English - Improve your speaking through chunks.

[Music] are you ready to improve your english great we've got four grammar chunks to learn today and also some related grammar chunks to them and you will see how these grammar chunks can help you with your speaking and your understanding of how english works so today there will be an introduction to the grammar chunks a little bit of background information and then we'll test you on those grammars chunks and the testing is a very very important step it will really help your brain internalize this knowledge and when it's internalized you'll be able to use it so very important step now over to our grammar chunks today's grammar chunks are number one i don't mind number two what time are you going to number three have you ever number four i yesterday and our action chunks are so the first one i will say type 1 type 2 type 3 type 4 so type 1 take a photo type 2 took a photo type 3 taken a photo type 4 taken a photo write an email wrote an email written an email write in an email watch tv watch tv watch tv watching tv have a party had a party had a party having a party so the important thing is that the grammar chunks decide what action chunk to take here we got i don't mind does it take type 1 take a photo does it take type 2 took a photo type 3 taken a photo type 4 taking a photo let's see i don't mind taking a photo it takes a type 4 and after mind is always a type 4 so i don't mind having a party i don't mind watching tv and there are other verbs like mind for instance start finish stop enjoy avoid imagine fancy deny some examples i have finished watching tv i imagine writing an email i denied watching tv the second chunk is what time are you going to plus the action chunk watch tv is it type 1 watch tv type 2 watch tv type 3 watch tv or type 4 watching tv what do you think have a go what time are you going to watch tv it goes with the type 1 and often or mostly i should say after 2 you add a type 1 for instance have to need to want to decide to or to i ought to have a party i have to watch tv i needed to write an email but not always look forward to i look forward to dancing get used to i'm not used to watching tv our third grammar chunk is have you ever does it go with write an email wrote an email written an email or writing an email what do you think it goes with type 3 written an email have you ever written an email have has plus action equals type free i can also say i have written an email she hasn't written an email i still haven't written an email our fourth chunk is ai yesterday and our action chunk is have a party had a party had a party having a party which action chunk do we choose i had a party type 2 and the reason we choose type 2 here is because of the time it's because yesterday yesterday is a past time so it tells us to use type 2 and there are other times that tells us it's a past time so for instance yesterday morning i had a party yesterday morning strange time to have a party i had a party two minutes ago and other past times like last monday last week last year three months ago did i say testing was important well it is and now we're going to the testing phase make sure you do the test and see if you get the answers correct if you don't make a note of it practice now it's your turn your job here is to match the grammar chunk with the right action chunk so remember there are four types in the in this case there's one possibility for instance number one i don't mind plus take a photo you take type 1 take a photo type 2 took a photo type 3 taken a photo or type 4 taking a photo pause the video say it out loud and then check your answers here are the answers i don't mind taking a photo type 4 so always type 4 after mind what time are you going to have a party takes a type 1 have you ever watched tv so we've got this have ever is another clue here so it takes a type three i wrote an email yesterday type two so yes they dictate that it should be a type two pause the video guess the right action for the grammar chunk check your answers the answers are have you ever taken a photo type 3 i had a party yesterday type 2 i don't mind watching tv type 4 what time are you going to write an email for questions choose the right action and notice that the grammar chunks are a little bit different but think about it and choose the right action these grammar chunks they all take a type 3 because they got like has or have has she ever had a party has tom already taken a photo have they watched tv today i haven't written an email yet okay the grammar chunks are slightly different here think about it choose the right action to go in the sentence answers they all type 2 all the times are past times yesterday morning last year 10 minutes ago or 2 hours last night so last night is the past i know and the answers are i took a photo yesterday morning i had a party last year she wrote an email 10 minutes ago he watched tv for two hours last night how about the following use your knowledge and guess the answers it answers they're all type 4 why are they type 4 because the action comes after mind would you mind taking a photo she wouldn't mind having a party she doesn't mind watching tv would they mind writing an email this time you have eight questions to answer you know what to do and the answers has she ever taken a photo so she's got we got this has and ever so it takes a type three it was early when i watched tv okay so this is it was early it was kinda tells us it's a past time this one may have been a bit trickier they wouldn't mind having a party all right after mine so it takes type 4 when are you going to write an email they're going to watch tv i haven't had a party this year so i haven't typed three there is a time in this happened this year so this year hasn't finished so haven't can go with the time that hasn't finished tom wrote an email yesterday evening pass do you mind taking a photo so after mine always use this so those are today's grammar chunks and i hope you can see how these chunks can help you understand english much better it is important that you test yourself on this and maybe in the next video maybe the one after that but coming very soon i will show you a great program that you can use to test yourself with chunks and this approach will it will help you it will give you an overview of how english works so i'm i'd be very excited to do that video and hope you are too so that's it for today on this uh quite cloudy friday so it's almost a weekend enjoy your weekend get your english pill and see you soon

Channel: English Simplicity

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Keywords: language, grammar, spoken, North, English, speaking skills, active learning, Englisch lernen, basic beginner, chunks, learn English, English grammar, speaking activity

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Length: 11min 25sec (685 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 12 2021