SPEAK WITH ME in English: Daily Conversation Lesson

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Speak English With Vanessa


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Hi.
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I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.
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Let's talk together.
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Today you're gonna have a chance to speak with me, kind of.
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A couple of weeks ago, I had some friends over to my house to carve pumpkins for Halloween,
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and I hadn't seen those friends in a couple of weeks, so we caught up.
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This phrasal verb caught up or catch up means to talk about things that happened since the
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last time that you saw those other people.
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Today I want to pretend that you and I are catching up.
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If you want to have a friend who is an English speaker, this is a necessary skill.
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First, I'm going to ask you some questions, and I want you to speak out loud in the blank,
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then after that quick conversation is finished, we're gonna go back and look at some possible
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responses so that if you didn't know what to say, now you have some ideas.
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Let's get started.
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Imagine that you knock on my front door, and I open it and say hey, thanks for coming.
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This is the blank.
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I want you to respond in that blank.
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I'm going to be saying a couple of other sentences, so I want you to try to respond in whatever
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way you feel is best just for a couple of seconds.
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All right, let's start one more time.
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Hey!
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Thanks for coming.
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How's your day been going?
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Let me take your coat.
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Can I get you something to drink?
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We have water, crisp, excellent, straight from the tap.
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We have some pumpkin beer and some mulled wine that I made for the party.
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Alrighty.
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Here you go.
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How was your day at work today?
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Oh, me?
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Oh, just making some new videos for YouTube and trying to stay warm.
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I know, and it's only November.
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I'm so glad that we don't live in Canada.
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Okay, how did you do?
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I know there are a lot of different ways to answer that conversation, so what I want to
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do is show you a quick sample with my husband, Dan, for some ideas about how you could have
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responded in that conversation, and then we'll go back to the original conversation so that
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you can have a chance again to fill in the blank and try to respond and speak with me.
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Hey!
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Thanks for coming.
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Dan: No problem, of course.
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How's your day been going?
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Dan: Pretty good.
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Let me take your coat.
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Can I get you something to drink?
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Dan: What do you have?
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We have water, fresh, crisp, right from the tap.
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We have pumpkin beer and some mulled wine that I made just for the party.
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Dan: I'll have some pumpkin beer.
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That sounds good.
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All right.
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Here you go.
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How was your day at work today?
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Dan: Kind of busy, not too bad.
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What have you been up to lately?
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Oh, me.
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Oh, you know, just making some new videos for YouTube and trying to stay warm.
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Dan: Yeah, it's been really cold.
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I know, and it's only November.
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I'm so glad we don't live in Canada.
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Dan: For sure.
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I heard they got snow a month ago.
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I hope that that sample conversation with Dan was useful to you.
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Now I want to give you a second chance, so let's imagine again that you're knocking on
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my front door.
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You have your pumpkin.
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You have your carving tools.
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You're ready to go to my pumpkin carving party for Halloween, and I open the door.
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Let's try this one more time.
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Hey!
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Thanks for coming.
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How's your day been going?
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Let me take your coat.
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Can I get you something to drink?
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We have water, crisp, excellent, straight from the tap.
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We have some pumpkin beer and some mulled wine that I made for the party.
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Alrighty.
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Here you go.
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How was your day at work today?
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Oh, me?
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Oh, just making some new videos for YouTube and trying to stay warm.
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I know, and it's only November.
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I'm so glad that we don't live in Canada.
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How did you do that second time?
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You used greetings, you got a drink, you chatted about the weather.
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Congratulations.
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These are all key elements to just having a natural conversation catching up with a
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friend.
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If you enjoyed this type of organized speaking conversation practice, we do something like
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this every month in The Fearless Fluency Club.
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I made a sample of this type of lesson for YouTube, so you can check out the free sample
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up here.
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I hope that you'll be able to practice speaking and then feel confident when it comes time
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to have a real conversation.
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And now I have a question for you.
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If you came over to my house for this Halloween pumpkin carving party, what would you drink.
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Water, pumpkin beer, or mulled wine that I made myself?
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Let me know in the comments below, and thank you so much for learning English with me.
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I'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel.
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The next step is to download my free ebook, Five Steps to Becoming a Confident English
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Speaker.
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You'll learn what you need to do to speak confidently and fluently.
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Don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel for more free lessons.
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Thanks so much.
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Bye.
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