Name: THINK in ENGLISH! Practice English Sentence Building & STOP translating in your head!
Uploaded: 2020-08-18T19:20:32.000Z
Duration: 10 min 19 s
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Today we're working on the skill of thinking in English.

Modal verbs - A2

This means you can come up with what to say faster,

The imperative

join the conversation faster, and join in more easily with more confidence.

You don't have to translate in your head.

You can just jump right in to an American English conversation in English.

This is one of the biggest problems my students say they have.

Thinking of what to say when in a conversation.

I had the same problem when I was living in Germany.

I was stuck at an intermediate level, and I had a hard time jumping into the next phase,

the next level where I was more comfortable joining into a conversation spontaneously.

The good news is you can actually train your brain to think in English.

I made a video recently where I went over some strategies.

And in this video, we take one of those strategies and we go deep.

While we train your brain to think in English, we may discover some words you don't know yet, great!

It's going to be a vocabulary builder video for you too.

Now, if you like this video or you learned something new, please like it and subscribe. It helps a lot.

So today, we're working on your ability to put together descriptive sentences.

We recently did a video where we looked at a picture and named objects that was just nouns.

We're going to be using verbs, adjectives, maybe adverbs in addition.

Let's do one together. We're going to see a photo,

this is of my son Stoney, and my niece Emily, on a recent trip to Mexico.

And I want you to think in your mind, come up with one sentence in English,

Now, maybe you can come up with much more than one sentence.

Great, keep going, keep coming up with sentences until that timer is done.

But if you can only do one sentence, that's fine too.

Did that timer in the corner stress you out?

It's going to be there because I want you to practice thinking quickly.

Maybe thinking under a little bit of pressure just like it will be in a conversation.

Okay, now let's go over that photo, and we're going to come up with some sentences that you may have thought of.

They're sitting in a white plastic chair at a restaurant.

Stoney is eating pancakes with strawberries on top.

You may have come up with phrases that are totally different but are accurate.

What we want to focus on here is clearing your head, and going from English.

The sentence can be as simple as it has to be.

Just start from a place of English from your English vocabulary as you describe what's happening.

Now, if you can't yet put together a sentence, that's okay too.

Just go back to naming objects: table, chair, mouth.

That kind of thing. That is still building the skill of thinking in English,

and before you know it, you'll be able to put together simple sentences too.

For everybody, building the skill of thinking in English is going to let you sound more natural

when you're speaking English, and it's going to let you join that conversation faster.

This is a picture of me, David, and Stoney.

Okay, now we're going to go over that picture and come up with some possible sentences,

and then I'm going to hit you with three pictures in a row.

It may feel silly to just describe a picture and state the obvious,

but it does build the skill and it starts from a simple place.

So that no matter your level, you can start here, and you can do this.

Building the skill to think in English. It's invaluable.

Here are three photos in a row. Ten seconds each.

Try to come up with at least one sentence for each, but maybe you can come up with four or five,

Okay, let's take a look at those pictures and go over some sentences that you may have come up with.

Let's do this same thing now with ten seconds of video.