In order to speak English fluently, you must think like a native English speaker.

And today I am going to help you think and speak in English

like a native English speaker.

Are you ready?

Well, then I'm teacher Tiffani.

Let's jump right in.

All right.

The very first thing you must do is think in English.

So if someone asks you a question, what did you eat yesterday?

You first need to start off by.

Answering the five W's, you know, it, who, what, when, where, and why we are thinking

and organizing our thoughts in English.

So again, the question is, what did you eat yesterday?

So who me, what a burger and fries when last night at around 6 PM,

where at red Robin, why my friends wanted to meet up for dinner.

Now, what's happening is we're organizing all the bits and pieces of information

in our mind so that we can answer the question like a native English speaker.

It's very easy to answer the who, what, when, where, and why questions, right?

You understand what you did, but after you organize your thoughts,

you think in English, the next thing you need to do is actually speak.

So how can we organize that information into an actual response?

Here's how we do it using the exact information.

We looked at to answer the question.

Once again, what did you eat yesterday?

Here's the response.

Last night, my friends hit me up because they wanted to meet for dinner.

It was around 6 p.

m.

So I was actually starving.

We decided to meet at Red Robin and I had a burger and fries.

Now, everything I just said came from the first step thinking in English.

Now, before I go into this a little bit more, I want to

explain some of the expressions.

Notice I said, hit me up, hit me up.

Now this is kind of slang, an expression we use in English.

So let me explain to you what this means to hit someone up, right?

Here it's slang for contacting someone.

For example, I'm recording this lesson for you.

I'm teaching you right now, but right after this lesson,

I need to hit my friend up.

I need to contact my friend in English.

We say hit someone up.

So in the response, I said last night, my friends.

Hit me up.

Hey, Tiff.

Hey, what's going on?

We want to go out to eat.

All right.

Bet.

Sure.

I'll be there.

My friends hit me up.

They contacted me.

Makes sense.

Right?

And the last one is starving.

I said, I was actually starving, starving right here.

It just means to be extremely hungry.

You are looking everywhere for food.

You're extremely hungry.

In English, we say starving.

Good job.

One more time after me, starving.

Excellent.

So again, in step number one, we had to organize our thoughts.

What did you eat yesterday?

We answered the who, what, when, where, and why.

Then step number two, the speak step.

Now we are able to actually give our response using those

five pieces of information.

Last night, my friends hit me up because they wanted to meet up for dinner.

It was around 6 PM, so I was actually starving.

We decided to meet at Red Robin and I had a burger and fries.

Who, what, when, where, and why can all be found in this response.

And you sound like a native English speaker when you

include each of the five W's.

You like that, don't you?

All right, let's move on to the next one.

I want you to see that this applies to any question and any topic.

So let's say, for example, someone asks you to tell them about your best friend.

Well, we have to start with the five W's who my best friend, Michelle, what?

She tells amazing stories when, whenever we hang out, where.

In my backyard, why she has the best memory as she knows

how to make people laugh.

Simple questions answered who, what, when, where, and why now, if you want

to organize all of this information to sound like a native English

speaker, this is how you would do it.

Step two, the speak step.

My best friend's name is Michelle.

One of her best abilities is her, or one of her best qualities is her

ability to tell amazing stories.

She has the best memory and she knows how to make people laugh.

Whenever we hang out in my backyard, Michelle will start reminiscing about our

younger days and go right into a story.

Now that was a response that any native English speaker would have given, but

look at the foundation of this response.

The foundation of this response is simply right here.

Oh, we have a little bit of overlap.

There we go.

The foundation of our response.

Let's go and check it out right here.

The foundation of our response is just right here.

The five W's who, what, when, where, and why.

Now I'm going to leave that part in there.

It's okay.

It happens.

So again, remember when you are trying to sound like a native English speaker,

you have to first step one, think in English, use the five W's who, what, when,

where, and why to organize your thoughts.

Once your thoughts are organized, then you can go directly into your response

and sound like a native English speaker.

Now in this response.

You'll notice that there are three things that maybe you've never heard

before or maybe you don't understand.

So I want to explain them.

The first one is hang out, hang out now, hang out.

This just means to spend time relaxing or socializing informally.

Yeah, I'm just hanging out with my friends.

You know, we're relaxing, just talking.

We're just spending time together.

It's an informal situation.

We're relaxing and socializing in English.

We say, hang out.

So I said.

Whenever we hang out right now, the next thing I said was in my backyard backyard.

Now a backyard is literally just a yard or area of land behind a house.

Or other building typically surrounded by a fence, right?

So in America, we have our homes and behind our homes, there's

this plot of grass, an area we call that area, a backyard.

So I said, we hang out, spend time together, socializing in my

backyard, in the area behind my house.

Makes sense, right?

You're visualizing it.

Now, the last thing I said that might've been a little bit tricky was reminisce.

Now reminisce, this means to indulge in enjoyable recollection,

remembering past events, man.

I remember when I was in high school, I'm reminiscing right now.

I remember I could eat two sandwiches, two large fries.

I could eat a smoothie, a milkshake and not gain any weight.

It's true.

So I'm reminiscing again, indulging in enjoyable recollection,

remembering of past events.

Right?

So now again, in step number one, we organized our thoughts

to answer this question.

Can you tell me about your best friend?

We use the five W's who, what, when, where, and why.

And we have this full response, a response that native English

speakers would give in real life.

Now, what if you were asked a different question?

What about this question?

How often do you exercise?

Remember, as always, step one, we must organize our thoughts using the five W's.

So how often do you exercise?

Who?

Me.

What?

Run.

And then we're going to answer the when at the crack of dawn, Monday to Friday.

Where?

On the treadmill at the gym.

Why I can clear my mind now, remember the question is, how often do you exercise?

But when you start organizing your thoughts again, step number one, using

the five W's you start to get more information that will help you answer the

question like a native English speaker.

So what would the answer look like using the five pieces of information?

Here we go.

Our response would be like this.

I normally exercise Monday through Friday in order to get it in before work.

I wake up at the crack of dawn and head to the gym while I'm running on the

treadmill, I am able to clear my mind.

This is an amazing response.

It's not super long, but it includes each and every one of the five W's.

All of the information is found in this response.

Now, there's some new expressions that I want to explain to you.

The first one is get it in.

This is a phrasal verb and it can be slang and sometimes as well.

So let me explain what this means.

Explain what this means.

If you get something in, you manage to do it at a time when you are

very busy doing other things.

You manage to do something.

Normally I'm super busy in the morning.

Normally I don't have enough time, but I want to get it in before I go to work.

Let me kind of squeeze it in right here in this spot.

Again, if you get something in, you manage to do it at a time when you

are very busy doing other things.

Makes sense.

Right?

Okay.

The next thing is the crack of dawn.

The crack of dawn, this just means a time very early in the morning at

daybreak or even before daybreak.

Now for me, I am an early bird.

I wake up at the crack of dawn every day, normally between 4 or 5 a.

m.

That's the normal time that I wake up at the crack of dawn.

It makes sense, right?

Okay.

And the next one was clear my mind.

I said, I'm able to clear my mind on the treadmill when I'm running on the

treadmill to stop worrying or thinking about something, maybe something happened

at work, maybe something happened with my family or my friends, or maybe something

is going on and it's really causing me a lot of stress when I get on the treadmill.

I'm able to clear my mind to stop worrying or thinking about that thing.

Makes sense.

Right?

So again, if we look at the response.

I normally exercise Monday through Friday.

When?

In order to get it in before work, I wake up at the crack

of dawn and head to the gym.

Why?

Get it in before work.

What do you do?

When?

Wake up at the crack of dawn.

Where do you go?

Heading to the gym.

While I'm running on the treadmill, I am able to clear my mind.

We've answered each of the five W's.

Who, what, when, where, and why.

So again, if you want to speak English like a native English speaker,

just remember to think first using the five W's, who, what, when,

where, and why, and then speak.

And you'll start sounding like me Here we go.

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

look at this situation, think what are the students doing?

So we have to use the five W's 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 tomorrow.

All right.

Where is it going to happen in front?