watch this video and learn three common grammar mistakes that
students make in conversations and how
to fix them coming up
hey student this is teacher Prix to help you talk to anyone anywhere
anytime in English thank you so much for watching
speaking in English is so important and I am sure that you want to become a
confident English speaker who can understand and talk to people in
English and English
grammar is an important aspect of the language
unfortunately many English learners misunderstand
the importance of grammar and some of them
study too much which is not good and others completely ignore English
grammar now that being said I’m going to tell
you three common grammar mistakes that students make in conversations and how
you can fix them of course that this will involve practicing
and following specific guidelines but i am sure that if you follow the ideas I’m
going to give you in this video you will improve your English speaking
and stay until the end because mistake number three
is the most complicated one and will make
the listener you know people who are listening to you
a little bit confused so make sure to catch
all the three mistakes now mistake number one
conjugations yes guys unfortunately
students learn the conjugations when they are basic
simple present simple past future present perfect
and after that they don't give the necessary
attention to conjugations anymore to verb tenses
and as I’ve talked about here on my channel
the most important tenses are present past and future
so in my opinion and this is something that I always tell my #BSA
in my online program reviewing the basic tenses is very important if you want to
become a better English speaker and this is the most common grammar
mistake English learners make in conversations so it is something that
you should include in your study practice on a weekly basis
always reviewing the tenses always doing activities that are connected to present
past and future and there are many ways to do it and I’m
gonna give you some recommendations so stay until the end the second mistake is
pronouns using the wrong pronoun for example I’m
talking about john and then I say she I’m talking about Mary and then I
say he I’m talking about my friend's car
I use your possessive adjective this will confuse the person
listening to you okay and there are simple
strategies you can implement in your practice
to help you fix these mistakes these bad habits these bad speaking habits so that
by the time you need to have a real conversation with someone
you remember these explanations more easily
students learn these things like the possessive adjective
his her its your the pronouns he she it they you but when they do
exercises they only do those grammar drills as you can see here on the screen
and they can be beneficial but they are not
so productive especially if you have already finished your basic studies
you need to do different kinds of activities to really
understand he she your his her in conversations there are even speaking
exercises that you can do alone to help you fix these mistakes now why
is this a mistake and and why is this bad it confuses people
it causes confusion the person may be oh is she talking in the present is he
talking in the past is this something in the future
I’m not sure and even a bonus mistake here
confusing specific words like yesterday and tomorrow
this is very common more common than you imagine
so make sure to develop a kind of practice that I’m going to suggest
to fix these confusions because when you are having a conversation with someone
that is the problem you will cause confusion the person may
I beg your pardon and that moment may trigger an emotional response and what
is the problem with this emotional response
at the time of the conversation when the person is talking to you
and you feel like the person was confused
the emotional trigger the emotional reaction is usually like
oh my English is bad she didn't understand me
and at that moment you are giving a very negative feedback
to your brain and that is not very healthy because as you keep
having these moments when you're like oh he was confused
I’m terrible as you begin to pile up these
emotional triggers you will get afraid every time you need to speak English
because you remember you have a mental picture of the last
time you had an opportunity to talk to someone or
sometimes you create mental situations they don't even exist
where the person is confused and you feel afraid to speak the purpose
of this video is to help you avoid confusion in conversations and mistake
number one verb tenses the conjugations and now the pronouns he she your his her
these things they're very simple but they will
cause confusion and that's what I want to help you eliminate
okay now mistake number three asking questions
incorrectly as I always tell my #BSA in my online program and we even have
specific lessons to help them improve asking questions in English
asking questions is a very important part in a conversation
so whether you are talking to your boss or
to a customer or talking on the phone or talking to someone at the mall
or at a restaurant you will be asking questions or answering questions
so it is very important to practice asking questions correctly
English learners especially learners who study alone
focus too much on answering questions
instead of asking questions so you also need to include
practicing asking questions in English but that is not always the case
and then by the time you are in a conversation you have an opportunity to
talk to someone you get stuck because you never
practiced that it was not in your routine
so asking questions is not really natural to you
because you only practiced answering questions
saying yes or no making affirmative sentences or negative sentences but
practicing questions was not on your radar
and as a result by the time you travel you get stuck
because starting a conversation will require
asking questions in most cases there are cases when you can just
make an affirmative sentence but asking questions is a very good way
to start conversations in English to start negotiations in English
to ask for help so it is a very common thing
that the students don't realize they are not practicing
okay so this is in my opinion the biggest mistake English learners
make they don't have the habit of practicing questions okay
now I gave you the problems but I didn't really give you any solutions
so before I give you the solutions can you hit the like button
yeah awesome now let's go first mistake conjugations
I’m really focused on present past and future okay so in your practice I don't
know if you study twice a week three times a week four times a week
always start with something that will require conjugations
for example this morning I was studying and I started my practice with simple
past okay at first I studied a little bit of
English and then when I practiced my Italian I was
studying Italian as well I did both this morning
I practiced simple past in Italian so simple past I practiced
now throughout my practice I also included simple present
here you can do very simple activities like describing your last weekend
describing your day describing the activities you need to do
describing your future plans for next weekend
this constant repetition of describing things around you
describing your day
describing your your next day your plans will help you fix conjugation mistakes
in addition you can also review these lessons
reviewing simple present reviewing simple past
and not just focusing on doing exercises like
answering book questions but focusing on using the lesson you are watching okay
so as I told you I practiced describing my day describing my plans my
last weekend describing habitual things I do and that
way I’m focusing on the most important conjugations
present past and future so here I’m complementing
the theory it's important to watch videos again
even though you have already done that you know you've already watched many
present videos teacher but I started a year ago
I already watched these things do it again
okay and then put into practice okay I’m gonna
start describing my day in the present
okay I’m gonna describe my last summer what did I do last summer
and having this continuous practice on a weekly basis
will help you improve your conjugation your verb tenses use
okay for mistake number two this is a very nice idea
okay and very simple I’m sure that you may like a movie
or a tv show I imagine that there is a tv show or movie that you enjoy
and here you can pick your favorite characters from your tv series
and you can describe those people his name is blah blah
she's blah blah blah years old she's from
Australia in the movie she blah blah blah
and as you keep doing that you will practice number one
because you will need verb conjugations and you will also practice number two
pronouns okay he she his her okay this is so important maybe you can
describe two people in the
plural oh these are the the
Winchester brothers ah Winchesters Supernatural
they are blah blah blah and this happened to them
this will help you practice in a more realistic way
because you are connecting a character from a tv show you like
someone from a movie The Avengers you know
DC movies you name it and you will describe
the characters I do this a lot with some students
using Friends I ask them to describe all the characters of Friends
maybe like a short introduction who they are what they like what they don't like
uh their free time activities and because of that they learn more easily
how to use pronouns in English and separate man woman
this can be confusing for some students okay
and finally how do you fix mistake number three
well my friends the first suggestion is I have four videos here on my channel
actually it's one video that I divided into four okay because it was very long
so I divided into four and in these four
videos I am explaining how to ask questions in different tenses so the
first thing you're going to do is PRIXFLIX you're going to binge
watch all these four videos take notes and
after that you will put into practice and you will begin to ask
questions in English but teacher, how how do I do that I have no idea how to get
started after you watch the videos and review
the lessons you are going to pick three subjects
sports, my favorite tv show my favorite movie
cooking gardening you will decide three then you will ask five questions
per subject so three subjects times five questions 15 questions
and you can repeat this maybe you do this today then
in two days you do this again and keep practicing
keep choosing different subjects you can use google to have ideas
okay and that way you will get better at asking questions
that is a very important practice try to choose subjects that are
connected somehow with things you like in my case for example I really enjoy tv
series so I can practice writing down questions
about tv series I really like living a healthy life so I
can ask questions about living a healthy life so practice this and this will help
you improve there's no other way okay now you will
only get better during a conversation if you follow the
right kind of practice and that was my goal
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