If you want to really sound like an English native speaker and speak easily
and fluently a great way to do this is to practice chunking and I'm going to
give you examples and show you exactly how to do it in this video so let's go
I'm Deirdre Nicholas from palm tree teaching TV teacher speaker and your
personal English language coach so if you've watched my last video all about
chunking you'll know that it's a great way to get much more fluent in your
spoken English and using this chunking technique which I told you about will
really speed up the time it takes to for you to get fluent how because with
chunking you learn whole native speaker phrases not just little words and this
means that you sound much more natural and your speech comes out easier and
more flowing and fluent without hesitation because you don't have to
think about each and every word so in today's video I'm going to show you some
great fixed native speaker phrases which you can use and learn in chunks and use
tomorrow now if you remember I told you that you can find these chunks of
language in varying different places thrown phrase books in English books and
also in podcasts YouTube videos films and loads of other places now to show
you how it's done I've taken some examples which you might
find in an English phrase book and then for you I've added some other chunks to
make it sound even more like native speakers would say so let's picture the
setting it's in a cafe and you've just bumped into a friend that you haven't
seen for quite a long time by the way bumped into is a great chunk of speech
and it just means that you've seen this person by accident not a planned meeting
it doesn't mean that you've actually physically bumped into them so you could
start with something like hi it's great to see you again or hi there how you
doing I haven't seen you for ages now these are great fixed phrases great to
see you again how are you doing I haven't seen you for ages and you'll see
that I've put in bold the fixed chunks of language so that you can learn these
easily there are also very good conversation starters as well as chunks
of re native speaker language now another
fixed Cheung could be when you're meeting your friend fancy meeting you
here then you could go on to chat a bit more
you could say well as a matter of fact I often past this cafe I know this area
like the back of my hand but I just haven't been in here before
so chunks like as a matter of fact or like the back of my hand are really
useful in many contexts and many situations as a matter of fact it's just
like a little introduction to something you wish to say now in your conversation
with your friend you might want to start gossiping a little bit or chatting about
people that you know friends that you know so it might go something like by
the way did you hear about and then you'd go on to some juicy little piece
of gossip and maybe you'd say you won't believe this but and then there'll be
some sort of gossipy chat about somebody that you know so after you've spent some
fun time gossiping about people you'd probably want to chat about each other
and catch up how's it going at and then whatever the company is that your friend
works at or you might ask so how's work going what have you been up to now the
language chunk what have you been up to notice the linking of the words what
have you been up to it's a great catch-all phrase that you
can ask generally about how life is going and when you ask about work that
your friend is doing you could say are you still with and then the company name
and if your friend has got another job you might say that's brilliant
good for you you could also ask her about her family how's your family how
they doing well you could talk about your own work as well maybe you're not
very happy at work so you might say I'm sick and tired of all the hard work for
example sick and tired is a really good chunk of language now if your friend is
a student you could say how your studies going how are your studies going and
these are all great chunks of language to use and will make you sound totally
fluent and be much more confident if you use these
as well if you learn them as chunks there will be no hesitation in your
speaking and as you will say them in units there'll be no need to translate
them in your head or think about putting individual words together Oh before I go
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video deirdre at palm tree teaching comm I'd love to hear from you and I really
hope you decide to do this because it will really help you okay so now you
want to continue your conversation with your friend and you might comment on how
well she's looking you might say I really love your hair have you had it
cut recently for example or you look great
those glasses really suits you then you're in the middle of chatting and
suddenly you notice the time you could say I'm so sorry I've got to go I've got
to get back to the office at two o'clock sharp now adding sharp to a time means
that you have to be there exactly and precisely on time or you could say I
better be going and it's been great to catch up let's meet up again how about a
coffee sometime drop me a line when you're free or I'll text you now these
phrases are all perfect for closing a conversation with a friend and leaving
let's meet up is a very popular chunk of language as is how about for a
suggestion drop me a line can refer to an email doesn't just have to be a
letter and of course I'll text you everybody can use any time so all you
have to do with these phrases is to learn them and practice using them as
soon as you can so that you don't forget them
so go out and use these chunks that I've shown you today tomorrow with all your
friends and the people that you know and also find out more for yourself in the
books and in phrase books and all the other ways that I told you about in my
previous video it's great active learning and you'll feel a lot better
and more confident for it so make sure you go and watch my other videos like
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and build your English fluency in a fun way so I hope you really enjoyed this
video enjoy learning your English and I will see you next time bye