hi it's AJ and it's time for rule number five now rule five is one of my favorites you'll remember way back in rule number two that I told you do not study grammar rules I told you to get rid of your grammar textbooks and some of you are feeling stressed because all your life you were told that grammar grammar grammar is the key to English now if it was the key to English you probably would be speaking a lot better now because I know you've already studied a lot of grammar rules now on the other
hand grammar itself is important of course we need grammar of course we need to use grammar correctly when we speak but you don't learn it from studying grammar rules or memorizing a bunch of rules in a textbook instead rule number five is this use point of view stories use point of view stories that's rule number five now a point of view story it's a method it's a technique for learning English grammar and specifically for learning spoken English grammar because of course we're talking about speaking here not writing so use point of view stories to learn
English grammar don't use textbooks don't study grammar rules instead use point of view stories now what is a point of view story I know you're asking what is a point of view story most people don't know about this so here's here's a very simple explanation a point of view story or stories actually it's a series of stories point of view stories it's a series of stories so basically what you need to do is you get one basic story told from a certain point of view what that means is really it's told about a certain time
for example let's say the past so we would tell a story about something that happened in the past let me give you a very very very simple example um there was a dog he was very hungry so he ate a lot of food that's not much of a story but it's just an example okay so you would listen to this story in the past right 10 years ago there was a dog he was very hungry and he ate a lot of food and then of course a real point of view story would be much longer
it would be more interesting and funny and it would be a little more complicated but just for our example I'll use something very very very very simple so you understand the idea so the first thing is you listen to this story from one point of view the past and of course as you're listening to that you're learning the past tense you're learning the verb forms that go with the simple past but you don't need to study in a textbook the simple past you don't need to know that eight is an irregular form of the verb
you don't need to know any of that all you need to do is listen to the story and as long as you understand that the story is happening in the past you will naturally subconsciously and in fact effortlessly learn the correct past tense verb forms you don't need to memorize anything you certainly don't need to analyze any kind of rules or textbooks now here's the next thing you do with point of view stories next you would listen to that same exact story but now it would be told from the present point of view so you
might listen to a story that starts like this there is a dog and right now he's very hungry so he eats a lot of food now again this isn't a real story but it gives you an example it's the same basic structure right the same basic story but now it's happening it's happening now it's happening today or it might happen every day and so what you would do is then you'd listen to that story of course a real story would be long longer and more complicated and more interesting and more funny but you get the
idea and by listening now to these two versions of the story you would learn the past and then you would learn the present you wouldn't just learn the verb forms you would just you would learn the all of the structures you would learn how we talk about the past you would learn how we talk about the present you would learn those important little time phrases like right now today 10 years ago cuz those little time phrases tell you which verbs to use and of course you could listen to the same story again another version maybe
the next version would involve both the present perfect and the present or the present perfect and the past again you don't need to know the present perfect you don't need to know what that means you don't need to analyze it you don't need to remember it you would just listen to the story and as long as you understood the meaning and the time you would learn the present perfect correctly effortlessly subconsciously it would go into your brain without thinking and that's what we want with speech there's no time to think and remember a bunch of
rules there's no time to translate everything hap happens very instantly immediately automatically you need to think it in English feel it in English understand it instantly in English say it instantly in English correctly and you'll never learn that by studying grammar rules will not happen you will learn it through point of view stories and of course we could tell the same story again from a future point of view you know we could imagine in the future there will be a dog and he'll be very hungry he will be very hungry and he's going to eat
a lot of food GNA means going to so you would listen to a whole long story and then it's the same basic story but now it's told about the future and by listening to all the different versions your brain would get a feeling for how things change sometimes it's not just the verb sometimes vocabulary changes a little bit when we talk about different time periods and of course it's not just verb forms we can use other grammar to focus on with these kind of stories and making these changes helps your brain understand what's happening without
you having to think about it and analyze it and memorize like you're taking a test it all just happens automatically by listening to these simple funny interesting stories and listening to all the different versions that's how you learn spoken English grammar that's how you learn to use it instantly automatically correctly this is is much more powerful than studying some book and the great thing is all you have to do as the student as the learner all you need to do is just listen to each version of the story every day that's all your job is
just to listen understand and enjoy the stories you just need to concentrate and focus so you can hear how things are changing you don't need to remember any grammar terms you don't need to remember present perfect past perfect you know future Progressive none of that matters you can just forget all that it doesn't matter all you have to do is understand what the story is about understand the meaning understand the point of view the time that it's happening and then you can compare the different versions of the stories as you listen to each one every
day it's a really easy and fun way to do it and of course in my real point of view stories uh make the stories crazy and funny and entertaining and I make them strange because it's easier to remember strange and funny things than normal and boring things so that's also important so this is how you learn grammar easily effortlessly unconsciously automatically and this is how you learn to get a feeling for correctness it's that that feeling inside that you know something sounds right and something else sounds wrong you have that in your own language that's
how you use correct grammar in your own language when you're speaking your own language you are not constantly trying to remember a bunch of grammar rules of course not but if you hear something that's wrong in your language grammatically wrong you know it you kind of feel it right something in your brain or something about it just sounds wrong if someone says yesterday I eat a lot I I don't think oh well the the correct form of the verb is eight and it's irregular I don't think about that just as a as a as a
native English speaker I just it just sounds wrong it sounds strange to me I'm like uh right my first reaction is deep inside it's just kind of that's that's wrong I feel it you know if I want to I can think about it but that takes a lot of time but the feeling happens instantly in automa ically that's what you need to speak correctly and to use correct spoken grammar when you're writing I don't care what you do you can think as much as you want and go as slowly as you want but for speaking
you got to be instant fast immediate very important so that's it when you learn with point of view stories you will learn to use grammar automatically and correctly you will learn much faster you'll improve your spoken English grammar much much faster and you'll learn it like a child and you'll actually have fun doing it you will actually enjoy learning grammar by listening to these stories and and that's a big benefit too so rule number five use point of view stories to learn and master spoken English grammar I will see you tomorrow for rule number six
have a great day
