Let me know how you did on the quiz. And remember, get a PDF copy of the lesson notes in order to learn these sentence transformations. 💯 👉 info-95f96.gr8.com/
I've never done this exercise before and I absolutely loved it! It was a little challenging, but not too hard :) Would love to see more of these in the future
When it comes to content, you always set the bar much higher than other online English teachers here on YT. Your video content is always educational, informative and well-structured. You’re an effective teacher and just truly awesome. Thank you for what you do.
Dear professor,if by any chance you can't speak Spanish and plan to travel to Havana,l'd be more than happy to be your interpreter and guide,all the best!!
Being honest I think even native speakers could have failed these quiz, because there were many ways to answer 😆 another thing was you were talking all the time while I was trying to solve every quiz, so I couldn't focus to answer, but anyway good video we learn little by little with these kind of grammatical sentences👍
Only way native speakers would’ve failed this is if they were not using proper grammar like they do when they speak in a non formal manner, “she don’t like me”.
Love it - I did good in English and I'm here for 20 years. I'm learning Italian and absolutely love the idea of reaching fluentcy by refrasing sentences with keeping the meaning. It's truly motivational! Thanks 👍
You know that? As an English student, I failed almost all of the questions, for example, I put "She doesn't see/encounter any difficulty in speaking in public". Which is not (according to the answer). If this were a real examen, I'd have roughly got a 30% or so, meaning that my level of English is very low (something like a B1), which is not! That is the frustration we feel with these kind of tests. All of the answers are "pre-fabricated" and sort of truculent.
I felt a bit similar, my listening is around C2, my speaking around b2 and c1, but when answering those test, I look a b1. Maybe too much input in listening and too little output in grammar, don't you think?
What a great lesson ! I've learned a lot. It'll definitely help us to improve our paraphrasing skills. keep continuing in that manner and more lessons like this.
Hi Wes! I nailed them all but the last one...in italian we say that we got off bed with the wrong foot, when we are in a bad mood and behave unpleasantly on that day. Thank you for this quiz, I'm longing for more stuff at this level.I'm 69 and a retired doctor. I've been keen on practising english for all my life, for the sheer beauty of it, while never studying it at school( thanks God, considering the teaching methods in italian school...) and I used my language skills just for vacationing abroad. Listening to lessons online ( with headphones) is precious to me, as my hearing is severely impaired. Thank you again, bye!
@@luismanuelvelazquezmejia2619 I think it's important to READ a lot, because this would widen your vocabulary and get you in touch with many new grammar and sintax structures. For example subscribing to an U.S. or british newspaper online edition, exposes you to a variety of texts.On top of that, an invaluable instrument is watching videos ( of several different types) one first time with subtitles, and then again and again without subtitles, until you have metabolized meaning as well as pronunciation, including intonation.This last one is of primary importance, and this is clear when a native speaker in 2 milliseconds identifies you as a foreigner ( often they're able to tell your exact nationality, too...and no, they didn't guess it by your clothes or anything other than what you said).Sorry, I apologize to Wes for taking the mike...
@@leonardoscalfi3299 thank you I’m going to read the few books in English that I have, and also read English as possible I can, and yep I spend my time watching videos I can adjust that but in English, I just want to be able to communicate and understand by myself the language thank you sir.
Thank you, Professor Wes. I liked your class a lot. Honestly, some words and structures were new to me. I am not definitely fluent in English, but I am continuing to practice in order to improve, and you have helped me a lot. Again, thank you very much.
Hi I'm new to this video it looks marvelous n this was introduced by one of my friends preethi fr India. I'm fr srilannka love to follow your lessons thank u somuch.
I guess I’m about 90% fluent if we’re talking about this quiz, but sometimes I struggle with the most basic things, such as adjectives, phrasal verbs, and idioms any native can use naturally from the age of five. And all this stuff is much more important!
I thank my basic educ teachers for doing fairly well. I am a Filipino baby boomer who in my opinion has better English communication skills than the new generation..
My advice: Try not to have a resemblance with anyone else. You're unique, and your style of education is quite good and satisfactory for us students. I think, and this is a sincere opinion, not a grammatical sentence, that you are pretty professional and your content is well-organised/categorised (into different levels of difficulty) and useful.
I have watched this outstanding video and realised that there is yet a lot to learn to use collocations and advanced phrases. Some people say that they make your speech mechanical but if you can use them properly, your fluency definitely increase Agree??
I acquired two languages through „birth“ by having a Mom from Germany and a Dad from the US. So I almost got a 100% on this. I had French in school, but I think one has to be „immersed“ into a language for some time to really get a grasp of it and to be fluent enough to manage challenges like yours here. You can‘t really excel by just learning it the way you would in school. So I watch original version movies in the languages I want or need to learn- first with and then without subtitles. Depending on the language (Japanese is tough in the first two months) one can get proficient as a speaker relatively fast. So how about taking your sentences from well known movies? That would give people the chance to rehearse their stuff by watching the film, enjoying learning even more while being immersed in the language. 😊
00:04 Fluency and proficiency are subjective but important for language mastery. 02:32 Transforming a sentence using 'wish' 07:28 Transform the sentence using the word 'else' 10:27 You can use the phrase 'as fast as you think' to talk about someone's ability to do something. 15:34 Rarely getting less than 80% on quiz lessons. 18:14 Contrasting ideas and hypothetical scenarios are expressed using the phrase 'had it not been for' 22:46 Using adjectives to describe resemblance. 24:58 Using possessive adjectives and following them with appropriate words. 29:39 The past participle of the verb 'get' can be 'got' or 'gotten'. 31:54 Sentence transformations are important for language proficiency exams. something else
Please, please, make more of these kind of videos, i thought i was advanced in English but i am getting rusty because i don't get to interact much with American English speakers despite living in Rhode Island for several years, thank you Wes 😊
The exercise was of course challenging but I could manage to finish correctly most of the sentences. A great job is being done by you ,sir. Learning English in terms of enriching vocabulary, sentence transformation, correct contextual use of words is a long & continuous process .
Hi, Im Malsha, new to this community. Im so lucky to be a part of it. I really enjoy watching videos and lives of Mr. Wes. You're an amazing good teacher 😊❤️
Wow, I love it. C1 sentences were OK to me, C2 ones were mostly hard. I'm C1, just from the IELTS exam, and I'm amazed with the accuracy. Great lesson!!!
It is a wonderful quiz! I have answered some of them. It is a little bit difficult, but really useful because I have learned a lot of this lesson! Teacher Wes thank you from my ❤️!
HI teacher. It's a wonderful method to put us under a test. Not all the sentences were done well, but a good number of them were successfuly done. Thank you. I'm from Argentina.
There's a typo on one of the slides "You rarely getS less than 80 $ on these quiz lessons". Thank you so much for informative, effective, well-articulated grammar content!
Obviously I am fluent. How do I know that? Well, I understood every single word you spoke throughout the whole video. I just wanted to say that using vocabulary or idioms as an indicator of fluency/proficiency is/can be area specific. An idiom or specific word may be understood in Arkansas, and totally unknown and unheard of in Liverpool for example. I have a bad mood because I want something to eat in Liverpool sounds like I've got a cob-on, because I need some scran. But outside Liverpool, nobody would know this. It's like speaking 2 different languages.
@@colinthorn Both make the same sense. I am not sure what you are trying to prove. You don't say you are in a cob-on, you say I've got a cob-on. So why can you have the one, but not the other?
Also, one can understand a native speaker and still have not yet reached fluency. I’ve studied Spanish and still have so much difficulty engaging in conversation yet I can understand others. I’m not fluent at all 😂 It shouldn’t be embarrassing but it is sometimes 😂
@@johndereck304 I'm simply pointing out that "to have a bad mood" is not standard English. The standard expression is "to be in a bad mood". I teach English and would point this out to any student who made the same mistake, so why not here?
Wow!!! As usual a bit noodle-stretchy and uncanny useful lesson. The 2-d what you take is not a piece of cake, And what about the bus -- it left without us ))
@@InteractiveEng Thank you very much!! By the way , there is a problem, for example - How can I say that I have done smth in right time? May be -- I did smth before it would be late.../// We cannot be sure right it or not - Please make a roll about how to say that I am not late (to do smth) // Help us please ^_^
It was a breeze. Key word transformation exercise is so much fun. Other possibilities My colleague doesn't have any difficulty (in) speaking in public. You won't be able to lose weight as quickly as you think. He bears/shows a striking/remarkable resemblance to my teacher Wes. He swore to tell the truth from then on. I think my boss and I might have got/started off on the wrong foot.
What about this one? "Unless we make up some time, the bus will leave before we get there." That's the one I came up with, but it differs from your solution. Thank you for the great lesson!
Good morning from Cuba! Thank you, Wes. I just received your exercises on sentences transformation in my e-mail. I will do my best to solve those exercises. . Again, thank you!
hi, is it ok if I use something else instead of anything else in the sentence "I asked her if there was anything else she needed to know？ thanks, Mr Wes, I am grateful to you for making such a good content.
English is s😅econd language for me that only started to feature in my life in the sixth grade. However, I am an insatiable self-taught reader and my interests range from Aachen to Zôology. I have also mastered American via my Merriam-Webster's.Dictionary. off course it is all available on the internet today. Your method of teaching is admirable. It should be universally adopted in Third World countries.
Great way to exercise the glorious grey matter, even for a native speaker. Another sign of proficiency is when you can play around and have fun with words, using words out of context. Humour can be used to diffuse a potential argument For example: "I resemble that remark" instead of "I resent that remark" or "frankly, that remark stinks". I recommend browsing the English' Dictionary (or the language of choice) every day, or as often as you can, once you have learned the basics of a language in order to increase your vocabulary.
Once I tried this quiz and left in between because I found it very difficult. Today I tried this again still not felt comfortable a little bit but I found it interesting because it gives chance to think more so I will try my best to do it independently.
Indeed your lecture includes all aspects of language: grammar, lexicology, syntax, semantics, phraseology and even stylistics.Thank you very much again.
I understood the questions, but I almost failed all of them (my structures differed from the ones you showed). If this were a real test, I'd have got roughly a 30% or so, ... meaning that my English level is very low, but it isn't. That is the eternal frustration that we students have with these kind of tests that supposedly "assess" your level of English :(
Absolutely love the quiz. Make more! I got 70%. I've started learning English at 7 and pushed my studies in this language in university for five years.
