5 WAYS TO STUDY ENGLISH WITH A PARTNER

hey so you found a partner you found

someone to study

english with and you both are excited

but the only problem is

you don’t know how to study together

well don’t you worry today i’m going to

teach you five ways to study

with your english partner are you ready

well then

i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump right in

all right so we’re going to look at five

different ways to study

with your english partner and these

different ways will help you both

speak english more fluently now method

number one method number one is called

the topical discussion method

you’re going to use topics to practice

giving your ideas

and opinions this method will help you

organize your thoughts

about various topics now before i

explain

exactly how to use this method i want to

explain

why it’s so important as an english

learner

you are trying to become fluent you want

to sound like a native english

speaker well that means you need to

master

the ability to have discussions in

english you need to master

organizing your thoughts in english

about various topics

so for method number one you and your

partner need to practice

speaking about various topics in

english organizing your thoughts and

organizing your ideas

so how do you do this based on method

one

let me show you so what you’re going to

do is right here

first you’re going to pick a topic that

you both would like to discuss

and search for questions about that

topic

in english now for this one again i

always

tell you and i try to emphasize this as

you’re studying

english you need to study based on

topics you’re actually interested in

so you and your partner can discuss hey

what do you like what are your interests

what are your hobbies

once you come to a decision and a

consensus on a topic that you are both

interested in what you’re going to do is

go to google and type

discussion questions about dot dot

so whatever topic you chose i love

cooking i love exercising

so my partner and i may say hey let’s

talk about cooking

so we’ll go to google and type

discussion questions

about cooking and you’ll get a ton of

questions so

for method one first you need to decide

a topic and then find

questions about that topic now after

you’ve found the questions

what you’re going to do is write the

questions down

and spend some time sometimes you need

more hours and sometimes you need more

days

to organize your answers for each

question and you’re going to make sure

your answers are based on

the three reasons details or examples

breakdown

remember i always explain in order to

speak english fluently you need to give

enough

information so after you have the

questions

the two of you can decide hey should we

wait one or two days so that we have

time to organize our ideas and then

meet back up or you may say no

we can meet in a few hours you decide

how much time you need to organize your

answers for each question

but make sure your answers give either

three reasons

three details or three examples all

right that’s very important

now after you’ve done that what you’re

gonna do is come back together

meeting via video or audio call and

you’re going to ask each other the

questions

the goal is for each of you to make sure

the other

gives three reasons details or examples

for their answer so by doing this by

practicing

english in this way using this method

with your partner

you both will increase your ability to

speak in english fluently

about various topics all right now let’s

move on to method number two

here we go method number two is also

very useful

method number two is the question and

answer method

now you’re going to use questions to

practice english conversation skills

this method will help you learn how to

carry on a conversation naturally

in english so there’s this thing that

happens in english conversations

i like to call it kind of like a tennis

match someone

asks a question you receive it and then

you

ask a question so you go back and forth

back

and forth and in order to speak english

fluently you need to be able to do this

naturally so with your partner using

method two

you both will learn how to start doing

this

more naturally which will improve your

fluency so

let’s see how this method works here we

go first

you’re going to pick something that you

are both interested in it can be a movie

an activity a book a show a topic it

doesn’t matter

just pick something you’re both

interested in

i love emphasizing this you must be

interested in something

because that will help you speak easily

and fluently about it in english

so pick something you’re both interested

in for example

my favorite movie is the sound of music

so let’s say my partner says oh my

goodness tiffany

i love the sound of music perfect

we both like the sound of music okay

so let’s move on to the second part here

we go

second individually create five

to ten questions so you’re gonna create

five to ten questions related to

whatever you chose

my partner and i we chose the sound of

music

so i’ll create five to ten questions to

ask my partner

and he or she will also do the same i

may say

ah when was the first time you saw the

sound of music

first question second question why do

you like this movie

so much third question what was your

favorite part of the movie

so again creating questions based on

what we chose

make sense right okay now after the

questions are created

then finally me via video or audio call

and ask each other the questions you

created

remember i encouraged you several months

ago in a previous video

about hey just stepping out there and

asking someone to be your partner

online even underneath this video if you

need an english partner

in the comment section say hey guys i

would love to study with someone

you can find people all over the world

that want to study

and you can use this method and the

other four methods to study with your

partner

okay so again method two is based on

question

and answer this method questions and

answers okay

all right here we go let’s move on to

method number three

visual sentence method now this method i

love

you use images to practice describing

things

in english this method will help you

think faster and more creatively

in english now i truly love this method

i’ve used it

so much with my students with thousands

of students during my time as an english

teacher

because many people are visual learners

they need to see something and then

connect what they see

to maybe some textual information so

using this method

you and your partner can increase your

english fluency

using something visual so let me show

you how this actually works

for this visual sentence method

so first what you’re going to do is

select one

picture i’m actually going to do that

right now in real time

i have some pictures on my phone and i

will show you the picture that i select

so i want to pick a picture and again

with your partner you can select the

picture so here we go

this is my picture doesn’t it look

delicious

whoa yes don’t worry

i caught it all right so i picked a

picture of some delicious

pizza alright now i am vegan some of you

know that but we have vegan cheese so

i selected this right here let’s see if

you can see it let’s see let’s see

there we go that’s the picture i chose

so maybe my partner and i

we both love to eat pizza so we select a

picture

of a piece of pizza or a whole pizza all

right

you select the picture then second set

a three minute timer why do you need a

timer here’s why

you’re going to look at the same picture

and go back

and forth describing it for three

minutes that’s right you’re gonna go

back and forth so again

i chose the picture of the pizza right

so i have the pizza right here let’s see

if you can see it let’s see there we go

that’s the picture so my partner and i

we meet via video call

i say hey how are you my partner hey i’m

good too

so we start talking and i say okay now

we’re going to describe

this picture we set a three minute timer

and for three minutes we go back and

forth

oh i love the way the sauce looks on the

pizza

my partner might say oh i love how they

put

basil leaves on top of the pizza and

we’re going back and forth describing

the picture

so this again helps you to start

thinking more creatively in english

and it’s actually quite fun now i do

want to say something i do want to

mention really quickly before we go to

method number four

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all right so you see again how you can

improve your english while you’re

studying with your partner and even

before you meet your partner

now let’s move on to method number four

method number four is alphabet

vocabulary method

now this method uses the english

alphabet

to practice using the english vocabulary

you learned this method will help you

remember and use

english vocabulary faster now this

is probably a new method you’ve never

heard about but oh

when i say i love it now this method

you’re going to use the alphabet

and it’s going to help you recall all

the vocabulary you’ve learned so many

students tell me teacher i learned so

much vocabulary

but i can’t recall the vocabulary when i

need it

this method will help you and your

partner

recall the vocabulary so let me explain

how you use this method here we go

first decide who will go first

then set a three minute timer

finally starting with the letter a go

back

and forth saying an english vocabulary

word

that matches the letter of the alphabet

now you may want to decide the minimum

number of

letters each word must have you don’t

want your partner saying

i for the letter i alright so for

example

let’s say my partner and i hey how are

you

hey tiff we’re going back and forth

right and so i’ll start off with letter

a

i set my three minute timer and i say

okay partner are you ready

and he or she says yes tiff i’m ready i

start with letter a

aardvark my partner goes letter b

bashful i have letter c

carrot she has letter d uh distract

and we go back and forth even right now

me doing it i had to stop and think at

the same time right

so it’s really fun and you go back and

forth with your partner and again

this method will help you and your

partner recall the vocabulary you both

have learned

now while you’re practicing there may be

some new words your partner says

that you’ve never heard of guess what

happens

now you have an opportunity to improve

your vocabulary

and your partner has an opportunity to

teach

you something he or she already knew

makes sense right the alphabet

vocabulary method is amazing now there’s

one more method

i want to tell you that can help you as

you study with your partner

this method is the 5ws method

now you use the 5ws to practice

basic english conversation skills this

method will help you

learn how to carry on a conversation

naturally in english about daily life

now i’m going to explain

exactly how to use this method but i

want to remind you

the five w’s i know you’ve been studying

with me probably for a while so you may

already know

what they are say with me who

what when where and what’s the last w

y excellent so you know the five w’s

so we’re going to use these five w’s to

practice with

the partner that you chose here we go

what you’re going to do is

choose one of the five w’s you and your

partner can choose who what when where

or why

you’re going to ask each other a

question based on that w so for example

if my partner and i decide hey let’s

choose what

that’s the w we want to start with then

we each must ask a question using what

so i can say um hey

what did you do yesterday i used what

my partner can say ah tiff

what did you watch on tv last night

still asking me using that w so again

you can get very creative and you’re

also asking questions

about your partner’s daily life all

right here we go

and finally go back and forth until you

have finished

using each w so we started with the what

then we’ll go to when hey when are you

going on your next vacation

my partner may ask me tiff when was the

last time

you sang at church again any question is

possible

as long as you’re using the w that you

and your partner chose

and that’s method number five i really

hope you enjoyed today’s lesson

i hope that these five methods help you

and your partner

study english and enjoy the process

alright i will see you next week

remember as

always to speak english

you still there you know what time it is

come on and join me it’s story

time hey i said it story time

all right so today’s story

now today’s story happened whoo

maybe about two or three years ago so

i’ll give you a little bit of the back

story

so when i came back from south korea i

decided to do youtube

full-time i decided to become an online

english teacher

now in order for me to continue moving

forward with this business

i needed to buy a lot of equipment i

needed a new computer

i needed a new camera i needed mics i

needed lights

i needed a lot of things which meant i

needed to save

thousands of dollars in order to

purchase everything because i wanted to

make sure i had good quality

lessons and videos for you so it took me

a little while to save up the money and

to figure out how to get the products

and i also

wanted to wait until there was a sale so

in america we have these different

periods of the year that are known as

the sale time so july 4th christmas

black friday and these certain periods

of the year that you can get

products for cheaper and best buy is a

very popular technology store here in

america you can get computers

tvs refrigerators a lot of electronics

is

electronics and appliances so i decided

to go to best buy

now i wanted to make sure everything i

needed was at

one store so i actually drove quite a

ways from my house because

there was a best buy actually in

alexandria virginia

that had a lot of products everything

that i basically needed

so i drove to the store and again i knew

i was going to spend

several thousands of dollars that day so

i was already prepared

but you know i needed a deal and i

needed some discounts so i walked into

the store and i was there for maybe

about an hour

an hour and a half and i spoke to

different um

individuals that were working there one

gentleman helped me with the computer i

needed to buy

another gentleman helped me with the

camera that i was trying to buy

and uh after they helped me i was still

kind of perusing looking around the

store

and i noticed there was a little lady

she actually was an indian lady a little

indian lady looked like she may have

been my parents age actually

so i noticed that she was kind of

looking at me and watching me

and i didn’t feel weird or anything i

just was curious why she was looking at

me

so i was standing by the camera the

camera area

and i was looking at a camera and she

walked over to me and she got really

close to me

so i looked at her and i said hello she

said hi baby how are you again she was

older

really cute lady but she worked there so

i honestly didn’t

think she was coming to actually you

know tell me the features about any

camera

she just seemed like a sweet lady she

said so you have to buy a camera huh

i said yeah i have to buy a camera um

it’s a little expensive so i’m just

trying to think of you know the best way

to um i guess purchase it you know which

card and and we were just talking and

she said well i’m going to give you a

tip

i said a tip she said you see this right

here it was the floor model so in

english we say floor model it means

the actual example that people can touch

and use so when you go to buy a computer

or a camera or something like that

they have one example model people can

actually pick up and play with

that’s called the floor model so there

was a floor model of the camera i needed

she said you see that right there i said

yes ma’am she said

the floor model i think it was either

two or three hundred dollars cheaper

she said if you get the floor model

there’s nothing wrong with it

i said oh i said you know 300 cheaper is

it’s really a lot

that’s really a blessing that’s a good

thing i said but i need a warranty and i

know

the warranties usually only apply to

brand new products she said oh no no no

she said at best buy even if you

purchased a floor model you can get a

warranty purchase a warranty

that will cover anything if you drop it

if it breaks

we’ll cover it all as long as you have

that warranty i said what

she said yes honey so we both started

smiling she said

save 300 honey use this get this one

this floor model it works perfectly

and i said you know what ma’am thank you

so much and that day i

saved 300 on that camera the camera was

over a thousand dollars but because of

that lady

i was able to save almost 300

and the moral of the story honestly guys

is

i needed a discount that day i needed to

get some things for cheaper than they

were

actually promoted actually as they were

shown in certain magazines or newspapers

i needed a cheaper price

and the lady that i least expected to be

able to help me

was the one that helped me that little

lady who was

about my parents age if not older who

was just walking around the store

looked like she was a sweet old lady she

was the one that helped me the most

out of all the individuals that worked

there that day

so i want to remind you that as you’re

on this english journey

people are going to be around you you’re

going to meet people that maybe they

don’t look like they can help you

but always be open because you never

know how much someone can help you

until you actually give them the

opportunity to help

so i hope you guys enjoyed this story

maybe you also have a story where

someone helped you get a really big

discount

i will talk to you all next week again

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start practicing and start improving

your english again i love you all

have an awesome week have a wonderful

evening a great day and i can’t wait to

see you

next week bye