THINK SPEAK IN ENGLISH About Relationships Episode 2
some students think that speaking
english fluently
means that a person is able to speak for
a long time in english
but that’s not true instead english
fluency is
all about your ability to organize your
thoughts
like a native english speaker that’s
right no matter what the topic is
you should be able to organize your
thoughts in an easy and
clear way so that the person listening
to you can understand
and also follow along so what about
relationships
when you want to speak about
relationships this topic
in english and you want to speak
fluently you need to talk about three
specific things so we’re going to talk
about these three things in today’s
lesson
i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump right in
alright so let’s get started step number
one
you need to describe the people or
person
again remember the topic is
relationships
in order to speak fluently about
relationships
you must first start by describing the
people
or the person so let’s say you want to
talk about
your best friend you need to give some
background information
some background information that will
give the listener
a better understanding of who your best
friend is
so for example my best friend i can tell
you a little bit about her
my best friend and i have been friends
since we were in elementary school
but if i were to describe her to you
i would say she’s a shy person but she
loves
people she also loves sports she
loves spending time with her family and
she also loves god
so what happened now you’re getting a
better picture
in your mind of my friend
that’s what you need to do start off the
conversation
start talking about the relationship by
giving the listener the ability to
create a mental picture
that’s what happens when you do step one
describe the person
tell a little bit more about the person
some details about them right
now you can do the same thing about a
group of people
let’s say for example you want to talk
about your
classmates or your co-workers right so
give
some details about your classmates or
your co-workers now
i’ll pick coworkers right at your job
maybe there are a lot of people but you
work with a specific
group maybe they’re all hard workers
maybe they love to laugh and maybe they
also
are very dedicated to their job so again
you’re giving background information to
describe those
people that’s step one now step two is
also very important
you need to give three characteristics
of your
current relationship now we’re
connecting you to those people
or that person so you start talking
about
your relationship with those individuals
so for example
i mentioned my best friend right so now
i need to tell you about
our connection right about our
friendship
currently so i can say we are really
uh focused on trust we’re focused on
dedication and we’re also focused on
having fun
like we’re very honest with each other
and we enjoy
having fun so i’m giving you some more
details about our relationship
and i can go into more detail by telling
you some stories about
how we laugh so hard we start crying or
how we spend time together playing
basketball even as
adults again what you want to do in step
two
is give some more information about your
connection
with this individual or with those
people and let’s say for example you
want to talk about your coworkers
now give three characteristics of your
relationship with your co-workers
so i can say ah my co-workers and i we
really get along well
we enjoy going out to lunch together and
the third thing we enjoy is spending
time together on the weekends so you can
see
oh even though they’re your co-workers
you’re
very close to them they have become your
close
friends and you can see that as a
listener because i’ve given you
three characteristics of our current
relationship right now step three is
also very important
in step three in order to speak fluently
about relationships
you need to talk about the future of
your relationship
how you think this relationship will
develop
as time goes on as time goes by
will you get closer will you kind of
stray away or drift apart
so for example i can talk about my best
friend now we’ve been friends since we
were in elementary school
but we’re still friends now and for the
future i can say
oh when i get married she’s going to be
in my wedding
she is so close to me i know that i want
her to be a part of that special day
so what’s happening by me telling you
about the future about
the wedding that i’m going to have and
how my best friend is going to be in the
wedding
you’re able to understand the level of
my relationship with my best friend
makes sense right so again the third
step is so important
now with your colleagues again i told
you in the middle that
we hang out after work we have lunch
together we’re very diligent and
dedicated to our assignments
i can say in the future even if we
work at different companies and we leave
our current company
we will still stay in contact and what
am i showing you
i’m showing you that i want to keep this
relationship
strong with my coworkers it makes sense
right
so again speaking english fluently about
a relationship
it’s not about the length of time that
you’re speaking for instead it’s about
including
these three parts first describe the
people or the person
second describe your current
relationship by giving
three characteristics and third talk
about the future of your relationship
now again when you do these three things
the person listening to you
will feel that you are fluent in english
because you were able to
explain and describe the relationship
in such a very clear and concise way
the person the people describing them
second
your current relationship and finally
the future of your relationship
this is what you need to do to speak
english fluently
and confidently about your relationships
now
everything i taught you today came from
my ebook how to pass the ielts speaking
exam so
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thank you so much for joining me i’m so
honored to be your teacher
i will talk to you next time but as
always remember to speak
english
you still there you know what time it is
it’s story time
hey i said a story time
all right guys so today i want to tell
you about one of my most
treasured relationships that’s right one
of my closest friends i met her when i
was living
in south korea now she and i have been
friends for a long time but
let me kind of tell you about her
personality let me describe her
you got that right so her name is
catherine uh her english name is
katherine and catherine
is an extremely hard worker she’s very
intelligent
and she also loves her students so when
we were at the same
institute i always heard about how much
her students loved her they would follow
her no matter what class she taught
they would register because they wanted
to study with her she was such an
amazing teacher and she’s still
a really good teacher now for us
we became friends during a teacher’s
retreat
and she and i we had been working
together prior to the retreat
but i say we became friends at the
retreat because something happened
during that time so
prior to that again we were co-workers
you know we’d have a good time together
go out to eat with other coworkers
but we didn’t necessarily have a close
like one-on-one relationship
during the retreat though um it was
myself
catherine and another one of my friends
named rebecca she’s also korean
and we were all staying in the same room
so it was a saturday night and we were
just talking about
live and different things and it was a
great conversation
but i just remember us talking about
something and then
we both started laughing at the same
thing now
i’m a very fun person i love to laugh i
love to spend time with my friends and
my family
but when we started laughing it’s like i
saw the the what is the word not the
real side but i saw a different side of
her that’s what happened
it went from being co-worker to hey
you’re a cool person like i could see
myself hanging out with you
and honestly we laughed so much that
night now me and rebecca were already
close and we’re still close to this day
like i was i helped her in her wedding
like i was the translator in rebecca’s
wedding so
me and rebecca were already close but
then at this point in time
me and catherine suddenly started to get
closer and
fast forward literally catherine is one
of my closest friends and when i get
married i’d like her to be in my wedding
too and of course rebecca you know
so here’s the thing that one situation
we went on that retreat
where i actually saw hey she’s not just
a co-worker
she’s a good friend like we can have a
good time together
that was kind of the start of our
friendship because we were able to
relate
to each other and since that time
literally i spent time with her husband
her daughter i went to their house when
i was in korea
and even when i failed my exam you guys
remember i told you about failing my
korean exam for my master’s degree
two times in a row how difficult that
was and the second time
i failed i it was very
i was distraught i didn’t know what to
do i felt bad but
i didn’t show my emotions when i went to
work i just kind of kept teaching
and she approached me and she said hey
tiff how are you so i’m fine
everything’s okay
and i remember i literally remember this
like it was yesterday sitting at the
desk and i was typing in some grades for
my students
and she said tiff what happened with the
test
and it was like a floodgate open tears
just streamed down my face
and i was telling her how bad i felt and
she just listened put a hand on my she
put her hand on my shoulder and she said
it’s okay it’s okay
and i really needed that at that moment
because i was in korea
away from my family i had a lot of close
friends
but i didn’t necessarily want to cry and
say hey
i can’t believe i didn’t pass and i felt
bad but i was able to open up to her
when she asked me what happened and i
realized
how special she was to me that i was
able to
release that showed me that oh this
person is super super important to me so
yes catherine and i developed our
friendship over time and
right now our current relationship um we
both live in different
countries of course and we talk to each
other every once in a while because
she’s busy and i’m busy but our
relationship is still very close so
when she messages me she’ll send me
maybe a nice
um piece of art to look at that she
likes art as well or
i’ll call her on the phone and we’ll
talk about her family and what’s going
on and
we talk also about um you know god too
because we both love god so
our relationship is really good and in
the future again i told you i do want
her to be in my wedding
i really love her and her family and i’m
really blessed to have her as a friend
so
again i hope you guys enjoy this story
about how our relationship developed
i’m sure you guys have stories about
your own friends and how you guys became
friends
please feel free to share your stories
with us in the comment
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