THINK IN ENGLISH 3 PROVEN TECHNIQUES
hey have you ever struggled to
think of the right english words or the
right english sentences
during an english conversation you have
right
well today’s lesson is for you because
i’m going to give you
three proven techniques that will help
you
finally start thinking in english like a
native english
speaker are you ready well then i’m
teacher tiffany
let’s jump right in alright so let’s get
started with
the first technique now this first
technique is called
the word image association technique
it focuses on building your ability
to think of english vocabulary words
now this technique will help you think
of english vocabulary words
quickly when you are having
conversations
it will also help you access and finally
use
the english vocabulary words that are
stored in your brain
now i have had thousands upon thousands
of students
tell me teacher i know so many english
vocabulary words i’ve studied so many
words
but when i get into a conversation
my mind goes blank that’s happened to
you before right
it’s like you put the information in but
it’s hard to
access the information it’s hard to
access those vocabulary words
well this technique will help you
exactly with
that issue so here is step one of this
technique
select five images they can be personal
photos
google images from a book or from
anywhere else
you’re going to set a timer for 60
seconds and then you’re going to look at
each
picture and try to come up with five
different words to describe each
picture within 60 seconds
now i do want you to remember your goal
is to think of words in
english so don’t worry about thinking of
the most
difficult words here’s the thing i want
you to remember
when you’re trying to think in english
you have to practice
quick thinking quick thinking on your
feet
always ready so this actual technique
will
help you with that think about it if i
show this to you
what is this you got it a cell phone
why because you’ve seen it very often
you’ve said that word
very often so it came very quickly to
you
so it’s not about the most difficult
words it’s about
quickly thinking of a vocabulary word
now continuing
this technique is to help you think of
words in
english first if there is a word that
pops in your head in your own language
first
you can translate it into english and
write it down
but you must use it the next time you
time yourself
so as you’re going through this
technique and i’m going to show you an
actual example
remember if you’re having a hard time
thinking of a word in english it’s okay
because you’re practicing
when that word pops in your head in your
own language
stop look up the word in an english
dictionary
and then write down that word in english
so that the next time you practice you
can use that word so
let’s see what this actually look like
looks like here we go
step one i’ve selected five images we
see an
image of a mountain a couple some
beautiful colors
a car a city line then i’m going to
set a timer for 60 seconds
and finally i’m going to look at each
picture
and try to come up with five different
words to describe
each picture within the 60 seconds so
you see i have
breathtaking fascinating alone desert
evening and remember you’re trying to do
this
within 60 seconds for each
picture so the picture pops up and i say
uh breathtaking
um ah fascinating
give yourself 60 seconds per picture
so for me just to show you my words very
quickly
i have this image with the couple i said
couple
meal love scrumptious and dinner
now for pronunciation practice after me
scrumptious good
last time scrumptious
excellent it just means very delicious
all right
so going back i go through the remaining
images and i give my five
words vibrant colorful purple
festive joy next one being
fast amazing beautiful sleek
rims and finally this one city
urban buildings downtown and playground
so again
for this first technique in order to
think in english to think of english
vocabulary words
you must get five images then time
yourself give yourself 60 seconds
to come up with five vocabulary words
that describe
each picture all right now technique
number two is also
very useful technique number two is
the sentence pattern life connection
this technique focuses on building your
ability
to think of correct english
sentences now with this technique it’ll
help you formulate your thoughts and
ideas
quickly into proper english sentences
when you are having conversations it
will also help you access
and finally use the english grammar
patterns that are stored in your brain
this is a technique that i have used for
years i developed this technique when i
was in south
korea working with my students trying to
help my intermediate and advanced
english
students actually improve and speak with
more fluency
i noticed they were struggling to make
longer sentences
i noticed they were having trouble with
their grammar now you all know i don’t
teach grammar
but i still can teach you how to master
grammar and this technique will help you
do that so
let me show you how this technique works
in making sentences
first you’re going to find an english
blog
article or website that interests
you then within that blog
article or website you’re going to
select one
english sentence and write it down step
three divide your day into five
parts based on your activities that’s
right you’re going to divide
your day remember this is the sentence
pattern
life connection stay with me step number
four
you’re going to use the same sentence
pattern
and write a sentence about each part of
your day
now i want you to remember your goal is
to mimic
or copy the exact same pattern so
you should only change a few words
in order to do this you must think
creatively about each part of your day
so let’s see how i would do this again
finding an english
blog or article or website now remember
i always encourage you
to find something that you’re interested
in
find something that already brings you
joy in your own language
now you all know i love to cook i love
to eat i love
food so i found an article
a blog post about food one of my
favorite actual websites is
the minimalist baker and the minimalist
baker has a recipe for strawberry
cheesecake bars
so i went to the blog and i selected
this article for step one now
step two within the blog article or
website
select one english sentence so i
selected one english sentence and wrote
it down
the classic flavors of tangy cheesecake
and fresh ripe strawberries
marry together perfectly in these
10 ingredient vegan gluten-free
bars now that’s an advanced english
sentence again the important part of
this technique is selecting
an actual a real english sentence
now in the sentence you saw that it said
marry together
it just means they blend
together they really balance each other
out
they go well together we say marry
together in english so i have my example
sentence directly from a real article
now step three i have to divide my day
into five
parts so for me i exercise in the
morning
then i have virtual meetings then i
record videos
like i’m recording right now and then
after that i’ll teach a class and then
i’ll relax
in the evening this is my day so
step four is using the same pattern
write a
sentence about each part of your day so
i
exercise in the morning using the same
pattern i can say
the background music and the lighting
marry
together perfectly at the gym i go
to every morning you see what happened
right
i used the same pattern but i applied it
to
the first part of my day and it’s true
the music and the lighting at the gym i
go to really do
blend or marry together well
makes sense right okay now what about
the second part of my day
my morning meetings the microphone and
speakers
marry together perfectly during my
meetings
continuing recording videos
the sony camera and aperture lights
marry together perfectly during my
recording
sessions next teaching
class the keynote slides and video clips
marry together perfectly during my
classes
and finally relaxing and winding down
the jazz music and hot tea merry
together
perfectly during my evening relaxation
time so you see what happened right
with this technique we start off with a
blog or an
article that interests us something that
you are already interested in
then finding one sentence from that
article
you then connect it to your life
and then you make a sentence based on
that pattern
this will help you start thinking more
in
english and also having sentences
pop up in your brain in your mind
while you’re going throughout your day
makes sense right
all right now this third technique is
really good again
to help you start thinking in english
here’s the third technique this
technique is called
image description creation
the third technique focuses on building
your ability to organize your opinions
in english so this technique will help
you break
down your ideas and organize them into
complete
thoughts when you are having
conversations
it will also help you access and finally
use the lessons you have learned
related to english fluency so let’s
break this down real quick
you’re going to select five images now
these images need to be
different from the images you chose in
the previous
technique okay the one we talked about
with the vocabulary words
different images then you’re going to
write one beginner sentence to describe
each image now a beginner sentence has
between four to six
words then you’re going to write an
intermediate sentence to describe each
image
between 7 and 10 words and finally
you’re going to write an advanced
sentence with about 11 to 15 or more
words
now i used this technique when i was in
south korea
teaching some soldiers on a military
base
i had to teach individuals that were
from
different levels beginner intermediate
and advanced
and what i would do is i would show them
an image
on the screen on the projector and i’d
have each student
make a sentence to describe the pictures
and this was an amazing technique
that helped so many of them start
thinking in english
and it’s going to help you as well so
let’s test it out here we go
i’ve selected five images five different
images you see that cute baby right
there with those headphones
he is whoa adorable alright so
here we go now step two i need to write
a beginner sentence
so for the first image there are many
paint brushes second image
the woman is sitting down third image
the woman is explaining the project
fourth image his outfit was cute
and finally she loves her husband
now remember this is the part of this
technique that is easy
teacher tiffany i can write a simple
sentence
that’s great trust me it gets
increasingly
more difficult but it’s a great way to
practice speaking in english and
thinking in
english now step three is an
intermediate sentence it’s going to get
a little bit longer
there are many paint brushes on top of
the
table you see now we’re expanding the
sentence
again helping you organize your thoughts
in your brain
to extend your ideas and to explain them
more
next we have this one right here the
woman is sitting down
and watching a video third picture the
woman
is explaining the project to the man
fourth picture
the little boy’s outfit was extremely
cute
and finally the fourth picture in the
fifth picture
the young woman truly loves her
husband so we have our intermediate
sentences now what about the advanced
sentences
they seem so long when i first told you
between 11
to 15 words but now that we’re building
up it’s really not that difficult so
let’s see how i would
give advanced sentences to describe
these images
there are many paint brushes on top of
the table
in the artist’s studio next
the woman is sitting down and watching a
video about the amazing painting on the
wall
beside her now some of you that have
studied with me for a long time
know what i’m using i’m using the five
w’s principle
who what when where why in my advanced
sentence
to make it longer you can use the same
thing along with this technique
here we go continuing the woman is
explaining the project to the man
because he needs excuse me she needs him
to make some changes next the little
boy’s
outfit was cute so his parents decided
to take a picture
and finally the young woman truly loves
her husband
because he always makes her
feel special so you see what happened
right
with this technique you were able to
make longer sentences
you were able to organize your thoughts
about the images
now these three techniques will help you
finally think in english and sound like
a native english speaker
i hope you enjoyed today’s lesson
remember to practice what you’ve learned
i can’t wait to see you next time don’t
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all right i will see you all next time
have an awesome
week and remember to speak in english
you still there you know what time it is
here we go it’s story
time hey i said it’s story time
you like that last part i added a little
story time
all right guys so for today’s story i’m
going to tell you a little bit more
about my
parents so my parents are honestly the
best example of
love and a loving relationship that i
have
ever watched ever seen or ever
experienced for myself meaning
seeing it happen so my parents have been
married for
over 45 years and
yeah i think it’s been 45 years it’s
crazy how time flies so
anyways i want to tell you so growing up
you know my parents our family is really
close we talk
all the time so um i’ll
talk to my parents three or four times a
day on the phone when i’m not home
i talk to my sister we all talk to each
other a lot
so this is something that my parents
kind of instilled in my sister and i
staying in contact
making sure family is okay so again
growing up
you know we didn’t have cell phones back
then but we had pagers and we would
always stay in contact with each other
so i am the youngest in my family and i
was the last one
of course to go to college so when i
left basically there was an
empty nest now in english we say empty
nest now empty nest just means
your children are gone and now husband
and wife they are living alone there’s
no more children to take care of
so anyways i was the last one so i went
off to college my parents dropped me off
and
i was enjoying my college life as a
freshman
and one day i called my parents
at this time you know cell phones had
just come out basically
and i called my parents at
home and i figured they should have been
home it was in the evening
and no one answered the phone i said
okay maybe they’re out so i
tried my dad’s cell phone no answer
try my mom’s cell phone no answer
now remember we talk all the time our
family’s very close
so i called my sister i said uh simona
her name is simona
simona um so
have you talked to mommy and daddy she
was like no
so she tried to call them and we could
not get in contact with either of our
parents
so we were getting a little bit worried
he said this is not like our parents so
finally after several hours my dad calls
me back
and my dad calls me baby girl he said
hey baby girl
and i said daddy like
it’s funny as you get older you there’s
kind of this role reversal where you
feel like you are now your parents
parent
i think you guys understand so i said
where are you
and my dad chuckled and i could hear my
mom in the background kind of chuckling
too
chuckling means kind of laughing a
little bit
and it sounds like they were outside i
said daddy where are you
we couldn’t get in contact with you and
i proceeded to kind of reprimand him in
a fun way
he said oh baby girl we’re not home i
said what
he said no your mom and i decided to go
on vacation
i said what you didn’t tell me and
simone
my dad said why do i have to tell you or
your sister i said daddy now you know
daddy
you have to let us know where you go he
said tiff we’re
empty nesters baby we ain’t gotta tell
nobody so my parents
remember i’m the youngest when i left
the house now all of their other friends
their other couple friends told them hey
when tiff leaves
to go off to college you’re going to
have an empty nest and you guys aren’t
going to know what to do you’re going to
be so bored
you’re not going to know how to relate
to each other anymore because you’ve
been raising your kids for so long
remember i told you though my parents
have a great relationship
so when other couples used to tell them
this they would be like
what are they talking about they were
actually looking forward to being able
to spend time together so my dad
proceeded to say your mom and i decided
to go on vacation and we just didn’t
tell you guys
now we got a good laugh out of it and i
told them
don’t do that you need to let us know
where you are we have to make sure
you’re safe so
they laughed and again they had a
wonderful vacation but
after i got off the phone and i thought
about what happened
i said you know what i want to
experience a marriage like that
where i enjoy my spouse my husband so
much
that even when my kids are grown and
gone off to college
we still will love each other and want
to hang around each other
so that’s why i say my parents are the
greatest example of love that i have
seen
of course there are good days and bad
days but they’ve taught my sister and i
what it means to love unconditionally
what it means to
enjoy being around the person you love
and
also what it means to appreciate
individuality
they appreciate each other and my sister
and i will never forget the first time
they decided to go somewhere without
telling us
we were shocked so let me know maybe
your parents uh
tell me about your parents uh what
you’ve learned from them
hopefully you guys enjoyed today’s story
i hope you all get to
meet my parents one day they are great
individuals they are very fun
and they’re very happy and i think you
guys would like them
all right guys again i hope you enjoyed
today’s lesson
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i will see you all next time have an
awesome week
and i love you all bye