Как задавать вопросы на английском, не зная грамматики — Transcript

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1. 0:00Do you speak English? Do you speak
2. 0:02English? That’s what a student of
3. 0:07mine was once asked abroad, and she
4. 0:09just answered with gestures; no, this
5. 0:11very episode was the last straw for her
6. 0:13. And she came to study with me.
7. 0:19Familiar, isn't it? Asking for
8. 0:21directions, the time, or a price in
9. 0:23English. Everything inside tightens
10. 0:25while you try to construct the question
11. 0:26in your head. Today, we are going to
12. 0:28fix that. I will give you six universal
13. 0:31templates from which almost any travel
14. 0:33question can be built. And you don’t
15. 0:36even need to know exactly how English
16. 0:38questions are structured to do it. This
17. 0:42skill will be quite enough to feel
18. 0:44confident and not get lost, for example
19. 0:46, during a layover at a large airport.
20. 0:50By the end of the video, you will be
21. 0:52able to ask over twenty questions in
22. 0:54English. Only one condition: everything
23. 0:58I say in English, you repeat out loud.
24. 1:02Is it a deal? Then let's go. My name is
25. 1:04Maria Sotskaya, and I have been
26. 1:06teaching English for over 25 years. For
27. 1:0810 of those years, I taught the
28. 1:10language at MGIMO. And today, I have
29. 1:13about one and a half million
30. 1:14subscribers watching me. Today we will
31. 1:17analyze six frames one by one: a
32. 1:19formula, three travel situations, and a
33. 1:22short out-loud practice. And in the
34. 1:28middle, I will tell you the story of
35. 1:30one of my students who, before meeting
36. 1:32me, had quit learning English several
37. 1:33times, but after 3 months was already
38. 1:35ordering for herself and her friends in
39. 1:37Cyprus and asking for the bill. And
40. 1:43this story will definitely inspire
41. 1:45everyone who has quit English at least
42. 1:47once. A question. It is always half of
43. 1:51the conversation. And it is precisely
44. 1:55on a question that most of us simply
45. 1:57freeze up. School grammar tables,
46. 2:02tenses, where to put the auxiliary verb
47. 2:04, which ending to use—it all pops
48. 2:06into your head. Put it all aside. In
49. 2:13daily life, native speakers start
50. 2:15questions with the same words. Again
51. 2:19and again. The beginning of the
52. 2:21question. Is learned as a whole. And
53. 2:26all you have to do is add a tail of one
54. 2:28or two words. And you are fully armed
55. 2:32for any situation. This is the frame.
56. 2:35The sister of the mold from the last
57. 2:37video. And we had one question frame
58. 2:40back there. Can I? Can I? Today we will
59. 2:45add six more. And they cover almost
60. 2:48everything we ask at a hotel, in a
61. 2:49restaurant, or on the road. And we will
62. 2:52start with the one without which you
63. 2:54can't even find your own hotel. Frame
64. 2:56one: where is? And then you add what
65. 3:00you are looking for. Where is the metro
66. 3:03? Where is the exit? Where is the
67. 3:09restroom? And the last question,
68. 3:13let’s be honest, has saved the
69. 3:15reputation of a huge number of
70. 3:16travelers. Let's practice, let's repeat
71. 3:20. I will speak in Russian, you ask in
72. 3:23English; you have 3 seconds. Where is
73. 3:27the metro? Where is the metro? Where is
74. 3:33the exit? Where is the exit? Where is
75. 3:40my hotel? Where is my hotel? We found
76. 3:46the way. Now let's ask about the price.
77. 3:50And here is another frame. In short,
78. 3:52the second frame. How much? How much
79. 3:56does it cost? How much is it? How much
80. 4:00is the ticket? How much is the coffee?
81. 4:06Yes, coffee again. You already know I
82. 4:08can't live without it. And the most
83. 4:11universal option, the first one. How
84. 4:14much is it? We point our finger at what
85. 4:16we're interested in. We ask the
86. 4:19question. And just like that, we're
87. 4:20haggling at a market anywhere in the
88. 4:22world. Let's practice. I'll speak
89. 4:24Russian, you ask in English. How much
90. 4:27is it? How much is it? How much is the
91. 4:33ticket? How much is a ticket? How much
92. 4:41is the coffee? How much is a coffee?
93. 4:49The third frame. Do you speak English?
94. 4:54Do you have wifi? Do you have a table
95. 4:59for two? Note, the Russian phrase "u
96. 5:03vas yest"(do you have). In English it
97. 5:07sounds like "do you have?". Do you have
98. 5:10a table for? Let's practice these
99. 5:13phrases. I'll speak Russian, you repeat
100. 5:15in English. You have 3 seconds. Do you
101. 5:19speak English? Do you speak English? Do
102. 5:24you have Wi-Fi? Do you have Wi-Fi? And
103. 5:32do you have a table for two? Do you
104. 5:38have a table for two? You now have
105. 5:41three frames in your arsenal. And the
106. 5:44story I promised is exactly about shops
107. 5:46, cafes, and the bill. My student
108. 5:51started learning English many times at
109. 5:53school and on language courses. She
110. 5:56would start and quit. Start and quit.
111. 5:59And not because she was lazy, that's
112. 6:01what she told me. "As soon as I get to
113. 6:04a lesson, I start getting confused by
114. 6:06the tenses." She was shy to speak,
115. 6:11didn't feel progress, started many
116. 6:12times and quit every time, feeling
117. 6:14disappointed. Sound familiar? What
118. 6:19changed? She came to my "Cruise into
119. 6:23the World of English" course and
120. 6:24started speaking in the very first
121. 6:26lesson. Not after learning all the
122. 6:30grammar. She started speaking from the
123. 6:34first class because that's how my
124. 6:36course is structured. First, ready-made
125. 6:41frames for real situations: to order,
126. 6:43to request, to ask. And grammar comes
127. 6:48later, in order, one topic at a time.
128. 6:51And here is the result. Three months
129. 6:53later, she took a trip to Cyprus. She
130. 6:58understands the menu in a restaurant,
131. 7:00can place an order, ask for the bill,
132. 7:02and goes shopping with confidence. By
133. 7:06the way, she asks for the bill like
134. 7:08this: Can I have the bill, please? That
135. 7:12same "can I?" frame. From the previous
136. 7:16video. And the most important thing she
137. 7:18told me after the course. "I always
138. 7:21used to quit.""But this time, I made it
139. 7:23to the end for the first time." And
140. 7:26this is the story of a person who
141. 7:28finally believed in themselves. The
142. 7:31main thing is to speak, guys, and not
143. 7:33be afraid to make a mistake. And that
144. 7:36is exactly what my language teaching
145. 7:37philosophy is about. Progress comes
146. 7:41only through practice. Construction
147. 7:43number four. Can you? You use it to ask
148. 7:48another person for something,
149. 7:49especially if things go wrong. Can you
150. 7:55repeat please? Can you speak slowly,
151. 7:59please? I recommend that you learn the
152. 8:04last phrase first. Native speakers
153. 8:07sometimes don't even realize how fast
154. 8:09they speak. And this one phrase turns a
155. 8:13stream of sounds into understandable
156. 8:15speech. Now, let's practice. I will say
157. 8:19a phrase in Russian, you translate it,
158. 8:21you have 3 seconds. Can you help me?
159. 8:28Can you help me? Repeat, please. Can
160. 8:35you repeat, please? Can you speak more
161. 8:40slowly? Can you speak slowly, please?
162. 8:48And there are two frames left. The
163. 8:50fifth, the shortest one in English.
164. 8:52Only two words. Frame five. "Is it"—a
165. 8:57question about anything you can point
166. 8:59at. Is it far? Is it open? Is it spicy?
167. 9:11And you must ask about spiciness,
168. 9:13because in some countries, what is
169. 9:15slightly spicy by local standards is
170. 9:17very spicy for us. Let's practice. I
171. 9:21speak Russian, you translate. Is it far
172. 9:24? Is it far? Is it open? Is it open? Is
173. 9:36it spicy? Is it spicy? And the last
174. 9:43frame. Without it, you’ll be late for
175. 9:45a meeting with a friend or, worse, for
176. 9:47breakfast at the hotel. Frame six. What
177. 9:51time? What time is it? What time is
178. 9:57breakfast? What time is a flight? As
179. 10:02you remember, practice is everything,
180. 10:04so let's train. What time is it? What
181. 10:11time is it? What time is breakfast?
182. 10:18What time is breakfast? What time is
183. 10:22the flight? What time is the flight?
184. 10:29You already have six frames. Now, let's
185. 10:32reveal the secret. Why do many people's
186. 10:35questions sound like they are robots?
187. 10:39It is all about intonation. There is
188. 10:42one rule here that is a bit unusual for
189. 10:44us Russian speakers. Let's figure it
190. 10:47out. If a question can be answered with
191. 10:51"yes" or "no," the intonation at the
192. 10:53end goes up. Is it far? Do you have
193. 10:58WiFi? Can you help me? But if the
194. 11:04question starts with words like "where,
195. 11:06""what," or "what time," the intonation
196. 11:08at the end goes down. Where is the
197. 11:12metro? How much is it? What time is
198. 11:17breakfast? Go up when you expect a yes
199. 11:22or no, just a yes or no. But go down
200. 11:27when you need an actual answer; repeat
201. 11:29after me. And watch your voice. Is it
202. 11:35far? Where is the metro? Did you
203. 11:45memorize it? I am sure you did. Now
204. 11:48let's go back to practice. I will ask a
205. 11:52question out loud, you answer in
206. 11:53English. Then we will compare the
207. 11:57answers. The first one. You are at the
208. 12:00hotel front desk and want to ask what
209. 12:02time breakfast is. What time is
210. 12:08breakfast? Number two. You like a bag
211. 12:14in a shop and want to know the price.
212. 12:21How much is it? Number three. You are
213. 12:26in a cafe and want to connect to the
214. 12:27internet to post stories. How would you
215. 12:30ask the waiter if there is Wi-Fi? Do
216. 12:37you have Wi-Fi? Number four. You are
217. 12:41lost in the city and looking for the
218. 12:43subway. Ask a passerby to help you. Ask
219. 12:48where the subway is. Where is the metro
220. 12:55? Where is the metro? Number five. The
221. 13:00taxi driver is speaking too fast. Ask
222. 13:03him to slow down. Can you speak slowly,
223. 13:11please? The sixth situation. You see an
224. 13:15unfamiliar dish on the restaurant menu.
225. 13:19Ask the waiter if it is spicy. Is it
226. 13:27spicy? Is it spicy? Six situations
227. 13:33where our structures helped you out.
228. 13:36And there could be dozens of such
229. 13:38episodes on a trip. And now you will
230. 13:42feel much more comfortable abroad. And
231. 13:46some of you are thinking, "Oh god, what
232. 13:48if I forget the structure, what if I
233. 13:50start with the wrong word?" My friends,
234. 13:55stay calm, a question with a mistake is
235. 13:57a hundred times better than a question
236. 13:59that was never asked. They will
237. 14:03understand you by the situation, by
238. 14:05your intonation, even by a single word.
239. 14:09And to make it easier to start, here is
240. 14:11a universal key. "Excuse me"—you can
241. 14:17start any question with it, and the
242. 14:19person is already turning to you and
243. 14:21ready to help. Excuse me, where is the
244. 14:25metro? Excuse me, how much is it? The
245. 14:32main thing is not to be afraid to ask.
246. 14:34Let's count. Three questions in six
247. 14:38exercises, that's 18, plus six
248. 14:40situations, makes 24. In the beginning,
249. 14:44I promised more than twenty. 24
250. 14:47questions in one video. And this is
251. 14:50just the beginning, friends. Of course,
252. 14:52in English, there are dozens and
253. 14:54hundreds of different answers to
254. 14:55questions, tenses, and vocabulary. And
255. 15:00you can bring the application of all
256. 15:02this to automatism, just like the
257. 15:03student of my course whom I told you
258. 15:05about. And how much time is needed for
259. 15:09this? There is no universal answer.
260. 15:12Everything depends on the specific
261. 15:14person and their background. One person
262. 15:16has courses and school behind them,
263. 15:18while another does not have that
264. 15:19experience. And I have a solution for
265. 15:22you. The link in the description under
266. 15:25this video leads to my personal
267. 15:27Telegram. There, I personally conduct
268. 15:32up to ten English level assessments
269. 15:34every week and give personal
270. 15:35recommendations on how you should learn
271. 15:37the language to finally start speaking
272. 15:39once and for all. Besides this, a nice
273. 15:44bonus from me awaits everyone who
274. 15:46writes. And now, ask me a question in
275. 15:51the comments, using one of the frames
276. 15:53we discussed today, but only in English
277. 15:55, about anything: about Vienna, about
278. 15:57coffee, about English. I read all the
279. 16:02comments and will definitely reply to
280. 16:03you. And if you liked the video, please
281. 16:06hit the like button. For me, it is a
282. 16:10vote to continue this series. See you.