[0:00]English speaking practice: how to talk about your best friend in English. Ah, that's what you're going to learn in this lesson. Coming up.
[0:17]Hey student, I am teacher Pricks and I'm going to help you talk to anyone, anywhere, anytime in English. Thank you so much for watching this lesson. Make sure to subscribe, but now let's learn how to talk about your best friend in English. And if you already know that, awesome. Review, participate in the comments because I have an exercise for you at the end. Now guys, to make this lesson easier and practical to help you talk about your friend. Basically, I'm going to show you important questions you need to prepare yourself to answer, okay? So here are the questions. You can see the questions on the screen. Who is your best friend? I want to know the name of this person, okay? That's basically that. How old is he or how old is she? How and when did you meet? And now I will give you ideas of how to answer all of these questions, okay? Don't worry. Number four, what's he or she like? Number five, how often do you see him or her? And number six, do you have anything in common? These are the questions. And guys, this is an excellent speaking practice for you to do alone at home. Record yourself answering these questions and I'm going to give you ideas and some phrases to help you do that more efficiently. Now, let's see how to answer them. I'm creating a character here. This is not really my best friend. So number one, the question is very simple. Who is your best friend? I want to know the name of the person. Oh, my best friend is Linda. That's it. My best friend is Linda. Question number two, how old is she? Oh, if you don't know the answer exactly. Oh, I think she is 30. But I'm not sure. And if you know the answer, oh, she's 30 or she is 30 years old, okay? So how old is your best friend? Remember that, okay? Go to your memory and start thinking about your best friend. Now, how and when did you meet? So here I'm going back to the past simple past to answer this question. I want to know how and when. You don't need to be very specific. We met in 1994. You can, but if you don't remember, you can give, uh, you can use a word to express a certain period. For example, we met in high school. Now high school, everybody knows that when we go to high school, we are about 15, 16 years old. So that's usually our age. So when I tell, oh, we met in high school, that's kind of when or how, okay? That's how we met. We studied in the same class. So you see, you don't need to be very specific. Oh, we met I could, for example. We met in 2001, in high school. We studied in the same class. There you have it. Oh, we met in, I think, again, you can insert, I think, because you don't remember exactly. I think we met in 2010. We both lived in Boston. We were a pair. So when and how did you meet? Simple past. Make these phrases in the past. And you can use I think in the present because you are imagining, I believe. I think we met 3 years ago at work. We worked in the same department, okay? So I'm giving you ideas. I'm giving you words to help you make your phrases. Now, the next one will require a little bit of research if you don't know the best words to describe your friend. The question number four is, what is he or she like? When I ask this question, what are you like? What is he like? What is she like? I want to know about this friend's personality, this person's characteristics, especially the ones you love about the friend, okay? So what is Linda like? Linda is such a nice person. She is very patient and funny, she always makes me laugh and I feel like I can trust her. Here, you will stay in the present. Uh, see past, present, past, present. Here you stay in the present, and you will need a lot of adjectives to describe personality. She is very patient and funny. She always makes me laugh. Funny, she makes me laugh, and I feel like I can trust her.
[5:27]So I feel like I can trust her, or I feel like I can tell her everything. I feel like I can always call her when I need help. I feel like she's my sister. I feel like she's family. So you see, I'm giving you alternatives. When you do the exercise I'm going to recommend you, use some of the ideas I'm giving you. Oh, Paul, Paul is, Paul is so nice. He's very hard-working, he's dedicated. He always helps me. Every time I call him, he's always available to help me. So we have a wonderful relationship. He's a wonderful guy. That's it. So you can give some examples of things that person does for you. Okay? Oh, he always helps me. He always makes me laugh. He cheers me up. He cheers me up when I am down. He makes me feel happy again when I am down. He cheers me up when I am down. There you have it. Or he always has good advice to give me, or he always gives me good advice. Ah, he always gives me good advice. So he gives you good recommendations. So I'm giving you ideas because guys, at the end of the day, talking about best friend is universal, okay? We will always go back to the same things. Oh, the person is always there for me. Oh, Paul is always there for me, meaning he's always helping me. He's always there for me when I need. Always there for me. He's a good listener. Oh, she is a very patient person. She makes me laugh. She's a good company. We have a lot in common. We like the same things. These are universal characteristics. No matter how special your best friend is, if I start talking about my best friend, the characteristics are going to be very similar. Not how we met, when we met, but what is your friend like? If it's your best friend, it means it's a person you can trust. It means it's a person you can tell your secrets to. It means it's a person that can give you good advice, that makes you laugh and is always there for you. So this is the vocabulary you need. This is what native speakers use when they're talking about their best friends, okay? Now, how often do you see each other? Ah, this is a good question. We have many possibilities. Well, we are both very busy but we see each other at least two times a month. Okay? Oh, we see each other every day because we work together, we work for the same company. Oh, we see each other once a week because we go to the same church. Oh, we see each other once a month. She comes to visit or sometimes I go to her place or I go to his place. Oh, we don't see each other very often because my best friend lives in another country, lives in another city. But we Skype every day. That's possible. We can use Skype as a as a verb. We Skype every day, okay? We call each other every day. So these are some options of things you can say. Pay attention to the structure, take notes, okay? Question number six, do you have anything in common? What are things you both like? And here the keyword is both, okay? Both. We have a lot in common, or you could say, we don't have a lot in common, but we both like to. So I will give you some options. We have a lot in common. We like and then you have to use the pronoun we, because you are included in the answer, okay? We like the same kinds of movies, music. We have similar hobbies. If you say, we have similar hobbies, then you can continue and give maybe one example or two. We have similar hobbies. We both like running and staying healthy, and we love shopping. Okay? Oh, we have a lot in common. We go to the same church. We listen to the same kind of music. We like to travel. We both like traveling. We love technology as well. So here, when I say, do you have anything in common? What are five things you do? Maybe three, if five is too much. What are three things you do that you have in common? Three things you like doing, three places you go, you know, like going to the church, we work together. We have the same career, okay? We have the same job. So these are ideas, okay? The main goal of this video is to help you brainstorm what you need to say about your best friend. It helps you organize. And here what I would do, let's say I'm going to answer these questions right now, okay? I practice, I take notes, then I'm going to record myself, but not question by question. I will start talking. So I will go back to Linda, okay? Let me say. I will have to read because I don't remember everything, okay? I will answer the six questions as I am describing, not as if I am answering, okay? Pay attention. The magic is going to happen. Well, my best friend is Linda. She is about 30. I'm not sure. And basically, we met in high school. We studied in the same class. Yeah. Well, Linda is amazing. She's such a nice person. She's very patient, very funny. She always makes me laugh. And I really feel like I can trust her. We are very busy though. We don't have much time to meet, but we see each other at least twice a month. We also have a lot in common. We like the same kinds of movies, music. We have similar hobbies. For example, we we both like running and being healthy and fit, and we absolutely love shopping. Yeah, that's her. I miss her. So you see, that's the goal of this practice. I give you the questions to give you direction. The next thing you have to do is practice. Record yourself. Now, guys, you will have practice. I will give you a template to help you organize your answers. I want you to complete the information about your best friend and post in the comments. I want to know about your best friend, okay? However, before I give you the template, I wanted to subscribe to this channel and share this video with your friends. Share it with your best friend. Yes. Now, guys, here's the template. You can see here on the screen, you don't see me anymore. My best friend is... put the name. He/she is blah, blah, blah years old. We met, simple past. We met 10 years ago. We met in 2020, and then where? We met 20 years ago in church, in my neighborhood, at work. How, where? He/she is very describe three characteristics, not physical, personality, okay? Here in this video I gave you a lot of vocabulary. Go back. Check what I said. Use some of the words I used, okay? Now, we see each other blah, blah, blah, a week, a month, a year. Or we don't see each other very much, but we try to meet at least blah, blah, blah, a week, a month, a year. So this is the template. We have a lot in common. We both do blah, blah, and blah, blah. We also, one more. We also like to blah, blah, and blah, blah. Or another option. We don't have much in common, but I consider her/him my best friend because then you find a good reason to explain. Oh, we don't have much in common, but I consider her my best friend because I feel like I can trust her. She's always there for me. So these would be good examples, okay? And one final recommendation is, record yourself. Grab your phone. Talk about your best friend. Practice as many times as possible. Answer the six questions I shared in this lesson. Use some of the words that I showed you in this lesson, but other than that, share this video with your friends and I'll see you next time. Bye.
