Building up your English Brain | part 3 | __Jackson Tech's

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So, in the last video, we talked about some general ideas, things to remember, to help

you to learn how to think in English, very general.

things.

So in this lesson we're going to really really start actually doing some real practice.

Some real work toward being able to easily think in English.

So we're going to be talking about reading today and the importance of reading.

By the way reading is really important.

Okay, you may be thinking, reading, boring.

I don't need to learn to read, I want to be a good speaker.

You might be thinking that, or you might think, well, reading, of course, reading, but I already know how to read.

I know what reading is.

Why are you talking about it?

Luke?

I'm Luke.

Well, I'm talking about it because I want to show you how to read.

And for those of you who think reading is not important, in fact, it is important.

Let me give you a simple example.

Nobody would say, I want to have the fruit and the leaves of the tree, but I don't any tree.

Okay, the leaves.

Let's use the leaves as an example, leaf.

Let me make a leaf here.

Oh, not that, not that great.

That's a leaf.

Okay, I want to have the leaf of the tree, but no tree, please.

Well, this is a similar idea.

I want to be a great English speaker.

I want to be able to think perfectly in English and express myself about everything, but I don't want to understand English.

It doesn't work like that.

Reading is like the tree in some ways.

It's not the only thing like that, but really reading literature, newspapers, magazines, books, novels, right?

All of this gives you a foundation.

A is something strong that holds everything up,

a a deep understanding of English,

98%

of native English speakers,

perhaps more maybe 99%

of native English speakers like myself,

had a very deep,

or have I should say,

have a very deep background in literature,

in research, in research, in research, research, research, in research, school, middle school, high school, and continuing into adulthood.

Now, I often read.

Reading you a deeper understanding of the language, and there are many different forms of literature.

There are many different styles of writing.

All of this helps you figure out how you can best express yourself.

What is the reason that someone who learns every English idiom, expression, and maybe 30,000 English words still can't speak like a native speaker?

Well, there are a number of different reasons.

haven't read very much literature.

They don't have a deep understanding of the language.

This is one reason.

So of reading as the trunk, the main part of the trunk.

And then you can get the leaves more easily.

Reading is really important.

So now we're going to talk about how to read.

But it's the best way to read.

And then we'll talk about some different resources, some things you can read.

So let's continue.

Okay, so we're now going to look at a short, actually single sentence.

And I just want to give you a feeling about

about what reading can do for you and how you should do it when you're actually reading.

If want to get the most benefit from that.

So let's look at this sentence.

And I've just written this.

This might be something from an article.

Maybe you're reading an article about French wine, or an article about red wine.

Maybe you're reading something online.

And you read the following sentence, while red wine is produced in many different regions around the world, each of these regions share common features.

Now, for some of you, I'm sure you understand this.

For others of you, perhaps not, okay?

So, I'll talk about the meaning and how to look at it, but first,

if you do understand this 100%, that doesn't mean this is useless to you, still useful to you.

Now you've seen a common way that a person who understands how to speak and write probably pretty well,

naturally, expresses themselves about a certain idea.

So you've seen how it's done.

This kind of thing, just reading like this, can give you a basic foundation, a general feeling, a feeling.

That's an eye, hoo hoo hoo, that's an eye.

A general feeling for the language.

This is one very good way to express this particular idea.

Not the only way, but it is one way.

And so, the more you read, the more you get a feeling about these things.

Now, let's actually look at this.

see if we can figure out how we can learn more from it.

Okay?

Now, let's say for example, we know the word produced.

To produce something means to make something, right?

But maybe we don't know in what situations produced is used.

When do we not use produced?

We use produce in every situation.

We wouldn't say, oh, that woman produced a baby.

I guess you could say that, but most people don't say a woman produces a baby.

Technically she does.

But we don't say that.

Why not?

I don't know.

I don't know why not.

But I know that that's weird, okay?

And you can get a feeling for what's weird and what isn't weird.

Weird means By reading.

So this is great.

We see here that red wine can be produced, or made, hooray.

So we know another situation in which this word can be used.

Good.

Now we might see produced in another place, about a factory.

Factory producing bicycles.

Okay.

We can use produced there.

We might see something about a movie.

This guy is producing a movie.

Oh, great.

I understand that.

But now that might have another meaning.

Produce means to provide for and arrange the movie.

Okay, so I can get a feeling about that.

So the more you see words like produce in these different situations, here in the situation of talking about red wine in an art.

article, the more you can get a feeling for this word, and the more you get a feeling for

it, the stronger that tree will be.

The depth of your understanding of English will be,

and you'll be able to use this in the right places and think with this word rather than

just using it where you guess it should be used, but you're not sure.

So this is one aspect, okay?

Let's continue here.

While red wine is produced in many different regions around the world, okay, here regions, regions.

Let's say for example, we don't know the word region.

Let's say just for example, you don't know region.

What does region mean?

I don't know.

Well, let's sentence here and see if we can have a See if we can figure it out, okay?

Well red wine is produced in many different regions around the world.

Hmm.

Around the world.

Okay, in.

Hmm, interesting.

And many different could be also quite important.

In, I think, is a keyword here.

And around the world, I think, is a really, really important phrase here.

Okay.

From these two things, can't be that many things.

It be in the factory maybe.

Okay, maybe.

Around the world.

Okay, that can't be factory.

That can't be winery.

That can't be the place where it's made, the company where it's made.

So it must be something else.

Around world, the world is a big place.

Okay, so that the around the world.

So what could regions be?

You might be able to figure it out.

Or at least get the feeling for what this word might mean, even though perhaps you don't know the word.

And this is just an example.

Okay, maybe know this word, but sometimes you will.

find a word you don't know when you're reading the first thing you should do is

try to figure it out okay so I'm gonna guess that regions because I'm talking

about around the world and in I'm gonna guess that this is similar to the word

areas I know the word areas I know the word Many different places around the world.

That works.

Many areas around the world.

That works.

I'm going to guess this is the meaning.

Now I've guessed it, maybe I will go and look it up.

Or check it in the dictionary.

Now you should probably be using all English dictionaries.

I recommend using an only English dictionary.

This is a good website.

You can use vocabulary.com.

It's pretty good.

You can look it up there and get a feeling for the word even more, so that's a good one.

But the first thing we did is we looked at the context.

We looked at the context of the word.

The context means how it's used, the sentence around it, the grammar around it.

This is the context of the sentence.

And checking out the context and trying to figure it out, we are...

Thinking in English we are forcing ourselves to think in English and this is a really really important point here okay,

so This is one of the reasons that reading is really powerful you force yourself to think in English

You gain the ability to

guess and figure out words when you're reading and so you increase these

abilities over time and you learn more words while reading and not only learning

more words now because you're reading it you see it in the situation and so you

know when this kind of word should when maybe it shouldn't be used.

I've seen the word produced here.

I it can be used to talk about wine.

I that now.

I see regions here, regions of the world.

I know now that that can be about big places, big areas, regions of the world.

That be a pretty big area, a pretty big place.

So we can begin to get a feeling for the right situation.

And then,

when we're speaking,

we can start using those words correctly in the right situations so that other people don't feel,

ooh, why did you use that word in this situation?

Okay?

So...

All of these things together,

the ability to learn new words in context,

the ability to figure things out, thinking in English, the to understand why words are used in the places where they are used.

Awesome, awesome tools, can really deepen your ability to learn English and learn definitely can expand your knowledge of English.

Let's just go on really quickly and look at the rest of this sentence.

Each of these regions, we have regions again, share common features, share common features.

So let me just tell you what common features means.

Common could mean several things but one is the same between two or more things.

Maybe you can guess that from the context, the same between two or more things.

We have something in common.

We both like animations.

So we have something in common, right?

Common What are features?

Well, we could look up the word.

Maybe we can guess it from the context, right?

We have different regions here, but we know, because we have while here, that this is going to be a sort of butt.

it's similar to a but clause, right?

We're to use part of this sentence to explain that something is different than the first part of the sentence, okay?

Each of these regions share common features.

So maybe we can guess that features means characteristics or things about those places,

things about And if we go and check it in a dictionary, we will find that that is true, okay?

So first, look at context, try to figure it out, think.

make things start going on here in English, then go look it up.

And you do, I really suggest that you use an only English dictionary.

This is the way to read.

This is how you should be reading.

How about resources?

What should we be reading?

Well, let me just give you a couple of quick suggestions.

If you're looking for general materials to read, I would recommend a couple of different websites, interesting stuff here, and you can learn a lot.

So.com is a website that's a community website.

And they have tons of different topics that you can read.

These are called sub-readits, sub-readits.

And there's one about news, there's one called Reddit funny.

There are many different categories or topics that you can read different articles, And it's really interesting, and there's always new stuff coming out.

So would recommend this one as a way to get the feeling for English and to practice your reading every day.

Wikipedia.com is a little bit more serious.

Wikipedia basically an encyclopedia.

It has articles.

about everything basically almost everything in the world there is a

Wikipedia article about so you can search things that interest you I usually

search things about space or dinosaurs and you can read articles about those

things and I find myself reading articles for two or three hours at a

time I can't stop myself it's so interesting so reddit.com

Wikipedia.com these are great internet resources for reading endlessly there's

always something to read on these two sites to check those out some people on the other hand.

I don't really like reading articles.

They ah, I want something that continues from the beginning to the end, a real story.

Something I can follow and stay interested in for a long time.

Something that will always make me want to keep going.

I understand that.

I understand.

So how about this?

For fiction?

If you really like fiction, depending on what you're interested in, find a short, simple novel.

I recommend one that I like that's fairly easy.

Harry Potter.

Great series of novels.

They're not too difficult.

The language used in Harry Potter.

Not too tough, but there's still enough there that you can definitely learn a lot.

And the stories are fantastic.

They're interesting.

So if you like fiction, that means a story that's not a true story.

Then check out Harry Potter, or if you're not really interested in magic and this kind of thing, fantasy.

There are a lot of other really good novels out there, and I'm sure you can find something that you like.

For nonfiction, I might recommend who is and who was.

So for example, who was Steve Jobs?

This is a series where they have many different famous people in the series,

and you can read about their lives, and the language that they use is not too difficult, pretty simple.

And is non-fiction, it's about true real people, okay?

So who was Steve Jobs?

Who is Bill Gates?

Many, many different people.

You can read about them.

They're short biographies.

A biography is a story about someone.

So these are a

interesting and useful for those of you who don't really like fiction things that

are made up and I also understand that right I often don't like to read fiction

either so these are a good resource for you if you want to read something longer

than Reddit or Wikipedia that's continuous but don't really like fiction I would recommend the who is dada dada who was dada dada All right,

so in the next lesson, we're going to be talking about how to learn new words.

We did this a little bit before when we were talking about how to read,

right, looking at words in context, but we're going to be in the next lesson really focusing on the best

way, the right way to learn new words.

So I will see you in the next Lesson.

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