“Turn mistakes into opportunities”

Welcome to episode #002 of The Broughton English Show, where I talk to the best teachers, learners, and motivators of the English learning world to give you the best tips, tricks, and techniques to help you learn, practise, and master English on your own.

Today’s guest is Alan Rogers, a Venzuelan-born English teacher whose passion for ecology has seen him patent a system for reusing plastic water bottles. He shares his personal learning journey and gives some great advice on how to practise English well.[thrive_leads id=’1049′]

Show Notes

• Alan talks about his two passions in life: teaching and ecology
• We discuss the importance of change and how changing one’s habits can be hard, but all the rewards come from change
• Alan talks about his own learning journey and the importance of loving what you learn
• Consistency over quantity is key in successful learning
• Find opportunities to practise by doing something you already do and enjoy in your own language, and start doing it in English
• Alan shares his top three tips that English learners should do to maximise their learning
• We talk about making mistakes and how to learn from those mistakes. If you look at mistakes not as failures but as experiments, then you are able to turn mistakes into opportunities.
• In the lightning round we look at where learners fail to make progress and how they can avoid it
• Alan also shares with us his magic pill for success in English learning
• If you want to contact Alan, his phone number is +34 663 055 321

Recommended resources

• • • www.engvid.com
    • www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish
    • www.elllo.org
    • English Grammar In Use
    • Havoc Of War

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