TOP 3 Ways to Improve Your Grammar Skills Advanced English Lesson
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm today
we’re gonna talk about three ways that
you can improve your grammar let’s get
started the first way to improve your
grammar is to focus on one concept if
you try to learn all of the grammar
rules all of the grammar ideas in the
book it’s going to be too much and
you’re not going to be able to master
each one so i recommend at least for one
week one month is even better but
minimum for one week focus on one
grammar concept let’s give an example
maybe you want to learn how to make if
sentences if i can’t go to the store i
will visit my friend maybe you want to
practice how to use this and how to
remember it naturally i recommend
focusing on this for at least one week
so that means that you will watch a lot
of videos about this concept you’ll read
about this concept whenever you hear
this you’ll try to think about that
concept in the context focusing on one
concept for at least a week and ideally
one month this is something that we do
in the fearless fluency club each month
we focus on one grammar concept so that
you can really master it because if you
learn 20 of them in one month
you might remember it a little bit but
when you’re speaking or when you’re
writing reading you’re not going to
remember exactly how to use it so help
your mind help your brain and focus on
one concept so this second way to
improve your grammar is to paraphrase
paraphrase this word paraphrase means
that you take an original sentence and
you try to say it in a different way
this is going to
test your grammar skills and we can even
use this in the most simple form for
example I’m about to tell you a quick
story about when I went camping and as
I’m telling you this story after each
sentence I want you to try to paraphrase
this to tell me back the story in a
different way I’ll give you some
examples as I tell you the story let’s
start the story when I was camping last
week this is the first phrase so you
might say when she was camping last week
great when she was camping last week
when I was camping last week I forgot to
bring my contact case so you might say
she forgot to bring her contact case a
contact case is the little plastic thing
that you put your contact lenses in
there’s a little liquid and I forgot to
bring my contact case so so far you said
when Vanessa went camping last week she
forgot to bring her contact case let me
continue the quick story because I
forgot my contact case I had to throw
out my contacts I had to throw out my
contacts so you might say because she
forgot her contact case she had to throw
out her contacts this is a simple way to
paraphrase my story you are telling
someone else the story that I told you
so you’re gonna have to change the
subject you’re probably gonna have to
change the verbs this is a good
challenge to help you improve your
grammar through paraphrasing and you can
do this with anything you can do it with
TV shows with YouTube videos with your
daily life you can paraphrase what
you’re seen or what you’re hearing this
is going to help challenge your grammar
in a good way the third way to improve
your grammar is to write your own
sentences when you write your own
sentences you are creating English
you’re creating language you’re not just
reading it reading is a passive activity
but when you write you are creating
you’re making your own sentences so
let’s go back to the idea that you want
to learn how to make if sentences so
when you make an if sentence you write
it down I recommend having a notebook
where you write a lot of English
questions or vocabulary or the things
that you’re learning I recommend writing
your if sentences in that notebook and
then think of other sentences how can
you use if in other situations write
them down personally for me it’s helpful
to hear grammar concepts but it’s really
useful to see them with different senses
to write to read them to listen to them
to say them out loud this is gonna help
you really remember how to use the
grammar in a natural way so I recommend
writing it down you can even write down
your paraphrased sentences from our
number two tip I hope that these three
ways to improve your grammar by focusing
on one concept paraphrasing and writing
it down will help you to really improve
your grammar I think this is a
challenging topic but in the end it’s
essential to have good grammar when
you’re speaking English do you have any
other recommendations for improving
grammar write them in the comments below
let’s share our ideas together thanks so
much and I’ll see you later bye did you
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