Grab a pen and a piece of paper, because in this lesson we're going to write a text and the topic is a person I admire.
Who is a person you like?
Who is a person you look up to?
I'm going to show you how to start writing a very simple text and how to make it more advanced.
This is a writing masterclass.
Step one, write a basic text.
The first step is very easy.
I want you to write a very, very simple text.
Just try to think of a person you admire, a person you really like and you want to be like them, and then start describing them.
Who are they?
What are they good at?
Why do you like to be like that person?
Write a very simple text.
I'm going to give you an example.
This is a text that I have written.
Very simple.
Let's read it together.
I admire my grandfather.
He is a man I respect a lot.
He always listens to people and gives advice.
He works a lot and never gives up.
When I was a child, he helped me with my homework and told me stories.
Now, I try to follow his example every day.
This was my version of a simple text of a person I admire, my grandfather.
You should do the same.
Write a very simple text, pause the video, write your text and then play the video again, because in the next step we're going to level it up and make it more advanced.
Ready good, let's go to step two.
Step two use adjectives.
We are going to add adjectives to our text, but what is an adjective and how do we use it?
An adjective describes a noun and adjectives usually go before the noun.
So adjective plus noun.
For example, the noun is room.
How can we describe the room?
We can say it's a big room, small room, cozy room, dark room, cold room.
These are all adjectives.
Adjective plus noun.
So this is what we're going to do.
We're going to take our basic text and underline the nouns.
What are the nouns here?
We have grandfather.
Man, people, advice, child, homework, stories, and example.
These are the nouns that I have selected.
Now, go ahead and do this for your own text.
Underline the nouns.
Good.
Now, it is time to add adjectives before these nouns to describe them.
Let's add them to the text.
I admire my old grandfather.
Old is a good adjective to describe grandfather.
He is a wise man.
He's wise.
He's smart.
He always listens to other people.
Other is a good adjective to use with people.
He listens to people.
He listens to other people.
And he gives what kind of advice?
Helpful advice.
He gives helpful advice.
He works a lot and never gives up.
When I was a small child, he helped me with my homework.
What kind of homework?
School homework.
School here is an adjective describing homework.
What kind of homework?
School homework.
And told me what kind of stories?
Fun stories.
Now, I try to follow his example.
Good example.
I try to follow his good example every day.
Now, if you look at this new text, it's richer, but we didn't do anything strange.
We just added adjectives to some of the nouns and that's what I want you to do.
So go ahead, look at your text, underline the nouns and see if you can add adjectives to those nouns.
Good.
That was step two.
Now let's make it a bit more advanced.
Step three, use adverbs.
What's an adverb?
An adverb describes a verb.
Adjectives describe nouns.
Adverbs describe verbs.
Now we have different types of adverbs.
You need to pay attention to this, because the place of an adverb in a sentence can depend on the type of that adverb.
And there are many different types of adverbs, but these are the most common ones.
The first type is an adverb of manner.
What's an adverb of manner?
An adverb of manner describes the verb by saying how it was done.
How was the action?
Adverbs of manner go after the verb or after the verb phrase, which is verb plus object.
For example, he listens.
He listens.
Okay, but how does he listen?
I want to describe the verb listen.
How does he listen?
He listens carefully.
See, I added the adverb carefully after the verb listen to describe the verb.
He listens, but how he listens carefully.
Now sometimes you may have a verb with an object.
For example he listens to other people, to other people.
That part is the object of the verb listen.
If you want to add one adverb here carefully, you need to add it after the verb plus object.
So he listens to people carefully, not he listens carefully to people, he listens to people carefully.
So adverbs of manner, either after a verb or after a verb phrase.
The second type of adverb adverbs of frequency always Usually often sometimes seldom, hardly ever, never.
These adverbs describe the frequency of the action.
How often was that action taken?
Now, remember adverbs of manner go after the verb or the verb phrase?
Adverbs of frequency go before the main verb.
Or if your main verb is a to be verb am is are was were, the adverb of frequency goes after the to be verb.
What?
It's simple.
If you have a normal verb, adverb of frequency, always, sometimes, usually, never.
They go before the verb.
I play tennis.
How often?
I always play tennis.
The verb is play, adverb of frequency, before the verb.
But if your main verb is a to be verb, adverb of frequency goes after the to be verb.
I'm tired.
How often?
I'm always tired.
I am always tired.
After the to be verb, before the main verb.
And the third type of adverb, adverb of degree.
These kinds of adverbs show the intensity of the action and they always go before the verb, adverbs such as really, deeply or completely.
I admire him.
I really admire him.
I deeply admire him.
I completely admire him.
Okay, now this is what I want you to do as the third step.
Go back to your text.
This time I want you to underline the verbs and verb phrases, because we're going to add adverbs to the text.
Now, this was my text after adding adjectives.
Let's find the verbs and underline them together.
Let's have a look.
Admire is one of the verbs, is to be verb, respect, listen, works, gives up, helped, and try.
Now, for these verbs, let's add adverbs.
Let's start with admire.
I want to add an adverb of degree.
Really.
And the adverb of degree should go before the verb.
So, I really admire him.
I really admire my old grandfather.
Next one is a wise man.
Let's add an adverb uh, he is truly.
He is truly a wise man and i respect him.
But i need an adverb of degree.
I deeply respect him.
He always listens, but how?
Let's use an adverb of manner.
He always listens carefully.
He works a lot, but how often?
Let's use an adverb of frequency.
He usually works a lot and never gives up.
Adverb of degree and never completely gives up.
When I was a small child, he helped me.
But how did he help me?
Well, he helped me with what?
With my homework.
So we have a verb phrase.
Let's add an adverb of manner after the verb phrase.
He helped me patiently.
So he helped me with my school homework patiently and told me fun stories.
Now I try.
How often?
Always.
Now I always try to follow his good example every day.
See, now we have added adjectives to the nouns and we have added adverbs to the verbs.
So our text has more feelings.
Adjectives and adverbs give feelings and emotions to our text. and they make them more advanced.
So far, your text is excellent.
It's a very good text.
It has adjectives, it has adverbs, it's very descriptive, and it's a very good text.
But if you still want to make it more advanced, I have a special tip for you.
Step four, turn verbs to nouns.
What?
Why would we choose a verb and then turn it into a noun?
Because in English noun phrases and collocations are more formal and more advanced than verb phrases.
Now, this part might be a bit difficult because it's for advanced level students, but I will explain it simply.
So if your level is beginner or intermediate, you can also use it.
Look at this sentence.
I admire my teacher.
Admire is our verb.
If you want to make it advanced, take the verb and turn it into a noun.
What's the noun form of admire?
Admiration.
So can I say I admiration my teacher?
No.
Now you need a verb.
But are we crazy?
We remove the verb, we use a noun, and now we want to add a verb.
Yes, we're crazy.
If you want to sound advanced, you've got to be crazy a bit.
Take this noun, admiration, and find the correct verb collocation for it.
What is a verb that collocates with admiration?
How can you find the collocations?
I know a very good tool.
It's called OSDIC.
So the correct verb is have and the correct preposition is for.
Have admiration for.
Instead of saying, I admire my teacher, you can say, I have admiration for my teacher.
But wait, you can still make it fancier by adding an adjective.
Let's say, what kind of admiration?
I have strong admiration for my teacher.
See?
I admire my teacher.
I have strong admiration for my teacher.
Which one's more advanced?
Which one's more formal?
Yes.
Okay.
Instead of I admire, you can say I have strong admiration for.
Instead of I respect, you can say I have deep respect for.
And instead of I try, you can say, I make a strong effort to.
These are all noun collocations for these verb phrases.
And you can find them on AusDic or you can ask ChatGPT to give you a few collocations.
Now, let's take these three verbs, admire, respect, and try.
And let's replace them with their noun collocations.
Let's have another look at the text.
I really have strong admiration for my grandfather.
Instead of I respect him, I say I have deep respect for.
And instead of I try, I can say I always make a strong effort to.
Now we have a more advanced text.
This text is completely advanced.
It's very good.
It's very nice.
But...
I'm going to give you one extra tip that will help you write a better text.
And this tip is very simple.
Don't worry, it's not going to be complicated.
It's very easy.
Let's do it together.
Step five, add an introduction and a conclusion.
We're going to keep the text as it is, but we're going to add two sentences.
One sentence, an introductory sentence, to the beginning, and one sentence, a concluding sentence, to the end.
The introductory sentence should be something more general about that subject.
For example, many people have someone special in their life.
See, this is a very general topic.
It's not directly related to my grandfather, the person I admire.
But it's a broad sentence describing this topic.
In general, many people have someone special in their life.
That's the very first sentence.
Now, we need a concluding sentence.
The concluding sentence should be one final thought.
The last word, just to sum everything up.
For example, my final thought is, I feel lucky to have him in my life.
I talked about my grandfather, a person I really admire, and now one final concluding thought is I feel lucky to have him in my life.
And there you have it, a very advanced text.
See how we started from a very simple text and then we added adjectives, and then we added adverbs, and then we changed the verbs to noun phrases And finally we added an introductory sentence and the concluding sentence.
That is how you can turn a text from a very basic one to a very advanced one.
Now, before you go, there's one more thing.
I want you to take the text you've written, go to ChatGPT, paste it there with this prompt.
I'm an English learner trying to improve my writing skills.
Look at this text, find grammar and vocabulary mistakes, explain why they are wrong and show me the correct form.
With this prompt, you can understand if you made any mistakes.
And if you want to use a better tool, you can join the poc english academy, where we have made an ai tool specifically for your writing skill, in which you can type your text, click submit.
Our AI tool will analyze your text deeply and give you feedback.
You will see what mistakes you made, you will see the correct form, you will see the explanation as to why that was a mistake and you will get four scores.
If you want to learn more, click on the link above this video, go to my website, and have a look.
I hope you've enjoyed this lesson.
Now go to the comments section of this video, and I want you to write your text for me.
Who is a person you admire?
Follow all the steps and write a text in the comment section.
That is your homework.
Go ahead and do it.
See ya.
