Learn how to tell an interesting story... or make a boring story interesting!

[@Milestonemonger]

I'm 55 years old and I'm still learning how to tell a good story. Thanks for the video, I really appreciate it.

[@engvidBenjamin]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@thebrinksf69]

same

[@LilyH174]

Me 3

[@stefy661]

I love the way you modulate your voice. That's art, great accent without sounding fake or pompous. Music for my ears!

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks Stefy

[@pepperdog7511]

Before i started writing my very first story, believe me i watched almost all of your videos!. This really helped make my story more colorful!. I was able to gather more readers and supporters, thanks Benjamin!

[@engvidBenjamin]

Yes! That's what I like to hear :)

[@statego]

THIS VIDEO WAS AMAZING wow what a skill of story telling i feel like a toddler when it comes to sharing stories after watching this

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks Jim. Storytelling is an ancient tradition - nothing beats sitting round a campfire... There are stories from our own experiences but it's also good to learn some folk stories etc.

[@janakp2252]

Mr Benjamin,I am over the moon on hearing your immaculate,flowy story.Truly fascinating ,hats off

[@engvidBenjamin]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@faiyazahmed9]

One of the best techniques and tricks regarding Storytelling in the whole KZbin channel. After spending 3days got this amazing video. Thank you for your contribution to my life.

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thank you, that's very nice of you.

[@giftsondomai6969]

One of the best videos on how to actually tell a good Story.. Thank you

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks for watching

[@futuresomalileader]

I am very glad to find a teacher like Benjamin, i believe this teacher improved my English and i really appreciated,

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks Hassan

[@tacijjola]

I love your videos, they are very educational and fun. I look forward to the next lesson

[@stst7347]

I started watching him, and he is very good.

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks for watching

[@maddoxaaron6808]

I'm glad to find another one teacher which speak British English, because my pronunciation is British, albeit I understand the two accents. Your classes are brilliant!

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thank you!

[@RealSuat]

One of the best English teachers ever, we are lucky to be able to watch these videos. Thank you for your lessons hope to see more new ones :)

[@engvidBenjamin]

Too kind!

[@kayllonsampaio569]

OMG I love your accent!!

[@engvidBenjamin]

Not something I work on!

[@heathersisto1119]

I really enjoyed listening to the teacher tell such a great story , it makes learning so much more fun ! Sincerely , a learning student that tries to make the grade and if I take better notes like these . I believe more in myself . I watch a lot of different teachers on this learning channel because they really do care about students learning for the better grades . I seem to always learn something from this teacher's learning videos too . Thanks again , to this teacher for making story telling seem a bit more easier with organization and structuring ideas is what I learned from watching this video and I am going to try to constantly use them as they are organized and displayed on the learning board . A new learning tool I shall constantly try and apply to my learning objectives in reading and writing . I am a struggling learning student just trying to make better grades . Therefore I would like to say this teacher deserves five stars to for teaching with humor and care for students such as myself who tries and wants to make better grades , and if I keep watching learning videos like these . My confidence gets better with believing I can make better grades with learning techniques that is also what are great learning tools . Thanks again for the fun with learning videos 🌟🌟 🌟🌟🌟

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks

[@svevabloomsbury7620]

My mind urges to put a comment even if I haven't finished the lesson yet. Thank you🙏, you're an amazing teacher (and you seem to have a strong background on your side 😊) and also with a brilliant accent. How can I expect more? Again thanks, keep going 💪❤️

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks for your kind words, and keep going, I will!

[@raymondjblaze7761]

I love these videos!

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thank you.

[@alekseiefimov5780]

Great British! Thanks for new idiom:)

[@engvidBenjamin]

Good stuff

[@LilyH174]

I love his video he should definitely deserve more subscribers ❤

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks! Feel free to share...

[@blessedchannel_811]

Hi Benjamin, I like your teachings. Thanks for sharing English language so friendly. It seems that you are taking to me.

[@engvidBenjamin]

Talking to you? Good, I'm glad.

[@yjzhang9030]

love your videos, hope I can write my own story and share it with all my friends.

[@Paulinazborowska]

Benjamin, you gave me an incredible piece of knowledge. Your work makes a difference. Thank u so much!

[@engvidBenjamin]

Great to hear!

[@skarman5071]

Vary good storv broo👍

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks ✌

[@baselmelhem9359]

You, my friend, are helpful

[@engvidBenjamin]

Glad to hear that!

[@svetlanarussell6588]

Thank you so much! Very helpful!

[@engvidBenjamin]

So glad!

[@TheIamLuanna]

Just FYI ..took the quiz after, but messing with my score is a pop up box that says: you forgot to answer even though my answer is sitting there. Sometimes, this box skips a question and that messes with points also. Thought you would like to know. Love your videos SHOW NOT TELL, and this one are the only two I have seen so far. Am a new Subscriber.

[@johnaddison2761]

Thanks again I really enjoyed this and also thank so much responding to my last message. I so wish I had a English teacher like you when I was at School. I went to School during 70-80's and I am also dyslexic, I still do struggle with gramma but not creativity. I do write as I am not going let dyslexia stop me. So I have written flash fiction, short stories. Your videos are so much fun.

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks John! Keep going with the writing.

[@johnaddison2761]

@@engvidBenjamin I will thanks Benjamin your videos are helping.

[@vahidegulkaya7836]

Excellent lecture 🌷

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thank you

[@kayyisahnaurahafif1530]

It's sound like a british accent. Isn't it? I have tried to learn english till now and I love watching this video.

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks for watching

[@ninatong8191]

My mom likes your lesson even the pronunciation

[@engvidBenjamin]

I'm so glad!

[@sohailvirkPHPDeveloper]

Awesome Benjamin

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thank you

[@Lofeupsidedown]

You're amazing sir!

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks for your support

[@farzanehw4760]

This was awesome Benjamin! I had been looking for a video like this for months and now I've found a great teacher doing a video on it! BUT ONE QUESTION, how I can learn the kind of words you used to exaggerate? (grid-lock, tearing my hair out, tearing down the hard shoulder, slamming [on the accelerator])

[@engvidBenjamin]

That comes with experience and exposure to language but I would suggest that on the engvid website you are concentrating on vocabulary and expressions.

[@monmioamio]

It would be great fun to have your James Bond wife tell this story they way she experienced it 😎

[@engvidBenjamin]

She's a far better storyteller than I am!

[@monmioamio]

@benjamin - looking forward to the video 😁

[@muhammadsafiq000safiq2]

Thank you very much this is very useful

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks

[@papuciowy1465]

I like dynamics of your lessons.

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thank you

[@rondickey7116]

Thank U..Benjamin..I now have the elements,as u put it, to tell a story,but how do I tell a story,just out of the blue..tht is something else i need to master,as well as all the things u talk abt in this video..Oh, i like the different slangs,ur country has for things....ty

[@engvidBenjamin]

It should come naturally out of conversation - it depends what you are talking about.

[@hajaramiri1143]

Can you make a video about how to know what a story or a movie is trying to say to us? I've gotta big problems with this part of reading books😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@_Ju_el_]

Can you tell me some examples of outcome to continue the conversation after mi story? Thanks.

[@engvidBenjamin]

You hope that after telling a story, someone might make a comment about it or ask you a question. If not, get the attention on someone else in the group by asking them a question or something.

[@chiccogm41]

😊 intellectual.

[@engvidBenjamin]

Not sure about that! The aim of storytelling is rarely to be intellectual, but I appreciate the compliment.

[@bestimmtgut]

thanks for a lesson. Could you please tell me, what microphone are you using? The sound is very clear! Thank you!

[@engvidBenjamin]

Not sure, sorry.

[@ninatong8191]

I don’t think you are really using a microphone

[@chebuggslife]

Superb Benjie!

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks for watching, David

[@humairahfarooq6453]

Your lectures are Superb❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@engvidBenjamin]

Glad you enjoyed

[@codeAlongwith]

How can you make sure you have stories that relate to 'usual' topics that people talk about? If your socially ackward or have a bad memory it can be difficult to always have the right stories? Is there a polite way that you can change what someone has been talking about to match the topic that you have a story about?

[@engvidBenjamin]

Hi Mark, thanks for this question. I think it's a bit unnatural to prepare stories for social situations but it's good to reflect after on how the storytelling went - which bits were people really listening to? Try and remember the funny stuff that happens to you...

[@mariamk7828]

Mark Hallam I have bad memories too😭I often can’t remember my experiences to talk abt

[@jeffreyhill7990]

Well done, love your lessons

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks Jeffrey

[@reconnect3342]

Thanks

[@engvidBenjamin]

Welcome

[@afrozenazneen6215]

I'm in.

[@engvidBenjamin]

Welcome

[@jaikaranbully6027]

Hi Benjamin Would you like to answer my question, if someone says " how do him know " Is correct grammar used in this sentence ? And what do you understand by this ?

[@engvidBenjamin]

No, that is incorrect. You would say 'how do you know him?'

[@jaikaranbully6027]

@@engvidBenjamin No, you don't understand my point, which is my language In that, if we show respect towards someone, then we use plural for that. But here for a human if I have to use plural Like if I want to say that "how do they know this", how will I say this sentence. Since I can't use "they" for a single person. Is there also any such rule in the English language that if I want to show respect towards someone, then we should add something specific in it , Like plural is used in my language I speak. 😄 Be sure to answer. I think to say that how do "he know this " is unformal.

[@cozy5217]

Your wife is awesome 🤩

[@engvidBenjamin]

Yup!

[@MadhubhartiGBava]

Thanks, when will you upload video next

[@engvidBenjamin]

18th of june i think

[@momenmahamed9478]

I love the british , even though I don't undertand it

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks for watching

[@SVLOGS1M]

✌✌

[@engvidBenjamin]

:)

[@jhilmilmengi7819]

hello mr. Benjamin. I watched the video and started practicing storytelling by writing those down. I have a humble request. can you check and critique the stories i have been practicing writing over email because my storytelling is very long winded and boring. i have nobody to turn to to check for improvement. thanks. - english literature major who wants to be able to write and narrate good stories in future. PS waiting for your reply.

[@engvidBenjamin]

Hi - this video is aimed at spoken stories. Telling a story in conversation in person is more difficult than writing down a story as you have to adapt to your audience. I think this video has some useful premises in, just try and experiment with them. Also remember that stories should emerge naturally - you don't go round to someone's house with the intention of telling a specific story.

[@madhurangasampath8473]

nice

[@engvidBenjamin]

Glad you liked it

[@professorofsprituality]

🌺👌👌

[@engvidBenjamin]

Cheers

[@mazenbaseldaily9671]

you are a great teacher

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks

[@emrekorkmaz2412]

I don't understand him but i am watching 😀

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks for watching!

[@ninatong8191]

Uhh

[@ninatong8191]

Uhh....

[@rkv4u]

If you start a language training center in the capital of India, you're gonna roll in money.

[@engvidBenjamin]

Thanks Rajiv. One day... :)

[@jhilmilmengi7819]

@@engvidBenjamin if we just inform a lot of people about his channel. that should do half the job, for the time being

[@LilyH174]

❤😂🎉😅😊

[@engvidBenjamin]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@pam9451]

you’re awesome

[@engvidBenjamin]

Not sure about that. Us Brits like to be modest :)

[@Pragemena121]

Amazing how they dont teach this in school instead of some of the other rubbish they teach

[@engvidBenjamin]

There are lots of things we have to figure out, like how to change the tyre on a car wheel...