Your goal is to speak English fluently like a native English speaker.
In order to speak English fluently, you must think like a native English
speaker, and today I am going to help you think and speak in English
like a native English speaker.
Are you ready?
Weld, then I'm teacher Tiffani, let's jump right in.
All right.
The very first thing you must do is think in English.
So if someone asked you a question, what did you eat yesterday?
You first need to start off by.
Answering the five Ws, you know it, who, what, when, where, and why.
We are thinking and organizing our thoughts in English.
So again, the question is what did you eat yesterday?
So who me?
What?
A burger and fries when last night at around 6:00 PM.
Where at Red Robin?
Why?
My friends wanted to meet up for dinner.
Now what's happening is we're organizing all the bits and pieces of information
in our mind so that we can answer the question like a native English speaker.
It's very easy to answer the who, what, when, where, and why questions, right?
You understand what you.
But after you organize your thoughts, you think in English, the next thing
you need to do is actually speak.
So how can we organize that information into an actual response?
Here's how we do it.
Using the exact information we looked at to answer the question once
again, what did you eat yesterday?
Here's the response.
Last night, my friends hit me up because they wanted to meet for.
It was around 6:00 PM so I was actually starving.
We decided to meet at Red Robin and I had a burger and fries.
Now, everything I just said came from the first step thinking in English.
Now, before I go into this a little bit more, I, I want to
explain some of the expressions.
Notice I said hit me.
Hit me up.
Now this is kind of slang an expression we use in English, so
let me explain to you what this means to hit someone up right here.
It's slang for contacting someone.
For example, I'm recording this lesson for you.
I'm teaching you right now, but right after this lesson,
I need to hit my friend.
I need to contact my friend in English.
We say hit someone up.
So in the response I said last night, my friends hit me up.
Hey Tiff, hey, what's going on?
We wanna go out to eat.
All right, bet.
Sure I'll be there.
My friends hit me up.
They contacted.
Makes sense, right?
And the last one is starving.
I said I was actually starving.
Starving right here.
It just means to be extremely hungry.
You are looking everywhere for food.
You are extremely hungry in English, we say starving.
Good job.
One more time after me starving.
Excellent.
So again, in step number one, we had to organize our thoughts.
What did you eat yesterday?
We answered the who, what, when, where, and why.
Then step number two, the speak step.
Now we are able to actually give our response using those
five pieces of information.
Last night, my friends hit me up because they wanted to meet up for.
It was around 6:00 PM so I was actually starving.
We decided to meet at Red Robin and I had a burger and fries.
Who, what, when, where, and why can all be found in this response.
And you sound like a native English speaker when you
include each of the five Ws.
You like that, don't you?
All right.
Let's move on to the next one.
I want you to see that this applies to any question and any topic.
So let's say for example, someone asks you to tell them about your best friend.
Well, we have to start with the five Ws.
Who.
My best friend Michelle.
What?
She tells amazing stories when, whenever we hang out where in my backyard.
Why she has the best memory as she knows how to make people laugh.
Simple questions answered who, what, when, where, and.
Now if you want to organize all of this information to sound like a native English
speaker, this is how you would do it.
Step two, the speak step.
My best friend's name is Michelle.
One of her best abilities is her, or one of her best
qualities is her ability to tell.
Amazing.
She has the best memory and she knows how to make people laugh
whenever we hang out in my backyard.
Michelle will start reminiscing about our younger days and go right into a story.
Now, that was a response that any native English speaker would've given, but
look at the foundation of this response.
The foundation of this response is simply right here, uhoh.
We have a little bit of overlap.
There we go.
The foundation of our response.
Let's go and check it out.
Right here.
The foundation of our response is just right here, the five Ws,
who, what, when, where, and why.
Now I'm gonna leave that part.
It's okay.
It happens.
So again, remember when you are trying to sound like a native English speaker,
you have to first step one think in English, use the five Ws, who, what, when,
where, and why to organize your thoughts.
Once your thoughts are organized, then you can go directly into your response
and sound like a native English speaker.
Now in this.
You'll notice that there are three things that maybe you've never heard
before or maybe you don't understand.
, so I wanna explain them.
The first one is Hang out.
Hang out.
Now hang out.
This just means to spend time relaxing or socializing informally.
Yeah.
I'm just hanging out with my friends, you know, we're relaxing, just talking.
We're just spending time together.
It's an informal situation.
We're relaxing and socializing.
In English, we say hang out.
So I.
Whenever we hang out right now, the next thing I said was in my backyard.
Backyard.
Now, a backyard is literally just a yard or area of land behind a house.
Or other building, typically surrounded by a fence, right?
So in America we have our homes, and behind our homes there's
this plot of grass, an area we call that area a backyard.
So I said we hang out, spend time together, socializing in my backyard.
In the area behind my house.
Makes sense, right?
You're visualizing it.
Now, the last thing I said that might have been a little bit tricky was reminisce.
Now reminisce.
This means to indulge in enjoyable recollection.
Remembering past events, man.
I remember when I was in high school, I'm reminiscing right now.
I remember I could eat two sandwiches, two large fries.
I could eat a smoothie, a milkshake and not gain any weight.
It's true . So I'm reminiscing again, indulging in enjoyable recollection,
remembering of past events, right?
So now again, in step number one, we organized our thoughts
to answer this question, can you tell me about your best friend?
We use the five W's.
Who, what, when, where, and why.
And we have this full response, a response that native English
speakers would give in real.
Now what if you were asked a different question?
What about this question?
How often do you exercise?
Remember, as always, step one, we must organize our thoughts using the five Ws.
So how often do you exercise?
Who me?
What?
Run.
And then we're gonna answer the when at the crack of dawn, Monday to Friday.
Where on the treadmill at the.
Why I can clear my mind.
Now, remember, the question is how often do you exercise, but when you
start organizing your thoughts again, step number one, using the five Ws,
you start to get more information that will help you answer the question
like a native English speaker.
So what would the answer look like using the five pieces of information?
Here we go.
Our response would be like, I normally exercise Monday through Friday in
order to get it in before work.
I wake up at the crack of dawn and head to the gym.
While I'm running on the treadmill, I am able to clear my mind.
This is an amazing response.
It's not super long, but it includes each and every one of the five Ws.
All of the information is found in this.
Now there's some new expressions that I wanna explain to you.
The first one is get it in.
This is a frail verb and it can be slaying sometimes as well.
So let me explain what this means.
Explain what this means.
If you get something in, you manage to do it at a time when you are
very busy doing other things.
You manage to do something.
Normally, I'm super busy in the morning.
Normally I don't have enough time, but I want to get it in before I go to work.
Let me kind of squeeze it in right here in this spot.
Again, if you get something in, you manage to do it at a time when
you are very busy doing other.
Makes sense.
Right.
Okay.
The next thing is the crack of dawn.
The crack of dawn.
This just means a time, very early in the morning at daybreak,
or even before daybreak.
Now for me, I am an early bird.
I wake up at the crack of dawn every day, normally between four
or 5:00 AM That's the normal time that I wake up at the crack of dawn.
Makes sense.
Right.
Okay.
And the next one was clear my mind.
I said I'm able to clear my mind on the treadmill when I'm running
on the treadmill to stop worrying or thinking about something.
Maybe something happened at work, maybe something happened with my
family or my friends, or maybe something is going on and it's
really causing me a lot of stress.
When I get on the treadmill, I'm able to clear my mind to stop
worrying or thinking about that.
makes sense, right?
So again, if we look at the.
I normally exercise Monday through Friday.
When in order to get it in before work, I wake up at the crack
of dawn and head to the gym.
Why get it in before work?
What do you do when wake up at the crack of dawn?
Where do you go?
Heading to the gym?
While I'm running on the treadmill, I am able to clear my mind.
We've answered each of the five.
Who, what, when, where, and why.
So again, if you want to speak English like a native English speaker,
just remember to think first using the five W's, who, what, when,
where, and why, and then speak.
And you'll start sounding like me now.
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It's story time.
Hey, I said it's story time.
All right.
Today's story is about one of my closest friends.
Yes.
One of my closest friends.
So, I have actually had Covid, I think three times I'm okay,
but I had Covid three times.
The last time I had Covid, I was living on my own, living in an apartment.
Now, when I had it the first time, I was living with my parents, so they
were able to take care of me, feed me.
Everything was great.
But when I got sick the last time I had Covid, I couldn't go out because
I didn't wanna share with anyone.
, but I needed to eat.
I didn't have any food in the house because I hadn't prepared
ahead of time because I didn't know I was going to get sick.
So I remember sitting at home and I was actually on the phone with my friend.
I call her Moe, and we were talking and she was just asking,
Hey, how are you feeling?
Are you okay?
Now my parents live almost an hour away from me, so.
It's far, not too far, but it's not around the corner.
And I was telling my friend, I was like, yeah, I'm not really feeling well.
I need to get some food.
So I'm trying to figure out, do I just put two masks on and run to the store?
I just don't wanna get anybody else infected.
I wanted to keep everyone safe.
So she was listening to me and again, asking how I was feeling.
I was laying in bed all day.
I had a little bit of a fever.
I was coughing.
I just wanted to be in bed.
I didn't wanna do any work.
And she said, T.
Do you want me to order some stuff for you and have it sent to your house?
And I said, you do that?
She said, listen, TIFF, you're my friend.
Let me know what you need and I'll have it sent to your door.
At that moment when she said it, I realized how precious good friends
are, how precious it is to have someone that cares so much about
you that instead of them feeling like a friend, they feel like.
So I told her what I needed, and she had it delivered right to my front door.
It came in like 30 minutes.
I had soup, I had orange juice.
I had everything I needed.
I had cough syrup, everything I needed, and it came directly to my door.
I didn't expose anyone to C O V.
I didn't infect anyone.
My friend cared enough about me to have something brought directly
to my door, and I thought about.
And I think about it often.
I wanna make sure I'm that type of person.
When someone needs me, I'm there for them.
Whatever is needed, I wanna make sure they have it.
I'll tell you something about me, my Love language, if you've never heard of
that before, love language is actually acts of service and quality time.
I love helping people, so just like my friend helped me, I want to continue
helping you achieve your English goals.
I hope you enjoy today's lesson and today's story, and I'll
talk to you in the next lesson.