Mr Vig

Have you read Atomic Habits, yet?

Such a good book.

Recently, a student reminded me of a story from chapter 11.

It’s a very good lesson for English students.

Maybe it can help your English.

Here it is…

THE EXPERIMENT
One semester, a college professor decided to conduct a little experiment on his students.

With one class, he told them to take pictures every day.

They would be graded on how many photographs they took.

With the other class, he told them they must produce only one photo by the end of the semester; but it has to be a very good photo.

One group was graded on quantity.

The other group was graded on quality.

Which group do you think became better photographers?

The quantity group or the quality group?

Let me know in the comments and tomorrow we’ll talk about how you can use this lesson to improve your English.

Cheers,
Mr. Vig



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The question this Monday was: “Will you teach us some phrasal verbs?”

My answer: Yes.

But first, I want to give you a safety lesson.

Because if you learn phrasal verbs the wrong way, you may develop a strange rash on your bum, your husband may leave you for a younger woman, your wife may leave you for a taller man, or worse, you may gain a few pounds!

HOW NOT TO LEARN PHRASAL VERBS
Go to YouTube and type “phrasal verbs” and here’s what you’ll find.

An army of English teachers who want to teach you the WRONG way.

They advertise, “Learn 20 phrasal verbs with ‘out’.”

Or, “Learn 50 phrasal verbs with ‘take’.”

Maybe they don’t have bad intentions.

But if you learn from them your English will definitely suffer.

Here’s why.

According to research, if you learn even two words which have similar meanings or sounds at the same time, you have a 25% chance of mixing them up FOREVER!

I have many smart, hard-working students who still confuse “borrow” and “lend”, “east” and “west”, “push” and “pull”.

Not because they’re bad at English.

But because a teacher or text book taught them these similar words at the same time.

So don’t be a fool!

Slow down and learn your phrasal verbs one at a time.

TOMORROW
Atomic Word #2440 – “Chicken” (not the kind you get at KFC)

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