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well hi again this is Jan at learn English with B Global and today we're
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going to learn about how to speak English fluently and
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confidently you've heard it said that English is a work in
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progress have fun with it I I hope you know that uh English
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is uh people disagree about how you should speak English so I hope that you
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know you don't have to worry about certain uh parameters in spoken English
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fluency has to do with uh communicating okay not Perfection so
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take a deep breath and relax and actually we're going to talk today about the
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circus uh why the circus well I just chose that because it's a fun short word
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that will help us grow in our navigation of being confident when we speak
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English so if you want to get out a piece of paper or or something write it
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like like this across these letters will help you
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remember our main idea so what does the first letter stand for well the first
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first letter C stands for confidence comes before fluency okay I have up here
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fluency does not does not equal grammatical
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Perfection okay um no one ever said
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fluency means speaking English perfectly that's that's not true it means speaking
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English with e so I want you uh
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to um move toward fluency by gaining confidence but you've
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got to have the confidence first um know that there is no native English
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speaker anywhere that speaks English flawlessly without uh errors or mistakes
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so the C confidence comes before fluency the I stands for ignoring the grammar
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police you know who the grammar police are right they're the people that are
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always correcting you and uh they they may even just be in your head you're
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like oh I I I said that wrong or just forget them don't worry about those P
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these people should not stop you from trying uh hard they're not they don't
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have any power over you okay so ignore them ignore the grammar police outside
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or maybe the ones in your head so I have been teaching International students for
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over uh 20 years in the US okay the ones that I
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remember uh well are not the ones that spoke English perfectly they are the
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ones that tried that smiled that had fun and these are the ones that made a lot
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of mistakes but they learned from their mistakes or or maybe they never learned from their mistakes and it doesn't
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matter because they became part of almost part of our family because they
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had such a great attitude and uh they just kept trying and they had fun and
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they knew it wasn't the end of the world if they didn't say something exactly
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right and in fact I can remember them better because of their attitude so fight through the fear of
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making mistakes okay uh learn to laugh at yourself I know sometimes that's hard
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um but when we laugh at ourselves it gives other people permission to correct
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you and not be afraid uh that they're going to hurt you and hopefully they
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will correct you gently but if you're like oh how do I say that right then
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they'll say Okay um uh this is how you should really say this
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phrase uh so let's go back to the circus we've got the C it stands for confidence
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comes before fluency all right so we're trying to talk about confidence here the
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I stands for ignore ignore the grammar police just ignore
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them um R stands for recognize what
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motivates you all right um why do we try something that's hard like uh learning
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another language um something is motivating us right you care enough if
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you're motivated enough to maybe even look a little silly
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sometimes then you know your motivation is really high right and that is great
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uh because uh once you figure out what you what you love then that will that
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motivation will carry you and that hopefully will Bloom into English
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fluency because you're willing to do the daily work of of learning new things so
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it's a big deal motivation is a big deal recogn recognize what motivates you um
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and I can't figure that out for you uh so later on I'm going to be giving you
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some tips on fluency and maybe you're like hurry up I
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just want to hear uh if you're not uh motivated these tips aren't going
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to matter so you've got to figure out what motivates you and not just what motivates you today but for uh the long
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uh the long Hall as we say the long road okay so back to the circus circus
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confidence comes before fluency okay
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ignore the grammar police don't worry about grammar don't worry about making
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mistakes are recognize what motivates you okay you're
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going to need that the next C the next C is to call people who encourage
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you speaking English confidently should really take place in
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the context of a positive community and that will improve your confidence
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because as I reminded you confidence comes before
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fluency and also you remember you need to ignore who the grammar police right
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don't be afraid of making mistakes are recognize what motivates
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you C call people who encourage you the U stands for understand that we
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are all moving at different speeds if you have had a bad English day that
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doesn't Define you all right remember that um you may need to write that down
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we all have bad bad language days um but
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that doesn't Define who you are so don't compare yourself with someone else okay
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so final time here at the circus is you gain confidence first
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before fluency you ignore the grammar police
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recognize uh what motivates you call people who encourage
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you understand uh that we're all starting a at different places we're all going at
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different speeds it's okay the S is start small you gain confidence by starting
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small right set little goals and then these little accomplishments they build
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on each other right that happens for everything we do uh especially for
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language Learners so on to our fluency
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tips number one set a time to practice
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every day if you set this time you will turn it into a habit and that will be
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something that you go to and you know that you'll be practicing English every
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day but before we jump into the rest of these tips I want you to think about how
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you learn because really uh if you try these tips that I'm going to give you uh
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and you don't know how you learn best it's going to be more frustrating uh so for brevity's sake
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let's just talk briefly about four different kinds of Learners okay so we
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have the visual the auditory the kinesthetic the
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doer and the reading and writing learner so think about which one you
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might be most naturally you may be a lot of these and probably are but uh if you
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think about whether your visual auditory can aesthetic or reading and writing as
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we go through the rest of these tips that will help you increase your fluency
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hopefully uh to speed up your fluency well so you've already set a
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time to practice every day right so what are you going to do during this practice
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time well I suggest that you practice your English 15 minutes every day some
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kind of short phrase and maybe you can pick that out from a from a good book a grammar book
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or some book that has the the correct way to say it so practicing that phrase
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um will be will be good for you and just doing 15 minutes uh is just a small
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reasonable goal all right it's um it's like the s in Circus we talked about
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starting small and you can do 15 minutes a day well what's practicing a phrase 15
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minutes a day going to look like for you how can we get that discipline to
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move from your brain to actual conversation well if you're a visual
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learner you may need to find a phrase that you can see as a picture or or a
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movie TV something like that some some picture that represents what that phrase
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looks like and practice the phrase while you're looking at that so it can it can
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stick in your mind longer okay if you're an auditory learner if you like to learn
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uh if you're it's easier for you to learn just to listening to listen to something you could talk about that
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phrase um to someone else you could also listen to a short um audio uh lecture
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about that phrase while you're going to school or while you're working out uh you could also just record your
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your voice saying that phrase over and over and listen to it and that's could
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be how you spend that that 15 minutes uh are you a reading and writing
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learner well experts will say that you probably work best in quiet areas and
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you do well to write out that phrase several times um eventually you're going
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to need to say the phrase um and we will get to that but uh when you write it out
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that will be helpful for you you uh probably enjoy flash cards and those
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will be great uh for your style of learning uh if you are a can athetic
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learner that means you like to do things or feel things those flash cards if you
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write them out uh and you have those make those into a game uh make it fun
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for you um and you can learn while you're physically doing something you
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may even take the phrase and uh do a dance to it or something if
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the phrase is I like to dance well maybe you dance while you do it or if you like
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to cook uh if the phrase is I like to cook then um you can cook while you say
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the phrase I like to cook so uh do you see what I mean uh
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becoming fluent takes work but if you can link it to some some way that you uh
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something that you know how to do naturally that you a way that you learn
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naturally then maybe you won't want to give up and you'll keep trying to do that okay okay tip number three find
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someone with whom you can practice after you've made it your Habit to set a time
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every day to practice and you've decided to practice
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15 minutes every day find someone with whom to practice
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and remember just go for it don't worry about making a mistake uh just keep
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trying so the fourth fluency tip I have for you
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is to form your schedule around practicing English so what do I mean by
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that well most people are very busy right so schedule a time of English
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practice with someone over a meal uh you both have to eat so just
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decide that for that one meal maybe once a week maybe more times a week all
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you're going to do is speak English while you're eating together I think
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that's a a great way to do that or you may find someone who uh likes to
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exercise on a regular basis most people do and so if you can just form your
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schedule around just exercising with that person whether it be walking or
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playing some kind of game and practicing English only English while you're doing
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that then you're not having to set up this separate time in your schedule uh
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to open a book and work on your English it's just a part of natural life and so
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you'll learn some of those skills and increase your fluency if you have friends who go to
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church every Sunday or if they are participa in weekly community
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activities ask if you can join them um many of my students have told me they
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improved their English by going to church once a week because at church we
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read we speak we listen and we sing in English so you're getting almost all of
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the learning styles in just a couple hours also they have said uh the Bible
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is a great text for Pro proper grammatical English and so they can
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count on that if they want to learn how to say something right that's just a
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thought so number four form your schedule around practicing
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English tip number five identify objects in
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English what does that mean means find a Post-It note write out oven and put it
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on your oven mirror put it on your mirror identify everything in your house
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that you can in English so you are surrounded by English words when you
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wake up in the morning you see them when you go to bed at night you see them and
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then once you have become comfortable and you have
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memorized these nouns then you can add a verb in front of them
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choose any verb you like you know we like our verbs and our nouns together so
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you can practice them so you're immersed in English and then that will help you
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begin to start thinking in English and that also will increase your
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fluency dip number six use good media resources like you're doing right now
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now use or watch English television or English movies or listen to English
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music and choose those media options based upon your goals and what I mean is
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if your goal is to be a professional uh business man or woman uh
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then choose those media options that have vocabulary related to your career
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field and then that will help you in the interview so think think that through um
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because I don't want you to waste good brain memory on information that is not helpful and
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might even be confusing to you as you're trying to remember things for a good
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interview or a a promotion or something like that just a final tip
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uh don't learn profanity in English if it's not going to help you achieve your
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goal uh save space in your brain for phrases that will help you achieve your
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ultimate objective that's just a final thought now the good news for you is that you
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have already done fluency tip number six by watching this educational English
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video and I hope you've learned some about speaking confidently and fluently
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in English thanks for watching and if you like this video Hit subscribe and leave
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a comment
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below hi again it's Jan at learn English with
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be Global and today we're going to learn about how to speak English
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fast okay so how do we go from a normal English phrase to a faster informal
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contraction let's take a sample okay a normal English phrase is going to the
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faster informal contraction is gonna going to get smashed together contracted
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together turns into GNA going to get rid of the to get rid of the G gonna going
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to okay that's how that works if you listen to popular music you hear this a
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lot gonna I'm gonna do this I'm going to do that here's a very common
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example Taylor Swift was kind enough to sing the
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song Shake It Off a big part of her song uses our informal
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contraction cuz the players going to play play play and the haters going to
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hate hate hate baby I'm just G to shake shake shake shake it off right
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so what she's trying to say is the player are going to play the haters are going
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to hate and she's just going to shake it off and you should too apparently so
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going to turns into Gunna if you know this song you're already speaking
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English fast good for you how about another example okay how do we get to
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wna W to get some coffee well let's start with the
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original phrase do you want to that's the normal
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phrase right then faster you wna so
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gotten rid of the two right gotten rid of the do we'll talk about that do you
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want to you wna and then it goes to wna fastest
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wna wanna get something to drink right so
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the same rule applies right if gonna comes from a shortened version of going
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to you wna or wna comes from a shortened version of do you want to right so
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sometimes English speakers will omit the question word
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do and just raise their uh voice at the
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end of the sentence to signal that it's a question you want to right you want to
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go see a movie that's a shortened version of do you want to go see a
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movie uh you can also use wna in the first person I wna right uh I want to
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get ice cream that's short for I want to get ice cream so let's look at a little
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bit different informal contraction okay this one is gimme
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now the original form of gimme is would
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you give me and even more shortened is give me and then finally the fast way to
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say it give me if you want help from
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someone you might say formally would you give me a hand meaning can you give me
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some help but the fast way we would say it is give
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me a hand give me some help right so normal
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would you give me shortened even more faster give me the fastest what you will
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commonly hear give me give me now I hope this doesn't happen to you but if a
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scary person comes up to you and says give me your money well you're being robbed right so
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the robber is not going to say give me your money he or she is going to quickly
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say give me your money so another informal contraction we
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use is dig now what does dig sound like to you
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dig well you're probably guessing did you right it's just a match together the
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form of did you uh we say this quite a bit did you
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know did you know right and we we use
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the J sound because the D makes it easier to turn this the U into a j sound
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just dig okay so we just kind of drop that Y sound totally all right so we
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will say did you know or did you hear that if you hear
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something that makes you nervous you don't say say slowly did you hear that
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you say did you hear that you say it fast right so that's what this stands for did you did you hear that now you
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can also use this this phrase in the present tense this shortened version
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so do
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you changes to do
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you do you uh so there's no D at the end of
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this one so we're able to keep the Y sound do you uh do you want to talk we
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might say that instead of do you want to talk do you want to talk now there's another phrase that is similar to this
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and it is W can you can you
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imagine what
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wja is a contraction of it is
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would you so would you the D at the end right
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our D here again turns the Y sound into a j so would
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you um would you would you go to the
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bank for me would you let me borrow your car would you let me borrow your car so
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you can see how these will uh move quickly into just a a whole new
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word so we learned about would you would you like me to come short that's the
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short form of would you like me to come or would you get my phone would you give
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me your phone or would you would you give me my phone and
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again with WYA you can do the same with the present tense will you
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turns into will you will
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you for example if you want to know if your friend gets home okay you can say
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will you give me a call when you get home will you give me a call that's shortened for will you give me a call
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right so would you and will
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you now the next one we'll look at is
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Whata watcha so it's in the same kind of area of
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using the the word you at the end right so this shortened phrase can incorporate
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three different verbs are have and do okay so we'll start with r
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the the shortened phrase Whata begins with what are you okay then
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faster what are you what are you so that can be a shortened phrase as well an
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informal contraction the fastest one you'll hear though is Whata Whata so uh
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the the cha comes from the T sound do do you hear that Whata so we're just
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dropping the U dropping the r just Whata
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CH U turns into cha okay
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so what are you going to do what you're going to do what you're going to do then what
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you're going to do for example you find out your friend failed a
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class you would say you might say what you going to do in other words what will you do
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now so I mentioned that the informal contraction
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Whata it incorporates three verbs it can incorporate three verbs
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are do and have now we looked at R and
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now we're going to look at do so you start off with the normal phrase what do
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you or what did you you can use the present tense or the past tense for to
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ultimately end up with Whata so what do you faster would you
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would you and then Whata Whata
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so for example what do you know becomes what do you know what you know
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what do you know what you know or or you can also say what did you say what you
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say what you say what you say I didn't hear you what you say now I would I
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would really not recommend saying what you say ever to a
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professor or a boss anyone in Authority so what you say save that for
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your friends okay but so this is an example of using the verb
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do in the phrase Whata well now let's look at how the
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verb have is incorporated into the informal
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contraction Whata so the the formal way we would say
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is what have you dot dot dot the compressed way the mash together
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way faster what of you what have you what of you fastest what but what I want
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to tell you is that there are just a couple more phrases that I think you
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should know and the phrase we're going to talk about now is g g so so Gada is
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like got and two got married they had a baby and had G we say this all the time
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got it all right and uh commercials are always
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saying you got to have this you got to have this or you got to try this you got
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to try this the formal way to say something like got it would be you have
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got to blank okay uh a way that you will hear
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this a lot is gotta go I gotta go or I got to run
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so if someone's in a hurry they don't have time to say I have to go they just
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say ah I got to go I'm late for class or I'm late for
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work well you're ready for our next two informal contractions they are kind of
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and sort of now they really mean the same thing so you're learning two
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informal contractions that mean the same thing so this is a good thing uh and
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again it is just the combination kind of is a combination of kind and of kind of
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kind of sort of sort of so we drop off
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the of and put in an a sound and it's just quicker to say so an example might
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be uh well in the original form an example might be I kind of like
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exercising or I sort of like
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exercising but uh usually you'll hear someone say I kind of like exercising in
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I sort of like exercising you don't hear the of at all in that and what it's
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communicating is I don't totally like exercising or I don't love exercising I
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kind of like it I sort of like it I just want to thank you for watching and if
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you like this video Hit subscribe and then leave a comment
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[Music] below
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[Music]
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hi it's Jan at learn English with be Global and today we're going to learn
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about secrets to improve your English listening skills and there are many ways to
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improve your English listening skills um and truthfully with the
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resources on the internet most of them are not that secret but in this video I'll share what
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I've gleaned uh to be some of the best ways I think you can improve your
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English listening skills so the first way is to mentally prepare to
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listen um I start with this secret because after I've explained this tip a
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little bit uh you could pause this video mentally prepare and then practice it
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for the rest of the time you're listening uh so how do you mentally
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prepare to listen to English well generally you can anticipate what the topic or context of
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English conversation uh is going to be before it happens right uh for example you know
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this video is going to be about improving your English listening skills
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right therefore you can expect to hear some key words um what might be some key words
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with regard to this topic that you might uh think about before continuing to
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listen to this video can you think of some just simple key wordss you're like
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when I hear he that I know what they're talking about right so maybe one would simply be uh listening that's a key word
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okay another one might be you know we're talking about secrets
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so write that down on a piece of paper Secrets the word Secrets another one
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might be speed
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okay speed another one might be
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accuracy uh context okay so those might be some of
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the words you could anticipate with this particular topic um so once you've made
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that list of keyw review them uh and then start the
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video again um and be ready to hear them
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and be confident that you're miss or that you're not missing that you're catching the main
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ideas um when you're prepared to catch the main ideas it frees up more of your
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concentration for the rest of the connecting content that makes sense
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right so that will help you you've you've kind of knocked out the tough
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maybe the well I don't know about the tough stuff but the the big Concepts in
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your mind you can be ready to hear them those so then how do you mentally
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prepare for a conversation one of those two-way things
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right of course that's a bit tougher however you can always prepare
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even a little bit I think we've all prepared ourselves when we needed to call
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someone uh to whom we felt a little shy um we practiced what we would say
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beforehand uh so even uh e Even in our native language we wanted to prepare be
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prepared to speak to someone else who is in our native language so this is a
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pretty normal stuff but it's important um if you need to call
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someone for example uh consider what questions might come up based on the
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topic of your conversation um if you're able write out
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the dialogue as you're writing it out you'll likely discover something that
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you find difficult to express in English so when you do that you are uh preparing
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maybe further than you thought for topics or words that may be exchanged in
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the conversation you might say writing a dialogue isn't listening uh no but it
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really is preparing you to listen and that is so important um I'll tell you in the US for
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example firefighters are held with great respect and honor and I learned
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something about them recently uh did you know that firefighters don't spend most of their
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time fighting fires you might already know they spend most of their time preparing to fight
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fires and that's why they do it well and that's the same with you you know
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listening is a very important thing to do um you don't do it all the time uh
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but in order to do it well you need to prepare and so this is
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one of the ways you can uh do that you can create a list of key words that you
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are anticipating will be a part of that conversation and so our first secret to
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learning how to approve impr her listening skills is to mentally prepare
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well our second tip secret to improving your
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English listening skills is to focus on what you
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can understand what you can understand I have three quick just sub points for
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this secret uh if you are listening to someone don't let yourself get
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distracted by words you don't understand um I realize you want to understand the
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whole idea um but if you don't may I
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suggest saying to the person um can I tell you
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what I just heard you say um people love to hear what they
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said um so if you didn't get all of it they'll usually be happy to fill in the
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gaps for you um the second subo is even if the person you're
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talking to is speaking quickly um practice calmly focusing on
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what you do understand don't don't panic um remember if you let yourself get too
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worried um you'll have an even harder time on understanding so relaxing breathing
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keeping a good perspective uh can help fight um negative and unhelpful
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distractions um and it can help you achieve your main goal of being a better
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English listener all right so our third subo is to give yourself time to wait
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for the whole concept to make context to make itself
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known so maybe you're in a conversation with several English speakers and you
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don't understand it at first well really eventually the context will reveal
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itself um by the key words that we talked about before that are um repeated
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and also some phrases that are repeated so to review our second SE sec to
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improving your English listening skills it is focus on what you can understand
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the three sub points don't get distracted by what you don't
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understand calmly focus on what you do understand
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don't panic and then C is just wait for the actual context to reveal itself
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because it will happen Okay so our third secret for impr improving your English
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listening skills is don't try to do a
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mental translation into your language while
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you're listening what is that what is that mean um well when I Was preparing
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for this video I learned this idea and I think it's very insightful and worth
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applying and passing on um and I'm going to give you the tip the exact quote from
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the English teacher that I heard this from and he said if you listen to
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English and try to translate it into your language at the same time you're
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trying to do something that is impossible talk about frustrating um our brains just don't
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work like that you cannot concentrate on listening to someone and at the same
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time be translating what he or she is saying into your own language um when
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you do this you're cheating yourself out of the best chance to
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understand for example I'm trying to learn Spanish when I read in Spanish I fight
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the temptation to mentally transcribe the Spanish I'm reading back
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into English why well because transcribing it
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back into English is really not necessary for me to understand what I'm reading um and in fact doing so makes it
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lose its unique Spanish flavor which is great um not to mention though it slows
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down my reading considerably um and the same would be
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true for my listening or for your listening so just try to embrace those
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English words and um keep listening well we're on number four of our secrets to
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improving our English listening skills number four is practice listening in
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English from people with different accents and different voices and you
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might be thinking why would I torture myself like that well I give you two
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super reasons why it's good to to practice English from people with
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various accents and the first reason is
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there's always going to be differing opinions uh about which person speaks
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proper English so if you say shouldn't I just focus on learning how to listen to
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people who have are the proper English speakers well yes that would be helpful
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um uh if everybody spoke proper English uh but hardly anyone
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does sorry to tell you most of the English speaking world does not speak
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English the way it is spoken by uh for example International newscasters these
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professionally trained people they're a great Foundation but most people don't
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really talk like that so that's the first reason the the second reason is um
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that you should practice listening to uh English speakers who have different
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accents or voices is uh because most of the English
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and again this was a secret that was I learned and I'm passing on to you uh
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that uh more and more non-native English speakers are speaking to other
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non-native English speakers uh um so you're going to need
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to know what that sounds like not just from uh one particular
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englishspeaking country so be a very good use of your time to listen to other
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non-native English speakers as well when I worked with Internationals
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at MIT you might imagine they were from all over the world and they needed to
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understand each other's English uh accent if they were going to
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complete uh their experiments in the lab uh that was just as important as
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understanding what they were doing in the uh in the laboratory uh understanding non-native
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English speakers English accents and what they were saying um in uh their
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their cohort group now I I I work with many Chinese
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students uh and they struggle with understanding the east Indian English um
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however it's a very helpful skill um that they're going to need to have if
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they're going to accomplish their goals maybe their academic goals or even uh career goals um and vice versa so these
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are really practical things for you to do um not just trying to make it harder
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on you um if you only again if you only listen
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to one person's uh um kind of English maybe off of a English tape or some
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English speaker um then everybody else that speaks English it's going to sound
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like they're speaking a different language when they're really speaking English and you'll miss out out a lot um
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also remember that men and women and children say things with different
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accents um and voices as well so don't just practice listening to One gender or
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age groups speak English you'll really be limiting
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yourself um some listening uh tips listening skills to work on while you're
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uh working on this tip is to listen to songs people singing uh not for the
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grammar but for their meaning um to practice hearing it in different voices and different ways um also uh listening
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to audio books um podcasts um and textbook exercises uh
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many of which are free online you can practice listening to
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someone speak quickly and uh hear what they're saying over and
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over that's good um if you watch short English TV
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shows or even commercials um I would recommend the following so get a show
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that you can watch over and over course YouTube is great for this and then
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practice listening in this order first play the show but don't look
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at it um just listen and see what you can understand um write down the main
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ideas that you're Gathering so the show is in the is behind you um so pretend
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maybe you're listening to someone on the phone it's a great practice so that's the first
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one have the show on but don't look at it just listen then watch the show the same show
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without subtitles and and see what else you can understand then watch it again with
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English subtitles fill in some more of the gaps of what you're um understanding and
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finally if there are uh some subtitles that are in your
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language watch it in uh uh in your in
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English but uh reading your native languages subtitles the words under the
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screen that are saying what uh the actors are saying so I wish I could be
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with you to help you with that uh but I'm sure you will do great well I hope
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this video helped you improve your English listening skills thanks for watching and if you
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well hi it's Jan at learn English with be Global and today we're going to learn
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about eight major word groups in the English language
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this may be a brand new topic to some of you or this may be a good
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review why should we learn about word groups well identifying word
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groups in a sentence it secures a correct understanding of the meaning of
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the sentence for this video I'm going to use
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use traveling as the context for all of our
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examples because I imagine that since you're trying to learn English you would
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like to travel someday and I hope that it will be
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relevant to you as we learn these word groups let's begin what's our first word
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group nouns nouns are
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persons places things or
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ideas the following are some examples of nouns the first example manners are
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important when traveling the plane
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flew Sarah read the signs the Grand Canyon is a beautiful
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place so where are the nouns and what are the nouns well manners here is a
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noun because it's an idea manners are important when
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traveling the plane is a noun because it's a
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thing Sarah is a noun because this word
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is a person represents a person and the Grand Canyon is a noun
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because it is a thing it is a place and a
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thing so what's our second word group it's verbs so verbs show
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action here are some examples of verbs in a
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sentence the flight attendance talked to the
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passenger I see many taxis in New
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York they have been to get their
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passport so we're looking for the action going on in the sentence when we look to
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identify verbs so the first sentence the action is happening from who
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the flight attendant she's talking she did talk right the action in this sentence is
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coming from the person seeing I see that's the action
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seeing and the last one they have been to get their passport and even though
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this is in the past it's the action of going it's just in the
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past so that that's what a verb is a verb shows
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action so what is our third word group it's pronouns and pronouns replace
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nouns some examples of pronouns are he the man is flying with
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her the woman or they
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are checking into it a hotel or
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it is why I travel it represents an idea
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Adventure so we'll review that he is
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replacing a noun the the man remember we talked about a man is a person place
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thing or idea so he the the pronoun is just replacing that uh person so you can
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speak faster pronouns are great like that so he is flying with her the woman
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her is also a pronoun representing the woman the noun the
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woman so instead of saying the man is flying with the woman you can just say
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he is flying with her much quicker right so that's all these
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uh these word groups represent they represents a group of
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people more than one they are checking into
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it a hotel so they instead of saying that group of people every single time
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you can just say they they the pronoun replaces the noun those people
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are checking in to it a hotel so you can
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say they are checking into the hotel or
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you can say they are just checking into it meaning the hotel the hotel is the
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noun right it represents the noun replaces the noun
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actually uh both of those now it down here we we looked at earlier it the this
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pronoun it uh represents and replaces the
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idea of Adventure and Adventure is an idea that is remember a noun nouns can
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be ideas so Adventure is an idea Adventure is why I travel or you can
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just say it is why I travel and those are pronouns
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word group it's adjectives adjectives describe a noun or
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a pronoun here are some examples Colorado has a
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gorgeous mountain range it's describing Mount Rushmore shows four US
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presidents I am happy I drove here so
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we're looking for the part of the sentence that describes the noun or the
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pronoun right so if we find um some uh
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nouns then that will help us find our adjectives so Colorado has gorgeous
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Mountain a gorgeous mountain range so a mountain range is a group of mountains so it's uh it's being described as
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gorgeous as beautiful it is describing it so I'm using my green marker here and
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maybe that'll help you remember you know Green is a color and it connects to
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describing things when you describe something or use an adjective you use
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colors or you use uh what something looks like in appearance for the second
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example Mount Rushmore shows four US presidents well this is describing the
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number of presidents that you see on Mount Rushmore so that's another
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descriptor for your adjective so your adjective is
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four Mount Rushmore shows four US presidents on the first one Colorado has
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gorgeous a gorgeous mountain range so the adjective we know is
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gorgeous it's describing the mountain range four is describing Mount
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Rushmore the third example here I am happy I drove here I am happy happy is
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describing the noun the pronoun I am happy I is the
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pronoun which we learned last time is replacing the noun so adjectives also
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describe emotions they describe all kinds of things adjectives are great
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words uh because they make our stories and our reading so much more colorful so
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those are adjectives well our next word group is
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adverbs the adverbs describe a verb an adjective or another
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adverb so we talked about adjectives last time
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describing nouns adverbs describe
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verbs adjectives or another adverb now I
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know this is may seem a little confusing so we're going to look at some examples
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and then we're going to do another little bit of examples because this giv get a little um uh more in depth but I
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know you can do this so don't give up okay so here's the example that cake
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looks good the adverb here is
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good why because it is describing or
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modifying looks the verb uh not the
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cake the adverb good is described desing what the cake looks like it looks good
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we don't know what the cake tastes like but we know what it looks like so looks
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is the verb that good the adverb is
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describing so let's look at another example the tour group
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followed excitedly so we're looking for verbs or
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adjectives or adverbs but we're just going to stick with verbs right now in this sentence we know that verbs we
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learned those are action words so followed is the action word in this
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sentence right so we're found verb we found the verb now excitedly is describing the
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action the tour group is following they're excited you've been an exciting
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tour group before right right so this this word
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excitedly is an adverb that's describing the the verb follow or
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followed okay it's not describing the noun this
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noun phrase tour group uh or or group actually
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so next example my elderly neighbor
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seems well so we're not looking for nouns here
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we're looking for verbs for the adverb to describe to modify or to modify right
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my elderly neighbor well we've got neighbor here elderly is not a noun
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seems is a verb so seams is being
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modified or described with this adverb well she seems
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well okay so seems is the verb and well
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is the adverb well is what's describing the verb now we're going to go to a new
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board here in a second that will give you a list of a lot of adverbs so don't
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become uh too discouraged in in just this part here I hope that helps but but
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before we go there I'm going to remind you uh again that
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adverbs answer the question answer the questions how how
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often when and where if you can
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remember these questions adverbs are usually helping us understand uh what's
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going on there with some action in um in in a sentence okay how how often when
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and where I said I'd remind you but I just told you so now I'm reminding you
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again and I'll remind you in just a moment so continuing with the word group
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adverbs we said that if you can use the
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questions how how often when and where
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you're going going to be able to find out where the adverb is in
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the sentence that you're looking at or listening to um remember we said adverbs describe
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verbs adjectives and other adverbs okay so important to remember now if we start
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with how adverbs answer the question how uh we we often see that adverbs have
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ly at the end which is great it's one of the nice consistent things about English
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although you'll see some more without ly but if you see a word that has ly
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generally it's an adverb so how well
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easily um you can speak English
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easily you can speak English happily or
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loudly or quickly or quietly or sadly now you can't do it
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silently I guess you could do it in your head or slowly so those are
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describing the action of speaking something okay uh and how how is that
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going are you doing it easily or loudly or quickly things like that the next
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question is how often adverbs a adverbs answer the
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question how often always every day
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frequently never often once
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seldom sometimes and this is just a a short list okay but this kind of answers
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that question how often how and how often for our verbs adjectives and
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adverbs when after
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before when early now
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since soon today
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yesterday so when when what what is when
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did the action take place or when did something else else happen in this
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sentence and then where adverbs answer the question
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where away everywhere
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here home inside near
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outside there so you will see these words particularly some of
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these and you will think well isn't that enough another word group another part of
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speech in English well it depends upon what it's describing in the sentence so
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I hope that helps you and so that is a summary of adverbs I recommend you maybe
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take a screenshot of this this is not my original um list but you can take a
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screenshot of it and maybe look for these words in sentences when you read
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and then you can uh see how these words are being use and if they are being used
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as adverbs okay conjunctions the conjunctions join words
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and phrases or Clauses they're they're connectors they're like puzzle pieces so let's look
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at a couple examples we traveled by TR
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train and by bus the the and connects the train and
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the bus okay I paid a deposit
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because I wanted to reserve a a
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room you can go to the museum or go to the
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park other common conjunctions are but for
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nor yet so because while until although
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and if there's a lot of connecting going on in language right now the question
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you might have is should you begin a sentence with a conjunction since
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they're connecting ideas uh Clauses words or phrases
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well this is a bit debated um my response to that would be save your
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usages of conjunctions for the beginning of a sentence when you really want to be
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emphatic um for example if you say but I
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paid a deposit so I should get this room if you didn't get the room but usually
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you would use conjunctions in the the inside of sentences at least that's just the safest way to do that so to review a
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conjunction is words that join words or phrases or
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Clauses so and here is joining train and
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bus they're actually joining by train and by bus they're joining these two
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prepositional phrases which we will talk about but uh
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so that is the function of the conjunction I paid a deposit because I
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wanted to reserve a room you see this conjunction is important it
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explains why but it also just connects these ideas and the last one uh you can go to
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the museum or to the park gives you a couple options there so
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there's little words that uh do a lot of uh describing and they're words you need
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to know if you want to understand English and if you want to be understood
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when you speak English so I would recommend going online finding a list of
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conjunctions and seeing how uh they function how they work in sentences when
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you use them or when you read them okay oh can you guess our seventh word
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group it's prepositions so prepositions show the
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relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another part of the
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sentence it hooks okay this is a hook they hook nouns onto a sentence they're
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great I love prepositions the luggage bin here's an example the luggage bin on
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an airplane is above my head
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so the preposition here there's two on
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an airplane and above my head well on is the preposition
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and above is a preposition it describes the relationship of the noun or pronoun
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to another part of the sentence another example the fairy boo
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ticket is on the table it's on the table
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on is the preposition we walked across the
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square it showed the relationship of the elements in the sentence to one another
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the best way I I can uh explain this or has been explained to me is with a scarf
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or you can think of a belt for for you for you guys if you don't wear scarves
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uh a scarf can be uh around me around my
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neck around is a preposition it can be over my head it can be on my head it can
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uh it can be in between my fingers uh it can be near me near me it
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can be beside me it can be below me uh so it it's just a a spatial thing
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so that's what a preposition is prepositions uh hopefully you can see
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prepositions don't work alone they can't just be on or above they have to be on something or above
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something or near something so as an example if I uh put my book in a
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suitcase the preposition is in and it's the book is in the
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suitcase now in a second I'll show you this idea of a prepositional phrase
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because you can't really just have a preposition they don't like to be alone in fact they can't be alone prepositions
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need uh nouns around them so we'll look at some prepositional phrases okay we
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talked about prepositions and prepositions show where things
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are uh but they're always connected to a noun so I talked about my scarf um the
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the noun is the scarf it's a thing right and the scarf is over my head the noun
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the scarf is over the preposition my head which is another noun um so they're
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connected to nouns and they don't work alone we talked about that right they
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need to have some friends nearby creating a prepositional
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phrase uh they work in a group of words um and and you can identify them
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all the time remember they're hook they're hooking um uh nouns onto a
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sentence so we need prepositions to hook the noun onto the sentence a pre prepositional phrase
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begins with a preposition and ends with a noun like I said earlier I put my book
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in the suitcase okay I put
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my book
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in the
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suitcase so if it begins with the preposition n is the preposition the
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suitcase is the noun and so this entire phrase in the suitcase is a preposition
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itional phrase another
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example uh can you think of one um it's
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uh another way we use to be more descriptive in our in our speech and in
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our writing I took
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notes during the lecture maybe you went to a lecture
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on some place that you travel to during
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the
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lecture during the lecture is the prepositional
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phrase um during is is a little bit harder to
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understand because it's a it's not not um a spatial idea
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uh but it is a time um concept so during
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the lecture during is a preposition so that's just a
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brief explanation of prepositional phrases so
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I I hope that helps you identify them when you see them in writing or speaking
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well our eighth part of speech in English is
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interjections so interjections are used to express strong emotions right this
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person's mad really sad or really happy um strong emotions for example
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rats I hurt my foot or great work we won
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or excuse me I need to catch my plane so they're expressing intense
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emotions another uh group of words that fall under the category of interjections
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might be AEM uh meaning I want to speak now or
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good grief kind of frustration or even bless you um after
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you sneeze um or sometimes we say bingo
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meaning you got it right Bingo um so these are just words that
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are used to express strong emotions and I want to interject
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congratulations you've just finished the video that talks about the eight parts
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of speech in the English language good job
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below well hey this is Jen at learn English with B Global and today we're
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going to be looking at how to improve your English writing skills specifically
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we're going to be talking about an academic paper um not an email that you're writing to your friends or family
1:23:43
um we're going to talk about some good writing habits that you can form and
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then we'll give you some tips for writing an actual paper all right
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so we'll start off with the first habit and that is
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journaling um journaling comes easy to some people but for other people it's
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kind of a hard discipline um but if you do this every day I think that you will
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start to see some of the benefits of the
1:24:18
multitasking aspect of journalis uh of journaling so for those of us who feel
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like journaling is kind of a waste of time uh it helps to keep in mind that
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writing in English will help you improve your writing as you're just trying to
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express your thoughts regarding what's important to you um and like I said if
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you love multitasking like me here are some things you can do to improve your
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English writing skills when you Journal each day even if it's just for 15
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minutes when you Journal check your spelling uh develop into an expert
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speller uh while you're journaling then you don't have to look up words so often
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and you can save time uh the other thing is to bulk up on
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your vocabulary now I've I've uh drawn A Little vocab man here he's he's really
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bulky and if you think think about him um you want to have really strong
1:25:29
vocabulary and you want to be able to flex your vocabulary muscles so how do
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you do that well if you haven't already made good friends with a
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thesaurus um the time is now the the sorus is wonderful for helping you bulk
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up on your vocabulary um you want to be able to find words to express
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what you think is important uh more than the words you
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would normally be using so this journaling practice is a good time to
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kind of look some of those words up there's another resource that's called a
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collocation and we will talk about that in a moment I I will describe that but
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that is also a resource for bulking up your vocabulary okay so let's talk about
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collocations so it's just a big word and all it means is it's a group of words
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that usually go together in spoken English or written English some
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examples of a collocation are building blocks Bright
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Idea talk freely or heavy rain um I
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suggest you add these phrases to your bulking up of your vocabulary um
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because you will be able to communicate better if you understand that English
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speakers use collocations all the time and with very specific
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ways so one of the uh one of the examples I
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used was building blocks okay
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so when I say A collocation is a building block of how
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we speak English how we speak in English um you can know that those two words
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normally go together or often go together you you won't hear building
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squares or building sticks you'll hear building blocks
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um so uh a building block the definition
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is uh it means that Parts come together and make it possible for something
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bigger to exist so these
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collocations come together and they make
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up um a a lot of the English language a lot um so you can probably find a word
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and connect it to another word um almost every time so let's look at this other
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example down here of heavy rain uh Heavy Rain is something we say
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in English uh you could describe a lot of rain by saying big rain or uh strong
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rain and you would be okay in saying that um but they don't really fit into
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the English speaker's mind it doesn't it doesn't make sense to me if you say big
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rain there's no category for that we just say Heavy Rain if it rained a lot
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we said well it's heavy rain for example uh I might say to my husband uh it looks
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like we had heavy rain last night because the yard is still very wet all
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right so that's how we would use that so that's a collocation so so I would
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invest in a hard copy of a collocations dictionary if you can or you may want to
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uh go to a library and just take a look at it and see what it looks like and see
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if it can help you and if you can use that when you're writing your papers there may also be some online resources
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for collocations that you can find as well but I I think this is a a nice tip
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for improving your English writing skills and also your spoken
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English so again why use collocations to bulk up
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your English vocabulary um well it expedites learning English as opposed to
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just learning vocabulary in single word so that's when you're writing in your Journal remember you want to use a
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thesaurus or use a a collocation dictionary you want to check your spelling become
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an expert at checking your spelling and then also when you write in your Journal
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practice writing in the present tense um and that helps uh you to have active
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verbs and uh when you do that when you describe whatever happened in your day
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when you write in the journal try to find some attention grabbing verbs uh
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the fourth thing you can do you can multitask while you're uh doing your
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Journal writing is to make your sentences short um short
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sentences um show that you know what you're saying um I've edited a lot of papers
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I've written a lot of papers that have been edited and one way you can make your teacher your editor happy is write
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short sentences don't don't try to write a big long sentence unless you're absolutely sure uh you
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know where you're going with that and even native English writers and speakers
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we we try to uh be as concise as possible so short
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sentences make what you're trying to express very clear in addition to
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journaling another habit you might uh get into if you aren't already is
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reading on a regular basis you can read newspaper articles for examples of
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brevity of short sentences I also recommend reading some
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good books with great descriptions that's another way to bulk up your vocabulary to learn how they're
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saying things what adjectives are they using right now I am rereading an of
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Green Gables and uh the description and the overall all vocabulary it's just
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delightful um and it sharpens my mind it helps me be a better communicator and a
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better writer so I recommend reading um various types of writers as you're
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trying to uh increase your English writing skills okay so what if you get an
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assignment to write an academic paper um how do you write a good paper um one of
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the most common academic papers is the research paper so we're going to use
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that as our example today what do you do first well the first thing you need to
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do is find a topic right find a topic um you often get a choice uh in
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your paper's topic so finding the topic that interests you will make the writing
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process so much more fun and enjoyable so if you don't know where to
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start with this topic search um you can always just go online and just uh
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search find a topic well there are quite a bit of interesting issues out there
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upon which to write so once you found your
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topic we don't want to make it too broad right that's our second Point we've all
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tried to write papers with a topic that is too extensive and then later discovered
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after a lot of unnecessary research that we should have narrowed
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our Focus so we're going to look at some samples
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of how to narrow your focus say for example
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you uh want to write you like to write about writers in Ireland so maybe your
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your topic is writers in Ireland uh that's way too big right so you could
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instead do something like Oscar Wild's last day so it's a lot smaller
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um thing for you to research and write um another uh thing you may want to
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write about are big cats and Indonesia too big too big uh how about
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instead the daily life of the Sumatran tiger that's small enough for you to
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write a paper and me too right or uh you're interested in archaeology
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archaeology in the Middle East okay that's a little that's a little bit more
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Focus but it's still way too big right I mean it's archaeology instead how about
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why is the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls so important in
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2015 okay so that's I think you get the picture with that we want to just um
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have a topic that is manageable all right so we've chosen our
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topic and we've narrowed it and the third thing you need to do
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when you're writing a research paper is to create your your purpose statement or
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some people call it a thesis statement but we'll just say it's a purpose
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statement that seems to communicate uh more clearly a purpose statement is just the
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main idea of what you want to say it keeps everything else in your paper back
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directed to the main point your big
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idea knowing your big idea at the start writing it down will save you time when
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you edit at the end think of your purpose
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statement as the trunk of a tree everything
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else that you write about in your paper should naturally connect to the trunk of
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the tree uh maybe that helps so with the Oscar W
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example I gave before your purpose statement might
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be this paper will explore why Oscar wild was
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surprisingly remorseful of his life choices at the end of his
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life now I know I said before we want to keep our sentences short uh
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and we need to do that the purpose statement is saying a lot so it's really
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something you need to work on at the beginning it may not be as short um as
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other ones but your purpose statement needs to
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have something interesting in it um it even needs to be some might say it needs
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to be debatable um you're not going to say the sky is blue and no one no one's
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going to read that but if you write something like Oscar wild was
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remorseful at the end of his life this this party guy uh I want to read this paper because
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I want to know if it's true or not so that's that's kind of the idea and once
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you've done that You' got it right here like on your trunk and you're committed
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to that idea so you need to de decide what idea you want to commit to and then
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everything else in your paper needs to surround and support that idea
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so pick a topic and narrow the topic then write a purpose statement what are
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you trying to say in your paper then you have these supporting
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limbs uh and leaves that are around there and those are your evidences and
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you know you can cut some of them out or you can add some more but you still have
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your purpose statement so I hope that gives you an idea of why the purpose
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statement is important and I hope it's fun for you don't don't look at it as
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something negative because then eh you won't like to do it so if you don't have
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a purpose statement and you only have these ideas there's no trunk then
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they're just a bunch of thought evidences lying on the ground there's no
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cohesion there and you really want cohesion in your papers your teachers want you to have cohesion as well um our
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fourth tip is H is to make an outline before you start um you need to know it's it's
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helpful to know which branches you want to stick on the tree what evidences
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support what you're saying what examples you want to use to support your purpose
1:39:55
statement so having an outline before you start will help you so much so
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making an outline is really just creating a template for yourself that you can just fill in so it's feels like
1:40:09
a little less work in that in that way um of course you're going to need to
1:40:15
have a conclusion and you're going to have to work on a solid conclusion as well um
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but the the final tip I have for you is to always edit your paper before you
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submit it and maybe you think that's obvious but I know a lot of people who
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ride their papers late into the night they turn it in nobody looks at it and
1:40:42
they could have had a really great paper if they just had
1:40:48
started earlier and um had some one look at it
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so we have a saying in the US uh and it goes like this get a second pair of eyes
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so what does that mean well it means uh always have some other person's eyes
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look at your paper before you submit it or your blog maybe um of course uh it
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helps if this second pair of eyes this other person uh is um a good English
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writer or speaker um but I've also heard that there are some free online web pages
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that are willing to do some uh free Corrections for you so that's something
1:41:38
to investigate as well and I would take advantage of that sometimes it's easier
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to have someone you don't know edit your paper right um I know having someone
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proofread or edit your final paper can be time consuming and maybe feel painful
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but uh remember they're they're not editing you they're editing your paper so with editing you're going to have to
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plan ahead um as I mentioned before as soon as you get your
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assignment I would start writing down ideas and notes if you wait until the
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last minute to write your paper then no one is going to edit your paper in in
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the short amount of time um it's good to plan ahead with that so I'm going to give you another
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eye idiom for free it's called Fresh eyes and what we will say is we look at
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a paper with fresh eyes well what does that mean uh well once you write your
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paper the best advice I ever got was write your draft put it aside
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go do something take a nap the best thing is just to sleep uh I mean just
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let it let it cool overnight is what we would say and then in the morning when you go back to it you look at it with
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fresh eyes eyes that are not tired eyes that can see simple mistakes that would
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maybe make a difference in the grade or so having fresh eyes when you look at
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your paper uh will maybe make a difference between an A and A B or
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something like that um so get a second pair of eyes have them look someone else
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look at your paper and also edit your paper with a fresh pair of eyes uh
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yourself so those are some of my top tips for how you can improve your
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English writing skills and I know you will do great
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