hi there I'm Drew Badger the world
number 1 English Fluency Guide and in
this video I'm going to be covering
something very special something
advanced but also very useful that
native speakers often use and this is
native recaps and native transition now
a recap means just to go back over
something and typically what will happen
in a conversation is somebody will be
explaining something and then at the end
of that maybe they'll give a very short
summary in the same way like I do with
these videos so i will explain something
maybe spend a couple of minutes
explaining whatever the lesson is about
and then at the end I'll go back and say
today we did this so you'll see this in
lessons and it's you know just kind of
like a normal thing in everyday life but
the interesting thing is that if you can
use this same pattern when you're using
your own conversations or in your own
conversations you can sound much more
native by doing the same thing so you
can use your regular even if you're
speaking in a textbook way you can speak
normally in an everyday way again and
then at the end of something you can
come back with the native sounding
phrase something that's conversational
and native that an actual native speaker
would use and then you sound much more
native so it's a way of combining the
normal english that you would use maybe
something again from a textbook but with
a free that comes back and recaps that
and you can also use these phrases as
transitions and I don't want to give too
many of them so we will cover to recaps
and one transition in this video let's
begin now the first one just so you
understand these we're using these
transitions and recaps as a way of
explaining something again in a native
way so you're actually repeating
yourself or in the case of a transition
you're just using this as a way to kind
of move into something else
these are actually really two different
categories of things because a recap is
a little bit different from a transition
but i just wanted to give you a taste of
bolt in this video so the first one is
let's say I'm describing a situation and
it's maybe a negative thing so a
situation where i get myself into some
trouble so I was maybe wasting time I
should have been practicing your
studying but you know in the end I
decided not to do that thing now when
I'm telling these stories I'm again at
this point just using very regular
language I'm speaking like an eight
speaker but at the same time I haven't
used any more colorful idioms or recap
the sentences in any special way so in
this case I'm describing situations
where maybe i do something and it's not
very successful or at created a problem
for myself so I begin by creating this
situation i'm telling the story but at
the end I recap that by saying and then
I painted myself into a corner so I
painted myself into a corner now this is
a great way of telling the story but
they recapping it with something that
sounds a bit more interesting like I
painted myself into a corner now to
paint yourself into a corner is a
regular casual expression that native
speakers understand and use frequently
when they're talking about if you're
imagining yourself inside a room and
instead of starting at the door I may be
like as a way to get out of the room
when you're finished if you're painting
the floor of a room and you start
painting and then you you reach a corner
where you can't move at that point so
you paint and no no you realize you're
stuck so you're you know it's kind of a
stupid thing you would do you painted
yourself into a corner if you walk then
you know you're going to step on the
paint and mess up the paint and it
creates all these problems so this is a
way of describing in a casual way in a
conversational way that you created a
problem for yourself but notice what's
really happening here
I'm describing something and I don't
need to add that point at the end I
don't need to use that expression but
this is something that people do when
they're speaking English they will
explain something and again you might do
this in your own native language as well
but this is a very common thing native
speakers will explain something and then
they will recap it in a conversation way
so they will explain something yeah i
did this and then there was this other
thing and I'm explaining just a regular
story so I painted myself into our
corner or I ended up painting myself
into a corner i ended up painting myself
into a corner
our next example is if it's something
positive now just like the previous one
you can practice that and use that as a
way of telling a story and then adding
that at the end this is another native
recap where you can put something again
it's instead of describing a problem
that you create for yourself this is
describing something positive and it's
also using a cultural reference which i
highly recommend you use now
isn't video where I want to talk about
too many cultural references but the
important thing is that when you're
listening to things like this if you
don't quite understand something it
could be that native speakers may be
using a quote from a movie or some other
thing in popular culture like a song or
some political thing like you know Trump
recently make America great again so now
people are saying make other things
great again like make it will make this
restaurant great again or whatever so
people take that and it becomes a
cultural reference that people use in
their everyday conversation so if you
use something like make America great
again or make you know my country great
again you know whatever that is even as
a joke people think that's funny because
they're just talking about something
thats related to popular culture now in
this example if I'm describing something
where I'm maybe feeling lucky
like I go out and I mean like a famous
movie star
I'm just walking along the street and I
see wow it's like leonardo dicaprio and
for some reason maybe he watched a
YouTube video of mine and he said hey
drew like you should come on my private
yacht with me and we're going to have a
party and it's going to be awesome and I
say wow so I'm describing this story but
i'm still using very basic language but
then I recap that at the end by saying
it was like I found the golden ticket
it was like I found the golden ticket so
thank finding the golden ticket this is
a cultural reference from the movie
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or
even the book or Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate willy wonka and the chocolate
factory or charlie and the chocolate
factory
I forget the name of it maybe it's two
different things I mean it's the same
idea but anyway when you're when you're
using something like this you're taking
that cultural reference and you're just
putting it at the end of the story just
to make it sound more native so it
doesn't change anything but it just
makes you sound like you're telling a
better story and you're using an
interesting way of completing that story
but you really again not changing
anything about it so Leonardo DiCaprio
came into my life funny that a let's go
to the you know yahoo got a bunch of
people there were going to have a party
I said okay
it was like I found the golden ticket so
in the book in the movie Charlie the
main character he finds the golden the
golden ticket in a bar of chocolate and
and he uses that to go to the chocolate
factory and it changed his life forever
so people all over the world were
looking for these golden tickets but he
was the lucky one who found it so in my
case instead of just saying i was lucky
i'm using a cultural reference that
makes that same point by saying it was
like I found the golden ticket or it was
like I found a golden ticket now the
last one will cover is a native
transition and a transition just means
we're talking about one thing and then
we will explain something else but we
need to connect these two ideas and
we're trying to do this in an
interesting way to tell a more
interesting story so let's say I'm
talking about maybe in this case we
could actually use a good situation or a
bad situation so we'll do the bad
situation first
I'm walking home and I don't have an
umbrella and it starts to rain and I
start describing all these bad things
that dog runs up and like biting my leg
and I dropped my books in the water and
then so in just when I thought things
couldn't get any worse so this is again
a native transition right here this
point where native speakers will use it
exactly like that and just when I
thought it couldn't get any worse
and just when I thought it couldn't get
any worse or just when I thought it
couldn't get any worse
I like I get struck by lightning so i
get like lightning comes down in exact
meet and I get struck by lightning
so I'm explaining something and then i
use the native transition in the middle
to say and just when I thought it
couldn't get any worse than this really
bad thing happens as well again you can
also use the same thing in a good
situation so and just when I thought it
couldn't get any better
and just when I thought it couldn't get
any better so this is where you're
describing a good situation so I meet
leonardo dicaprio and he takes me on to
the yacht and he gives me like a million
dollars and just when I thought it
couldn't get any better he said hey
would you like to have this boat for
free and I say wow
yes that would be amazing so in this
example again we're taking an idea we're
telling a story and you don't have to
sound needed for the whole story but if
you can creatively use native recaps and
native transitions it will help you
sound much more native well I don't want
to go too much into detail about these
kinds of things
but if you want to learn more of these
things these are exactly the kinds of
things that we teach in master English
conversation and the fluency course
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