How can I think in English if I am a beginner? Hey, there! Teacher Prix here to help you
talk to anyone anywhere anytime in English. So how can you think in English if you are
a beginner? Today I will show you how. Thinking in English can be a little difficult if you
are a beginner. If you are starting to study English you may not have vocabulary, you may
not have structure, the grammar, so it can be very difficult, I understand. But there
is a way to think in English even if you are a beginner. Today I want to show you some
ideas, well my top 3 ideas. Number 1: basic phrases and questions. If you are a beginner,
you have to start with basic phrases, basic expressions and you can start practicing mentally
ok? You don’t need to think of long phrases, difficult subjects, simple ideas, for example:
WH questions! What’s your name? How old are you? Where are you from? Where do you
live? What is your favorite color? Who is your favorite actor? Who is your favorite
actress? What kind of movies do you like? And how do you do these exercises mentally?
Think about the question in English and try to answer these questions. For example: Who
is your favorite actor: My favorite actor is Robert de Niro, and keep doing this. Keep
asking these basic questions and answering them mentally. Another thing you can think
about is those basic expressions. They are actions, but expressions, listen to music.
That’s a very common phrase we say in English, so you can say I listen to music and then
you can add a frequency: I listen to music in the morning, I listen to music every day.
Another possibility is to do vocabulary groups. What’s that? Think of words that are connected,
that belong to the same group, for example you can think about parts of the house in
English. You can look at your house, look at the parts of the house and start thinking:
oh that’s a table, chair. This is the kitchen, in the kitchen I can see a refrigerator, I
can see a stove, I can see a sink, and you keep doing this with groups of words. Even
if you think about individual words in English you are already working on thinking in English
and in the future when you have more structure, when you have more grammar, when you have
more vocabulary, you will think of more complex things. Idea number 2 basic conversation subjects.
In the first idea, I talked about asking basic questions, making basic phrases, thinking
about basic words from specific vocabulary groups. Now you can think about very simple
conversations that you can start practicing mentally, for example, how was your weekend?
Here you can practice simple past, you can practice organizing your ideas. By the way,
I have a video about this, how to think in English and talk about your weekend, check
it out, I will leave the link somewhere here, ok? What are your plans for today, what activities
are you going to do today? This is a wonderful idea. Every day you have a different day,
so you can plan your day in the morning in English, mentally, you don’t need to speak,
just think about the activities that you are going to do during your day and in English.
You can also think about your plans for the weekend, because you know, when it is Friday
we get very happy because it is the weekend, so it is time to plan and you can do this
right here and my idea number 3: basic stories. In my second idea I suggested thinking about
simple subjects, here you can also think about basic stories and what is that? you can read
a simple story in English. Here in my channel, I don’t know if you have seen it already,
but I try to make some book reviews and there are book reviews for beginners. So you can
read some stories in English and after you finish reading the story you can start thinking
about the story and try to remember the vocabulary you learned. Try to remember the expressions
you learned in the story. That way you will be practicing thinking in English, you will
be reviewing the story you read, the structure you read, the phrases, the grammar and you
will be thinking in English. Now, Priscila, is this easy? Not really, guys, it takes time.
You will see, you will start thinking in English and then there will be a word that you don’t
know so you will feel confused, oh my God, do I continue, do I stop? Persevere. Look
up that word in the dictionary, check what that word is and then go back to your exercise.
I know you can’t always do that, but try to give that a try, ok and remember consistency
is key and if you keep pushing, keep trying you will succeed and when you become and intermediate
speaker, thinking in English will be much easier. So, do you already practice thinking
in English? What kind of subjects do you like to think about? Let me know in the comments.
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