THINK SPEAK IN ENGLISH About Your Skills And Abilities Episode 1

speaking english fluently is not about

how long you can speak

in english it’s not about speaking for 5

10 15 or 20 minutes

instead english fluency is all about

your ability to organize your thoughts

like a native english speaker that’s

right organizing your thoughts about

a certain topic so today i want to teach

you how to organize your thoughts and

speak

properly and fluently about your skills

and abilities

and you can do that by using three

simple steps

i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump right in

alright so step number one is you need

to simply describe

the ability or the skill that’s right

you need to

introduce the topic to the person you

are speaking to

so for example you all know that i love

sports

and i really like playing basketball so

basketball playing basketball is a skill

that many people

have so to start the conversation i need

to describe the skill

you’ve all heard of the nba right this

is a big

organization in america and it has a lot

of

basketball players right so i can start

the conversation off

by speaking about basketball related to

the nba

i can say the nba is one of the most

popular

sports organizations in america many

people

love watching basketball and many young

people spend

hours literally practicing different

basketball drills

and trying to improve their abilities

basketball is loved by a lot of people

so again what did i do i introduced the

topic the skill or the ability

basketball right playing basketball i

haven’t talked about my

own skill or ability in basketball just

yet

and that’s what you need to do when

you’re speaking about your skill or

ability

you must start off with a basic

description

of what the skill or ability is another

example

is i like to draw i love to draw

i use pens and pencils so if i want to

talk about

art and my skill to draw or paint i must

first describe that skill in general so

in art there are many different ways of

producing art you can

paint you can draw using a pen you can

draw using a pencil

you can use pastels you can use markers

there are many different ways to produce

art so i can start off by saying art is

loved around the world you can see a lot

of different types of art when you go to

a museum

there are paintings there are sketches

there are drawings

and art is something that many people

appreciate

stop i’ve introduced the topic right

i’ve described it i’ve explained what

art is

again before you talk about your

personal skill

you need to talk about it in general the

skill in general all right

now the second thing you need to do when

you’re talking about your skill or

ability

is actually describe your

personal ability that’s right now we’re

getting into more

details now you’re going to connect you

to the actual topic so here we go

we talked about basketball right i said

i love basketball

i started off step one by introducing or

describing basketball in general

now i can talk about my abilities i can

say

now i have played basketball since i was

seven years old i really love the game

and i really love to play basketball

i was a very good point guard and i

loved also to shoot

so i was a shooting guard as well so i’m

telling you a little bit more about my

skills

i really enjoy playing basketball but

i’m telling you specifically

the position i played i was a point

guard i also was a shooting guard i

could shoot really well

so again i’m telling you a little bit

more about my personal skills and my

personal ability makes sense good now

i also talked about art i said that

there are many different types of art

but now i’m going to tell you about my

specific type of art so

i love to draw using pen i love to also

draw using pencils but i’ve been using

pen a lot more and also watercolors so

i will draw something using a pen and

then i’ll paint it using watercolors

so i started to do more abstract

paintings where in the past i did a lot

of

pencil portraits of people so i’m giving

you a little bit more

information about my personal skills

related to

art and that’s what you need to do step

one describe the ability or skill

in its basic form step two talk about

your personal skill or ability

now step three the final thing you need

to do is

describe how you acquired

that skill that’s right now you need to

kind of go back in time a little bit

and give the person more information

about how you developed this

skill because now they’re already very

well aware of

the skill you gave them basic

information in step one

then step two you talked about yourself

and how you are currently

so what happens in their mind oh

i wonder how she improved her skills

i wonder how he learned to do that so

you answer that question before they

even ask it

by talking about how you develop the

skill

so for me for basketball again i’ve

mentioned before that my dad

loves basketball i can still remember

right now when i was about two or three

years old

going to the park on sundays watching my

dad play basketball with his friends

for hours my sister and i would go with

him and he’d play for

hours we call it pickup ball basically

you

go to the park and you see who wants to

play and you guys make a team and you

play basketball

so i watched my dad play basketball from

the time i was a young

child then when i was in elementary

school middle school

high school and college i played

basketball so i’ve played for so many

years

so the skills developed over time so

again i told you

how i developed the skill of playing

basketball now what about art

now this is something interesting

because i also got this from my dad

but we did not know and i say we because

my sister was an amazing artist

when she was in eighth grade she was

already drawing people and it looked

exactly like them

so i watched my sister and i thought i

got my talent from her

but we both were able to draw really

well however my sister stopped when she

was in high school and i kept going

so we grew up we never knew where we got

it from we just thought we naturally had

the talent

when i was about 25 i was having a

conversation with my dad about something

he said you do know that your sister and

you got the skill of art for me and i

said huh what do you mean

i’ve never seen my dad draw anything and

he said oh when i was a little boy i

used to draw a lie i used to draw planes

and other things

and i loved art but he never continued

with it

so i learned that i got the skill of art

from my dad even though i never

i’ve never seen him draw so again i

learned that very interesting fact when

i was an adult

so again i explained to you how that

skill developed so what happens

now you know for a fact first of all

what my skills are and i explained what

they are

then i explain my personal skills right

i talked about the basics of the skill

then i told you about my personal skills

and finally i said how i developed

these skills this is how you speak about

your talents and skills

in english fluently follow these three

steps

talk about or describe the skill second

describe your personal ability

and third talk about how you developed

it again remember that english fluency

is not about speaking for a long time

it’s

all about how you organize your thoughts

and relay or give the information

now if you enjoyed this lesson

everything that i taught is actually in

my ebook

how to pass the ielts speaking exam all

right

so again you can hit the link in the

description if you want to get the book

and keep studying

but i really hope you learned a lot

remember that you can do it you can

speak

english fluently i believe in you

thank you so much for joining me for

today’s lesson

remember i am always here to help you

learn

english and speak english confidently

i’ll see you

next week

you still there you know what time it is

it’s story time

hey i said it’s story time

all right guys so today i have a story

for you that

some of you may know but some of you

don’t

this is when i was in korea and i was

studying in university i was studying to

get my master’s degree in oriental

painting

and i was in class and we were learning

about drawing the human figure

and i was sitting in class and my

stomach

oh my goodness my stomach was hurting so

bad you see i was uh having cramps at

that day so i wasn’t able to focus on

what the teacher was saying

and it got so bad that i had to leave

class so i told my friend i said please

let the professor know that i’m sorry i

have to go because i’m not feeling good

so i left the class and this was not

like me remember i told you

i love school i i loved learning and i

still enjoy

learning so i didn’t want to leave but

my cramps were

horrible so i left the class and i

really couldn’t even walk i would the

campus was huge it was huge to walk from

one end to the other would take you

about 15 minutes

it was really big 15 or 20 minutes it

was really a big campus

so i had to walk back to my apartment i

was on campus

but i was hurting so bad i actually was

going to hail or get a taxi

but before i got the taxi asset i need

to get some medicine because this is bad

so i had to walk from class all the way

to

the pharmacy that was on campus i mean i

was leaning over

it was bad y’all so i finally got to the

pharmacist and i walked in and it was a

female and she looked at me

and she said hey how can i help you

again all in korean

and i said i have really bad cramps

please give me your strongest medicine

she said you want the strongest medicine

i said listen i said i need something

that works quickly

and i needed to work for a long time so

she could tell by the look on my face

that i was in extreme pain

so she looked at me and honestly it was

like time stood still

at first she was looking at me normally

and then her face changed and she said

you sure you want the strongest and i

was a little bit caught off guard but i

was like

yes she looked around

now again it felt like a movie to me

then she actually

put her hand underneath the counter now

normally for the pharmacies in korea

they have

all of the medicine kind of behind them

on this wall right

but she didn’t go to the wall she put

her hand underneath

of the counter and there was like this

secret drawer

and she opened the drawer and took out

this little like it was like a gold

pack and kind of shook it and it was

like little something

something inside of the pack she said

this will take away all of your pain

and it was a little bit suspect so i was

like do i

take these from her or not but i was in

pain so i said okay take the money

i paid her the money and she gave me the

packs and she said

it’s gonna work trust me so as soon as i

got the packs

i i opened them i needed it immediately

so i got some water and i opened the

pack and there was like

there were like 50 little black balls

like little black balls and i was like

what in the world but again i was in so

much pain i did not care

i had never seen this medicine before i

didn’t know what

even i could speak korean i was like i

don’t know what this says but i’m gonna

take this

so i had the water and i had these

little black balls in this little

this little pack and i took all of the

black ball and then i drank water

so i drank it and i swallowed all the

black balls and i was like i hope this

works

so i went outside to go get a taxi and

all of a sudden i started getting

really dizzy i said oh no lord oh no

she’s giving me drugs lord she’s giving

me drugs so

i was super dizzy i couldn’t really walk

straight

and i felt really queasy i felt really

weird i was like what in the world was

in those black balls

so i finally got a taxi still was

feeling a little dizzy got in the taxi

taxi took me to my apartment and i got

to my apartment

i was still feeling weird but then all

of a sudden i noticed that my stomach

cramps my cramps were

slowly subsiding the intensity was

going away and i was like what’s

happening right now

and within about 10 minutes i felt

as light as a feather i felt as free as

a bird

everything was great i was smiling

remember i said i was in extreme pain

but all of a sudden after taking those

black balls i was living it up

right so i still don’t know exactly

what was in that medicine but when i

told my family they said

tiff you done taking drugs

but it wasn’t i had some other friends

who live in america

uh they are chinese-american i think i

think they’re chinese-american and when

i posted this story on facebook

they messaged me they said oh tiff i

used to get those same little black

balls when i was a when i was younger my

mom would give them to me when i was

sick she was like yes they are so

powerful

so apparently there are some herbs and

the combination really makes you feel

better fast

so i just thought it was a movie y’all

because

the way she took those little black

balls and said do you want these

i was like it’s a drug deal lord it’s a

drug deal

so anyways i felt better i will never

forget those little small black balls

and how they made me feel better

i don’t know if you guys have had an

experience like this with some medicine

that

you weren’t sure about but it made you

feel better if so tell me about it in

the comment section

alright guys i hope you enjoyed today’s

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