THINK AND SPEAK IN ENGLISH How To Talk About Your Goals Fluently In English
hey in today’s lesson i am going to
teach you how to think and then speak in
english fluently that’s right in order
to speak english fluently you must
master the ability to organize your
thoughts like a native english speaker
using the five w’s now are you ready
well then i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump
right in now i mentioned earlier that
you must use the five w’s so let’s look
at this situation we’re talking about
goals and his goal is to speak english
fluently so what would the first w be
it would be who
michael an intermediate english learner
what
he studies english regularly
when
every afternoon prior to eating dinner
where
at the local bookstore
why
he wants to speak english fluently and
travel abroad
now what just happened we organized our
thoughts right about this young man’s
goal to speak english fluently using the
five w’s now we clearly understand what
his goal is and why he has this goal
so now we need to use what we organized
in our minds using the five w’s to speak
in english so here we go here’s the
response using the five w’s right here
read along with me
michael
is an intermediate english learner
he has made it a habit to study english
on a regular basis so
every afternoon prior to eating dinner
he goes to study english at the local
bookstore
whenever someone asks him
why he is studying so hard
michael says it is because he wants to
speak english fluently and travel abroad
now that is a fluent english response
this response is an advanced english
response and you can do the same thing
when someone asks you about your english
goal now there are a few expressions
that i want to go over in this response
so i want you to look very closely the
first one is
make it a habit to do something
make it a habit to do something now this
just means if you make a habit of doing
something
you do it regularly or often so it can
be in the past or right now i made it a
habit of doing
i make it a habit of doing dot dot dot
it just means you do it regularly or
often just like michael studies
regularly he makes it a habit to study
english
now the other one is prior to this is
also a very important one
every afternoon prior to eating dinner
prior to just means before a particular
time or event so i like to call my
parents prior to starting my day before
i start working hard i want to check in
on my parents
prior to before a particular time or
event in english we say prior to so now
we have a good understanding of what
michael’s goals are related to english
and we simply started with step one
thinking in english using the five w’s
about his goal
now what if we talked about another
situation another goal that many of us
have
a goal dealing with health
we again must use the five w’s to think
in english
who
michelle
a mother of two young children
what does she do she does a vigorous
workout with her coach
when
every morning at the crack of dawn
where
at the 24 hour gym in her neighborhood
why
she wants to get back in shape and lose
all of her baby fat so what’s happening
again this is step one
thinking in english in order to speak
english fluently you must start with the
five w’s we’ve organized our thoughts
about michelle’s goals and we’re very
clear
why she is so focused on getting in
shape
now let’s see if we use the five w’s
what would her response be here we go
read along with me
michelle is a mother of two young
children
every morning at the crack of dawn
michelle gets up and does a vigorous
workout with her coach
she usually exercises at the 24-hour gym
in her neighborhood
michelle works out so hard because she
wants to get back in shape and finally
lose all of her body excuse me baby fat
so what happened again speaking about
her health goal
using the five w’s first to think in
english organizing our ideas no matter
what the topic is when you do that first
you can give a fluent english response
now in this response there is a few
there are a few words and expressions
that i wanted to explain to you the
first one is vigorous
yeah i know this could be a little bit
tricky after me again
vigorous
excellent now this word vigorous just
means very forceful energetic or intense
we say vigorous a lot of times when you
go to the gym to exercise you’re running
on the treadmill maybe you’re lifting
weights or doing something you usually
sweat a lot right very intense workout
very vigorous
you got it now i want to pause really
quickly because sometimes you have
trouble with pronunciation like vigorous
is hard i want to encourage you again to
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with your pronunciation so that when you
come up to words like this vigorous
again in the app i explained front teeth
bottom lip and vibrate
vigorous
excellent job very good now the other
word the other expression was back in
shape she wants to get
back in shape now when you say back in
shape it just means that the person
saying it
once was a healthy
in shape person nice body good shape
and wants to get back to being healthy
and in shape again think about a mother
that is pregnant nine months her body
changes shape because it has to fit and
accommodate a baby once the baby is
delivered there’s lots of excess weight
so this mother michelle wants to get rid
of that and get back in shape makes
sense right
now she mentioned something else she
mentioned that she wants to get rid of
her baby fat
yeah baby fat now baby fat is used to
refer to
mothers um when it’s used to refer to
mothers it means the excess fat
remaining after childbirth nine months
of having an extra human being in your
belly your skin has stretched there’s a
lot of excess fat we call that baby fat
when we are speaking about mothers so
again after me
baby fat
excellent all right so we were able to
speak english fluently about her
situation why because we first thought
in english using the five w’s to think
about
her health goal
now what if we talk about
money or career or a success goal
look at this individual right here he
looks like he’s successful his goal is
to be more successful who is he
samuel
an ambitious stockbroker
what
he studies every publication article and
website about the stock market
when
day in and day out
where
in new york
why
he wants to be the most acclaimed
stockbroker in new york history now what
just happened we organized our thoughts
using the 5ws to talk about his goal his
success goal right so our thoughts are
organized we understand this man samuel
he’s an ambitious stockbroker now how
about speaking english fluently using
this information here we go
again right here follow along with me
samuel is an ambitious new york
stockbroker his main goal is to one day
be the most acclaimed stock broker in
new york history so in order to reach
his goal
samuel studies every publication
article and website about the stock
market he does this day in and day out
every piece of information from the five
w’s is included in this response and
that’s why it’s an advanced english
response
now in this response there are a few
words and expressions that i want to
explain to you so check this one out
right here here we go the first one is
acclaimed right here
acclaimed
excellent last time
acclaimed
good job now this just means receiving
public praise and approval like
amazing
yes you are amazing receiving public
approval he wants to be the most
acclaimed stockbroker makes sense right
all right now what about this one right
here
day in and day out again after me day in
and day out
excellent now this just means
every day for a long time especially in
a way that is boring or unpleasant
we say day in or day out for example
let’s say you don’t like your job
but you have to get up every morning
go to work work for eight hours day in
and day out
every day you have to do this and it’s
boring right because you don’t enjoy
your job in english we say day in
and day out makes sense right all right
so you see again we have all five w’s
included in this response which makes it
an advanced english response the five
w’s we organized in step one thinking
about samuel an ambitious stock broker
this is again how you speak english
fluently
think and speak in english use the five
w’s
organize your thoughts and then speak
like a native english speaker i really
hope you enjoyed today’s lesson i hope
you master the 5ws so that you also can
sound like a native english speaker
don’t forget to download the english
with tiffany app the link is right in
the description i want you to keep
studying with me i want to continue
helping you be confident in your english
alright i will see you all next time
have an awesome week but as always
remember to speak english
you still there
ha ha
you know what time it is it’s
story time
hey i said it’s story time
all right
now for today’s story i want to tell you
about one of my closest friends now we
were talking about goals today right in
our lesson we talked about different
goals people have health goals success
goals and different goals people have
but i want to tell you
about a goal my friend and i had it’s
dealing with health we had a goal to run
five miles every day that’s right five
miles every day that may be 7k or 6k
depending on where you live
that’s a lot now at this time i was
living in south korea and my friend was
still in maryland we were very close and
again we were trying to get back in
shape and we decided to have this
friendly competition now at that time we
were using an app on our phones called
the nike running app right very popular
app and you could connect with your
friends no matter where they were and
they could see your progress and you
could see their progress so my friend
and i decided to do this challenge hey
let’s run five miles every day now i’m
competitive
and my friend is also competitive so
what ended up happening was
we knew we had to run five miles but
then we started to try run five to run
five miles faster than each other so
korea is ahead of america by about 13 or
14 hours depending on if it’s daylight
savings time or not so i was always
ahead of her in the time zone so i’d
wake up in the morning night time for
her the previous day and i would run and
let’s say the first time i ran five
miles in about
50 minutes right 10 minute mile
i’d log in to my app and i’d put in 50
minutes five-mile
right training so i’d go to work that
day and during the work day i’d be
working just excited feeling good about
myself and i’d come home in the evening
morning time for her
and i would see
her name is monica monica five miles 49
minutes and 48 seconds i said
okay you want to beat me by 12 seconds
right again very competitive both of us
so now i knew that okay she was working
and i was going to sleep so i wake up
the next morning her night early and i’d
go to the gym before work i said okay
she did 49 minutes and 48 seconds i’d
get on the treadmill and i’d run and i
run and i got 48 minutes and 30 seconds
excuse me 49 minutes and 30 seconds i
said
beat that now of course we couldn’t talk
at the time because she was sleeping and
i was on my way to work
so i went to work again feeling good 49
minutes and 30 seconds went to work all
day everything was great came home in
the evening perfect looked at my phone
monica mack five miles 48 minutes and 56
seconds i said you have got to be
kidding me and we continue to do this
back and forth back and forth now it was
friendly competition we’re super close
like sisters but what i remember about
that situation that time is
we were in the best shape of our lives
now excluding college because in college
you’re really slim you know but for our
adult lives we were in the best shape
because we were challenging each other
and it was fun and we had a goal to get
in shape so sometimes you can have a
friendly challenge and it ends up making
both of you better
she looked good i looked good and we
were happy and we continued doing that
for several months but we ended up
having to stop because schedules and
other things happen but we always talk
about how much fun we had competing
against each other to reach a goal maybe
you can find a friend and you can start
a challenge hey let’s learn three
english vocabulary words every day and
you guys can challenge each other
something to make your goal reaching
your goal a fun process all right guys i
hope you enjoyed today’s story remember
to get the english with tiffany app the
link is in the description i will see
you next time