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1. What's your name?

Feb 20, 20197 min
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Summary

This episode from Fluency Fix introduces beginner English conversation, focusing on how to introduce oneself. It covers essential grammar points such as the use of big letters for proper nouns, forming questions with rising intonation, and understanding contractions like "what's" and "I'm." The lesson also clarifies the various uses and pronunciations of the word "too" (t-o-o, t-o, t-w-o).

Episode description

In this lesson learn everything you need to know to do Beginner English Conversation #1.
The topic: Introducing yourself.

Conversation:
A: What’s your name?
B: I’m Robin.
A: Nice to meet you. I’m Morgan.
B: Nice to meet you too.


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Transcript

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Beginner English: What's Your Name?

Welcome to Beginner English Conversation 1. I'm Laurel. What's your name? Today, we will talk about... three topics in conversation one. First, letters. We use a big letter when we talk about people's names. Robin. I'm Robin. Robin is a name. Big R. We also use big letters for names of places. The United States. Big U, big S. United States. is a place. Canada. Big C. Canada is a place. England. Big E. England is a place. We also use big letters for proper names. For example, Great Wall of China.

G, big W, big C. Great Wall of China. What is your name? What's your name? questions when you speak a question your voice should go up what's your name not what's your What's your name? You can ask this question two ways. What is your name? What's your name? The apostrophe or floating comma replaces the I and is. What is becomes what's. What is what's. This is called a contraction. Next.

Grammar for Introductions: "Too" and "I'm"

Let's talk about the word two. T-O-O. Does two have a big letter? No. To is not a name, it is not a place, or a proper name. To means in addition to, also. We have three words that are pronounced too. T-O-O in this conversation means also. TO is a preposition. It can mean a place you are going to, or in this case, it is used to connect. Also, T-W-O-2 is a number. The number two. I have two. These are the three uses of the word to. Another way you can introduce yourself

is by saying, My name is. My name is Laurel. I'm Laurel. I am Laurel. these three ways all mean the same thing i am becomes i'm a is replaced with an apostrophe I'm Laurel. I am Laurel. This is a contraction. This is the same as what is what's. We have two contractions in this conversation. Two contractions. T-W-O. I'm Laurel. I am Laurel. Now go practice the conversation with your conversation partner. Goodbye!

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