Hi, this is Sarah sky. Welcome back to business English for professionals. We're just finishing up the course introduction, we just finished reviewing resources for this course. Now we're going to take a look at learning methods and learning methods is composed of study techniques. And the study techniques are so that you're as effective as possible. And other than so they techniques the practice and application.

And this is in order to have some methods to be confident in the language. So let's take a look at how we're going to apply this. So for passive and active learning and study techniques, we're going to first look at passive learning, you're going to be spending about 60 to 70% of your time on passive learning. And then beyond that, you're going to be doing about 30 to 40% of active learning. And this is during your course and your study. later on.

You'll do a little bit more active and a little less passive, but this is the structure of our course. So what is passive learning? And what is it composed of? So what is passive learning? And what does it involve? Well, first of all passive learning is your consumption of the language.

So it's you're taking in new information in business English. So this is composed of reading articles, for example, watching videos, and then listening to audio files such as mp3, or podcasts, and that's your passive learning. Your active learning instead is composed of reproducing the language. So speaking during presentations, for example, asking and answering questions, writing summaries, and translating or defining new vocabulary. And so these are a couple ways that you will be practicing or applying the language and using it in an active way. So in passive learning, you're going to be spending about 20 to 25% of your time reading articles.

Newspapers, white papers, research papers, technical guides, anything that is interesting to you personally and professionally or relevant to your area of business. In reading, what we want to do is, first of all, you want to choose an article that interests you personally, again, something that's useful to you that has information around a subject that is important for your area of business, etc. Beyond that, you're going to scan the article for new vocabulary. So read the article really thoroughly, and look specifically for new words new expressions that you are unfamiliar with. After you've found these new words, you want to highlight them so highlight the new words underlying the new expressions or make note of them. So if you're reading an article, you can copy and paste them into a separate file.

And then you want to go on to translate or define these new words or expressions. If you're an English as a native speaker, you want To define the words that with the dictionary resource, if you're a English as a second language speaker, then you want to translate those or any case, get a good understanding of what they mean, right, these translations in the notebook or type them out in digital notes, keep track this because this is part of your personal glossary or your word bank language bank that you're going to be building, read that article again, and reference those new words so that you can be sure that you understand them in context. So the article should be 100% complete in terms of your understanding of its content. After that, you want to move on to active learning. So we'll look at that in just a second and how you're going to do that.

Alright, so other than the reading exercise, which is about a quarter of your time, you're going to also be spending about a quarter of your time watching TV, news documentaries, video presentations, etc. And this can be in the format of for example, ted.com, which is a great resource. Or any other video or TV form formula that you want documentaries are good because they're narrated presentations are great. Even this course itself is part of your video learning. All right, when you are watching a video, there's a couple different activities that you want to do. First of all, you want to choose a video or TV program that interests you personally, something that is of course relevant to your field area, something that you want to be learning.

After you have chosen a good video to watch, you want to watch the video with subtitles in English. You can also choose to watch the video with subtitles in your native language if you prefer. After that, you want to again take notes of the words new expressions etc. You want to read an elaborate the transcript if you have a transcript available such as on ted.com. This is a great resource so you can follow the content in a written format and of course, you want To elaborate that transcript, which means translating and defining new vocabulary, be sure that you take note of those as well. And keep them in your vocabulary bank, or your glossary, so that you can reference them later.

Now, once you've done that work, you've elaborated the video, watch it again, without subtitles, feel free to pause and rewind when needed, so you understand the content of that video 100%. After that, you want to move on to active learning, which we'll look at in just a moment. All right, so now that we've spent a quarter of your time reading a quarter of your time watching videos, we're going to look at a little less than a quarter of your time, and this is going to be listening. Listening is a particular way of learning. It's a little bit limited in its sensory data. So it's a little bit more challenging, but it's a very important exercise to do.

So you want to be listening to audio mp3 or digital or radio or streaming podcasts are wonderful as well. And we already looked at resources for these. One of the other ways that you can work, listening into your daily schedule is in the car, listening to digital radio, downloading the audio version of one of the publications such as The Economist, etc. So this is a great activity. Alright, let's take a look at where you're going to be doing for your listening exercises. Again, choose an audio that interests you personally.

So whether it be a podcast or an article in an audio format, make sure that it's interesting to you. When there's a transcript available, follow the written words and texts while you're listening to that audio file for the first time. This is helpful to pair the way a word is written with the way it sounds. And again, English like any language has a certain musicality to it. So it's important to understand the musicality of the language and how it sounds. Once you have done This, you have the text available highlight or underline new words or expressions or take note, if you're just listening to the audio, take note of these any new expressions, etc, that you're unfamiliar with.

Read and elaborate that. So whether you are working with a written text or just the audio, take some time, use your resources, go and look up the new vocabulary check. For example, Urban Dictionary if it's more of a cultural reference or slang, if you're not finding it in the dictionary, or translated if you'd like but elaborate that text. Once you've done that, you also of course want to, as we said, define in your new vocabulary. You want to listen again without the article. So listen to the whole audio file again.

After you've elaborated the text and you've understood all of the little passages in details. Listen to it and try to understand 100% of the content. Try to understand all of these expressions. What they're speaking about all right after you've done that move on to active learning, which we're going to look at in just a moment. Now we've got 20 25% of your time reading 20 25% of your time watching and about 20% of your time listening. So this is about 60 to 70% of your time for your study in business English for professionals.

Let's go ahead and take a look at the other side of it, which is the active learning. Now, again, active learning is about 30 to 40% of your time, and this is going to be in speaking, asking and answering, writing, translating and defining. So let's break those down. And we want to look at first of all about 10% of your study time, which is going to be involved in speaking. And this is going to be during presentations. So whether that be video presentations, which we'll look at or live presentations, video or audio phone calls, meetings, anything like this.

So you want to spend about 10 percent of your study time speaking in English and applying your new vocabulary, grammar and whatnot in a spoken format, so you want to prepare and give a spoken presentation regarding the information that you've learned in these articles or videos or audio files that you have elaborated. So you want to actually prepare this presentation, and you want to practice giving the presentation. So you can do this by making video blogs of yourself giving these presentations. You want to keep these video blogs for yourself. And later you want to document your progress. So see how effective you are in presenting the information regarding the original article, video or audio file.

You want to retell the information that you've learned in your own words. Applying the vocabulary applying as much grammar and grammar logic as you can, so that you can have effective communications in English All right. Now beyond that 10% of your study time speaking, you also want to spend about five to 10% of your time answering and asking questions, whether they be written or spoken. Now, how are you going to do that? Let's look at how we're going to answer ask and answer questions on a daily basis. And in order to work that into your everyday study.

Now, you want to prepare questions and answers q&a regarding your presentations. So regarding the information in your original media source, so your article, video or audio file, you want to prepare questions and all of the potential answers that you could possibly give regarding those questions. This is important for practicing the interpretive format and to also even apply creativity to your learning. Make sure that you're active in forums, chat, social media, commenting etc. If you have have found your article or video on a social media website, then you can also comment on that video or article on the same post on the same page. So after you've elaborated the text or the video or the audio, then you want to go back and make comments regarding that, that video or article etc.

So this is a great tool to use to practice. Again, apply your knowledge, maybe your your comments or your thoughts about the content, etc. So this is a great way to practice and to get involvement by third parties or other people. All right, so other than that five to 10% of asking answering questions, you want to spend another 10% of your study time writing, and this is writing summaries, emails, descriptions, sales, company presentations, etc. You need to practice writing. Now you can do this in the written format, again, through social media.

But let's take a look at a couple other methods. So with writing the different ways that we can do this, we're going to prepare written summaries of the information that you learn in the articles, videos and audio files again. So, actually spend some time and write down your flexion on the subject, your interpretation, your ideas, etc. Prepare a written summary. You want to be active in writing questions and comments, again, in forums, chat, social media, this is again a great resource. So that's some ways to practice writing.

So that gives you plenty of opportunities now, other than for professional reasons, you can of course, begin translating, or writing out your information about your products or your services for your business use. Now again, translating or defining new vocabulary or expressions, this is about five to 10% of your study time. This includes written text and audio descriptions. And one way to apply that is to actually spend time translating or elaborating things that you have already worked in for business use and try to expand upon them. Alright, now let's look at translating and defining again and how we do this. In our practice here.

Always note new or unfamiliar words or expressions, okay? So you want to take notes of those, write them down, use your resources to translate or define them, incorporate these into your new vocabulary, and that's about it. Okay, so those are some easy ways of incorporating these, this new vocabulary and expanding your usage of new words and expressions. Bye bye