THINK AND SPEAK IN ENGLISH How To Talk About Your Relationships Fluently In English
hey welcome to today’s english lesson
today i am going to teach you how to
think and speak in english about any
relationship remember as an english
learner your goal is to speak english
fluently but this lesson will help you
understand that fluency first starts in
your mind i’m going to help you organize
your thoughts and then actually say what
you want to say are you ready
well then i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump
right in so the first relationship we’re
going to learn about and think about is
the relationship between friends now i’m
going to tell you a little bit about my
friends by organizing my thoughts using
the five w’s
for who i said
my friends from college
for what
acted together in a drama group
when
my sophomore junior and senior year
where
at churches high schools colleges and
other local events
now why
we all had a passion for spreading god’s
word in a way that was fun
engaging and impactful now you see what
just happened i want to tell you about
the relationship i have with my friends
but i first
organized my thoughts using the five w’s
and you need to do the same thing
so the thought process is done
now let’s speak about the relationship i
have with my friends so we’re gonna take
that information that we had from right
here with the five w’s and now we’re
gonna go to speaking here we go
my college friends and i used to act
together in a drama group
we were in the drama group during our
sophomore
junior and senior years
our drama group was pretty popular so we
would do plays at churches high schools
colleges and other local events
we all enjoyed acting in the drama group
because we had a passion for spreading
god’s word in a way that was fun
engaging and impactful now that is a
great english response
that is a fluent english answer and i
want you to be able to do the same again
thinking first about the relationship
using the five w’s and then speaking now
within my answer there were two new
vocabulary words that i really want to
explain to you very quickly the first
one is
engaging so repeat after me engaging
excellent last time
engaging
very good now this word just means
tending to draw favorable attention or
interest think about your favorite tv
show or your favorite movie when you
push play
you get really into it
someone may talk to you say yeah yeah
okay that’s fine i’m watching this movie
because it’s engaging
hopefully this english lesson is
engaging
all right this means holding your
attention and our drama group had very
very engaging plays they were very
interesting so again
engaging
excellent all right now the next word is
impactful after me
impactful
excellent last time
impactful
good job now this word just means having
a major impact or effect it means
affecting you in a way that is powerful
so
think about the words your mother or
your father say to you or said to you
when you were younger those words really
had an impact on you they affected you
right
we say impactful and the plays that i
did with my friends when i was in
college were very impactful makes sense
right
think about it i just organized my
thoughts using the five w’s and now you
have a good understanding of the
relationship i had with my friends when
i was in college make sense all right
now let’s move on to the next
relationship i mentioned parents i
mentioned how your parents speak to you
and the impact of their words so using
the five w’s thinking about the
relationship first we have who
my friend and his six-year-old son
what
he spends time reading to him
when
every evening after work
where
in their family room
why
he wants to develop a strong bond with
his son and teach him the importance of
reading every single day now again we’re
still on step one we’re just thinking
and organizing our thoughts
but you can already start to see that we
have enough information to properly
speak about the relationship
this guy has with his six-year-old son
so using the information again the five
w’s from right here
let’s see how we can speak about this
relationship here we go
my friend
and his six-year-old son have a great
relationship
even though my friend has a ton of
responsibility at work he always makes a
point to spend time
reading to his son
he usually reads to him every evening
after he gets off from work
their favorite reading spot is the
living room my friend told me that he
wants to develop a strong bond with his
son and teach him the importance of
reading every single day
what happened because we did step one
think organizing our thoughts with the
five w’s we were able to provide a good
and fluent english answer describing the
relationship
this guy has with his son a parent-child
relationship now you will see that there
are a few words and expressions that i
want to explain to you so very quickly
a ton of after me
a ton of
good again last time a ton of
excellent now a ton of just means a lot
of something a large amount of something
so for example i have some cords with me
in my office and these cords help me
connect some of my devices whether it be
my cell phone or my computer or another
electronic device to my computer or to a
power source so i have a ton
of chords in my office
again a lot of chords makes sense right
okay good now let’s go over the next one
make
a point to in the answer i said he
always makes a point to spend time
reading to his son well makes a point to
just means to give one’s attention to
doing something to make sure that it
happens for example once a week on
sundays i have a video english lesson
for you so i make a point to
record organize my ideas and my thoughts
and produce a lesson that will help you
speak english fluently i make a point to
record a video every week
makes sense right alright good now the
last one i want to explain is right here
spot
in the answer the response i said their
favorite reading spot is the living room
spot just means a particular place or
point so my favorite food spot my
favorite reading spot again just a place
or point real simple right so again spot
excellent very good now we’ve went over
the relationship between friends and the
relationship between a parent and a
child using the five w’s for step one to
think using the five w’s and then we
were able to do step two speak fluently
about the relationship but what about
the relationship you have with your
co-workers think about it you see them
every day how can you talk about this
relationship well first we have to start
with the five w’s who
my co-workers and i
what discussed the new semester
schedule now i’ll pause real quick i’m
speaking about my co-workers when i used
to work at a language institute so we
had different semesters different
periods of time where we would teach the
students different subjects still
english but different sub topics under
english so again for me
what discussed the new semester schedule
when
every two months where in the staff room
at our institute and why
we had to decide who was going to teach
which levels and what classes worked
best with our personal responsibilities
so again
step one we’ve thought about it using
the five w’s who what when where why we
thought about the relationship i had
with my co-workers you can do the exact
same thing five w’s now using the
information from the five w’s again
who what when where and why
i can now do step two and speak about
the relationship i had with my
co-workers here we go
every two months
my co-workers and i would come together
to discuss the new semester schedule
our meetings were usually held in the
staff room at our institute it was
important for us to get together every
two months because we had to decide who
was going to teach which levels and what
classes worked best with our personal
responsibilities
i literally just provided you with the
information that came from step one
where i thought about the relationship
using the five w’s you see how simple it
is to think and then speak in english
i’m telling you this formula will change
your life and help you sound more like a
native english speaker now there is
one expression that i want to explain to
you it’s
worked best let’s see real quick worked
best
all right now work best this just means
it’s the better option between two
options so there are two options you
have but this one
this seems to work the best so like i
said what classes worked best with our
personal responsibilities did one
teacher work better with children while
another teacher worked better with
adults we discussed those things so
again in english we say work
best
excellent very good so again the only
thing you have to remember when you want
to speak fluently
in english about a relationship is to
first think using the five w’s to
organize your thoughts and then step two
speak that’s right use the information
you organized and then speak about that
relationship i really hope you enjoyed
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you still there
you know what time it is it’s
story time
hey i said it’s story time
all right
today’s story you know in the lesson i
was teaching you how to speak about
relationships right so i want to tell
you about one of my closest friends i
mean she is going to be in my wedding
her and her husband
now the first time i met her we were in
south korea and we were both missionary
english teachers
and we had started living together this
is before she got married her husband
was there too but they were engaged at
the time so he lived in a separate
apartment and she stayed in the
apartment that i was assigned to so she
had her room and i had my room now we
didn’t know each other well
as you all know though
first i enjoy cooking second i am an
early bird maybe you don’t know that i
am an early bird i will wake up at 4am
with no problem at all 4am wide-eyed
ready to get started with the day
however at 8 o’clock at night no
i’m tired i am tired
my whole family is actually like that
we’re early birds so anyways
when we first moved in together
we didn’t know
our styles we didn’t know i didn’t know
if she was an early bird or if she was a
night owl
so we had to kind of get used to each
other again she’s one of my closest
friends right now so
we first moved in with each other and at
this time i was working and studying at
the same time so i would normally get up
very early in the morning to study and
spend the whole day on sunday at a
starbucks but again we were living
together so we had our separate duties
one week i’d clean the kitchen the next
week she’d do the kitchen and we kind of
alternated kitchen and bathroom so this
just happened to be my week to clean the
kitchen but remember i told you i was
working and studying so i had to be gone
all day but again we had just met it had
only been maybe a week or two that we’ve
been living together so i did not want
to leave the apartment without cleaning
the kitchen i didn’t want her to think
that i wasn’t doing my part
so
i went into the kitchen i think it was
about six or seven a.m it was early but
i was trying to wash the dishes quietly
and then in the midst of washing i heard
her in her room so i assumed oh she’s an
early bird like me because i thought she
was awake and moving around in her room
so i started cleaning the kitchen
normally i mean pots were hitting each
other again i thought she was awake i
thought she was also an early bird so
i’m washing the dishes happy that i’m
doing my part before i had to leave to
go study so i’m washing the dishes
and the door opens so i’m thinking she’s
like yes tiffany is an early bird too
let’s have a conversation so i’m wiping
one of the dishes and i turn around to
look to her and say good morning
and when i turned around it was like
a a breeze a cool breeze that was not
welcomed
hit me like a cold wind
it was like ice and i looked at her
and she just glared at me now i again
i’m happy all the time so i said hey
good morning
she didn’t say anything
she just looked at me
nostrils
flaring i said this is not what i
expected again i’m holding the dish
looking at her the situation is really
awkward
she is wrapped up in a blanket i said
okay maybe she’s cold it was the summer
time though
she just glared at me remember i said
good morning and she did not respond
and she proceeded to shut her door she
was still in the kitchen with me though
she shut her bedroom door
and she walked towards our front door
the entire time she’s staring at me
glaring i said maybe
this is not what i expected and she
opened the front door and slammed it
i said okay
not sure what just happened there fast
forward several months now we are super
close again we got we never talked about
what happened
several months later we had gotten close
there was another co-worker and we were
having i think a movie night and
my roommate had stepped out for a second
and this co-worker and i were talking
and she was like girl
i’m glad y’all are close friends i said
yeah you know really cool she said i’m
not sure what happened in the beginning
though i said what do you mean and she
said
our friend is not an early bird and that
our friend the one that was my roommate
actually told her
i don’t know if i’m gonna be able to
live with tiffany she wakes up too early
it’s too loud and i can’t believe she
woke me up i had no idea that she had
complained to the other co-worker now
again this is months later so all of us
are super close and we laughed about it
but i never will forget that situation
because i honestly honestly thought that
she was in her room awake and moving
around and so yes the other co-workers
said no tiff she was pretty mad so again
when she came back in the room i looked
at her and i said uh-huh so you were mad
at me you didn’t tell me and she burst
out laughing because again we’re super
close now but in the very beginning she
didn’t tell me how she really felt about
that day so it’s kind of an ongoing joke
we have now
they all know i’m an early bird and at
night they stay up and i go to sleep so
we’re all very close again but i will
never forget that situation so maybe you
have a friend like that that maybe at
the beginning of your friendship it was
a little bit rocky it was you weren’t
sure
if you were gonna make it
let us know in the comment section all
right guys i really hope you enjoyed
today’s lesson don’t forget to think and
then speak english fluently i’ll catch
you next time have an awesome week