THINK SPEAK IN ENGLISH About Your Skills And Abilities Episode 1
speaking english fluently is not about
how long you can speak
in english it’s not about speaking for 5
10 15 or 20 minutes
instead english fluency is all about
your ability to organize your thoughts
like a native english speaker that’s
right organizing your thoughts about
a certain topic so today i want to teach
you how to organize your thoughts and
speak
properly and fluently about your skills
and abilities
and you can do that by using three
simple steps
i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump right in
alright so step number one is you need
to simply describe
the ability or the skill that’s right
you need to
introduce the topic to the person you
are speaking to
so for example you all know that i love
sports
and i really like playing basketball so
basketball playing basketball is a skill
that many people
have so to start the conversation i need
to describe the skill
you’ve all heard of the nba right this
is a big
organization in america and it has a lot
of
basketball players right so i can start
the conversation off
by speaking about basketball related to
the nba
i can say the nba is one of the most
popular
sports organizations in america many
people
love watching basketball and many young
people spend
hours literally practicing different
basketball drills
and trying to improve their abilities
basketball is loved by a lot of people
so again what did i do i introduced the
topic the skill or the ability
basketball right playing basketball i
haven’t talked about my
own skill or ability in basketball just
yet
and that’s what you need to do when
you’re speaking about your skill or
ability
you must start off with a basic
description
of what the skill or ability is another
example
is i like to draw i love to draw
i use pens and pencils so if i want to
talk about
art and my skill to draw or paint i must
first describe that skill in general so
in art there are many different ways of
producing art you can
paint you can draw using a pen you can
draw using a pencil
you can use pastels you can use markers
there are many different ways to produce
art so i can start off by saying art is
loved around the world you can see a lot
of different types of art when you go to
a museum
there are paintings there are sketches
there are drawings
and art is something that many people
appreciate
stop i’ve introduced the topic right
i’ve described it i’ve explained what
art is
again before you talk about your
personal skill
you need to talk about it in general the
skill in general all right
now the second thing you need to do when
you’re talking about your skill or
ability
is actually describe your
personal ability that’s right now we’re
getting into more
details now you’re going to connect you
to the actual topic so here we go
we talked about basketball right i said
i love basketball
i started off step one by introducing or
describing basketball in general
now i can talk about my abilities i can
say
now i have played basketball since i was
seven years old i really love the game
and i really love to play basketball
i was a very good point guard and i
loved also to shoot
so i was a shooting guard as well so i’m
telling you a little bit more about my
skills
i really enjoy playing basketball but
i’m telling you specifically
the position i played i was a point
guard i also was a shooting guard i
could shoot really well
so again i’m telling you a little bit
more about my personal skills and my
personal ability makes sense good now
i also talked about art i said that
there are many different types of art
but now i’m going to tell you about my
specific type of art so
i love to draw using pen i love to also
draw using pencils but i’ve been using
pen a lot more and also watercolors so
i will draw something using a pen and
then i’ll paint it using watercolors
so i started to do more abstract
paintings where in the past i did a lot
of
pencil portraits of people so i’m giving
you a little bit more
information about my personal skills
related to
art and that’s what you need to do step
one describe the ability or skill
in its basic form step two talk about
your personal skill or ability
now step three the final thing you need
to do is
describe how you acquired
that skill that’s right now you need to
kind of go back in time a little bit
and give the person more information
about how you developed this
skill because now they’re already very
well aware of
the skill you gave them basic
information in step one
then step two you talked about yourself
and how you are currently
so what happens in their mind oh
i wonder how she improved her skills
i wonder how he learned to do that so
you answer that question before they
even ask it
by talking about how you develop the
skill
so for me for basketball again i’ve
mentioned before that my dad
loves basketball i can still remember
right now when i was about two or three
years old
going to the park on sundays watching my
dad play basketball with his friends
for hours my sister and i would go with
him and he’d play for
hours we call it pickup ball basically
you
go to the park and you see who wants to
play and you guys make a team and you
play basketball
so i watched my dad play basketball from
the time i was a young
child then when i was in elementary
school middle school
high school and college i played
basketball so i’ve played for so many
years
so the skills developed over time so
again i told you
how i developed the skill of playing
basketball now what about art
now this is something interesting
because i also got this from my dad
but we did not know and i say we because
my sister was an amazing artist
when she was in eighth grade she was
already drawing people and it looked
exactly like them
so i watched my sister and i thought i
got my talent from her
but we both were able to draw really
well however my sister stopped when she
was in high school and i kept going
so we grew up we never knew where we got
it from we just thought we naturally had
the talent
when i was about 25 i was having a
conversation with my dad about something
he said you do know that your sister and
you got the skill of art for me and i
said huh what do you mean
i’ve never seen my dad draw anything and
he said oh when i was a little boy i
used to draw a lie i used to draw planes
and other things
and i loved art but he never continued
with it
so i learned that i got the skill of art
from my dad even though i never
i’ve never seen him draw so again i
learned that very interesting fact when
i was an adult
so again i explained to you how that
skill developed so what happens
now you know for a fact first of all
what my skills are and i explained what
they are
then i explain my personal skills right
i talked about the basics of the skill
then i told you about my personal skills
and finally i said how i developed
these skills this is how you speak about
your talents and skills
in english fluently follow these three
steps
talk about or describe the skill second
describe your personal ability
and third talk about how you developed
it again remember that english fluency
is not about speaking for a long time
it’s
all about how you organize your thoughts
and relay or give the information
now if you enjoyed this lesson
everything that i taught is actually in
my ebook
how to pass the ielts speaking exam all
right
so again you can hit the link in the
description if you want to get the book
and keep studying
but i really hope you learned a lot
remember that you can do it you can
speak
english fluently i believe in you
thank you so much for joining me for
today’s lesson
remember i am always here to help you
learn
english and speak english confidently
i’ll see you
next week
you still there you know what time it is
it’s story time
hey i said it’s story time
all right guys so today i have a story
for you that
some of you may know but some of you
don’t
this is when i was in korea and i was
studying in university i was studying to
get my master’s degree in oriental
painting
and i was in class and we were learning
about drawing the human figure
and i was sitting in class and my
stomach
oh my goodness my stomach was hurting so
bad you see i was uh having cramps at
that day so i wasn’t able to focus on
what the teacher was saying
and it got so bad that i had to leave
class so i told my friend i said please
let the professor know that i’m sorry i
have to go because i’m not feeling good
so i left the class and this was not
like me remember i told you
i love school i i loved learning and i
still enjoy
learning so i didn’t want to leave but
my cramps were
horrible so i left the class and i
really couldn’t even walk i would the
campus was huge it was huge to walk from
one end to the other would take you
about 15 minutes
it was really big 15 or 20 minutes it
was really a big campus
so i had to walk back to my apartment i
was on campus
but i was hurting so bad i actually was
going to hail or get a taxi
but before i got the taxi asset i need
to get some medicine because this is bad
so i had to walk from class all the way
to
the pharmacy that was on campus i mean i
was leaning over
it was bad y’all so i finally got to the
pharmacist and i walked in and it was a
female and she looked at me
and she said hey how can i help you
again all in korean
and i said i have really bad cramps
please give me your strongest medicine
she said you want the strongest medicine
i said listen i said i need something
that works quickly
and i needed to work for a long time so
she could tell by the look on my face
that i was in extreme pain
so she looked at me and honestly it was
like time stood still
at first she was looking at me normally
and then her face changed and she said
you sure you want the strongest and i
was a little bit caught off guard but i
was like
yes she looked around
now again it felt like a movie to me
then she actually
put her hand underneath the counter now
normally for the pharmacies in korea
they have
all of the medicine kind of behind them
on this wall right
but she didn’t go to the wall she put
her hand underneath
of the counter and there was like this
secret drawer
and she opened the drawer and took out
this little like it was like a gold
pack and kind of shook it and it was
like little something
something inside of the pack she said
this will take away all of your pain
and it was a little bit suspect so i was
like do i
take these from her or not but i was in
pain so i said okay take the money
i paid her the money and she gave me the
packs and she said
it’s gonna work trust me so as soon as i
got the packs
i i opened them i needed it immediately
so i got some water and i opened the
pack and there was like
there were like 50 little black balls
like little black balls and i was like
what in the world but again i was in so
much pain i did not care
i had never seen this medicine before i
didn’t know what
even i could speak korean i was like i
don’t know what this says but i’m gonna
take this
so i had the water and i had these
little black balls in this little
this little pack and i took all of the
black ball and then i drank water
so i drank it and i swallowed all the
black balls and i was like i hope this
works
so i went outside to go get a taxi and
all of a sudden i started getting
really dizzy i said oh no lord oh no
she’s giving me drugs lord she’s giving
me drugs so
i was super dizzy i couldn’t really walk
straight
and i felt really queasy i felt really
weird i was like what in the world was
in those black balls
so i finally got a taxi still was
feeling a little dizzy got in the taxi
taxi took me to my apartment and i got
to my apartment
i was still feeling weird but then all
of a sudden i noticed that my stomach
cramps my cramps were
slowly subsiding the intensity was
going away and i was like what’s
happening right now
and within about 10 minutes i felt
as light as a feather i felt as free as
a bird
everything was great i was smiling
remember i said i was in extreme pain
but all of a sudden after taking those
black balls i was living it up
right so i still don’t know exactly
what was in that medicine but when i
told my family they said
tiff you done taking drugs
but it wasn’t i had some other friends
who live in america
uh they are chinese-american i think i
think they’re chinese-american and when
i posted this story on facebook
they messaged me they said oh tiff i
used to get those same little black
balls when i was a when i was younger my
mom would give them to me when i was
sick she was like yes they are so
powerful
so apparently there are some herbs and
the combination really makes you feel
better fast
so i just thought it was a movie y’all
because
the way she took those little black
balls and said do you want these
i was like it’s a drug deal lord it’s a
drug deal
so anyways i felt better i will never
forget those little small black balls
and how they made me feel better
i don’t know if you guys have had an
experience like this with some medicine
that
you weren’t sure about but it made you
feel better if so tell me about it in
the comment section
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