Overview

In the last lesson we talked about how to have a discussion very very important in everyday English especially if you want to have better friendships right.

In this lesson though we’re going to talk about how you explain things not only how we describe things in detail but how we connect our memories to those things how we connect our emotions to those things.

Remember earlier in the course we talked about descriptions.

This will be connected to that but we’re going to also connect our feelings to the descriptions that we give and when we do that what we basically if it’s about an event or if it’s about things that happened to us in the past we call that a story.

And stories are a very deep part of human culture a very deep part of how humans how people talk to each other.

So I believe this is just my opinion.

I believe that stories are everywhere around us even in our daily lives.

I believe that you tell stories much more than you think you actually do.

That’s what I believe.

I think that when we when we talk about what happened to us today and we say what terrible thing our boss did or we talk about the great thing that happened last week on our vacation and we share the unexpected thing where the unexpected maybe the unexpected person we met.

That’s a story.

And if you’re able to lay out not only the details of the story but also express your emotions and your feelings and the things that happened in a way that are really interesting people are going to want to focus on you right.

So in this class we’re going to be talking about progress and we’re going to try to make it more like more like a story.

OK progress means something usually is moving forward and getting better.

When we talk about progress we don’t talk about things getting worse.

We talk about things getting better whether it’s our culture maybe it’s our culture maybe it’s education we’re going to focus on progress as a way to as a way to focus ourselves around these skills related to telling stories.

And I’m going to share some important vocabulary words we need to know then we’re going to talk about a couple of tips and then we’ll look at an example so that you can get a feeling about how to do that so that you can actually see the tips and the words that we’re going to learn in action.