Name: THINK in ENGLISH! Practice English Sentence Building & STOP translating in your head!
Uploaded: 2020-08-18T19:20:32.000Z
Duration: 10 min 19 s

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Today we're working on the skill of thinking in English.

今天我們要學習的是用英語思考的技巧。

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This means you can come up with what to say faster,

這意味著你可以更快地想出要說的話。

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join the conversation faster, and join in more easily with more confidence.

更快地加入對話，更輕鬆地加入，更有信心。

You don't have to translate in your head.

You can just jump right in to an American English conversation in English.

你可以直接跳到美式英語的英語對話中去。

This is one of the biggest problems my students say they have.

這是我的學生說的最大問題之一。

Thinking of what to say when in a conversation.

I had the same problem when I was living in Germany.

我在德國生活的時候也有同樣的問題。

I was stuck at an intermediate level, and I had a hard time jumping into the next phase,

我停留在中級水準，很難跳進下一階段。

the next level where I was more comfortable joining into a conversation spontaneously.

在下一個層面，我更願意自發地加入到對話中。

The good news is you can actually train your brain to think in English.

好消息是你其實可以訓練你的大腦用英語思考。

I made a video recently where I went over some strategies.

我最近做了一個視頻，我在視頻中介紹了一些策略。

And in this video, we take one of those strategies and we go deep.

而在這段視頻中，我們將採取其中的一個策略，並進行深入探討。

While we train your brain to think in English, we may discover some words you don't know yet, great!

當我們訓練你的大腦用英語思考的時候，我們可能會發現一些你還不知道的單詞，太好了!

It's going to be a vocabulary builder video for you too.

這也將成為你的詞彙積累視頻。

Now, if you like this video or you learned something new, please like it and subscribe. It helps a lot.

現在，如果你喜歡這個視頻或你學到了新的東西，請喜歡它並訂閱。它的幫助很大。

So today, we're working on your ability to put together descriptive sentences.

所以今天，我們要鍛鍊你整理描述性句子的能力。

We recently did a video where we looked at a picture and named objects that was just nouns.

我們最近做了一個視頻，我們看了一個圖片，給物體起名字，就是名詞。

We're going to be using verbs, adjectives, maybe adverbs in addition.

我們要用動詞，形容詞，也許還要用副詞。

Let's do one together. We're going to see a photo,

我們一起做一個。我們要去看一張照片。

this is of my son Stoney, and my niece Emily, on a recent trip to Mexico.

這是我兒子Stoney和我侄女Emily最近去墨西哥旅行的照片。

And I want you to think in your mind, come up with one sentence in English,

我要你在腦海中思考，想出一個英語句子。

它可以是簡單的，因為它必須是。

Now, maybe you can come up with much more than one sentence.

現在，也許你能想出比一句話更多的東西。

Great, keep going, keep coming up with sentences until that timer is done.

很好，繼續，繼續想出句子，直到那個計時器完成。

But if you can only do one sentence, that's fine too.

但如果你只能做一句話，那也可以。

Did that timer in the corner stress you out?

角落裡的計時器讓你壓力很大嗎？

It's going to be there because I want you to practice thinking quickly.

它會在那裡，因為我想讓你快速練習思考。

Maybe thinking under a little bit of pressure just like it will be in a conversation.

也許在一點點的壓力下思考，就像在談話中會。

Okay, now let's go over that photo, and we're going to come up with some sentences that you may have thought of.

好了，現在我們來看看那張照片，我們要想出一些你可能想到的句子。

They're sitting in a white plastic chair at a restaurant.

他們坐在一家餐廳的白色塑膠椅上。

Stoney is eating pancakes with strawberries on top.

斯通尼正在吃煎餅，上面放著草莓。

You may have come up with phrases that are totally different but are accurate.

你可能想出了完全不同的短語，但卻很準確。

What we want to focus on here is clearing your head, and going from English.

我們在這裡要重點說的是理清思路，從英語。

The sentence can be as simple as it has to be.

這句話可以很簡單，因為它必須是。

Just start from a place of English from your English vocabulary as you describe what's happening.

在描述發生的事情時，從英語詞彙中的英語地方入手即可。

Now, if you can't yet put together a sentence, that's okay too.

現在，如果你還不能湊成一句話，那也沒關係。

Just go back to naming objects: table, chair, mouth.

就回去給物體命名：桌子、椅子、嘴巴。

That kind of thing. That is still building the skill of thinking in English,

這種事情。那還是在培養用英語思考的技能。

and before you know it, you'll be able to put together simple sentences too.

而在你知道之前，你也能把簡單的句子組合在一起。

For everybody, building the skill of thinking in English is going to let you sound more natural

對於大家來說，培養用英語思考的技巧，是會讓你聽起來更自然的

when you're speaking English, and it's going to let you join that conversation faster.

當你在說英語的時候，它會讓你更快地加入到這個對話中去。

你有10秒鐘的時間。深吸一口氣

讓你的大腦做好用英語思考的準備。

This is a picture of me, David, and Stoney.

這是我、大衛和斯通尼的照片。

Okay, now we're going to go over that picture and come up with some possible sentences,

好了，現在我們要去看那張圖，然後想出一些可能的句子。

and then I'm going to hit you with three pictures in a row.

然後我要用三張圖片連著打你。

他們看起來很興奮，要去那裡。

It may feel silly to just describe a picture and state the obvious,

如果只是描述一幅圖畫，並說明顯而易見的事情，可能會覺得很傻。

but it does build the skill and it starts from a simple place.

但它確實能培養技能，而且是從簡單的地方開始的。

So that no matter your level, you can start here, and you can do this.

所以說，無論你的水準如何，你都可以從這裡開始，你也可以做到這一點。

Building the skill to think in English. It's invaluable.

培養用英語思考的技能。這是無價之寶。

Here are three photos in a row. Ten seconds each.

下面是一連三張照片。每張十秒鐘

Try to come up with at least one sentence for each, but maybe you can come up with four or five,

試著為每個人至少想出一個句子，但也許你可以想出四個或五個。

Okay, let's take a look at those pictures and go over some sentences that you may have come up with.

好了，我們來看看這些圖片，再來看看你可能想到的一些句子。

Let's do this same thing now with ten seconds of video.

現在我們用十秒鐘的視頻來做同樣的事情。