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Sunday, July 19, 2020
Rule 7: Listen And Answer Lessons
Practice English Speaking
Effortless English Rule 7: Use Listen And Answer Mini Stories
Hi,
this is AJ. Hoge, the
director of “Effortless English”
and
today is the last rule, rule number seven. And rule number 7 is very,
very powerful. Rule number 7 helps you to speak quickly and to understand
instantly, automatically, immediately. This is true fluency,
true
automatic speaking. So,
what is rule number seven? Rule number 7, the last rule is to use
listen-and-answer mini stories.
What
are these mini stories,
listen-and-answer,
and
why are they powerful? Well, first, remember in the past when you went to English
school. In school you probably learnt with a
lot of listen-and-repeat. For example, the teacher said: “repeat after me,
class: hi, how are you?” and the class together, everybody said:
“hi,
how are you?“.
Then,
the teacher said, “I’m fine, and you?“. Then, all of the class together said,
“I’m
fine, and you?“. This is listen-and-repeat. It’s an
old way to learn English.
But
it’s not powerful. When you listen and repeat, you don’t need to think
in English, you don’t need to think. You just
repeat what the teacher said. Maybe you don’t understand, but still, you
repeat. That’s an old way, don’t do it.
Much
more powerful is: listen and answer,
especially listen-and-answer
mini stories. These are special kind of stories
where the teacher “asks” a story. Now, I do not say “tells”
a
story, I say “asks” a
story. The teacher asks a lot of very simple and easy questions.
Why? Well, because the student must answer questions constantly,
constantly answering. Hearing a question, answering.
Hearing
a question, answering. This is like real conversation. When you use these listen-and-answer
stories, you teach yourself to understand
quickly and to respond quickly, to speak very quickly and
automatically. No thinking. That’s why these are powerful.
You learn to think
in English and
you learn to speak quickly,
without thinking, without translating.
Now,
I
will give you a very, very easy and simple example of a question-and-answer
mini story. Just a couple of sentences. Now, imagine there’s
a short, little story. In the old method the teacher would say:
“repeat
after me”, and the teacher says: “There was a boy, he went to the
store, he bought a candy bar“. And then the students repeat the
story: “There was a boy, he went to the
store, he bought a candy bar“.
No.
In listen-and-answer stories the
teacher asks the questions, the teacher asks a lot of questions,
very
easy questions. We use easy questions because we don’t want you to think.
If I asked a difficult question, then you might stop and think,
but
if the question is very easy, you can shout an answer. One word, two words,
ok. For example, I would say: “Class, there was a boy. Was there a
boy?” And you shout “yes, yes”. And I say “was there a boy or was there
a girl?” And you immediately, instantly shout “a boy, a boy”. And I say
“Ah, so, there was a boy?”
Again you
shout “yes, yes, there was a boy”. And I say, “Ah, I see, there was a
boy. What was his name?” You don’t know, so you guess “John”, or
“Jim”,
anything. You shout an answer. And I say “Ah, yes, his name was John”.
Was John a boy or was John a girl? And you shout “a boy, a boy”.
And
then I continue, more questions, more questions. And because you are constantly
answering questions, you learn to think in English,
you
learn to respond, to answer very very quickly in
English.
These
are very, very powerful. Now, of course, this example is very, very simple,
supersimple. In my real mini story lessons it’s…
it’s more difficult and much more interesting, and there are a lot more
questions. And when you use these mini story lessons,
you
will learn to speak so
much faster, so much more easily and automatically. This is very powerful.
So, your rule number 7, absolutely very important: use listen-and-answer
mini stories. Super, super important. Always do
this.
And,
of course, you can find a native speaker to
make these stories for you. Show them this video and then they will understand
how to do it. Or you can get my lessons. And, in fact, that is
your next step, because now you’re finished. You finished the 7 rules of Effortless
English. Congratulations. Now you need to use
them, and you must use all of them so that you will learn much more
quickly, so that you will understand English very
quickly and so that you will speak English easily,
quickly and automatically.
So,
what’s your next step? Well, first you wanna use all 7 rules. Every time you study
English use all of the 7 rules. One very
easy way to use the 7 rules is to get my Effortless
English lessons. I made these lessons to help you learn
English quickly and easily and
automatically, and my lessons use all of the 7 rules. I created these lessons using
these rules, so they’re very, very powerful. To get these lessons just
go to the bottom of the home page. There’s a big red button. Click the
button to buy the lessons.
And
you can read all about them on the website, you get more details. Of course my
lessons have vocabulary lessons,
we
have these mini story lessons,
there
are the point-of-view grammar
lessons, and there’s also text to help you
understand, so that you can read and learn new phrases.
So
these lessons are very, very powerful. I encourage you to get my lessons.
Start
immediately. Start today. Because when you get the lessons we send
you an e-mail, you click the link, you download the lessons immediately,
you get them on your computer immediately. You can start right
now, today, and I hope you will. Take action. Start learning
English correctly. Start speaking
English easily, quickly and automatically. I
look forward to having you as my student and I will see you again soon. Bye-bye.
