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Hi, everyone. I'm Jade. What I'm telling you today is how to make your storytelling in English a little bit more like a native speaker,
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more colloquial, more relaxed in your storytelling,
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because storytelling is a conversation skill that you really need to learn if you're speaking English,
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because when we tell stories, we share part of our character and our personality with other people,
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so it's just something we do in conversation.
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So, I broke it down into the different kinds of stories people tell, and
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some of the phrases you can use for storytelling in English, stories about your life, so you can get to know people a bit better, basically.
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So, what I want to start with is: When you learn in your books,
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it says something like... Or to say what somebody says, you use the verb "said": "he said",
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"she said", "they said", blah, blah. Well, actually, in colloquial storytelling in England,
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we use different verbs. We don't really use "said", necessarily. We can say: 「I was like:
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'Blah, blah, blah.'" So you're telling your story, and you want to say somebody said something,
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it's: "I was like", saying something now. Not saying "said".
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We've got this one:
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"I turned to him and said: 'What are you talking about? I'm not having it. Get away.'
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So he turned to me, and he was like: 'No. Shut up. Go away.'"
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We use "turned to", even if someone's not turning, we use "turned to". It's just what we use in our storytelling.
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It means then one person said, then another... And then another person said.
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We also use the verb "go" to mean speak. "He goes to me."
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I don't know why all the people in my stories have got a problem, but anyway.
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"He goes to me: 'You're an idiot. Get away.'"
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That means he said to me I'm an idiot.
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So you could bring in these different verbs to make your storytelling more colloquial.
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But let's have a look at some different kinds of story...
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People often try to tell funny stories, and if you're consciously trying to tell a funny story,
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like I'm going to do now, it might not work. But I'll tell you a little... Little
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something about when I was at... When I was at school. I'll tell you about my poor physics teacher, Mr. Cat.
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And if I ever met Mr. Cat again, I would apologize deeply for the torment that we gave this poor physics teacher.
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His... His name was Mr. Cat, so that didn't really help him that
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whenever he came into the room in my girls' school, there were lots of girls,
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someone would go: "Meow." And quite quietly at first, but then somebody else would be
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like: "Meow!" and it would get a little bit out of hand. And before we knew it, someone...
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Someone was cracking up, couldn't start laugh... Couldn't stop laughing.
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Someone would burst out laughing, and poor Mr. Cat, he didn't know what to do.
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And then the other thing we used to do with him, because it was a science lab, we had...
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We had sinks on the tables with these taps, and somebody discovered that you can turn
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the taps around, so we all decided that when he was... We had this experiment, and we all
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decided that when... For this experiment, we'd all turn the taps around at the same time, but he didn't know about it.
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So when he was like: "And now I want you to start with your experiment",
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we all turned the taps on at the same time and water was going all
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over the... All over the classroom. So, of course, by then, we're crying with laughter,
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and poor Mr. Cat's probably crying real tears.
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So if you're watching this, Mr. Cat, I am really sorry.
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But teenagers are cruel, what can I say?
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So in my funny story, I used this kind of vocabulary to say something was funny. Because
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when you tell a story, you need to tell that person what to think: "Oh, it's funny. I was
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laughing... I was laughing, yeah? It was funny, so you should be laughing."
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And these are colloquial ways to say I was laughing: "I was cracking up", phrasal verb "to crack up".
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It's kind of that... That kind of laugh. "Crying with laughter", again, it's quite visual,
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you're laughing so much you're crying. "Rolling up", it's that kind of laugh, you know? When
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you're... You're... You're doubled over because something is funny.
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And when you "burst out laughing", you can't control it.
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You probably shouldn't be laughing at that time.
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Oh, there's a mistake, here. That's not how you spell "accident". So, an accident story, then.
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Sometimes people tell an accident story for, like, it can be a dramatic story.
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Sometimes people tell it because they want pity, so it's in between.
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My accident story that I'll tell you features my Grandma. It wasn't me. I remember when I was a kid, I went ice skating.
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I do... I do still like ice skating, but I had a long break in between, and you'll probably know why when you hear this story.
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And my Grandma was quite young at the time.
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So I remember I was skating around in the ice rink, I'm kinda loving it.
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And I see this big collection of people, like all huddled around. So I skate up to the huddle and I look in,
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and there's my Grandma lying on the floor. She was in agony.
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I felt so sorry for her. My poor Grandma on the floor.
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And then these kids next to me are, like...Just like:
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"Haha, look at her on the floor. Stupid old woman."
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So I felt even worse because my Grandma was being teased by these people,
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plus she was on the... On the floor. And after she told me she couldn't
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believe she was such an idiot, because she wasn't that good at skating,
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and she tried to go really fast even though she wasn't very good.
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So, again, when you're telling your accident story, try to make it more dramatic.
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You know, to say you were in agony... "Agony" is an intense pain. If you say: "I was in pain",
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it's not so... It's not so dramatic. Sometimes if there's an accident, it's your fault, you do something stupid,
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therefore, you show what you've learnt through your story.
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"I can't believe I was so stupid."
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Here's another colloquial thing we say, if you're in a lot of pain, something is "killing you".
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"Ah, my arm is killing me. It really hurts."
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So you could use any of those phrases in your accident story. I hope you don't have any accidents,
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but if you ever need to tell one, there are some phrases for you.
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Looking at the sad story next. I would say this word "devastated" is really overused here in the U.K.
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Everything is devastating. When actually, to be devastated is a very, very extreme word in its original meaning.
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It means like everything destroyed, ruined.
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But through overuse, you can now be devastated when your pet hamster dies,
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so it's kind of lost its original meaning. And the same thing, really, when you're telling a story that was sad,
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you just need to say: "Oh, it was really sad. We felt so awful. Yeah, it was really hard."
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You need to make your story more colourful by using these adjectives.
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And that brings us to this. When you're telling a story, help your listener understand what you want them to think and feel
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about your story by describing to them the emotions that you felt at the time.
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So, were you pissed off? Were you angry?
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I was pissed off at those kids who were laughing at my Grandma. Were you baffled? This means really confused.
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If you're in a situation where you're thinking: "Why did that happen? What was that about?
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I really don't understand." That means that you're baffled.
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And another... Well, we'll just look finally now at the kind of story some people tell when something happens,
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it really surprises you. You don't know why that happened.
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How did that come about? So, anyway, a surprise and shock story.
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What can you say? "I couldn't believe it.",
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"I was like, what the fuck?",
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"I was in complete and utter shock.",
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"We were speechless."
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Didn't know what to say.
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"I couldn't believe what was right before my eyes."
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So shocking.
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So, yeah, the main kind of stories people tell: ones that make you laugh,
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ones that make you go: "Oh my god, that's awful", ones that make you sad,
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ones that are like:"Yeah, what was that about? What happened there?"
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So what I'd like you to do now is go to the engVid website
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and do the quiz, do the quiz on the website.
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So, yeah, good luck with your English storytelling, and please come and watch me again soon.
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And see you later.
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Big bye this time.
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Bye-bye,
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bye-bye.