1 00:00:00,930 --> 00:00:01,440 Okay. 2 00:00:01,500 --> 00:00:07,590 In this lecture, we're going to take a look at a sample answer for an event question for speaking. 3 00:00:07,590 --> 00:00:14,340 Part two is going to deal with a family invitation, right? 4 00:00:14,340 --> 00:00:19,740 So discuss an event where you invite a family or friends to a restaurant. 5 00:00:20,010 --> 00:00:24,390 So here we have to talk about four different areas. 6 00:00:24,390 --> 00:00:26,850 We have to talk about when and where. 7 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,850 We have to talk about how was the food? 8 00:00:29,970 --> 00:00:32,520 And talk about did you enjoy it? 9 00:00:32,790 --> 00:00:40,590 As I said, when you're taking notes, do not take notes on do not take notes in your opening. 10 00:00:40,590 --> 00:00:45,900 On your opening, unless you're just putting in the name of a place or a location or the object you're 11 00:00:45,900 --> 00:00:46,860 going to talk about. 12 00:00:46,950 --> 00:00:49,140 But do not write out in statement. 13 00:00:49,140 --> 00:00:54,870 If you do that, you won't have time to get the important information for when, where, how was the 14 00:00:54,870 --> 00:00:56,730 food and did you enjoy it? 15 00:00:57,300 --> 00:00:57,870 Right. 16 00:00:58,410 --> 00:01:00,390 So when and where? 17 00:01:00,390 --> 00:01:04,320 We're going to talk about May Phillip's restaurant located in Maryland. 18 00:01:04,530 --> 00:01:09,570 How was the food, the salad bar, the appetizers, the seafood buffet? 19 00:01:09,750 --> 00:01:10,890 And did you enjoy it? 20 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,960 We're going to talk about the conversations, friends, stories and everybody being together. 21 00:01:16,050 --> 00:01:22,950 So let's move forward and I'll try to give you some sample answers so you can have language, fluency, 22 00:01:22,950 --> 00:01:29,880 language, vocabulary, language and grammar that you can use for your own answer choices. 23 00:01:34,410 --> 00:01:34,730 Right. 24 00:01:34,730 --> 00:01:42,320 So in this first one, we're going to talk about the opening statement and also we're going to talk 25 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:46,940 about when and where you invited the family members. 26 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:54,920 So we know we're going to talk about May 2000, Philips Restaurant and located in Maryland. 27 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,330 So I'll go ahead and speak out this opening statement. 28 00:02:04,730 --> 00:02:06,470 When it comes to eating out. 29 00:02:06,980 --> 00:02:14,780 I can recall a few special occasions, but one particular event that deserves discussion is when I request 30 00:02:14,780 --> 00:02:20,420 that my family and Bahamian friends for my law school graduation celebration dinner. 31 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:28,280 One thing I'm certain of is May 8th, 2000, as the date of the commemoration dinner. 32 00:02:28,580 --> 00:02:32,570 Because as I say it, it was the honor of my graduating from law school. 33 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,240 I've always loved seafood. 34 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:42,140 So when asked to choose a dining establishment, I delightfully selected Phillip's seafood, which is 35 00:02:42,140 --> 00:02:46,040 still well known for its all you can eat seafood buffet. 36 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:53,690 Phillips is located in Maryland, right near the bay, and this eating establishment is so attractive 37 00:02:53,690 --> 00:02:57,050 because guests can eat until their hearts are content. 38 00:02:59,360 --> 00:02:59,710 Right. 39 00:02:59,710 --> 00:03:07,570 So here we're starting out with a great compound, complex, intense subordinate wind coordinate. 40 00:03:07,570 --> 00:03:16,950 But right from the jump, right from the start, the examiner can see, wow, they're starting with 41 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,900 a compound complex sentence, high English level. 42 00:03:20,770 --> 00:03:21,340 Okay. 43 00:03:22,660 --> 00:03:29,830 One thing I'm certain of fluency language, because fluency language, fluency language sometimes deal 44 00:03:29,830 --> 00:03:34,870 with deals with being able to just ease into the conversation. 45 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:39,940 Sometimes when I'm talking when I'm talking about fluency language, I'm talking about language is able 46 00:03:39,940 --> 00:03:42,280 to give you the ability to extend an answer. 47 00:03:43,390 --> 00:03:49,360 I've always loved good grammar there delightfully selected good combination of words. 48 00:03:50,290 --> 00:03:50,920 Right. 49 00:03:51,250 --> 00:03:56,740 And also, we have a really great phrase at the bottom in terms of eating into your hearts are content, 50 00:03:58,210 --> 00:04:01,930 really great use of idiomatic language. 51 00:04:06,260 --> 00:04:06,770 Okay. 52 00:04:06,770 --> 00:04:09,710 Let's go ahead and move on to point number two. 53 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:11,180 How was the food? 54 00:04:11,180 --> 00:04:12,980 And here we're going to talk about. 55 00:04:13,930 --> 00:04:17,080 The salad bar, the appetizers and the entree. 56 00:04:20,490 --> 00:04:23,580 So let's go ahead and now speak this one out for you. 57 00:04:25,860 --> 00:04:31,050 You know, you can't talk about Phillips without touching on the award winning menu. 58 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:38,400 Most of my family's taste buds fancy Asian fare, so they engorged themselves at the salad bar on sushi 59 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:39,360 and dim sum. 60 00:04:40,020 --> 00:04:44,550 Whereas my Bahamian friends consumed, all the concrete is available. 61 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:52,080 Moving on from the salad bar, we kept it simple with the appetizers by having mouthwatering minestrone 62 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:53,700 soup and gumbo. 63 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,790 To top it all off for the entrees. 64 00:04:56,820 --> 00:05:04,140 We repeatedly visited the dinner section for king crab legs and crab cakes, which many commented on 65 00:05:04,140 --> 00:05:06,630 as being the best they'd ever tasted. 66 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:11,540 A lot of language here, right? 67 00:05:11,590 --> 00:05:13,210 Fluency language in the beginning. 68 00:05:13,210 --> 00:05:13,750 Menu. 69 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:14,230 Subject. 70 00:05:14,230 --> 00:05:14,620 Subject. 71 00:05:14,620 --> 00:05:16,120 Specific Vocabulary. 72 00:05:17,170 --> 00:05:18,730 Award winning menu. 73 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:20,680 Good collocation of words here. 74 00:05:20,860 --> 00:05:22,330 Tastebuds. 75 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:23,710 Fancy. 76 00:05:26,140 --> 00:05:29,330 Asian fare, sushi. 77 00:05:29,350 --> 00:05:32,470 Dim sum, conch fritters. 78 00:05:32,930 --> 00:05:33,310 Right. 79 00:05:33,310 --> 00:05:35,230 All of that is really great vocabulary. 80 00:05:35,230 --> 00:05:41,740 Mouth watering, Andre King, crab legs, crab cakes, the best they'd ever tasted. 81 00:05:41,770 --> 00:05:42,550 How was the food? 82 00:05:42,550 --> 00:05:44,710 The best of the best they'd ever tasted. 83 00:05:46,150 --> 00:05:46,540 All right. 84 00:05:46,540 --> 00:05:50,340 So now, as I've said earlier, you owe me. 85 00:05:50,340 --> 00:05:52,660 You heard me talking about fluency language. 86 00:05:53,020 --> 00:05:56,950 I'm using it a lot more than I normally would. 87 00:05:56,950 --> 00:06:02,530 And really, because here I'm just trying to show you how to use this kind of language. 88 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:04,040 Right. 89 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:06,020 How to use this kind of language. 90 00:06:06,020 --> 00:06:10,340 I don't want you to feel like you have to overuse fluency language. 91 00:06:10,910 --> 00:06:15,470 So, I mean, what I'm trying to really sometimes pack a lot into one answer. 92 00:06:15,650 --> 00:06:22,520 Now, a lot of times when I'm just speaking naturally, I might say this much fluency language easily 93 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:23,270 I could. 94 00:06:24,530 --> 00:06:25,810 Easily I could. 95 00:06:25,820 --> 00:06:28,910 But when you use it, it has to sound natural. 96 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:35,200 All right. 97 00:06:35,210 --> 00:06:37,920 And point number three, did you enjoy it? 98 00:06:37,940 --> 00:06:43,370 And here we're going to talk about the conversations, the friends stories and everyone being all in 99 00:06:43,370 --> 00:06:44,300 one place. 100 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:46,720 OC. 101 00:06:48,550 --> 00:06:51,490 As you can hear, we all love the food. 102 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:56,530 But I have to say that the entire experience was a bit nerve wracking. 103 00:06:57,190 --> 00:07:04,360 Ordinarily, I'm a shy and timid person, so some of the conversations took me out of my comfort zone, 104 00:07:04,780 --> 00:07:08,170 especially when my family broached the girlfriend topic. 105 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:15,220 Normally, I frown upon being the center of attention, so I got a little out of sorts when my friends 106 00:07:15,220 --> 00:07:18,070 began to recount stories about my love life. 107 00:07:18,550 --> 00:07:23,410 All in all, it was great to have all the people I care about in one place. 108 00:07:23,650 --> 00:07:28,570 And despite the stomach churning discussions, I'd do it again in a heartbeat. 109 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:32,980 So we have a lot of language here. 110 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:39,690 Nerve wrecking, which means something really just made me extremely nervous, as you can hear. 111 00:07:39,690 --> 00:07:41,760 Fluency language, I have to say. 112 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:43,110 Fluency language. 113 00:07:43,140 --> 00:07:44,400 Compound sentence. 114 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:45,780 Compound sentence. 115 00:07:46,230 --> 00:07:54,390 Ordinarily, as fluency language especially extends out a sentence which is great for fluency normally 116 00:07:54,390 --> 00:07:57,870 is great fluency language out of my comfort zone. 117 00:07:57,870 --> 00:07:59,850 Shy, timid. 118 00:08:00,450 --> 00:08:01,740 Nerve wrecking. 119 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,170 Frown upon center of attention. 120 00:08:06,180 --> 00:08:07,480 Out of sorts. 121 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:09,030 Stomach churning. 122 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:13,540 All of that is subject specific vocabulary. 123 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,930 The show is a high level of English. 124 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:18,410 Okay. 125 00:08:18,410 --> 00:08:18,860 Great. 126 00:08:18,860 --> 00:08:20,480 So thanks so much for joining us. 127 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:25,280 I hope you learned a lot from that sample answer and I look forward to seeing you in the next video.