Speak English FAST Episode 1 About People

Hey I have a secret I used to have a big

crush on one of my students when I

worked in South Korea I’ll tell you that

story at the end I’m teacher Tiffany

let’s jump right in alright today we are

gonna look at this equation R + D + Oh

now we’re gonna use this equation to

speak English fast about people using

this equation you can speak about any

person like a native English speaker so

let’s say for example you are gonna be

speaking about various people let’s say

you’re gonna speak about random people

maybe someone in the news or a

politician or what about your boss or

coworkers or your family or even your

friends or best friends or let’s say

even yourself giving a self-introduction

yep you can use this simple formula to

talk about anyone so let’s see how it

works okay the first part of the

equation is the letter R here we go now

the letter R stands for relation

basically you’re gonna give more

information explaining your relation to

the person or people so let’s get

started now I have four random people I

selected an actor now I’m gonna be

speaking about the actor Taye Diggs so

let’s see how I explained our

relationship or how I’m related to him

here we go

this is what I said Taye Diggs has been

one of my favorite actors since I was in

high school I saw him in a really

popular movie with Angela Bassett and I

thought he was an attractive guy since

then I have continued to follow his

career all right so you see what

happened I explained how I first found

out about him when I first started

liking him and that’s how I showed my

relation to Tate IG’s but what about our

boss or coworkers how can we use this

equation first we can do this some

people just go to work stay up there

and then go home but in my case I

actually spent quite a lot of time with

my coworkers we would talk before work

in the teachers lounge and even go out

to lunch together on a regular basis so

I gave you immediate information

regarding my relation to my co-workers

you know that we spent a lot of time

together in the teachers lounge and also

that we would go out to lunch on a

regular basis now very quickly the

expression regular basis is used very

often in English we say regular basis

monthly basis weekly basis daily basis

basically we use this expression to show

how often something is done okay all

right but what about your family

how can we use the are the first part of

the equation to explain our relation to

our families here we go my family is

very important to me each member of my

family plays a key role in my life

they are my foundation and I rely on

them a lot we talk multiple times a day

even though we live in the same state so

again I just gave you more information

regarding my relation or my relationship

to my family or with my family

why I wanted you to understand these

individuals that I’m about to talk about

I wanted you to understand how I am

connected to them this is why this

equation is so useful whenever you’re

speaking about people you can start

speaking English fast if you follow the

equation so let’s say you’re talking

about your friends or your best friends

here’s how it would sound I met my best

friend when we are in elementary school

when we were in elementary school we

immediately hit it off because we love

sports and we also loved having fun

really quickly hit it off again hit it

off this expression just means that we

got along immediately we had a lot of

things in common so we enjoyed being

around each other so when you meet

someone for the first time and you

realize hey I kind of like

this person we click something about

this female or this male really makes me

want to talk to them even more we say

hit it off in English okay alright final

sentence here we go

fast-forward several decades and we

still enjoy each other’s company so I

told you my relation to my best friend

now self-introduction I want you to pay

attention because you can use this

simple formula when you are giving your

self-introduction okay here we go

my name is Tiffany and I am an English

teacher from America as a teacher I

value the relationships I have with my

students and I look forward to the time

I can spend with them so I explained Who

I am and also my relationship with my

students because you guys are so

important to me as a teacher I love you

guys and want to help you guys okay now

that leads us right into the next part

of our formula okay so let’s move on to

the next step we have the letter D give

three specific details about the person

or people so again here we go there are

three things that really intrigued me

about him or amazed me first he is

determined to always do his best in an

interview he told a reporter that the

reason he moved away from movies and

into television was because he wasn’t

getting good material in film now really

quickly I want to pause you see that my

response the second part of the formula

is quite long do you know why it’s

because each of the details also has a

supporting point example or reason

that’s what you can do when you give

your three details always support them

with some more information okay all

right now moving on to the second part

second he was not always the handsome

and confident person that he is today an

article about him stated that when he

was younger people used to make fun of

him because of his complexion moving on

to the third one third he truly loves

his mother and what interview

he said that he is well-mannered because

that’s the way he was raised all right

now what about our boss or coworkers

here we go if you were to take a look at

my coworkers you would have seen people

from all different backgrounds but there

were three qualities that each of them

had in common now again as we’re leading

into these three qualities I want you to

remember that you can download the PDF

that has all of this information so

don’t worry at the bottom in the

description you can click the link and

download the free PDF that has all of

these examples so as you’re following

along just listen and try to understand

what’s going on and then you can

download the PDF later and follow along

too and practice okay alright so here we

go starting with the first quality first

they each had a love for life it was

easy to see that they enjoyed new

experiences second they each enjoyed

deep conversations the conversations we

had would always leave us wanting more

and third each of them had a

determination to become a better

individual they were constantly reading

or gaining knowledge in some other way

once again you saw that I gave the three

qualities or three details and then

supported each of them with either an

example or more information you can do

the same now what about when we’re

talking about our families so here we go

my family there are three principles

that form the foundation of my family

the first principle is love we make it a

point to show our love for each other

each and every day the second principle

is loyalty my parents always taught my

sister and I that family will always be

there for you and finally the third

principle is sacrifice growing up I

watched my parents make countless

sacrifices just so that my sister and I

could have what we needed

now the word countless just means a

large amount unable or it’s hard to

count because there were so many times

that they sacrificed for my sister

and I okay so again here I gave three

principles and again I supported each

principle okay remember we’re on the

second part of our formula the letter D

details so what about our friends or our

best friends this is how we could say

our response there are many things that

I admire about my best friend but I will

just mention three first I admire her

dependability if she says she will do

something she always comes through

second I admire her ability to remain

calm in almost every situation and this

is really true my best friend is super

calm she’s always very level-headed oh

this is a good word for you know

level-headed just means remaining calm

no matter how bad a situation gets okay

all right let’s keep going I can

honestly only think of one time where

she lost her cool we got another great

expression lose your cool now lose your

cool just means to get upset and express

your anger okay whether you start

yelling or doing something we say you’re

losing your cool not remaining calm okay

alright let’s continue finally I admire

her ability to make everyone feel

comfortable around her now the

supporting sentence I can truly say that

I have yet to meet a person that doesn’t

like her

alright now what about our self

introduction here we go if I were to

describe myself using three words I

would say that I am determined organized

and happy now again another thing you’re

noticing is that before I say the three

details I always give a sentence before

letting the person who is listening to

me know what I’m about to do I’m going

to tell you three things about me I’m

going to talk about three principles

that my family is my family uphold

sorry principles okay so let’s see how I

did the introduction the self introduc

here we go first I am determined to make

a difference in the lives of those I

come in contact with this is something

that is extremely important to me second

I am very organized in every aspect of

my life this has given me the ability to

accomplish more in my life over a short

period of time finally I am happy my

students in Korea used to call me the

smiling teacher because I was always

smiling that’s actually true I was

called a smiling teacher I was called

the smiling teacher and the singing

teacher so those are my nicknames all

right now we’re gonna move on to the

third part of our equation okay so here

we go the third part is letter O opinion

now you’re going to give your general

opinion of the person or people so let’s

say again we’re talking about random

people or the actor I can say in my

opinion Taye Diggs is a really good

actor and I think his career has

flourished because of the lessons he

learned from his mother now this word

flourished just means to prosper or to

do well and to continue to grow in

English we say flourished one more time

for pronunciation flourished great job

all right now let’s move on to boss or

coworkers this is how we could give the

opinion I think that I was truly blessed

to have coworkers who became friends my

life has been better as a result of the

time we spent together now moving on to

family I can say in all honesty I

believe that the family relationship has

the ability to make or break a person

now I want to pause because there are

two expressions that you’ve got to learn

they’re so useful first in all honesty

now we use this expression when we are

about to say something that we truly

believe okay hey in all honesty

dot-dot-dot and I want you to believe me

and understand that I’m speaking from my

heart okay in

honesty and the other one is make or

break someone make or break someone just

means that either if this thing is here

this person will do amazing amazing

things but everything if this thing is

not here they’ll fail so make or break

you okay all right let’s go on to the

next sentence this is another reason why

I value or appreciate my family so much

all right moving on to friends our best

friend I think she is an amazing person

and I know that she has blessed the

lives of many people

very simple and finally self

introduction I think that my

determination organization skills and

happy disposition have helped me to

enjoy a great life so far so again even

when you’re giving yourself introduction

you can apply the last part of the

formula your opinion what do you think

about yourself how would you judge who

you are and the qualities that make you

who you are okay all right so again we

have this equation R + D + Oh

relation detail and opinion I really

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you still there okay it’s story time

all right so I told you that I used to

have a crush on one of my students so

this is what happened I had been in

Korea for about maybe a year or a year

and a half and man I was loving teaching

I really enjoyed it and I had an evening

class and the class had about maybe 20

students

No about 18 students at the time so my

classroom was packed it was full so I

was teaching my class and you know it’s

laughing with the students and we were

just talking about life at that point in

time and the door suddenly opened now I

was facing this way and the door was

behind me and the door opened so it kind

of caught me off guard or surprised me

because all of my students were already

in class so when I turned around I was

speechless there was this tall guy his

build we say his body or the build of

his body was it was perfect so again you

guys know that I love sports and I was

very athletic so his body shape was the

shape of an athlete and his hair was cut

perfectly he had a nice suit on I like

when a man wears a suit it looks great

so he had a suit on and he looked at me

and his voice was deep and the thing is

I had 18 students watching me so I had

never met a student up until that time

that was my type so my ideal type and he

was my ideal type so I have 18 students

looking at me as I’m looking at this

student who’s looking at me and speaking

to me and looks very handsome and I have

to control my facial expressions so I

said now no one ever knew they didn’t

catch on that I actually thought this

guy was attractive so anyways he became

my student and the other teachers the

funny thing is myself and other teachers

had the same reaction when he came to

our classes because he came to my class

but he was in another teacher’s class

the

years term of the previous semester so

we would always talk about him because

he was so handsome and he was really a

nice guy now one time I was giving him a

test so I had to give a conversation

test to my students once every two weeks

and he was sitting down and he was very

close and he said teacher Tiffany how

can I help you he said you know I’m I

broke up with my girlfriend recently it

got really awkward for a second because

my class was full of students and this

guy who I think is very attractive but

I’m trying not to show that I think he’s

attractive because I’m the teacher and I

have to remain composed and he’s telling

me that he just broke up with his

girlfriend and we’re literally we’re

maybe about six inches from each other

because when they’re taking their

conversation tests I have to have him

close so I can hear because the class

was kind of loud I said oh really he

said yes and um you know I I’m really

looking for you know someone else I can

start a relationship with now if you

guys could have been inside of my head

at that moment I said lord I need your

help because I can’t let the student

know that I think he’s attractive and

he’s talking to me about dating and so

anyway so he kept talking he said well

you know I just want you to pray for me

that I find someone and I said okay for

you now at that time there was a rule at

our school where we couldn’t date

students so again that’s another reason

why I didn’t even entertain the idea of

possibly dating this guy or letting him

know that I thought he was handsome so

nothing happened but that was a very

very difficult term for me because he

was in my class every evening in the

front row and he was always looking

directly into my eyes so anyways we had

a great time the class was fun he got

along with the other students and no one

ever knew but just a little secret that

now you know that I used to have a big

crush on one of my students all right I

will talk to you in next week’s lesson

have a great week