THINK AND SPEAK ENGLISH | HOW TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION LIKE A NATIVE SPEAKER

Hey, let me tell you something.

In order for you to speak English fluently, you have to know how to

organize your thoughts in English.

Guess what?

I'm going to teach you exactly how to do that.

Are you ready?

Well, then I'm teacher.

Tiffani, let's jump right in.

Here we go.

Using the five W's method, who, what, when, where, and.

Let's look at this situation.

Think what are the students doing?

So we have to use the five Ws.

The first W is who we see a group of passionate students.

Passionate students.

What are they doing?

They've organized a protest.

When did this happen?

Or when is it going to happen?

When will it happen?

We've selected.

All right.

Where is it going to happen in front of City Hall and why is it going to happen

to demand better funding for education?

What are we doing?

We are organizing our thoughts.

Remember, in order to speak English fluently, you must organize your

thoughts in English using the five Ws, who, what, when, where, and.

So step one being think we have thought about this.

We have our five Ws.

How do we turn this into a fluent English response?

Here's how we do it right here.

Read it with me Tomorrow, a group of passionate students will

gather in front of City Hall.

They decided to organize this protest in order to demand

better funding for education.

This is an issue they believe needs immediate action.

Now, what did we just do?

We turned the inform.

That we organized our thoughts, who, what, when, where, and why we turned

this information that we organized into a fluent English response.

It's that simple.

Using the five Ws.

Now, I do want to break down some of these words for you.

The first one is passionate.

I want you to repeat after me.

This word, passionate.

Good again after me.

Passionate.

Excellent.

Now passionate.

It just means a strong enthusiasm or desire for something.

A strong enthusiasm or desire for something.

Remember, we said a group of passionate students, they're enthusiastic,

they had a strong desire, right?

In English, we say passionate.

Make sense?

All right.

Now the second word was demand.

Good again after me.

Demand.

Excellent.

Now this word demand just means a strong request or requirement.

Yes.

A strong request or requirement.

Listen, again, in our response, we said they decided to organize this protest

in order to make a strong request.

For better funding for education.

Again, they decided to organize this protest in order to demand

better funding for education.

Makes sense, right?

Demand.

Excellent.

Very good.

So again, we first thought about the information.

Again, the question was what are the students.

Who, what, when, where, and why.

And it gave us this fluent English response.

Now, can we apply this to another situation?

What if we were asked this question, Hey, what are your daughter's plans?

What are your daughter's plans?

Well, once again, we're going to start with who, what, when, where, and why.

The five Ws.

Here we go.

Let's check this out.

Well, who are we talking about?

My daughter and her friends.

What planning A road trip.

When?

Next month.

Where?

From California to New York.

Why?

To explore new places and create lasting memories.

Look what.

We have the question and now we've organized our thoughts in English

using the simple five W's method.

Who, what, when, where, and why.

So now with this information that we now have in answer to the question,

how do we change this to actually be affluent English response?

So let's go back here.

Here we go.

My daughter and her friends are planning.

Epic road trip from California to New York.

Their plan is to leave next month, but they are still in the planning phase.

They all want to explore new places and create lasting memories.

A great response, a very, very natural and fluent English response.

But notice once again, it has each of the five Ws.

Who, what, when, where, and why.

Remember when we were thinking about this question, what did we do?

We organized the.

What, when, where, and why.

So now having this response.

Now let's go a little bit deeper because there are new words and expressions

that I want to make sure you understand.

The first one being epic.

Good.

Again, after me, I want you to say it.

Epic.

Excellent.

Now this just means grand and noble in scale.

Grand amazing.

Something really.

In English, we say epic.

So in the response, my daughter and her friends are planning an epic

road trip, not just a regular one.

An epic, awesome, amazing road trip.

Makes sense, right?

In English, we say Epic.

What about the next one though?

The next word is phase.

Good again, after me phase.

Great job.

Now, this just means a stage in the development of something.

Once again, a stage in the development of something good.

Now, when we made this response and we said it, we said it in this.

Their plan is to leave next month, but they are still in the planning phase.

They are still in the planning stage.

They're still developing.

They're still planning.

Makes sense, right?

In English, we say phase.

And the last one I want to look at is lasting memories.

Good.

Again, lasting memories.

Great job.

Now, this just means memories that will remain in the mind

for a long period of time.

In English, we say lasting memories.

For example, I still remember the very first time my mom made banana

nut bread and I was four years old.

Woo.

It was.

That's a lasting memory, something that remains for a long period

of time, a memory that remains for a long period of time.

You got it.

Excellent.

All right, so once again, we used the five Ws to give our response to this question.

And we have a fluent English response, but can we still apply it to another question?

Let's say, for example, someone asks you, how is your favorite sports team doing?

Hey, how's your favorite sports team doing?

Another question, right?

You can always use the five W's.

If you wanna sound like a native English speaker, just remember the five W's

method, who, what, when, where, and why.

Watch what happens.

Alright?

Who a sports team, what training for a championship game win in two weeks?

Where?

At their home stadium.

Why?

To win the championship and bring pride to their city.

We have everything organized in our mind, right?

We know h w the information for h w.

So how can we turn this into a response?

Check this.

My favorite sports team will be in a championship game at

their stadium in two weeks.

They are training hard for the championship game and pushing themselves

to the limit because they want to win.

This win will actually bring pride to their city.

This response, it's amazing again, who, what, when, where, and why each

of the five Ws can be found in this.

Now I do wanna explain some of the words.

Look at this first expression, pushing themselves to the limit.

I want you to repeat after me pushing oneself to the limit.

Excellent.

Again, pushing oneself to the limit.

Good job.

Now, this just means to strive to reach one's fullest, potential to

challenge one's self in order to achieve a desired outcome, challenging

yourself, pushing yourself forward.

You wanna speak English fluently so you're watching this.

You're letting me be your English teacher, you're letting me help you, and you're

working hard to achieve that goal.

You are pushing yourself, right?

So pushing yourself to the limit means to your fullest potential.

Makes sense, right?

All right.

Now what about the other one?

Pride.

Good.

Again, pride.

Excellent.

Now we'll read the response over again after we go over this word.

Now this just means a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction in oneself for one's

achievements like, haha, I did that.

Yes, I know.

I'm amazing.

We say this is pride, right?

So now check out the respo, the response again.

My favorite sports team will be in a championship game at

their home stadium in two.

They are training hard for the championship game and pushing themselves

to the limit because they want to win.

Makes sense.

Right?

And finally, this win will actually bring pride to their city.

Make sense?

Right.

Excellent.

I want you to remember this.

No matter what the topic is, no matter what the question is, you can use the

simple five W's method, who, what, when, where, and why to answer any question

and sound like a native English speaker.

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Push yourself to the limit and you'll achieve your goal.

I'll talk to you in the next lesson.

Have a great one.

You still there?

? You know what time it is.

It's story time.

Hey, I said a story time.

I'm gonna tell you a story that happened to me when I turned 40.

I went on a trip to Mexico with some friends, so one of my other close

friends, we have the same birthday.

She turns 40 the same day I did.

She came, she turned 40 with the same birthday.

So we went to Mexico, Cancun, Mexico.

. And while we were in Cancun one day, she said, Hey guys, we're gonna go on

a trip and we're gonna go to a Sonota.

Sonota is kind of like, and some of you already know this, in

the middle of kind of a forest area, it's like a natural pool.

It's literally a huge pool of water, but it's natural.

Very deep.

No, I can swim, but I was the only one in our group that

could swim, but it was okay.

They had life jackets and everything.

So we went there and we were having a great time, just kind of

frolicking playing in the water.

There were other people that also came, so we are having a great time.

Now, the guy leading our group said, Hey, if anyone wants to jump into

the water, we have a way for you to basically fly into the water.

Like we held this stick and we kind of went down like a zip line, right?

It was a zip line over the water.

He said, you can hold onto the hold, onto the stick as you're going on the zip line.

And then when I say, let go, let go and you'll fall in the water.

My friends, of course, they couldn't swim.

They didn't wanna do it.

I said, okay, I'll try.

When we got to the cenote, he was telling us this in the bus.

As we were traveling to get to the cenote, I realized it was quite high.

It was quite high.

Now, I'm not scared of heights or anything, but it was high.

I acknowledge when things are high.

So I saw people going and they were going and falling in the

water and having a good time.

And I said, you know what?

I don't wanna live with regrets, so let me just go and do it.

So I walked to the top where the zip line was, and again, it was.

And I grabbed the stick and the guy said, okay, ma'am, you just go.

He said, and when you hear me yell, let go of the stick.

I said, okay.

Now here's the thing.

It was a, it was a little stick and when you grab onto it, you don't stay still.

You're kind of like moving back and forth and so, and the zip line goes fast.

So he said, okay, go.

So he kind of pushed me a little bit and I was holding onto the stick

and I was flying through the air and I heard him say, and I let go.

And when I let go, it took a little while to hit the water.

I hit the water, of course, my feet hit the water first, and it seemed

like I went down for a long time enough for me to talk to myself.

I was still in the water.

I said, TIFF, we're still going down.

We're still going down.

So once I kind of got to the point where I stopped going down and it was time

to come back up, you know, I started kind of moving my arms to, to come.

moving my arms to come back up.

I said, TIFF, just keep swimming.

Just keep swimming.

. You guys know that reference in the movie, right?

Nemo?

Finding Nemo.

I said, oh my goodness, I'm not coming to the top yet again, I was keeping

myself calm, keeping calm, but it took a while to get back to the surface.

I said, just keep swimming Tiff.

Just keep swimming.

Just keep swimming.

And I finally surfaced and I breathed, and then I swam over to my friends.

But in that moment, I realized so.

If you can mentally just stay strong, if you can keep it together mentally,

you can make it through any challenge.

And I know for you as an English learner, English is not easy.

And sometimes you get frustrated, you wanna speak fluently,

but you're not there yet.

But I want to encourage you, just keep going.

Just keep going.

Just keep going.

You are going to reach your goal and many times it's closer than you even.

So just like I didn't stop swimming to the top, don't stop swimming to the top.

You will achieve your goal.

I'll talk to you next time.