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1. My reflections

In this episode Amy makes us think about what are our goals for this year. She proposes to us “think big” about these goals as a way to move forward faster and realize what are our weakness, this is a first step toward to understand how we can overcome these obstacles that are holding us back to envolve.

To help in this thought, Amy shows up the concept called “Deliberate Practice” she will explain in tree podcast episodes a little bit more about this approach that can help the students overcome these barriers and have fast progress in learn languages.

The first thing to do is think how your English level were 1 year ago, which improvements and abilities you got after 1 year studying English. And independent how much you evolved; do not forget to celebrate the progress that you got.

Even that you are not happy where you are, Amy explains that is important to make sure that this year you will have a plan to reach your objectives.

The next three episodes will help to understand where you are stucked, and which activities you need to do to unstuck. But before start, Amy proposes that first and foremost you need to think big and reflect about what do you want to be able to accomplish this year.

Amy shared few examples about her students to clarify about the meaning of “understand where you want reach in the end of the year”.

My objetives are:

• Understand more than 95% of what are being said in an English meeting (improve my listening).
  • Can interact with the attendees with confidence.
• Being able to answer questions in English with confidence and clarity (improve my speaking).

Exercise Objectives

1. Write down a reflection.
2. Find examples of:
   • 3 words that were pronounced differently than what you expected.
     • Purpose (purpoUse)
     • obstacles (obstacOus)
     • notice (notiCe)
   • 2 words cluster (when 2 words become one)
     • progress that you’ve made (youvemade)
     • you are going (yoregoing)
   • 1 new speech pattern