Practice Speaking English With Me In This Video - Buying Travel Tickets

hello there say something back hello now if you're new to this you might be

thinking why is this man talking to me but it's because I want you to practice

so let's try this again but give me a big hello back hello all right very good

how you been

now if you remember this video we talked about in a couple of videos ago I was

talking about how you been and the response to that was I can't complain I

can't complain it doesn't have to be the only thing you use but it's just a great

native expression you can practice so practice it with me again now the more

we practice these things the more automatic it becomes so I don't want you

to just forget and learn something new that's why I'm bringing this up again in

this new video hello how you been very good why don't you ask me hello

I can't complain ah very good pretty easy

now instead of I can't complain you can also say I've been alright I've been

alright how you been yeah I've been alright I've been alright well let's get

into this lesson I asked people on Facebook excuse me I've been talking too

much in these videos I want to get to even more content but it's like I'm

losing my voice but hopefully you enjoy the lesson anyway so I was asking people

on Facebook what they'd like to know more about you can also let me know in

the comment section below this video particular situations that you'd like to

know more about so that we can help you practice a little bit of English and

help you feel a bit more confident while you're doing it well I am Drew Badger

the world's first and number one English Fluency Guide and in this video we're

going to talk about buying some tickets like if you're travelling or something

like that so this is a pretty common situation especially if you're out

traveling or even if you live in a native english-speaking country and you

have to go to the train station so a very common thing you might go like

you're walking up to the ticket counter and the person that's behind the counter

might say where you headed where you headed

the same thing I was saying before about how you been like how have you been it

becomes how you been how you been how you been so we make things shorter

because everybody knows what we're saying at least native English speakers

and my job is to help you understand that so that you can use those same

expressions so where you headed where you headed as opposed to where

would you like to go today people might you know kind of use different things in

situations like this but this is a very common one so where are you headed it

just means where are you going so to head needs to go in a particular

direction now you can respond to this with I'd like to go to something so I'd

like to buy a ticket for whatever so I'd like to go to wherever or you can say

I'm going to something so where are you headed I'm going to Chicago where you're

headed I'm going to Chicago so practice that with me now where you headed

okay great let's try it again where you headed okay great

so where you headed and practice with me if maybe I didn't give you enough time

to respond just watch this video a few times until you can make your response a

little bit faster remember that you're not just trying to learn information you

want to practice it so you can use it automatically where you hit it okay

great now so once you decide where you're headed you have to decide

typically the next thing is if you're going there and coming back or if you're

just going in that one direction so typically the ticket person would say oh

that one way or round-trip one-way or roundtrip

so one-way or roundtrip and then you can just say Oh one-way or roundtrip it

doesn't really matter which way you're going just for the purposes of this

example but just probably try practicing this little sequence with me right now

where you headed okay is that one-way or roundtrip

fantastic it's going to be nice ten dollars and then you would just you

know pay the person for that let's try it again where are you headed fantastic

is that one-way or roundtrip great that's going to be $19 and look at that

very easy so I want you to go back and review this a couple of times remember

when you're practicing with these lessons it's not just about learning

information I want you to practice it so go back watch these a few times and now

I'd like you to try asking me so you can ask me where you hit oh I'm going to

Chicago that'll be a round-trip ticket please very easy so where you hit it

I'm headed to or I'm going to or I'd like a ticket too and then you just say

the name of the place or if you want to just say something nice and easy just

say the name of the place it's even the easiest thing you can do so where you

headed Chicago one way around trip one way you know I'm just going back there

for whatever reason so you don't have to spend much time thinking about

additional things to say just try to practice that so especially if you're

getting into situations where you're new to something like try to keep it try to

keep it short and simple so where you headed

Chicago is that one way a round trip of just one way and then you know they pay

the money and then thank you very much last time where you hit it great is that

one way a round trip fantastic that's going to be two thousand five hundred

and eighty eight dollars okay now that was just it a great thing to practice

how did you feel do you feel a bit more confident having practice that yep I

hope you do are you excited to do some more okay

fantastic well then I hope you are looking forward to the next video

because that is it for this one I don't want to give you too much information so

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will cover some of the same phrases we've already done that before because I

don't want you to just forget with one video I want you to follow the series

and actually the same things we're practicing before

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complain that kind of thing so we'll practice that some more and if you are a

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