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hi this is Keith from IELTS speaking

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success and today in this video I'm

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going to show you how the W I P method

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can really radically improve your spoken

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English it's a method I've taught for

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years it's one that I have used and it's

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helped improve my spoken French spoken

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Spanish and spoken Chinese let me show

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you how to do it so what is the WIP

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method

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it stands for watch imitate and practice

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three simple steps but they make a huge

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difference so let me show you how we do

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each one the first one is watch now

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whilst it's great having a teacher and

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teachers will explain to you bits of

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language and how you say something and

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when you should use it but until you

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actually see it in action it's really

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hard to grasp it and absorb it and make

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it yours but once you see it or hear it

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you go oh that's when they use it oh

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that's how it's used it's really

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important to see the language in action

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and so the watch part is at the same

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time you have a teacher teaching you

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language is to expose yourself to as

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much English as possible through films

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podcasts TV programs YouTube videos

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listen and listen and listen and notice

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the language that's the first most

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important thing watch the second point

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is imitate now if you have a teacher or

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you've been to a class I'm sure your

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teacher does what we call controlled

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practice or drilling where they get you

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to repeat a phrase or a sentence I have

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been to Africa I have been to America I

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have been to I've been to I've been to

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I've been to Africa I've been to America

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and what's happening the teacher is

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teaching you how to use this muscle the

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they're teaching you the pronunciation

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maybe the contraction the intonation

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I've been to Africa I've been to

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Manchester and it's a drill and it's

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this imitation that is so important

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because if you can imitate then get it

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right in the class or at home it's much

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easier to use it in real life not that

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your class is not real life but in the

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other real life when you're out and

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using English so imitation getting it

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really as good as you can is the second

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most important thing the third point is

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practice and this is where you go out

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into the world and you start practicing

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because it's all well and good sitting

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at home and in your classroom practicing

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with other students but to really push

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yourself and put you on the spot it's

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when you start to process the language

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in real interaction that you really

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start learning and hardwiring this

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language up here so that practice is

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essential to really help you make that

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connection and get the language into you

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make it yours so you can also produce it

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so practice is essential and that is it

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three really simple steps watch imitate

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and practice do that every day that the

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rest of your life well at least until

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you've done your IELTS speaking test and

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I guarantee it will make a huge

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difference to your spoken English if you

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like this video please do subscribe

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look forward to hearing to you look

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forward to hear

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look forward to hearing from you