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earlier that day

hello this is Jack from tofluency.com.

Welcome to this English lesson which is

going to be a vlog. Many of you have

asked me to film what a typical day is

like and for me to take you out and

about and show you different things, so

that's what I'm going to do in this

video. It's currently 10:30 AM - I'm just about

to go to the gym and I've already had a

very busy morning. I haven't got any work

done yet but that's okay because I'm

going to get some time this weekend. I'm

going to go to the gym now because it might

snow later and, hopefully, it will because it

will make for more interest vlog, so

i'll see you after the gym.

45 minutes later.

I've just had a fantastic workout.

One of my goals, like I said in a

different video, is to get in the best

shape of my life and, it's a big goal - it's a really

big goal, but anyway what I've decided to

do is to have more intense workouts but

shorter workout. So today, I worked on my

shoulders and I lifted really heavy

weights. So, I'm really pleased with that.

I saw a couple of friends while I was there...

I spoke to them for a while and I'm gonna

grab coffee with one of my friends next

week - we decided to meet up next week,

get some coffee in the morning, talk

about business, talk about goals, talk

about life with children and yeah it's

gonna be good fun. This is the new

building that I see from my office

it's very grey. It's very grey. They're taking

a long time to build - it was meant to be

completed by the end of last year but

it's gonna take a bit longer.

I've been in this office for a few

months now. I love it here. It's my place

just to escape - it's a place where I can

actually get work done, so i don't have

to work at home and I've got quite busy day...

iIm going to go into a couple of

meetings, and then have some lunch, do some

admin - do lot's of admin and see

what else I can do in the afternoon.

But before I do all that, I'm going to check

the stats for this video, and if you haven't

seen this yet, I'll leave a link in the

description... I was kinda nervous about

publishing this video because it's a

little bit different. It talks about

inspiration and there's a different kind

of theme that I'm using or a format

of video that I'm using - but let me know

what you think about it if you've seen

it, check it out there's a link

below. One of the great things (about it)... I've just had

so many great comments on this video so

far. There was one especially that I read that I thought

wow this is amazing. So, read the

comments and leave your own after

watching it.

Let's do a little Q&A... I've be going

through some of the comments and there

are some people who are getting confused about

my book. So, I have a book that you can

download for free. It's called the

five-step plan for english fluency - if you go

to tofluency.com / book there's a

link in the description you'll be able

to enter your details and download this

for free. Now, some people are calling me

a liar -

they're saying you are liar ,you can't

get this book for free.

I think what is confusing people is

either one of two things: either when you

get to the thank you page, what it says

is this: it says you can share my book to

get my audio book as well. So, after you

enter your details, I send you my book

for free. But if you share it with other

people and other people downloaded it,

then you can also get the audiobook, some

PDF lessons and a couple of private

videos too.

Now, the other thing that I think

confuses people as well is sometimes

they enter the wrong email address or

sometimes the book goes to the spam

folder. So, if you have entered your

details, check the spam folder and then

add my email address as a safe email

address. And also just try again if you

don't see it because maybe you entered

your email address incorrectly I also got

a question from Hsu Hsu the other day asking

about how he can improve his writing and

this is obviously one of the skills of

English and in most cases, you'll need to

have good writing skills. It, obviously,

depends on how you are going to use your

English but it's always a good idea to

improve your writing because it helps

improve other skills as well. And the

best way you can improve is by practice.

Adding to your vocabulary is going to

help... being able to

understand what words mean is going to

help so then you can use those words

correctly. Also having a good idea of

grammar is going to help too. Check out

the description and learn more about the

Sentence Method. But it's important that

you practice as well. What's interesting

is that there are two main ways that you

can practice, so you can write naturally

and have your teacher correct this for

you. You can practice by leaving a

comment on my video - you can practice

your writing in many ways in a natural

way. But there's also something called

deliberate practice and to help me

explain that, think about a soccer player

or a football player. Soccer - football -

soccer - football. But think about a

football player -I'm going to use British

english - they do some drills when they

are training. So, they'll practice

sprint,=s, crossing the ball, heading the

ball, kicking the ball, passing, shooting

etc., they'll do those drills on a daily

basis,

repeating these drills over and over again

to get better at that specific skill. But

then they'll have a practice match or

when they actually play a match that's

when they get natural practice. And you

can think about that when learning

English as well, so,

when it comes to deliberate practice,

what you can do is copy somebody's

article. Now i'm not talking about

copying an exam but basically you can

just take any kind of writing and just

copy it down -

read it, copy. Read it, copy - and that way,

you're getting this deliberate practice

and you're focusing on the type of writing

that you want to use. So, let's say in

your job you send lots of emails... you can

search on Google for email templates,

read them (and) copy them down. So, that is a

great way to get deliberate practice. A

final question for today's from Vasco and

he asks: can you explain the difference

between come and go back? Now, I actually

made a video on this.

I've made a video and I'll leave a link

in the description you'll be able to

watch that full lesson but basically,

what we're talking about here is a point

of reference of the speaker. And I can

say, for example, I'm going to go back

home soon - I'm going to go back home soon -

Because i'm not at home I'm somewhere

else and I go back home. But imagine that

I had a lot of co-workers and they were

late for the meeting...

I can tell them: come back to the office

now, the meeting is going to start

because I am here and I'm telling them

to come to me to come back to me. But

check that video to get a full

explanation.

Okay, back to the admin and then i'm going

to have some lunch.

It's now time to go live on Facebook.

Let's do it.

Hello, everybody, this is Jack from

tofluency.com and welcome..

I'm somebody who is constantly thinking

about how to get more energy and a few

years ago, I was reading the importance

of standing and more specifically,

the importance of not sitting all day and a

few studies that came out - a few reports - that

talked about how when you sit down all

day,

it really makes dramatic changes to your

body and not in a good way.

So, a couple years ago, I bought this

stand-up desk. I love it, it's fantastic

because you can crank it up and you can

crank it back down again. Sometimes, you

know, I sit down all day, you know, I'm

tired, sometimes, I don't have that

motivation just to stand up. But I've

just been standing up for two and a half

hours or so here in the office and my

feet are starting to hurt so I decided to crank

it down and sit down for a bit. I'm just

gonna edit some videos now and then I

need to take a walk today - I need to get

outside and do something so, er, I'll

see you outside.

It's snowing!

This is the balcony that comes with my

office. Now, this is fantastic in spring,

summer, fall... but right now, I don't spend

too much time out here because it's

freezing but it's currently snowing

I'm super excited about that my son will be

too - he's been talking about the snow so

much recently and I'm gonna show you why

can see from this office building.

Depending on how heavy the snow gets, I

may go home early but I think the roads

should be clear enough and I was going to

go for a walk but it's too cold. as you

can see the snow is getting heavier so

I'm gonna head on home pick up my son

from school and then cook dinner for the

evening.

Now, if you have enjoyed this style of

video, then please let me know in the

comments section. Also please let me know

by giving it the thumbs up and sharing

it with anyone who would find it useful.

Look at the description because I'll

leave some vocab words I used in this

lesson and that means you can learn new

words and phrases. And thank you for

watching,

it's great to have you here, speak to you

soon!