REAL LIFE ENGLISH Speak English Like A Native Speaker Episode 2
hey welcome to episode 2 of the real
life
english series in today’s episode i am
going to teach you
real english vocabulary real english
expressions and i’m
also going to teach you a fluency
pattern that you can use
today and sound more like a native
english speaker
when you request something i also have
some quizzes
just for you so i hope you’re ready
alright
i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump right
in all right so we’re going to start off
by looking
at a situation a real life situation
here we have a man and a woman sitting
together
looking at their cell phones now the
woman is
probably saying honey you are more
tech savvy than me can you please show
me
how to work this new phone you bought
for me
now this is a very natural conversation
a very natural request that this woman
is making
but what’s the pattern that she used let
me show you the pattern
she used she said his name
or a nickname which is honey and i’ll
explain
then she gave the reason or the current
situation
and finally she made her request
she didn’t just immediately make the
request she followed this
pattern and this formula now i do want
to explain something to you really
quickly
honey you may be asking teacher what
does honey mean
now honey is just a term of endearment
for someone you love so for example
my mother will call my father honey or
dear likewise my father will call my
mother
honey or dear so you can call your
spouse
your boyfriend or your girlfriend honey
in english we say
honey good job one more time after me
honey excellent all right now she also
said something that maybe you haven’t
heard before
she said tech savvy
after me tech savvy
excellent now tech savvy just means
well informed about or good at
using modern technology so
maybe you are tech savvy maybe you are
really good at using computers and
cell phones and other things you can say
ah
i’m tech savvy makes sense right
now look again at what she said she said
honey
the name you are more tech savvy than me
she’s giving the reason before she makes
the request
honey you’re so good with technology
right now the request comes can you
please show me right so what about this
last part
work this what does it mean to work
something this is again a real english
expression
real life english work something means
to use something right so for example
i have my cell phone right here i am
very familiar with
my cell phone i know how to work it
because i’ve used it for a while so this
individual was telling her husband hey
baby hey honey
you’re tech savvy you’re really good
with technology
can you please help me i don’t know how
to work it
makes sense right so once again looking
at this image
at this situation we have the pattern
name plus reason or situation
plus the request and this is exactly
how you are going to use the pattern as
well
now let me quiz you and see if you
remember the words i just taught you
are you ready for our first quiz i hope
you are here we go
all right quiz number one now you only
have five
seconds for each question here we go
now let’s see the first question is
right here
i want you to fill in the blank
technology is a big part
of life so little kids
are very five seconds
all right time what is the answer
yes you got it exactly little kids are
very
tech savvy makes sense right
a lot of kids even my four-year-old
niece she’s really
good with technology tech savvy
all right let’s see how you do with
question number two
here we go question number two fill in
the blank
he just bought a new smart tv
for his office but he doesn’t know how
to what’s the answer five seconds
here we go
all right time what’s the answer
come on you got it exactly he doesn’t
know how to
work it or use it makes sense right
excellent job excellent now let’s see
another situation
that uses the pattern that we learned
here we go here is the next situation
we have again what looks like a husband
and a wife
now in this situation the woman is
probably
saying michael you know that you
tower over me would you put the meat on
the top
shelf of the freezer pretty please
all right so we’re seeing here that a
request
is being made but the woman is
using the fluency pattern let me show
you watch right here
she did what said his name
michael then gave the reason michael you
tower
over me now wait a minute what does
tower over me mean
all right so tower over just means to be
much taller than someone or something
the man in the picture is much taller
than the lady
actually my brother-in-law is about six
two or six three
he towers over us he’s extremely
tall so again following the pattern when
you’re making a request
name then the reason the woman said you
tower over me
you’re so much taller than me now it’s
time for the request
she says would you put the meat
on the top shelf of the freezer
pretty please now what does pretty
please mean
again real life english english we use
here we go pretty please actually means
it’s used
to ask someone for something or
persuading them to do
something by sounding friendly
that’s right when you say oh pretty
please
you’re trying to sound friendly you’re
trying to make them see that i
really need your help in english we do
say
pretty please now guys you probably
don’t want to say it but
women and children we do actually say so
we say
pretty please after me pretty please
excellent good job so she said pretty
please now you already know what time it
is
it’s time for your next quiz let’s see
if you
understood exactly what we just went
over
alright so each question again remember
you have
five seconds so here is the first
question right here fill in the blank
she likes short guys because tall
guys usually her
you ready five seconds what goes in
the blank here we go
time all right so what goes in the blank
i know you got it
yes very good tower over
her she likes short guys because tall
guys tower over her excellent job
really good all right now let’s go to
question
number two here we go number two again
the little girl wanted ice cream what
did she
say to her mother
she wanted ice cream what did she say
here we go
timer has started
time all right so what did the little
girl say come on i know you got it
excellent she said pretty please
very good excellent job all right so
again we had two situations
where the individuals followed the
fluency pattern for making a request
name reason or situation and then the
request
well let’s see if it happens in this
situation as well
in this situation we have a woman and
she’s on the phone and she’s probably
saying
hey susan i’m trying to knock out
my resume but it’s taking longer than i
expected i know you are the resume
guru so would you mind looking over
it for me now in this situation
she also used the fluency
pattern let me show it to you again the
pattern
name hey susan reason or situation
i’m trying to knock out my resume
but it’s taking longer than i expected
now that’s the reason
and her situation but what does
knock out mean so knock out actually
means
to complete or finish something so
to knock something out for example oh
i need to knock out dinner before i go
hang out with my friends
i need to complete or make dinner before
i go out with my friends
we say knock out something in english
real life english and now you can also
use it
so she’s trying to knock out or complete
her resume she also says it’s taking
longer than i expected so what does
longer than expected mean it means
to take longer than you initially
thought it would so she’s giving the
reason
and she’s also giving her a situation
before she makes
her request this is how you speak
english in real life
you don’t just immediately make your
request you need to say the name
give the reason or situation and then
make the request
so now she’s starting to make the
request after she says
i know you are the resume guru she then
says
so would you mind looking over it
for me that’s her request but what does
it mean to
look over something look over
something just means to review or
check something for errors so she’s
asking her hey
i know you’re the resume guru that’s the
situation and the reason
would you mind just kind of checking my
resume
that was the request so again she
followed the pattern
name plus reason or situation and then
the request so you know what time it is
now it’s time for your last
quiz let’s see how you’re gonna do here
we go now we have five
questions for this quiz and i know that
you are going to do well
here we go first now it’s a combination
now of everything you’ve learned
my husband loves computers
he is really what’s the answer i’m gonna
give you five seconds here we go
five seconds
time you got it her husband is
what come on i know you asked you know
the answer
excellent tech savvy so good
excellent job her husband is tech
savvy very very good all right now let’s
go to
question number two here we go you’re
doing great so far
question number two what is a term
that a woman might use to
call her husband what’s a term that a
woman might use to call
her husband here we go five seconds
time all right what’s the answer what’s
the term come on
yes honey excellent a woman or a man
would call their spouse honey excellent
job
real life english all right here we go
question number three the basketball
player
is extremely tall he
blank all of his fans
whoo what’s this answer come on you know
it
five seconds let me know the answer here
we go
time what’s the answer you know it yes
excellent job
he towers over all of his fans
he’s extremely tall very good excellent
job
all right now let’s go to question
number five oh number four
almost skipped one here we go the little
boy
said he had to his homework
before he could play outside with them
what’s the answer five seconds here we
go five seconds on the clock
time come on what’s the answer tell me
what the answer is
exactly he had to knock out
or complete his homework before he could
play
outside with them now one more quiz
question come on
you are doing such a great job i know
you can get this one too
here we go question number five
he bought a new cell phone yesterday
but he still doesn’t know how to
yet what’s the answer five seconds on
the clock
here we go time all right so
tell me come on what’s the answer yes
he doesn’t know how to work it
yet excellent job you
are amazing you passed
that quiz with flying colors
all right so i really hope you enjoyed
today’s lesson
remember we talked about the pattern
this pattern will
help you and it will show you how to
speak english fluently
when you want to make a request remember
first part
name second part reason or situation and
finally
make your request now if you want to
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as always remember to speak english
you still there you know what time it is
it’s story time
hey i said it’s story time
okay i have a good story for you today
this is something that my family talks
about
all the time now i live
in maryland okay and you all know how
much
i love food so in maryland there
are a lot of west indians
people from trinidad people from jamaica
and many other islands so we have
amazing west indian food here in
maryland
now my family we are not west indian but
we love west indian food
specifically roti
so the roti we like has cabbage and
potatoes and
garbanzo beans and vegetables it’s
delicious
and all throughout my high school years
and college and even a little bit after
college there was
one specific restaurant we used to go to
it was called caribbean delight it
wasn’t too far from my high school
and the owner actually worked with my
mother at the hospital
the restaurant was her side business
when i
say her roti oh was good
oh my goodness it would make you
lick your fingers that’s how good the
roti was
now the thing is my mom knew the owner
very well
she was the cook she was the owner and
they were friends at work there was
nothing wrong
but there was one unique quality about
this lady
she did not play any games she was
extremely serious
and when you went to her restaurant you
needed to know exactly what you wanted
you need to know what your request was
because she didn’t have time for small
talk
so i remember one specific time i was
really craving i wanted to eat roti so i
drove
almost 30 minutes from my house just to
pick up some roti from a restaurant
so i arrived at the restaurant and i was
gonna make my request right so i said
her name and i said hey ma’am
her name and then i won’t say her name
here and then you know i said hey i’m
here i really
really wanted to eat some of your food
so i want to order a roti you see
name i told her why i came and then i
made the
order but i had a question now i usually
just said what i wanted and sat down and
waited for it to be given to me after i
paid
but i had a few questions i wanted to
know if they could add
some vegetable so i asked her i said hey
i just wanted to know
can this be added and she looked
baby you get what she paid for
she really did not want anything changed
on her menu
now she was not mean but she did not
play games and she did not want small
talk so she said
you want a roti you can’t change
anything yes ma’am yes ma’am
i paid my money and i sat down and i
waited for my roti to come
so i came home and i told my mom i was
laughing because
the food was so good now in america
customer service is very important just
to help you understand
so usually the customers always right if
a customer has something they want
then the person will kind of adjust like
at subway
you make it your way and they do things
your way
so usually if you make a request you
want some vegetable changed people will
do that but not this lady
she said you get what’s on the menu or
you get nothing at all
and we all continued to go to her
restaurant because her food was so good
so we always have jokes about her
because she did not play
don’t change the menu get whatever’s on
the menu and people loved her food
now she’s no longer here she got sick
unfortunately and so we’re not able to
get her food anymore but we have these
funny memories of her
because she did not really match the
typical american
uh food culture she did not let you have
what you wanted
if you wanted to change anything she
said no you get what’s on the menu
so maybe there are some people in your
country that are like that
just one way they won’t change at all
i hope you enjoy the story guys i hope
you have an
awesome week and i will see you next
time
don’t forget to check me out if you want
to keep studying with me
love you all and i’ll talk to you later