great. This is a great way to practice thinking in English, and it's a great way in general to keep English in your mind. And yes, it might be hard when you start. It might be difficult when you start, but the more you do it, the more easy it will get. So remember, at the start of this course, I said that, yes, it might be hard at the start, but if you do it again and again and again, it will get easier and easier and easier. So like I've said, here, thinking and writing in English will become easy for you if you do it again and again and again. So in this lesson, guys, I'm going to give you five different topics to write about, five different topics. So put your timer on for 5 minutes and write something about the topic. It could be anything you like. Okay? Anything you like, just write something about the topic. And remember, when you're doing this, think in English and write in English, obviously. But what I'm saying is that English should come into your head, and then English should go onto the paper. Like I've said here, let the words go from your brain to your pen to the page. Now after that, I'm going to give you some writing activities you can do daily to help build your English brain. Okay, let's start. Now, this activity will take around 25 minutes because there's five topics, and you should spend 5 minutes on each topic. So please don't start this activity until you have 25 minutes free. All right, let's go. Writing topic one, how do you feel about learning English? Topic two, your hometown. Topic three, favorite celebrity and why? Topic four, what are your plans for the future and why? Topic five, what did you do last week? Was it a good week for you? Okay, so they were the writing topics. I hope you enjoyed them. Now I'm going to show you some things you can do daily to improve your writing skills and to start thinking more in English. The first activity you can do is write to do lists. So maybe when you wake up in the morning, you can write five things that you need to do on that day. And remember, think in English and then write in English. You can write shopping lists. So before you go shopping, you normally need to have a list. You need to know what you want to buy or what you need to buy. When you make your shopping list, you can write your lists in English. Think in English, put the word in your head in English, and then put it on your paper. Number three, you can keep a journal. So a journal is like a book, a notebook where you write in it every day, and you can write about anything you want. You can write about how you feel. You can write about what you're going to do. You can write about any problems you're having in life. You can write about any good things that are happening in life. You can write about anything, whatever thoughts you have, you write them down into the journal. Next, write about your day. Write about some good things that happen to you on that day. So not good things that happen to you on that day, and maybe how you can make yourself better. Number five, write a story. Think about something and write a story. Maybe you will write a story about a person who is learning to think in English. Up to you, you can write a story about anything and any topic. Next one, write a letter to a friend. This is another great one. You can write something to your friend. Tell your friend something that happened to you. Tell your friend what you want to do in the future. Doesn't matter. Just write something to your friend, write it in a letter format, think in English, write in English, and you know what? You don't even need to send the letter. The most important thing is that you're writing in English and sorry you're thinking in English, and then you're writing in English. All that is the end of this lesson on writing. I hope you enjoyed that one, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 21. Listen and Respond: Okay, in this lesson, we're going to talk about listening and responding. Let's have a look. So you probably think it's hard for someone to speak English to you, right? You probably think it's hard to find someone who's going to speak English to you. Well, that is 100% wrong. You know why? Because you can just watch YouTube, TV, or listen to the radio. Now in this brain exercise, you will watch TV, YouTube, or listen to the radio. What's important is you hear someone speaking English and that they're a native speaker. Now, after someone says something, respond to what they say in your head in English. So let's pretend you're watching something, and someone says, Well, pizza is the healthiest food in the world. You can respond to that in your head. You can think, well, no, that's not true. Pizza is not very healthy. That's it. That is how simple this exercise is, and that is how easy it is and you can do it anywhere anytime because all you need is a TV, YouTube, or the radio. Now I'm going to show you. I'm going to put on some different YouTube clips and you'll be able to see and hear these YouTube clips and you'll be able to see me, and I will give you some reactions and I will respond to what I hear. Are you ready? This is going to be fun. Let's get into YouTube right now. Okay, the first video I've put on is how to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed. This is a TEXT. These are actually great for you to watch to improve your English. So let's watch and I'll respond to what I hear. Crosstown. And the thermometer on the front porch read -40 degrees. -40 degrees, that is freezing. And don't bother asking if that's Celsius or Fahrenheit? 'Cause I think -40 degrees Celsius is the same as -40 degrees Fahrenheit. Let's have a look. -40 is where the two scales meet? Yes, I was right. It was very cold. And as I stood on the front porch fumbling in my pockets, I found I didn't have my keys. I hate it when that happens. I'm looking for my keys, I'm looking for something, and I just can't find it. In fact, I could see them through the window lying on the dining room table where I had left them. So I quickly ran around and tried all the other doors and windows, and they were locked tight. That is so annoying. You want to get into your own house, but you can't. I thought about calling a locksmith. At least I had my cell phone, but at midnight, it could take a while for a locksmith to show up, and it was cold. No, it wasn't cold. It was freezing. -40 is freezing. I couldn't go back to my friend Jeff's house for the night because I had an early flight to Europe the next morning and I needed to get my passport and my suitcase. So desperate and freezing cold, I found a large rock, and I broke through the basement window. Wow, that would have been fun. That would be fun to throw a rock through a window, right? Alright, guys, we'll stop there for this one. So I hope you can see that I'm listening and I'm responding to what I hear. I just click pause, I respond, and then I continue the video. This is actually really fun. Even for me as a native speaker, I enjoy doing this. It's quite fun. Okay, let's have a look at the next clip. Alright, so the next video that I found because I'm interested in diet, I'm interested in food. I'm interested in being healthy. This video is called cheap and healthy Meals for the week. Done in 1 hour. That sounds great, right? Let's have a listen. Don't know what I'm about to tell you. We all know I've cooked my whole life. Here's me cooking at five. And well, Here's me at 12. Wow. That was you at 12. I can't believe it. Look, that was a different Josh. Buli, depressed. I'm not gonna give you the whole sob story, right? The point is I was not at a healthy weight, if that's not evident by looking at the image. Thank you. Although I was an absolute legend at World of War Cracking. Don't you forget it. World of Raw Craft, I remember that game when I was a kid, so many people were playing it. By 16, I lost over 100 pounds. So yes, hard 100 pounds. That's 45 kilos. That is a ton of weight. Work pays off. But here's the goal. I want to take my fitness up a notch and get absolutely. That's not him. We read it. While healthy food sucks, and it's expensive and blah, blah, blah blah blah, I don't think so. I don't think healthy food sucks. I love healthy food. We're gonna learn together and end those excuses to Dm. Wow, those look good. Let's fast forward the video a bit. To eat brown rice. Texture horrible. Dry, and it takes longer to cook. I agree. I'm not really a big fan of brown rice. I prefer white rice. Oh, no. Make as much rice as you need. I did about 2.5 cups of medium grain rice, which wasrinsed of its starched to clear and added to a rice cooker. With 2.5 cups are 460 grams of medium grained white rice. 2.5 cups are 591 milliliters or 600 milliliters of water. Close it to that sweet That's true. A rice cooker makes cooking rice so easy, so simple. Alright, guys, we'll stop there for that one. We'll do one more video. Let's go. Alright, the next video is called How to Build muscle explained in five levels. Now, for me, going to the gym is something I'm crazy about. I'm addicted to the gym. I really love exercise. So this is something I'm interested in. Let's have a listen. In this video, I'm going to explain how to build muscle in five levels of increasing complexity, starting with the most basic explanation and getting more detailed as we go. That sounds interesting. Let's go. Now, in preparing this video, I consulted with a number of different experts, including a professor in muscle metabolism. Wow, he must be smart. He's a professor. An industry leader in the field of biomechanics and an active researcher in the field of strength and conditioning. I'm also a pro natural bodybuilder myself, and Wow he looks pretty strong. Been studying the science behind getting jacked for over a decade while coaching people from around the globe. Over a decade, that's ten years. That's a long time. Globe. And just for fun, I'd like you to comment below which level you got to before you started zoning out or getting lost. Alright. Alright, so building muscle is actually pretty simple. Okay, pretty simple. That sounds good. All you really need to do is lift weights and eat protein. That sounds easy, lifting weights and eating protein. I think anyone can do that. Alright, guys, we'll stop it there. Let's quickly get out of YouTube. Okay, we'll stop the lesson there. I really hope you enjoyed that one. Now, I think that this is one of the most interesting ways to train yourself to think in English. Now, just remember when I was doing that, I was speaking and that's just so that you could hear me so you could hear what I was thinking. Now, when you're doing this, try to think in English. But if you want, you can speak, that's fine. The most important thing is you're having English come into your ears, you're listening to English, and then you're responding in English. You're thinking in English, and you're either just thinking or you're thinking and then speaking. So try this one out. I think you really enjoy it, and the best thing is, you can choose what to watch. You can watch things that you're really interested in so it's not boring. 22. Summarising: Okay, this is the last lesson on extra brain training. In this lesson, we're going to talk about listening and summarizing. So this brain training is a little bit similar to the last one because in the last one, we were listening and responding. But in this one, you don't need to reply. You don't need to answer someone. You just need to summarize what you hear. So we listen to something, and then we summarize it in our own words. It's very similar to the transformation exercises that we did however, this time we are listening, and then we will summarize what we hear. So again, let me show you. I'm going to go back to YouTube and we can summarize what we hear. Let's go. Okay, this video is about how to cook perfect eggs every time. I'm going to listen to a little bit of the video, and I will summarize some parts and then we'll go on to another video. Here we go. Quick, cheap and easy, and if you don't have them in your fridge already, you probably should. Here are five easy ways to cook eggs perfectly every time. So it sounds like the speaker, she loves eggs. She thinks they have a lot of benefits, and she believes that eggs are something that everyone should have and use. And in this video, she's going to show us five ways to cook eggs. You don't need much for these first two preparations. All you need is a good nonstick skillet. That doesn't have any scratches on it, a rubber spatula, some salt and pepper, and a good amount of butter. So to start this, there are a few simple things that you need. For example, you need a pan, you need eggs, you need salt, and you need some butter. You want to use an on six skillet, eggs are notoriously sticky because of all the protein and a lot of other stuff in there. And you also want to make sure that you're not using any metal utensils on the pan itself. First stuff, scrambled eggs. One of my personal favors. Scrambled eggs, there's a lot of different ways to cook them. This is i that we prefer at tasty kitchen. So the first thing she's going to show us is scrambled eggs, and she thinks that there's a huge number of ways to cook them. Let's have a look. It's a great to crack them into a separate bowl first. One, in case you have any big chunks of eggshell in there. Funny Shell does get into the bowl itself. Totally fine. Take it. So the first thing you need to do is you need to crack the eggs into the bowl. Alright, guys, we'll stop there with this video. Let's have a look at another one. Okay, so this is another Ted talk. It's called How to Be Happy every day. Let's have a listen. So I have what some consider to be one of the toughest jobs on the planet. I am a mom. So she thinks she has a very, very hard job, which is being a mother. Yes. I am a parent to three very busy little boys who magically think I'm a doctor, a baker, a coach, a chef, a therap So this woman, she has three sons and her sons think that she can do everything. Therapist and have the patience of a St. 247. I truly do my best, and some days are definitely better than others, especially that part about having the patience of a St.. I want what most parents want for my kids. I want them to have a happy childhood. So she's saying that she's just like any other parent and she wants her children to be happy and to enjoy their time growing up. I want them to be free to play, build friendships, grow to be kind, compassionate, happy adults. But there seems to be one small challenge. The World Happiness Report states, at any one time, over 220 million children and 1 billion adults suffer from anxiety, depression, and conduct disorders. Not exactly a pretty picture of what she's saying is over 200 million children and more than 1 billion adults have problems with being happy. All right, we'll go on to one more video. Let's have a look. All right, in this video, we're learning how to draw. Let's have a listen. Just a few things to get started with with drawing. And that would be a small sketchbook. This one is five by eight, pretty much. You could also get a bigger one. So he's saying one of the first things you need to start let me say that again. One of the first things you need to start drawing is a little book, which is called a sketchbook or you could even use a notebook. You know, eight by ten or whatever. Um, so you're definitely going to need some sketchbooks. Also, the next important thing are the pencils. Another very essential thing that you'll need is a pencil or pencils. So you can find a little drawing set, pretty much anywhere. So the speaker recommends that you get special pencils and you can pretty much find them anywhere. So a little drawing set. Usually, you can find a bunch of different pencils and they come with an eraser and a pencil sharpener. Really cheap. We'll go over what all the different kinds of leads and pencils mean later in a different video. He said in another video later on that he's going to talk about all the different types of pencils and what they can be used for. Okay, guys, we'll stop there. Let's get out of YouTube. All right, guys, I hope you enjoyed that one. Again, it's something you can do anywhere anytime, and I think it's something that is quite interesting because you can watch things that you're interested in. If you're watching something that you're interested in, it's more likely you will do it and it's more likely you will make it a habit. Just remember when you're doing this, think in English and only in English. 23. What to Do If You Have Problems: This lesson is going to be a very, very short lesson. We're just going to quickly talk about what to do if you have problems. So what should you do if you're having problems thinking in English? Well, it's actually very simple, and it won't take long to explain at all. You need to go back a step. So do you remember at the start of the course, we talked about the four steps that you need to do to start thinking in English. Number one, was name things around you. Number two was think in simple sentences. Number three, was have conversations. And number four was, do your hobbies in English. Let's pretend you're doing step number three, and it's really, really hard for you. You need to go back to step number two. That's it. Very, very simple. Let's pretend you're doing step two. You're trying to think in sentences, but you just can't because you don't know enough vocab. Well, if this happens, you need to go back to step one because you're not going to be able to make a sentence if you don't have enough basic vocabulary. If you're having problems, guys, just go back one step. Remember, this is a slow process. It takes time. It takes weeks. It might even take months to get better. So do it slowly, take your time and if something is hard, go back a step. And spend some time on that step until you are comfortable. Don't rush. Take your time and only move on to the next step when you are ready. And if you follow the process, you should be able to improve your ability to think in English.