4 WAYS TO ANSWER ANY ENGLISH QUESTION TEACHER TIFFANI
hey i’m teacher tiffany and my goal is
to help 1 billion students
1 billion english learners just like you
around the world
finally speak english with confidence
and that’s why i created today’s lesson
especially for
you i’m going to teach you the four ways
you need to learn
in order to answer any question in
english
are you ready well then let’s jump
right in
all right i want you to imagine that
someone asks you this question
why do you think it is important to keep
a clean house basic question
but sometimes basic questions are hard
to answer
that is until you learn the four
specific
ways let’s start with way number one the
five
w’s so again we have the question why do
you think it is important to keep a
clean house
well with five w’s help you organize
your thoughts from the very beginning
so for me for example i can say who for
what
i can say organize the desk for when
i can say every morning for where i can
say home office
and for why i can say i can’t think
straight
when my office is messy now again your
answers when you’re organizing your
thoughts
may be different from mine but i want to
show you how i can use the five w’s
the first way and actually answer this
question
in multiple ways for example using the
five w’s i can say
in my opinion keeping a clean house is
important
because the way your house looks affects
your productivity
i organize the desk in my home office
every morning
because i can’t think straight when my
office is messy
but let’s look at this answer in a
little bit more detail you see
remember the first part was who the
first w
and you see that i have the who right
here for i
then what well i organize the desk
when i specifically said every morning
what about where i mentioned the home
office
and finally why i can’t think straight
when my office is messy so you see that
using this first way
i have answered the question and given
all of the information necessary
to speak fluently in english now in this
answer there were two specific words
that i wanted to explain to you so let
me explain them now
productivity now this just means the
effectiveness
of productive effort and it’s measured
by the amount of work
produced based on time and effort
so if you are a productive person it
means that you get
a lot done in a short period of time
so productivity again after me
productivity you got it last time
productivity excellent now
another expression that i used actually
in my answer was right here
think straight now this just means to
think
rationally calmly and clearly
this is a really useful expression that
i want you to learn
and try to use to sound like a native
english speaker
again think straight good last time
think straight excellent again
so i’m saying that ah keeping a clean
house
actually helps me think straight
think clearly have a clear mind and
remain
calm so that’s why i think it’s so
important
to keep your house clean this is just my
first response
based on the five w’s but i can actually
change the way my response is given
still based on the five w’s
now let’s look at this one a little
closer here we go
i think that a clean house affects your
productivity
i personally cannot think straight when
my
office is messy so to keep a clean house
i actually organize the desk in my home
office
every morning now for the who again i
put i
for the what i have it in my answer
organize the desk
for the when every morning for the where
home office and for the why i personally
cannot think straight when my office is
messy
so again you’re seeing that i’m
answering the question
in a different way but the foundation is
based on the first way
which is the 5 w’s method right
so i want to explain one part of this
answer that i gave i
said the word personally now this is
used
when you want to emphasize that it is
you
and not another individual for example
i really like salads right many people
like salads but i
really like salads so i can say i
personally think salads are amazing
i’m emphasizing that hey this is my
opinion
somebody else they may disagree but it’s
okay
this is my opinion so i added personally
so again you’re seeing that i’m able to
answer in a different way
still using the five w’s and you can do
the same
now what about another way again we’re
still with way number one with the five
w’s but i can give the answer in a
different
organization right based on the five w’s
in my opinion
keeping a clean house actually helps a
person be
more productive i can’t think straight
when my home office is
messy so i usually organize my desk
every morning now do we have the 5ws yes
we have
i for who what about what organize my
desk
when every morning where home office
and why again we have i can’t
think straight now again what i’m trying
to help you understand
is if you master this way the first way
the five ws you’ll be able to answer any
question because your thoughts
will be organized all right now there is
a word here that i want to go over with
you
really quickly messy now this just means
untidy dirty lacking neatness
or something that’s disordered so again
after me
messy good messy
excellent many times people say ah
children can be very messy
right they have clothes thrown around
everywhere when they eat something they
put the plates just anywhere
so people say ah children can be messy
sometimes make sense all right good so
again we’ve looked at the first way
being the five
w’s now what about the second way to
organize your thoughts and speak english
fluently
the three reasons so again we have the
same question
why do you think it is important to keep
a clean house
now i’m gonna answer it in a different
way using three
reasons this time not the five w’s
here we go let’s say in my opinion the
first reason would be
a clean house helps you focus reason
number two
motivates you and gives you more
confidence to complete
other tasks and reason number three
reduces stress now using these three
reasons you see that i have a
long answer so let’s look at this answer
in more detail here we go starting off
there are three reasons why it is
important to keep a clean house
the first reason is that keeping a clean
house
helps you focus research has shown that
the eyes can be
overwhelmed by a multitude of objects
that are not related to a specific task
or project now that’s actually true this
is really true research
so what happened look what i underlined
i underlined
helps you focus that’s my first reason
but then the next sentence supports
my reason so for way number two which is
based on three reasons
you want to always support your reasons
now i said a multitude of let me explain
that really quickly so
a multitude of that just means a lot of
something
or many so i said a multitude of objects
now what about reason number two i
continue
the second reason is that keeping a
clean house
motivates you to complete other
tasks now i’m going to support my reason
when you work in an
organized space your brain gets the
space
and motivation it needs to organize
other tasks again you’re seeing this
pattern
i give a reason and then i immediately
give a support
for my reason this is so important when
you’re answering a question in english
this shows your fluency when you’re
using
way number two all right so motivation
let me explain this word to you real
quick
motivation is the reason or reasons one
has for
acting or behaving in a particular
way now let’s go to reason number three
finally the third reason is that keeping
a clean house
helps to reduce stress as human beings
we usually get stressed and anxious
in an environment that is not organized
so if a house is
clean this stress will be non-existent
again my reason is it helps to reduce
stress
but i supported that reason right right
after that i supported it
now i do want to go over two of the
words here we go the first one again
for this reason is anxious which means
characterized
by extreme uneasiness of mind or concern
about something all right concerned
about something like
i’m not really sure if this is gonna
turn out okay
i feel anxious now real quick after me
anxious good again
anxious excellent now the word right
before this one was motivation so
real quick i want to practice that v
sound for motivation again
motivation excellent last time
motivation good excellent now
there was one other word that was found
in the third reason
non-existent now this just means not
existing or not real so after me
non-existent good
non-existent excellent all right so
again we have our third reason
and the support to go along with that
reason
now that was the second way what about
the third way to organize your thoughts
and speak english fluently
the third way is three details
so we again we have the same question
why do you think it is important to keep
a clean
house and we have three details that
we’re gonna look at
and again i want you to pay attention to
the fact that we are using the same
exact question but we’re answering it in
four
different ways why because once you
master these four different ways
you’ll master english and be able to
speak fluently
no matter what someone asks you okay
alright so three details that i can give
for this one detail number one
not a lot of clutter detail number two
organized spaces and detail number three
surfaces that are free from dust and
dirt
so you see what i’m doing right i’m
giving you details
about a clean house i’ve chosen to focus
on
that part of the question hey let me
explain
what a clean house should look like in
my opinion all right
so here we go now using these three
details
this is the answer i would give so let’s
kind of go into it in a lot more detail
here we go
detail number one in my opinion a clean
house
is a house that is free of clutter
number two oh real quick free of clutter
means to be free of mess
or disorder everything is ordered and
organized remember i taught you messy
right well
free of clutter means not messy free
of clutter you got it again
free of clutter now say it quickly to
sound more natural
free of clutter there you go there you
go very good
so reason sorry detail number one free
of clutter
detail number two has organized
spaces and detail number three
and includes surfaces that are free from
excessive dust and dirt now i’ve given
the three details that i wanted to focus
on
in my answer to explain or describe a
clean house
but you’ll notice that i have a word
underlined and put in red
excessive now let’s see what this word
excessive means it means
more than is necessary normal or
desirable
immoderate so for example real quick
before i give you an example
after me excessive
good excessive excellent now the word
excessive again means
more than is necessary so let’s say for
example
i go to someone’s house and they say hey
tiff do you want to eat something and
i’m like yeah i’m starving
and they bring me three plates of food
now i love food but come on that’s
too much that’s a little bit excessive
i only need one plate of food makes
sense right
too much more than is necessary we say
excessive
good job so continuing this type of
environment encourages productivity
that is why i believe it is so important
to keep a clean house
now what you’ll notice is this answer is
shorter than the previous answers right
but it’s so clear it gets right to the
point
it gives three details and it’s an
excellent answer
this is still a fluent answer for
someone that says this answer gives this
answer
they still will sound very fluent in
english so you can follow this way as
well
now there’s another way that i want to
show you again to help you answer any
question in english
and to organize your thoughts and speak
english fluently
this way is the three examples way
again we have the same question why do
you think it is important to keep a
clean
house here we go we have three examples
i love working in threes
first example when the kitchen is clean
i feel like cooking
big meals for my family example two when
the basement is clean
i feel like exercising more and finally
example three
when my office is clean i come up with
better ideas now notice what’s happening
now i have chosen to give answers based
on
what happens excuse me what happens when
a house is clean
now i want to show you the results hey
when a house is clean
this is what happens so let’s see how i
would answer this question
using the three examples let’s kind of
look a little bit closer here we go
in my opinion looking at example number
one in my opinion
keeping a clean house is important
because the way your house looks
affects your productivity for example
getting into example one
i am more prone to cook a large meal for
my family
when the kitchen is clean i get more
excited about cooking food
because everything is organized now this
is actually very true
but you see what happened is right i
gave the example and then i gave a
little bit more information to kind of
help you understand what happens for me
when the kitchen is clean
it’s organized i get the design i get i
feel something inside like oh
i want to cook this actually happens so
i feel more productive
when the house is clean specifically the
kitchen
now prone to let me explain what this
means having a tendency
or inclination being likely to do
something so
i have a tendency to clean
i have a tendency to cook i have a
tendency to
dot dot why because it’s something that
i’m likely to do so we say
prone to do something alright so
pronunciation
prone to you got it one more time
prone to excellent very good now
the second example let’s see how the
second example will come up
also i feel like exercising more when
the basement area is clean
it feels good to have more space to do
my
exercise routines so again i’m adding
another example that proves my point
that hey
you’re more productive when your house
is clean and i’ve given you a little bit
more information
to help you understand my example now
example number three is also very
important
finally i get better ideas when my
office is clean
my thoughts seem to get organized faster
and i have peace of mind this is why i
think
a clean house affects your productivity
again
excellent response three examples very
clear they’re connected to the question
and the answer
and everything looks great now in my
third example
i use an expression piece of mind let me
explain what this actually means
this is a feeling of being safe or
protected
or to simply be at peace
so again feeling peaceful feeling calm
in order to explain explain this we use
the expression
peace of mind good again
peace of mind excellent so again you can
use this way the three examples method
in order to answer any question in
english
so here’s the thing guys you may get
asked a question that seems tricky
but remember there are four ways to
answer any question the five w’s
three reasons three details or three
examples
i really hope you learned a lot from
this lesson today i hope it helps you to
gain
confidence and to speak english fluently
no matter what the topic is
and no matter what the question is i’m
teacher tiffany i really enjoy teaching
you all i love you all
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you still there you know what time it is
it’s story time
hey i said a story time
all right for today’s story you know the
question that we went over
in the lesson was talking about keeping
a clean house so i wanted to tell you
all a story about keeping your body
clean all right
so when i was younger as a child
i loved going outside like i literally
would stay outside
all day my mom had to force me to come
inside for lunch
literally i’d stay outside with my
friends riding my bike
climbing up the monkey bars swinging off
the monkey bars
i had so much fun growing up
and i even went outside in the winter
now when i was growing up we got a lot
of snow in maryland
now we don’t get as much but i remember
uh one winter it snowed a lot so
i woke up in the morning i looked out my
window and i saw at least two feet of
snow
i was so excited so i went downstairs to
mommy please please can i go outside can
i go outside
she said okay okay you can go outside
make sure you put
lots of clothes on you know bundle up
bundle up means just make sure you’re
warm
so i had my sweater my snow suit i got
my sled
and i was about to go outside and play
with my friends and she said hey
remember
stay safe stay warm i said okay mommy so
i
ran outside and there were about 10 or
15 of us we were having
a ball running up and down the hill
sledding down
running back up and doing it over and
over and over again
for hours now it was freezing outside
but you know when you’re having a good
time
you forget about pain so we were having
a great time and
and then around lunch time because we
went out
early we probably got outside maybe
around 8 30 or 9 we were excited
so maybe around 12 or 12 30 i heard my
mom call my name
tiff i said man i gotta go inside
so about that time all of us realized we
had to go inside to eat lunch and we
planned on coming back outside after but
so we all ran back
to our different home so i ran inside
and i was like yes she was like it’s
time to eat lunch i said ah
okay so i ran inside she said okay go
clean up
and then come back downstairs to eat
lunch so i ran upstairs now again i was
covered in snow
but you know snow is pretty clean so
there wasn’t too much dirt on me
so i took my snow suit off and i was
literally i said okay let me take a
shower because even though it was cold
you still kind of sweat so i was like
well
let me take my snow suit off and let me
kind of jump in the shower real quick to
kind of clean off and then i’ll go
downstairs to eat
now remember i had been outside for over
three hours
right i just took my snow suit off and i
was freezing outside but i was having
fun
i took my snow suit off and i said oh
i’m
so cold i’m gonna turn this water up
super high
so it can be super hot now for those of
you who know where this story is going
you know what i’m talking about children
don’t realize so
my body was extremely cold like my
fingertips were white
i was cold but you know as a kid you’re
okay i turned the shower
up super high super hot and i was so
excited i was like oh this shower’s
about to be
good so i turned the water on
you know i took my clothes off and i
jumped in the shower
and as soon as the water hit my body
i let out a silent scream like
it hurt so bad it felt like
needles were all over my body like the
water droplets were individuals needles
hitting my body and i yelled out my mom
said what’s wrong
she came upstairs and i said why does
this hurt so bad and she said ah
she said you have to let your body kind
of thaw out first
you’re super cold you can’t get in a
super hot shower
so she proceeded to explain to me you
have to turn the water down a little bit
it can’t be too hot and i said why do i
want cold water
i’m cold she said she laughed of course
she said you have to understand
you can’t put hot water on your body
your body has to kind of
uh come to a point where it’s level
right now your body is too cold so
anyway she helped me understand that i
turned the water down i finally thought
out
i took a shower i was a little bit
nervous a little bit apprehensive
but ever since that day whenever i’m
cold when i come back inside
i said oh no you don’t i sit and i just
wait and i’ll let the water run a little
bit but i just wait until my body kind
of gets a little bit warmer
on its own but again my whole goal was
to be clean
i wanted to clean my body so i don’t
know if you guys have ever experienced
that maybe when you were a child and it
was snowing outside or extremely cold
and you ran inside and you thought that
a hot shower would be the best thing
and you were shocked too let me know in
the comment section
i’ll never forget this forget that
situation i learned a lot that day
all right guys i hope you enjoyed
today’s story time thank you again so
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there
all right guys i’ll see you next week
have a great week