what's the best way to get someone to
like you ask some questions about
themselves take an interest in their
life and how they spend their time but
how today I'm going to teach you how to
ask somebody about their life in British
English so by the end of the video you
should feel confident in talking to new
people about themselves and answering
them when they ask you questions - we
use present perfect continuous questions
to ask about ongoing tasks and actions
that happened recently have you been
travelling you look very tanned no I
just spent the weekend out at the garden
so let's break that down have you been
traveling we start with the word have or
has depending on the subject followed by
the subject have you a question is the
only time in the English language that
the subject comes after the verb next we
have the word bean this is the word that
shows that the action is recent and
ongoing this is the verb that puts the
question in the present perfect
continuous tense finally you use the
main verb with the ing ending to ask
them about the action have you been
traveling it's time for another
educational ad your challenge is to
correctly identify 10 adverbs of manner
what is an adverb of manner well I just
used one correctly it's a word preceding
a verb which describes the manner in
which the action was done you must now
correctly identify ten of them here we
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the adverbs of manner
I used first we had enthusiastically and
this means something is done with
enthusiasm you're eager to do it then we
had faithfully which means reliably or
to be trusted then successfully which
means with success eagerly means excited
you're eager you're excited to do
something
proudly means it's done with pride hmm
deliberately means it was intended or it
was on purpose confidently of course
means with confidence boldly means also
to be done with confidence or in a
courageous way frankly means in an
open and honest direct manner promptly
means without delay okay you may have
written down regularly in that list but
this is an adverb of frequency meaning
something that happens often did you get
them all right
hopefully all right back to the lesson
usually we use questions in the present
perfect continuous tense when we already
think that thing has happened this might
be because the person you're speaking to
told you that they were going to do
something so have you been practicing
the guitar no I wanted to but I haven't
had time or it might be because you've
noticed something that has made you
think that notice how in the first
example we asked have you been traveling
and then followed it up with you look
very tanned this is a very particular
way of making conversation
you can ask the question and then
explain why you think that in doing this
you're inviting the person to answer
your question but if that doesn't
inspire much conversation they can also
use the explanation you gave them to
figure out what to say next have you
been traveling
he's not very tanned no I just spent the
weekend out of the garden this is a
great example of somebody responding to
the explanation which gives you
something else to talk about you could
ask them what they were doing in the
garden or you could be very typically
British and talk about how lovely the
weather was at the weekend either way
you've successfully started a
conversation about what that person has
been doing and if all else fails you can
go for the simple what have you been
doing lately and let them take it from
there let's have a look at some more
examples hi Stan you're been exercising
he looks really toned at the moment oh
yeah he joined didn't you Germany's got
a new personal trainer he looks fabulous
have you been dancing much I've missed
so many classes this month not really to
be honest I drifted my ankle learning to
roller skate
alright roller skating has Jennifer been
teaching you yes she is a fabulous
teacher is she mm-hmm okay I'll take
your word for it now it's your turn what
have you been doing I'd like to hear
about your week in the comments below if
you have a spare a few minutes and why
not jump over to another lesson I'll see
you there take care