Hey in today's lesson, I'm going to teach you how to think
and then speak in English.
Fluently that's right.
In order to speak English fluently, you must master the
ability to organize your thoughts.
Like a native English speaker using the five W's.
Now, are you ready?
Well, then I'm teacher.
Tiffani let's jump right in.
Now.
I mentioned earlier that you must use the five W's.
So let's look at this situation.
We're talking about goals and his goal is to speak English.
So what would the first w B it would be who?
Michael, an intermediate English learner.
What?
He studies English regularly when every afternoon, prior to eating dinner, where
at the local bookstore, why he wants to speak English fluently and travel abroad.
Now what just happened.
We organized our thoughts, right?
About this young man's goal to speak English fluently, using the five W's.
Now we clearly understand what his goal is and why he has this goal.
So now we need to use what we organized in our minds using the
five W's to speak in English.
So here we go.
Here's the response using the five W's right.
Read along with me, Michael is an intermediate English learner.
He has made it a habit to study English on a regular basis.
So every afternoon, prior to eating dinner, he goes to study
English at the local bookstore.
Whenever someone asks him why he is studying.
Michael says it is because he wants to speak English fluently and travel abroad.
Now that is a fluent English response.
This response is an advanced English response.
And you can do the same thing.
When someone asks you about your English goal.
Now there are a few expressions that I want to go over in this response.
I want you to look very closely.
The first one.
Make it a habit to do something, make it a habit to do something.
Now this just means if you make a habit of doing something,
you do it regularly or often.
So it can be in the past.
Or right now I made it.
Of doing.dot dot.
I make it a habit of doing.dot dot.
It just means you do it regularly or often just like Michael studies regularly.
He makes it a habit to study English.
Now the other one is prior to this is also a very important one
every afternoon prior to eating.
Prior to just means before a particular time or event.
So I like to call my parents prior to starting my day
before I start working hard.
I want to check in on my parents prior to before a particular time
or event in English, we say prior.
So now we have a good understanding of what Michael's
goals are related to English.
And we simply started with step one, thinking in English, using
the five W's about his goal.
Now, what if we talked about another situation, another goal that many of
us have a goal dealing with health.
We, again, must use the five W's to think in English.
Michelle, a mother of two young children.
What does she do?
She does a vigorous workout with her coach when every morning at the crack of
Dawn, where at the 24 hour gym in her.
Why she wants to get back in shape and lose all of her baby fat.
So what's happening again?
This is step one, thinking in English in order to speak English fluently,
you must start with the five W's.
We've organized our thoughts about Michelle's goals and we're very clear.
Why she is so focused on getting in shape.
Now, let's see if we use the five W's what would her response be?
Here we go read along with me.
Michelle is a mother of two young children every morning at the crack of Dawn.
Michelle gets up and does a vigorous workout with her coach.
She usually exercises at the 24 hour gym in her neighborhood.
Michelle works out so hard because she wants to get back in shape
and finally lose all of her body.
Excuse me, baby fat.
So what happened again?
Speaking about her health goal, using the five W's first to think
in English, organizing our ideas.
No matter what the topic is, when you do that first, you can
give a fluent English response.
Now, in this response, there is a.
There were a few words and expressions that I wanted to explain to you.
The first one is vigorous yeah, I know this can be a little
bit tricky after me again.
Vigorous.
Excellent.
Now this word vigorous just means very forceful, energetic, or intense.
We say vigorous.
A lot of times when you go to the gym to exercise, you're running on the
treadmill, maybe you're lifting weights or doing something you usually sweat a lot.
Right?
Very intense workout.
Very vigorous.
You got it.
Now I want to pause really quickly because sometimes you
have trouble with pronunciation.
Like vigorous is hard.
I want to encourage you again to get the English with Tiffani app,
because I have some pronunciation lessons in the app that will help you.
Many of you already have downloaded the app.
You can download it for free.
There are certain paid portions.
But you can download it for free and start learning and improving
your pronunciation, learning new words, sentences, and so much more.
I do believe that this app will help you with your pronunciation so
that when you come up to words like this vigorous again in the app, I
explain front teeth, bottom lip.
and vibrate.
Vigorous.
Excellent job.
Very good.
Now the other word, the other expression was back in shape.
She wants to get back in shape.
Now, when you say back in shape, it just means that the person saying it
once was a healthy in-shape person.
Nice body, good shape, and wants to get back to being healthy and in shape.
Again, think about a mother that is pregnant nine months.
Her body changes shape because it has to fit and accommodate a baby.
Once the baby is delivered, there's lots of excess weight.
So this mother Michelle wants to get rid of that and get back in shape.
Makes sense.
Right now she mentioned something else.
She mentioned that she wants to get rid of.
Her baby fat.
Yeah, baby fat.
Now baby fat is used to refer to mother's.
Um, when it's used to refer to mothers, it means the excess fat
remaining after childbirth nine months of having an extra human being in.
Your skin has stretched.
There's a lot of excess fat.
We call that baby fat when we are speaking about mothers.
So again, after me, baby fat.
Excellent.
All right.
So we were able to speak English fluently about her situation.
Why?
Because we first thought in English using the five W's to
think about her health goal.
Now, what if we talk about.
Money or career or a success goal.
Look at this individual right here.
He looks like he's successful.
His goal is to be more successful.
Who is he?
Samuel an ambitious stockbroker.
What?
He studies every publication, article and website about the stock
market when day in and day out.
Where in New York, why he wants to be the most acclaimed
stockbroker in New York history.
Now what just happened?
We organized our thoughts using the five W's to talk about his
goal, his success goal right.
So our thoughts are organized.
We understand this man, Samuel.
He's an ambitious stockbroker.
Now how about speaking English fluently using this information?
Here we go again right here.
Follow along with me.
Samuel is an ambitious New York stockbroker.
His main goal is to one day be the most acclaimed stockbroker in New York history.
So in order to reach his goal, Samuel studies, every publication, article
and website about the stock market, he does this day in and day out.
Every piece of information for the five Ws is included in this response.
And that's why it's an advanced English response.
Now, in this response, there are a few words and expressions
that I want to explain to you.
So check this one out right here.
Here we go.
The first one is a claimed right here.
Acclaimed.
Excellent.
Last time.
Acclaimed.
Good job.
Now this just means receiving public praise and approval.
Like amazing.
Yes, you are amazing.
Receiving public approval.
He wants to be the most acclaimed stockbroker makes sense.
Right.
All right.
Now what about this one right here?
Day in and day out again after me day in and day out.
Excellent.
Now this just means every day for a long time, especially in a way that is boring
or unpleasant, we say day in or day out.
For example, let's say you don't like your job, but you have to get up every
morning, go to work, work for eight hours day in and day out every day you
have to do this and it's boring, right?
Because you don't enjoy.
In English, we say day in and day out.
Makes sense.
Right.
All right.
So you see, again, we have all five W's included in this response, which
makes it an advanced English response.
The five W's we organized in step one, thinking about Samuel
and ambitious stockbroker.
This is again how you speak English fluently.
Think, and speak in English, use the five.
W's organize your thoughts and then speak like a native English speaker.
I really hope you enjoyed today's lesson.
I hope you master the five Ws.
So that you also can sound like a native English speaker.
Don't forget to download the English with Tiffani app.
The link is right in the description.
I want you to keep studying with me.
I want to continue helping you be confident in your English.
All right.
I will see you all next time.
Have an awesome week, but as always remember to speak English,
You still there, you know what time it is?
It's story time.
I said it's story time.
All right.
Now for today's story, I want to tell you about one of my closest.
Now we were talking about goals today, right?
In our lesson, we talked about different goals.
People have health goals, um, success goals, and different goals people have.
But I want to tell you about a goal.
My friend and I had it's dealing with health.
We had a goal to run five miles every day.
That's right.
Five miles every day.
That may be seven K or six K, depending on where you live.
That's a lot.
Now at this time I was living in South Korea and my friend was still in Maryland.
We were very close.
And again, we were trying to get back in shape and we decided to
have this friendly competition.
Now, at that time, we were using an app on our phones called the Nike running app.
Right.
Very popular.
And you could connect with your friends no matter where they were
and they could see your progress and you could see their progress.
So my friend and I decided to do this challenge, Hey, let's
run five miles every day.
Now I'm competitive.
And my friend is also competitive.
So what ended up happening was we knew we had to run five miles, but then
we started to try run five, to run five miles faster than each other.
So Korea is ahead of America by about 13 or 14 hours, depending on
if it's daylight savings time or not.
So I was always ahead of her in the time zone.
So I'd wake up in the morning, nighttime for her the previous day and I would run.
And let's say the first time I ran five miles in about 50 minutes, right?
10 minute mile I'd log in to my app and I'd put in 50 minute, five.
Right training.
So I'd go to work that day.
And during the work day, I'd be working this excited feeling good
about myself and I'd come home in the evening, morning time for her.
And I would see her name is Monica Monica, five miles, 49 minutes and 48 seconds.
I said, oh, okay.
You want to beat me by 12 seconds?
Right.
Again, very competitive.
Both of us.
So now I knew that, okay, she was working and I was going to.
So I wake up the next morning, her night early and I'd go to the gym before work.
I said, okay, she did 49 minutes and 48 seconds.
I'd get on the treadmill and I'd run and I'd run.
And I got 48 minutes and 30 seconds.
Excuse me, 49 minutes and 30 seconds.
I said beat that.
Now.
Of course we couldn't talk at the time because she was
sleeping and I was on my way.
So I went to work again, feeling good, 49 minutes and 30 seconds.
So I went to work all day.
Everything was great.
Came home in the evening.
Perfect.
Looked at my phone, Monica Mac, five miles, 48 minutes and 56 seconds.
I said, you have got to be kidding me.
And we continued to do this back and forth, back and forth.
Now it was friendly competition.
We're super close.
Like.
But what I remember about that situation at that time is we were
in the best shape of our lives.
Now, excluding college, because in college you're really slim, you know,
but for our adult lives, we were in the best shape because we were
challenging each other and it was fun.
And we had a goal to get in shape.
So sometimes you can have a friendly challenge and it
ends up making both of you.
She looked good.
I looked good and we were happy.
And we continued doing that for several months, but we ended up having
to stop because schedules and other things happened, but we always talk
about how much fun we had competing against each other to reach a goal.
Maybe you can find a friend and you can start a challenge.
Hey, let's learn three English vocabulary words every day.
And you guys can challenge each other.
Something to make your goal, reaching your goal, a fun process.
All right, guys, I hope you enjoyed today's story.
Remember to get the English with Tiffani app, the link is in the description.
I will see you next time.