hello ah very good practice practice say hello give me a give me like a big a
strong voice though hello ah okay so in this video again I want to do some more
of that practice people enjoyed that video the first one so let me begin with
the quick question how you been now you might have given me
an interesting response to that maybe you remembered what we used before in
the previous video we were talking about how you been so how how have you been
becomes how you been and the response to that was and I can't complain I can't
complain so that's that maybe kind of good kind of bad way you know but it
just means you know maybe everything is okay but you don't want to give a long
story about things so how you then ah
okay so in this video what I'd like to do is cover something different I am
Drew Badger the world's number one English Fluency Guide and what we'll be
talking about is how to ask someone what are they doing so it could be right now
what are they doing or what are they doing in the future what are they what
are their plans so instead of asking someone like what will you do on the
weekend or over the weekend or on Saturday or something like that you can
say what are you up to and listen carefully to how this blends so what are
you up to what are you up to so up to meaning doing what are you up to what
are you up to on Saturday but listen carefully again to how this blends what
are you up to what are you up to and it's even more of like a you that you
becomes yeah what are you up to what are you up to what are you up to what are
you up to it really sounds funny when you listen to it but the more you listen
to this kind of blended speech the more prepared you are for it in actual
conversations so what are you up to what are you up to what are you up to so what
are you up to right now if I see a friend maybe I'm at the library and I
walk by Oh what are you up to it's like what are you doing if you're talking
about the present or maybe if you're talking about the future what are your
plans for the future so what are you up to this Saturday what
are you up to tonight what are you up to tomorrow what are you
up to next year that kind of thing and it can be used for not only a person but
maybe you're talking about a company or what some organizations doing all like
what are they up to what are they up to or you know you're asking even about a
friend or family member how's your sister like what is she up to
what is she up to so instead of excuse me asking about a thing in a more like a
textbook way instead of saying oh like what is your sister doing recently or
something like that you can just say oh what is she up to what is she up to I
haven't seen her or heard from her in a while what is she up to but a response
to this similar to what we practiced in the previous video is nothing much
nothing much so this just means like I don't have a particular plan or you know
maybe like you're sitting and reading a book and you're like waiting to do
something you're not really spending your time doing something in a
particular way right now so you might just segment nothing much nothing much
so if I say what are you up to I'm just asking about right now what are you up
to I want you to practice saying nothing much nothing much you can even just say
not much not much is also easy to say and perfectly fine as well
so what are you up to yeah oh that's interesting so maybe like you're not up
to much this is again when you just see somebody and you're curious or you call
somebody on the phone and like you want to ask them if they're if they're busy
or if they're maybe available to do something with you like you call them
and say hey what are you up to and they say oh nothing much
oh do you want to go out to dinner with me do you want to do something like that
so it's also a way of asking someone if they're free or if they're available to
do something on a certain date what are you up to
oh do you want to go out to dinner tomorrow night
oh great fantastic so what are you up to nothing much what are you what are you
up to nothing much so now you try asking me what are you up
to nothing much I'm just sitting here reading a book pretty easy let's
right again so ask me what are you up to what are you up to really really focus
on blending the sound of that what are you up to oh nothing much I'm yeah I'm
just drinking a glass of water over here I'm waiting for a friend of mine
actually so you can begin that this is again just a way of beginning a
conversation and you could come into something like oh I'm doing this or I'm
doing that or I have this plan or that plan but it's just a really great native
way of doing this so let me ask you again what are you up to this Saturday
now if you don't have plans you can just say nothing much or you can say oh well
you know I'm going to a movie when you're practicing with me something like
this it doesn't really matter what you're saying the important thing is
just that you practice this value develop fluency and as you learn one
phrase like nothing much or not much then you can begin to add other things
in there like nothing much but you know maybe I want to go to the park or I want
to do something else so practice this one more time with me what are you up to
on Saturday oh that's interesting so very easy so all you have to do when
you're practicing with me think about this use these terms practice with me in
this video watch it a few times and then actually go out and try asking somebody
else you can type these things if you don't have anybody to practice with
right now or if you're in an actual situation where you can practice with
people just say that to them what are you up to what are you up to how you
been how you been and then practice with these kinds of responses with people
when they ask you so what are you up to what are you up to then nothing much
nothing much so this gives you a way just to pause you're giving a quick
response to someone but then you can say oh well I'm thinking about doing
something so you can give a longer explanation but it gives you a quick
response for people and then you can practice that well I hope you have
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