Advanced English Fluency Practice And Formula Episode 2
hey last Thursday was Thanksgiving and
you won’t believe how much food my mom
cooked I’ll tell you more about it at
the end I’m teacher Tiffany let’s jump
right in alright today we’re gonna be
looking at this formula I owe t now this
formula is gonna help you be more fluent
when you speak in English using this
simple formula so let’s see what these
letters actually stand for okay
the letter i' is step one identify the
letter o is step two organized and
letter T is step three talk now what I’m
gonna do is show you an image and we’re
gonna use this image and apply the
formula to it to show you how to speak
fluently in English here we go alright
so our image is this one it looks like
there’s a young lady walking up some
stairs so we first need to identify this
is the sentence the lady is wearing
sunglasses now again remember we need to
identify what’s the point what’s the
focus of this sentence okay so we can
see right here the focus is the lady so
we identified the focus now we need to
move on to the next step
the Oh organize so we’re gonna use the
five W’s now remember we’ve talked about
the five W’s who what when where and why
when you answer these questions you will
sound more fluent in English so let’s
answer these questions about this lady
in the picture okay so for who I can say
she looks like a fashion designer
possibly a European woman and she also
looks very confident now remember I’m
just giving my opinion and you will do
the same thing when you are practicing
at home pick an image and you can guess
who the person is and what they are
doing okay
all right so let’s move on to what let’s
say she is going up the stairs looking
around and thinking deeply now for the
win I’d say it’s around 1 p.m. after
lunch and before her meeting now again
you see that I’m just giving my opinion
I’m just guessing
it looks pretty sunny outside so it’s
not early in the morning so maybe it’s 1
p.m. maybe it’s after lunch again I’m
giving my opinion or my idea and you
want to do the same thing ok all right
moving on to the we’re in New York in
the stairwell in the old building and
finally for why I said going back to
work hurt her friend and has a meeting
okay
so I’ve given all of its information
three details for each of the five W’s
remember that’s always very important to
give three details I’ve organized my
idea I’ve organized my thoughts about
this individual in the picture now we
have to move on to step number three
talk so how are we going to talk using
these different details let’s see all
right so moving on to step number three
now you see at the bottom we have the
information from step number two so
here’s the first sentence it’s about
1:00 p.m. and a European woman wearing
sunglasses is going up the stairs in a
stairwell well you can see that in my
first sentence I actually have four
pieces of information for details from
step number two I said again it’s about
1:00 p.m.
let me show you I said it’s 1:00 p.m. I
mentioned that she’s European woman
that’s for the who I mentioned that
she’s going up the stairs which is what
and I mentioned that she’s in the
stairwell which answers the where so
again this is just the first sentence of
my speech or what I’m saying about this
image but I’ve already given so
much information and you can too so
let’s move on to the next sentence here
we go
here’s the next sentence from what I can
tell she is in an old building in New
York now for this one we see two pieces
of information that answer the where I
said in New York and I also said an old
building but there’s something unique
about this sentence look once again you
see the yellow part from what I can tell
now this is a pattern in English that we
use often so I want to explain it to you
because I want you to sound like a
native English speaker so going back to
my screen from what I can tell now this
is used to indicate that what you are
saying is based on the information you
have but that there may be things you do
not know remember I said that I was
giving you my opinion looking at the
picture this is what I guessed oh maybe
she’s in New York
maybe it’s 1:00 p.m. oh maybe it’s an
old building
again from what I can see based on the
information I was given this is my
opinion so in English in that situation
we say from what I can tell all right so
let’s look at some examples using this
pattern here we go first
from what I can tell the weather is
great today again looking at that image
it looks blue the sky looks blue it
looks like there are a few clouds but I
can also see the Sun so from what I can
tell from the information that I was
given the weather is great today all
right here’s the next example from what
I can tell they are friends
next from what I can tell she is
extremely busy look at her she’s walking
she has her phone and she’s walking
while she’s looking at her phone so from
what I can tell wow she’s extremely busy
okay and the final example from what I
can tell they are students again we can
see that they have a book bag
gone the girl is holding her book really
tightly so they look like students so
again I want you to practice this
pattern from what I can tell now
remember you can always download the
free PDF that goes along with this
lesson in the description you’ll see the
link for the free PDF so don’t worry
everything we’re learning you can get it
for free to review for later okay
alright so let’s continue now so we have
from what I can tell now we’re moving on
to the next sentence just by looking at
her clothes I can assume that she is a
fashion designer and also a confident
woman now again we have two pieces of
information that answered the who I said
she’s a fashion designer and also a
confident woman so I included these and
these pieces of information in this
sentence okay so we also see some more
yellow okay so let’s go back and check
that out just by looking at and I can
assume that now this is also a very
important pattern in English here we go
this pattern is used to show that you
are making an assumption or guess based
on what you are currently looking at so
again just looking at the picture I
think she’s possibly a fashion designer
why because in my opinion oh wow she’s
wearing a nice coat she has very
fashionable sunglasses on and her body
language kind of hmm shows me that ah
she’s probably a fashion designer again
just by looking at her okay all right so
let’s see some examples
using this pattern as well just by
looking at their clothes I can assume
that they are into fashion now being
into something maybe you’ve never heard
that this actually just means that you
really like it or you are obsessed with
it or you kind of really enjoy it so we
say into something for example I’ve told
you guys before that when I was in high
school in college I played basketball so
I was very into
basketball I’m still into basketball but
I’m a little bit too busy to play these
days but again being into something
means that you enjoy it and you do it a
lot okay
so again they are very into fashion so
here’s the next example just by looking
at their body language I can assume that
they are happy to see each other again
look at the lady and look at the men the
lady looks happy to see him they’re
about to shake hands and they look happy
right okay finally we have this one
right here just by looking at his tie
which seems to be blowing in the wind I
can assume that he is probably late for
work
okay so again you see that this is a
very useful pattern okay so again just
by looking at dot dot dot I can assume
that so I want you to try to use that
pattern as well okay so let’s go back
here we go all right going back to our
text the next sentence is she probably
just finished eating lunch and is now
going back to work before her meeting so
we see here literally four pieces of
information well we see right here after
lunch before her meeting and also going
back to work and has a meeting so we
answered two of the win after lunch
before a meeting and for the Y going
back to work and has a meeting all in
one sentence and you’re seeing how long
our response is getting we’re learning
how to be fluent okay alright let’s go
down to our next sentence here we go her
friend said that it would be an
important meeting
now I’m mentioning her friend right she
heard something for her from her friend
because we gave that as a Y or as a
reason so now we’re including it in our
response okay let’s move on to the next
sentence here we go so she is thinking
deeply about the meeting and also
looking around to see if she sees any of
her coworkers
so we’ve answered two things for
the what looking around and thinking
deeply all right now I do want to pause
again because we see some yellow we see
another expression okay so here we go
looking around to see if now this is a
pattern that is used to describe the
action of looking from place to place to
find something or someone specific so
again if I was to show you visually it’s
like this huh hmm I’m looking around
right so looking around to see if dot
dot now let’s see some example sentences
they are looking around to see if anyone
saw them steal the purse
oh they’re thieves all right next one
here we go here’s the next one
she was looking around to see if any of
her friends were in her class and
finally she is looking around to see if
her sons are playing outside so you can
see how easy it is to use this pattern
looking around to see if dot dot dot and
I want you to try to use it today when
you speak in English okay so again let’s
go back to my screen now so we used this
simple formula this simple equation
about English fluency step one identify
step two organized and step three talk
now I want you to practice just like we
did in today’s lesson all you have to do
is find an image identify then organize
your thoughts using the five W’s and
finally talk it’s that simple
I really hope you enjoy today’s lesson
remember if you want to download the
free pdf all you have to do is click the
link in the description and you can
download and practice what we learned
today and also if you want to keep
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English well until next week don’t
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still there
it’s story time all right so I told you
that last week Thursday was Thanksgiving
Day here in America and if you are a
part of my community
you saw the image of the food I have it
right here on my screen right now that
my mom made for us when I say the food
was amazing it was amazing
now I want to tell you just a little bit
about Thanksgiving so in America the
last Thursday of November is
Thanksgiving Day and I love Thanksgiving
as a holiday because you are able to
come together with your family and
friends and just give thanks for what
happened throughout the year and also
enjoy great food that’s what I want to
tell you about so here’s the layout okay
so we had of course cornbread now
cornbread is basically sweet bread it’s
really delicious
and my mom is an excellent cook now my
mom was cooking preparing the food for
about a week that’s how long it took
because she had to cut up everything for
the food now let me tell you what we had
we had cornbread
we had potato salad then we had macaroni
and cheese now you guys know that I’m a
vegetarian but I’m actually a vegan and
as a vegan I don’t eat any dairy
products no cheese no milk nothing like
that so my mom also made of vegan
macaroni and cheese that’s a macaroni
and cheese that has no cheese in it it
has cheese substitutes so you can make a
sauce that doesn’t come from cheese she
used cashews actually very interesting
now again if you’re a member of my
Academy and a few actually tomorrow I’m
posting a video with more details about
our Thanksgiving
with pictures and videos so if you’re in
my Academy you’ll see that video
tomorrow okay so again we had regular
mac and cheese vegan mac and cheese
because my family also came my uncles
and aunts came then we had greens oh my
goodness the food was so good then we
had string beans then we had candied
yams or sweet potatoes so let me explain
how sweet potatoes are made so what
happens you take a sweet potato and you
slice it and then you put cinnamon brown
sugar butter and again she used a vegan
butter because I’m vegan and you drizzle
it over top of the oh my goodness guys
honestly oh just thinking about it makes
me excited okay so you drizzle it over
the sweet potatoes then you put them in
the oven and when they come out they’re
soft they’re sweet other delicious so we
had sweet potatoes then we had because
my uncles and aunts came we also had
turkey chicken and then my mom made a
vegetarian chicken again for us because
we’re vegetarian we also had cabbage so
again my mom is an amazing cook guy so
we had all of this food so it took her a
week to prepare all of this food and
when I say it was good man oh man it was
good so I really hope you’re able to
experience the American style of
Thanksgiving one day if you’re ever in
America during Thanksgiving try to find
someone you can go to their house
someone’s house you can go to and enjoy
the meal I had a great time I enjoyed
the food my mom is amazing
everyone raved or said how amazing her
food was and they weren’t lying I hope
you enjoyed the story guys I will talk
to you next week