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0I'm going to show you anew way to look at English gramar anew way that will help you speak better English hi it's Keith from the Keith academy here to help you become a more confident speaker of English and in today's video I'm going to show you a new way of looking at English grammar. It's an idea that's not often taught in schools and yet it can change the way you think about grammar the way you see grammar and how you use it also at the end of this video I'LL show you a very practical way you can put this into practice so that you can speak better English.
Ready let's do it.
All right schoolboy grammar or schoolgirl grammar right schoolboy grammar is the grammar that you remember as an adult from your school days in England we learn French at school lots of grammar and then suddenly when you'thirty years old you go on holiday to French and you had to speak French and you go and question and you remember your schoolboy grammar the little bits of grammar that you can remember.
That's what I mean so typically at school you learn grammar and it looks something like this right present simple subject space verb I cook you cook she cooks he cooks example Jack cooks for his wife negative I don't cook she doesn't cook he doesn't cook example Jack does't cook for his wife questions do you cook example does Jack cook and so on and so on okay now. Fine. The basic grammar it's all very very important so you study the grammar and you learn the rules probably rules like present simple third person singular takes s. He cooks right and probably you'learn some examples Jack cooks Jack lives in America. Good so far maybe in a good classroom you practice in the class right maybe a like this where live where a. Thanks where those those does.
Where does Jack live he live in America.
Present simple.
Third person singleular take or thanks he lives.
In America and maybe also you test yourself or Jack lives in America he or he its its its. Its love loves. He eats pizza.
All well and good but something's missing. Right the focus here is all on information.
Present simple examples its all information there is no communication.
No real communication.
I mean who's Jack. I don't know Jack I don't care about Jack where's the communication sometimes the communication happens at the end of the class or years later. Like when maybe you travel to England on holiday when you're thirty years old and you meet an English person and you speak to them and go all hello.
