you want to speak english fluently like
a native english speaker right well in
order to speak english fluently you must
think in english organize your thoughts
like a native english speaker well today
i am going to teach you how to do that
are you ready
well then i'm teacher tiffany let's jump
right in now what we're going to do
first is look at a situation and we're
going to organize our thoughts using the
five w's who what when where and why so
here's the first situation we see this
individual and the first w is
who
well i'm saying her name is samantha and
she's a journalist
what she's writing articles about health
when
every morning
where
at a community workspace
why
she has always enjoyed sharing
information about staying healthy now if
we just pause really quickly we see that
we've organized our thoughts using the
five w's looking at that short clip we
have an idea of what type of work this
individual does and we can actually
speak in english fluently about her job
watch what happens again we have each w
right here and now let me show you what
happens when we try to speak in english
using the five w's here we go
samantha is currently working as a
journalist for a newspaper in her
hometown
every morning she writes articles about
health at the local community workspace
being a journalist brings her so much
joy because she has always enjoyed
sharing information about staying
healthy now listen
if samantha were telling us about her
job about her job as a journalist and
she said this about herself
it would be an amazing answer and if you
speaking about samantha's job describe
it like this it would be an amazing
answer a fluent english response why
because each of the five w's can be
found in this response once again let's
go back and take a look
samantha writes articles about health
every morning community workspace she
enjoys sharing information each and
every piece of the five w's can be found
in this response now i do want to pause
really quickly because there are two
things i'd like to go over
first is right here
home town now i want you to repeat after
me
home town
excellent last time after me
home
town great job now hometown is just the
town of one's birth or early life or of
one's present
fixed residence where you're staying for
a while so my hometown is actually
maryland i was raised in maryland and i
actually still at the time of this
recording currently live in maryland
it's my hometown
makes sense right
now there's one other aspect of this
response that i want to explain because
samantha as a journalist she receives
joy from sharing information so the
expression is right here
brings someone joy after me
brings someone joy
excellent last time after me
brings someone joy
great job now this just refers to uh
something that brings joy is something
that makes people experience joy or
have joy for example it can be a person
or a thing
my nieces bring me so much joy they
actually spent the weekend with me we
watched movies ate food we had a great
time
but your hobby can also bring you joy
someone else can bring you joy again a
very commonly used expression
brings someone joy
all right now what about a different
type of job you may say teacher okay
journalism that's kind of easy to talk
about easy to organize your thoughts
about what about this one right here
whoa who is this let's start with the
first w
mark a professional metal worker
what
he builds heavy machinery
when
for the last 10 years
where at his family's metal shop
why he is the most skilled metal worker
in his family so we have an entirely
different job but we're still using the
5ws to think in english and then speak
so let's see how we can turn this
information into
a good english response here we go
here's the response now we're speaking
mark has been working as a professional
metal worker for the last 10 years
he is well known for his metal work in
the community he is also the most
skilled metal worker in his family so he
enjoys building heavy machinery at the
metal shop his family owns come on now
that right there if you were my student
when i was in south korea and you were
trying to take a level test trying to
see if you were an a beginner an
intermediate or an advanced level
learner i would have given you an
advanced level for this response because
each of the five w's has been answered
again we see right here each of the five
w's that we just listed earlier
now within this response there are a few
things that i do want to go over the
first one being well
known all right so repeat after me
well known
excellent last time after me
well known
good job and this just means known
widely or thoroughly a lot of people
know about this individual or this
person's skills or this thing
it is he is they are well known so again
in our response
wow listen mark is good he is well known
in the community
now the other expression i want to
explain is right here
heavy machinery so i want you to repeat
after me
heavy machinery
excellent again after me
heavy machinery
great job now this just refers to
large pieces of machinery or equipment
especially those used in the building
industry so again let's take a look at
that video one more time
look at what he's using he's using heavy
machinery so once again
large pieces of machinery or equipment
especially those used in the building
industry so we have that down we have a
journalist we have a metal worker we can
talk about jobs using this think in
english think and speak in english
theory right the five w's
but what about this job this is a
different type of job right here we have
this individual and let's start with the
first w who
john
an accountant for a small
tech shop
what
he crunches the numbers now
don't worry i'm going to explain that to
you all right
when
at the close of business
where
in the supply room
why
he learned the importance of regularly
balancing your books again remember
we're trying to think and speak in
english and this focus is on different
jobs this lesson is focused on
explaining your job explaining someone's
job using the five w's so we have the
five w's clearly broken down how can we
turn this into a response here we go now
we're speaking we thought in english the
first step think
now the second step speak here we go
john is an accountant for a small tech
shop downtown
in school he learned what it meant to
balance the books so as a rule of thumb
he crunches the numbers in the supply
room at the close of business every day
man we have a lot of information about
john and him as an accountant and what
he does and even how he learned it again
a very good english response speaking
like a native english speaker
now i do want to go over a few things
there are three things in this response
that are really important the first is
balance
the books after me
balance the books
excellent last time after me
balance the books
great job now this means to literally to
ensure that the figures regarding credit
and debit are correct and to determine
the remaining balance as in a business
or in personal finance again let's say
you have a certain amount in your bank
account and you spend a certain amount
during the day you need to make sure you
didn't spend more than you had in your
account so you need to balance your
books makes sense
all right now another one again
expressions used in accounting now this
one is just a general expression you can
use it in any situation
a rule of thumb
after me
a rule of thumb
excellent last time after me
a rule of thumb
great job now this just means a method
of procedure
based on experience and common sense
again as a rule of thumb he does
something every day hey this makes sense
it makes sense for me to balance the
books every day this is a method that
i've been using for a while and it makes
sense because i've done it and in my
experience it's really good so as a rule
of thumb
now the last one is right here he said
crunch the numbers we're talking about
him and his job
crunch the numbers so after me
crunch the numbers
excellent last time after me
crunch the numbers
great job now to process numbers the
meaning of this is to process numbers
meaning to examine to analyze the
numbers especially to determine exactly
how much money is available
needed or something else again very
similar to balancing the books but
you're just trying to make sure hey do
we have enough to cover what we want to
do we need to crunch the numbers okay
you got it
excellent now this is how you actually
speak about any job in english you first
think using the five w's who what when
where and why and then you speak i hope
you enjoyed this lesson and i want you
to try to do it at least one time today
i'll talk to you next time
you still there
you know what time it is it's story time
hey i said a story time
all right so
you know in today's lesson i taught you
about thinking and speaking in english
about different jobs right so i want to
tell you a story about
one of my first jobs i had an internship
when i was in high school now i was a
junior in high school so i was about
15 or 16 years old
and i wanted a job for the summer you
know you want to make a little extra
money when you're a kid you know you
want to get your own things so
i was able to find a government
internship now in america getting a
government internship as a young person
that's amazing so i was so happy to have
uh been accepted into the internship
program i remember my first day walking
into the job you know you have to make
sure you look nice have my little bag
and i was ready i went through the
security and i went to my office they
gave me a nice desk it wasn't a full
office but i had my own desk my own
computer and i was just very excited i
remember sitting down and you know
waiting for my first assignment and i
was just so happy to have a job
now as the day was going on you know i
was doing a little bit of work because i
was brand new so they didn't have a lot
of work for me to do on that first day
but they still were letting me know how
things basically ran in that office
but i remember my co-worker it was about
maybe 10 o'clock i got to work around 7
30 and around 10 o'clock i started to
notice that people really weren't in the
office you know it wasn't lunch time
i said where where is everyone so my
co-worker she actually said oh hey
tiffany what are you doing i said i i
was just waiting for my next assignment
she said oh girl listen
in the government we get a 15-minute
break in the morning and a 15-minute
break in the afternoon i said oh you
mean like as a part of our lunch break
she said no honey we get a lunch break
and we get a 15-minute morning break and
a 15-minute afternoon break i said wait
a minute she said yeah you know people
get smoking breaks but
we don't smoke so for those who don't
smoke you still deserve a break i said i
agree wholeheartedly with you
listen y'all when i say
every morning i took my 15-minute break
and every afternoon i took another
15-minute break and i remember there was
this small room uh at the building
inside the building that i worked in
and it was like a quiet room you could
go in there and take a nap now you all
know
i rise i get up very early in the
morning and i also go to bed early as
well
i also enjoy naps and i can take a quick
nap and be rejuvenated so i can take a
10 or 15 minute nap and feel like i've
slept for three hours
so
i would take a 15 15-minute nap almost
every day
wake up feeling good so i loved my
government internship
maybe you guys have some memories from
when you had your first job and
something happened similar or maybe you
just have a good memory with your
co-workers let us know share in the
comment section i hope you guys enjoyed
today's story and i will talk to you
next time