Hi there, I'm Drew Badger the world's number 1
English Fluency Guide and in this
important and special video I'm going to
give you a different kind of fluency
training to help you become more fluent
English speaker much much faster and
it's called an English fluency power
story let's begin this is something new
i've been experimenting with and I'm
really excited to try it in this video
just to see what your reaction is I'm
almost tempted to include it with master
English conversation because it's just
such a great way to learn but like most
of the things that we introduced i like
to give it to everyone first just to see
what people think about it
so a power story is kind of combining a
lot of different elements that help you
improve your fluency in many different
ways and at many different levels but
the general idea is that you kind of
take two stories and combine them
together but you learn how native
speakers actually understand and learn
vocabulary and then apply that
vocabulary two different things and I
don't want to make this lesson too long
so what I'm going to do is just kind of
give you an overview of how a power
story works without giving like too long
of an example again but let's get into
it now what I'm going to do is actually
take our baseball as an example with
kind of a romantic encounter with
somebody else to tell two different
stories but i'll begin with how we take
some kind of everyday vocabulary that
comes from baseball and then apply it as
a native speaker does in a conversation
when talking about a relationship now I
was a baseball player and just to kind
of give you an everyday sense of what i
did--like i would be maybe kind of up to
bat and this means like your kind of
like coming up to bat you're waiting in
the dugout and the dugout is just like
the kind of area where your team is
sitting but when you're up to bat you
come up and you get to like swing at a
few pitches and if you're familiar with
baseball or you've ever seen a game or
even played in a game yourself you're
probably here like some of the phrases
that i'll talk about in this video so
when I'm just coming up to bat like
usually i'm standing on deck so on deck
just means you're waiting for something
to happen you will have a like the
actual batter that's in the batter's box
so a baseball diamond you've got like a
diamond with like home plate first
entire base and then home plate again
and the general idea of the game is to
hit the ball and then run around the
bases of you're not familiar at all with
baseball that's really the point of the
game so that's how you score points or
in baseball there called run your
scoring a run so you will have somebody
that's in the batter's box it's actually
the one batting and then you have
somebody that's on deck which is the
next person that's about to go into the
batter's box on on deck so if i'm on i'm
kind of on deck and I'm practicing my
swing a little bit i'm preparing and
then I get to go up into the batter's
box when it's my turn now maybe I like
look at the ball when it's coming and I
swing and a Miss a swing and i miss so
I'm kind of taking like i'm looking for
like my pitch i'm looking for something
that's like really good like something
that's appropriate for me like I like a
low fastball so if i get a low fastball
I can swing and I heat it and if I hate
it really well maybe I get to first base
so this means i hit the ball and i was
able to run to first base now getting to
first base is something that well it's
maybe not such an amazing thing it's a
good hit it's good to get like just like
a good hit you're getting to first base
but it's not like getting all the way
around the bases but maybe the next time
so I'm on deck again and I'm thinking
alright like it's like I'm coming around
to my chance to bat again and I'm
thinking why if i can get to second base
this time if I can hit a double that
would be even better come in looking for
my pitch i'm looking for something
that's appropriate for me and the
pitcher throws me a nice beautiful low
fastball and I hit it again and i get to
second base i'm getting to second base
in while I'm really excited because I
hit a double the same thing happens
again later on in the game they're
usually nine innings in a baseball game
so maybe at the top of the first inning
that's very very beginning of the game
an inning in baseball is kind of like
kind of like a quarter in basketball or
any other sport you just divided up by
maybe the home team getting to play for
a little bit and then the away team
getting to play actually it's kind of
his backwards the home team go second
and the away team goes first like the
kind of visitors of the home team they
may alternate within each
so after you have the top and then the
bottom of the inning and then you go
through all nine innings unless you have
a time I don't worry about like
remembering all of this vocabulary I'm
getting a quick overview of kind of
baseball and how it works it is
listening carefully to the words i'm
using so again we had like maybe when
i'm i'm on the home team so in the
bottom of the first inning
I like to get that single so i get to
first base and then maybe a couple
innings later I hit a double then later
I hit a triple
that means i run all the way first base
second base third base i get to third
base and all i'm so close to getting
back home i get to third base and i'm so
close to getting back home so the final
maybe time I come up to bat and people
usually get maybe three or four at bats
or three or four chances to hit the ball
or hit the ball in a game so maybe you
get more maybe get less but on average
it's something like that so you might
come around on my fourth time I'm really
excited so I'm on deck I'm waiting I'm
practicing my swing and then when I walk
up to the batter's box i get prepared i
can hear the crowd everybody's really
excited and like the picture again
throws me that low fastball and I hit it
while I connect a really great hip and I
get a home run home run so i hit the
ball out of the park and I get to nicely
easily jog around the bases because I'm
the hero and I hit a home run so I got
back to home plate like home-plate
home-plate so this is just me describing
an everyday thing
the way we would talk about baseball and
these are all just just regular phrases
that are from the game of baseball that
will be applied to other things in life
which is what I'll do in a second so
maybe in the bottom of the ninth again
we've got the innings like the top of
the inning in the bottom the top of the
second inning the bottom of the second
inning and up until the next show in the
bottom of the ninth many like young you
know kids the they fantasize about like
being in the world series game so this
is the biggest game in baseball in the
United States so this is at the end of
the season like which team is the best
so people talk about well it's the
bottom of the ninth and I hit like a
home run and I get to win the game for
my
eat so again I'm just describing some
different things like being on deck
which means you're coming up before
somebody else like i like i have i'm
like next up to come up to bat or I may
be hitting a single or a double or a
triple and getting two different bases
on the field or if I hit a homerun it's
like something amazing i did when i get
to come back and I score a run for my
team all by myself now there are more
ways to describe this and even more
vocabulary in a words and expressions
but i just wanted to give you a kind of
overview about this now what I'm going
to do now is create this with or take
kind of apply these things and apply
them to a conversation or a story about
dating so like right now I'm going to
describe maybe there is this time I was
the house at a bar maybe it was like a
nightclub or something but I'm getting
there I'm like a little bit nervous I'm
kind of you know kind of a shy guy but I
walk in and I see like you know some
people talking to like like some friends
of mine they're also talking with some
group of women that we met and so I'm
kind of shy and I'm standing back and I
kind of think of myself as like being on
deck so I'm on deck to speak like I
maybe like they're talking about
something but i'm getting the courage to
approach and maybe to like to start
talking with someone so it's you know
it's early in the night it's like the
top of the first inning and I'm talking
with different different people but then
there's like one girl that I really want
to speak with and so finally I get to
like speak with her and we're talking a
little bit and I'm a little maybe kind
of awkward she's like throwing me a few
pitches and I think like well like maybe
I didn't express myself very well I made
some mistakes or just sounded like kind
of silly but then she threw me something
that I really liked and I was able to
hit like a single with it and this just
means like I was able to connect with
something I in like a way that like she
laughed at that story I said or
something in that way now when we're
talking about this is just kind of
breaking out of the story for a little
bit but people when they're often
talking about having a physical
connection with someone a man in
particular will be talking about like
how far did you go with a particular
girl so maybe the next day I like talk
with my friends after i have have a good
connection with that girl maybe I go
back to her place or some
thing but they're asking me like oh how
far did you get like did you get to
first base with her did you get to
second base did you get to third base
with her so maybe first base getting to
first base with someone just means like
maybe a little bit of kissing or
something
getting to second base means like a
little bit more action you know
something like that getting the third
base and getting all the way home if you
hit a home run with someone like well I
probably don't need to tell you what
that means but like you know it's like I
said it's like it's a lot of fun i'll
leave it there but anyway so I'm talking
with these these people in like these
are different ways of taking this and
again I don't want to give like a really
long story or try to explain a lot but
you can see huh i'm using the vocabulary
from the first story just showing the
practical origin of it but then showing
you how these things can be applied in
an actual conversation and how people
use them so they're taking baseball
reference's for sports references and
applying them in that way so maybe I'm
getting like I'm kind of like playing
catch with a girl so I'm like we're
talking about the actual conversation
going back and forth so maybe she's
throwing the ball like she's saying
something to me but maybe I dropped the
ball so I say something like I don't
know like I say something stupid or
embarrassing and you know I just feel a
little bit silly about that
so this is like again a term for talking
about making a mistake from baseball
where you drop the ball for someone
throws you the ball or the ball is hit
and you try to catch it but you dropped
the ball
this is where we get people talking
about like making a mistake in business
so i really like dropped the ball with
something I was talking with this girl
and then I said something stupid I like
told her about my ex-girlfriend and I
really dropped the ball with that was so
this is also an expression from american
football because you're trying to hold
the ball and if you drop the ball you're
making a mistake
so when you're listening for these
things and again I don't want to give
you too much information but where you
can just take these ideas about like
sports or something in it it really
translates nicely and easily to everyday
conversations when we're talking about
something in a more native way and we're
showing that we understand these
references when we're having a
conversation and this is what kind of
indicates or shows
we are native speakers so if I can talk
about these things instead of saying all
I made a mistake with the girl i can say
all I dropped the ball or like it was
the end of the evening or it was the
bottom of the night so I was talking
with this girl and she had to go very
soon it was the bottom of the night I
had to like get her phone number from
her before she left with her friends or
something and i was able to get it when
I talk about like how physically
intimate i was with someone like him and
we we had a great night and like I got
to first base or something so i was able
to give her a kiss goodnight or
something else like I got a nice hug
from Earth and these are again different
ways of taking something from one story
or one area of life and applying them to
something else but again I don't want to
give you too much information but i just
wanted to share with you in English
fluency power stories like the way
you're taking something by first
learning the practical origin of it and
then seeing what it's like in a kind of
everyday sense that really has nothing
to do with that saying but the kind of
message is our the metaphors of the ways
of describing that thing really
translate easily to something else if
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