Name: 5 WORDS TO * STOP * USING IF YOU WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR FLUENCY
Uploaded: 2019-02-21T01:26:19.000Z
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The imperative

If you have never seen me before if this is your first time here, let me introduce myself

My name is Gabby Wallace and I am an English teacher

From the United States with over 17 years of experience

And a master's degree in teaching English as a second language

I love learning languages and I speak Portuguese

Spanish and a little French and a little Japanese

Anyway, I'm here to help you to speak English like a natural which means like a native speaker

So it's time to close your textbook and watch this lesson

Today we're talking about five words that you're probably not

Using correctly five words that you can stop using or perhaps change the word that you're using to

So if that sounds interesting and you'd like to improve the way you speak English today

important words that you need to stop using I

Want you to know that I put together all of the best go natural English tips strategies

You can get that the English fluency formula by clicking up there or going to gonaturalenglish.com

Okay, let's begin with the first of five words that you really need to stop using

the first word may come as a surprise its

Because the word teacher is not a bad word to use but we don't use it in the same way

Your language. I noticed that a lot of my English students. Call me teacher and

we don't do that in the United States when students want to address their teacher or

Their professor they use the teacher's name. So it's more appropriate to say

Have been a university professor. I'm used to being called professor Wallace

Conversational classes I'm used to being called Gabby. So please call me and

Your other teachers at least your English teachers by their names

What should I call you? Do you want me to call you teacher or?

Professor Wallace, it's always a good idea to ask if you're not sure

You are probably over using this word because English textbooks teach you to use must

important situations a textbook might say you must

study English or you must turn off the lights before you go to sleep, but

Native English speakers don't use must as often as your textbook would lead you to believe in

See people out in the street are wearing coats. It must be cold outside

so I'm making a logical guess and that is how

Native English speakers use the modal verb

Most often when we want to say something is very important

Like I'm making an important suggestion then we use should

And I know what your textbook says, that should is

Less strong. It's weaker than must and must is when you want to really show something is very important

Trust me on this one that native speakers. Do not use the modal verb a must like they used to and

Mustn't in the negative. This is very very old

Sure, there's always going to be someone who

Comments and says, but I use must I here mustn't used all the time. That's fine

but my reality as a native English speaker with over 17 years of experience teaching English and living in

English-speaking countries is that people do not use must?

like your textbook tells you so trust me on this one and

Mustn't is gonna make you sound like you're 80 years old. So you mustn't use mustn't please don't do it

Goodnight when you actually mean good evening

Don't use good night as a greeting we can use good night to say. Goodbye

If you went to dinner with your friends and you're leaving the restaurant and you're going your separate ways

You could say have a good night or good nights

But good night is most commonly used when you're just about to go to sleep maybe

with your family and you're living in the same house and you're going to go to your bedroom get in bed and

Sleep you would say goodnight. So if you want to greet people at nighttime, it's better to say good evening

This is a little formal but people do say good evening

We don't say good night to greet each other. It's only to say goodbye

Conversation we have two more words that you really should not use and actually number four is two words. So

That you all do quite a lot and we don't say. Thanks God

It's not raining. I can go outside without my umbrella, but we never say thanks God

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