How to Answer Any Question in English
This is the
formula for answering
any question in English: R+R+A.
And today I will teach you
how to use it in this video.
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I am Teacher Tiffani.
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R+R+A.
The first step to answer
any question in English
is to recognize.
The second step is to restate,
and the third step is to answer.
Now let’s see this in an example.
The question we are going to look at is:
When you were in high school
who was your favorite teacher?
Now remember, we want to see
what they’re actually asking us about.
The question starts off by saying
“when you were in high school”,
but the information they really want is:
who was your favorite teacher?
So what we must recognize is
which of the five W’s is
this actually referring to.
Is it who, what, when, where, or why?
Well, since it’s actually asking
about our favorite teacher
we know that it’s talking about who.
All right, so the first step is done
and we move on to the next step.
The second step is again restate.
Now all you have to do at this step is
restate the unused
portion of the question.
The first part was “who
was your favorite teacher”
from step one,
but the remaining part of the question is
“when you were in high school.”
This part becomes the part
that we will use in our answer.
We are going to restate this.
So, when you were in high school
is what’s going to be in our answer,
but remember to answer this,
we have to say when I was in high school.
Now, let’s go to the
next step, the last step.
The third step is: answer.
So, when I was in high school
my favorite teacher was
and our answer?
Mr. Smith.
That’s how easy it is to
use this formula, R+R+A.
But let’s look at some other
examples in more detail.
All right, our next example question is:
What did you do during your last vacation?
Okay so again our formula is R+R+A.
So let’s get started with the
first step of the formula.
The first R represents what?
Do you remember?
That’s right, you got it.
Recognize.
Remember, the first step is to recognize
what they are asking us in the question.
Which of the five W’s is the
question asking us about?
So the important part of the question is:
what did you do.
So what we’re going to
do is try to find out
which of the five W’s
this is talking about.
Is it who, what, when, where, or why?
You got it.
It’s asking about what.
So this is the information
we need for step one.
Now, let’s move on to step two.
All right, so over at
step two we have another R
and this our stands for
do you remember?
Very good.
Restate.
So we saw that in the
first R we learned that
what did you do was the focus.
The remaining part of the sentence
is the part that we want to restate.
During your last vacation.
Now remember,
we are going to restate
this in our answer,
but we have to change your to what?
During my last vacation.
So if we restate this it
would sound like this:
During my last vacation.
Okay, so let’s look at the last step now.
Our last step is the A.
What does the A stand for?
You got it, the A stands for your answer.
Okay, now let’s write our answer.
During my last vacation,
now we’re gonna write what we did.
I climbed up a mountain.
This is our answer to the question.
This is what she says.
Our next question is:
If you could go anywhere in
the world, where would you go?
Oka, so once again our formula is R+R+A.
The first R is:
You remember?
You got it, recognize.
Remember we are going to
recognize which of the five W’s
the question is asking us about.
So the question again is:
If you could go anywhere in
the world where would you go?
So the focus is where would you go.
And which of the five W’s is this?
That’s right, you got it.
Where.
So the focus of this question is where.
So let’s keep going, let’s
move on to the next R.
The next R, do you remember
what it stands for?
Good job.
It stands for restate, very good.
So where would you go is
the focus of the question
but the remainder is the
portion that we must restate.
So the remainder of the question is:
If you could go anywhere in the world.
Now remember we must restate this
and instead of you we will say I.
So let’s rewrite that
and add it to the portion
that we will use later.
If I could go anywhere.
and we’ll just stop there
because we know what
the rest is going to be.
So now let’s go to the last step.
The last step is A.
A represents what again?
You got it.
The last step is to answer the question.
Now let’s write our answer now.
If I could go anywhere in the world.
Where is where the focus.
I would go to Paris.
Okay so we’ve answered the question
if I could go anywhere in the
world I would go to Paris.
And our next question is:
Why I have so many people
started to move to Hawaii?
Okay once again our formula is R+R+A.
The first R is again we need to recognize
we need to recognize which of the five W’s
this question is asking us about.
Well to be honest this
question is a lot easier
because it says why have so many people
started to move to Hawaii.
So what’s the focus?
You got it.
The focus is why, which
means this is the W
that the question is referring to.
So we’ll put why at the bottom.
Now let’s move on to the next step.
Okay the next step is R and
it means that we need to:
Restate.
Well the only word that we used was why,
so the remainder of the sentence becomes
the part that we must restate.
So let’s go ahead and just
write it all out on the bottom
so that we can use it when we answer.
Here we go.
Have so.
Let’s fix that E.
Many, fix that A.
People started to move
let’s go on the bottom
to Hawaii.
Okay, so this is what we’re going to use
when we answer the question.
We’re going to use this
portion and restate it.
Okay, so let’s go to the last step.
Our last step is to
letter A, do you remember?
That’s right the last step
is to answer the question.
Okay, now this one changes a little bit.
We’re going to move this
have and put it right here.
So this how we would answer the question.
So many people have started
it’s curving a bit
to move to Hawaii,
now we give our answer
because
let’s talk about the weather
because the weather there is so amazing.
So let’s say it one more time.
So many people have
started to move to Hawaii
because the weather there is so amazing.
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