understand the meaning. That’s all you need to do. Listen to the first story –
understand the meaning. Listen to the second story – understand the
meaning. That’s all. It’s easy, effortless grammar learning.
After that, you would listen to the future version of the story: Imagine
there will be a boy. His name will be Bill. He’ll go to the store, and buy a
bottle of water. He’s going to pay two dollars for the water. That’s the end of
our short example in the future.
Again, all you do is just listen to this little easy story. You listen to the
present version. You listen to the past version. You listen to the future
version. Every day for seven days or more, you listen to each one.
We can even add more versions. We can practice any kind of grammar
with this. For example, I might say: There was boy. Since last year, he has
gone to the store every day. He has bought a bottle of water every day. He
has paid two dollars for the water. You don’t need to know the name of the
grammar or the verb tense that I’m using. It’s called the present perfect, but
you don’t need to know that. I don’t want you to think about that. All you
need to do, again, is listen to this version of the story.
Of course, I’m using extra phrases to help you understand the meaning. I
said, “Since last year,” so now you understand that these verbs change
because something happened in the past and it has continued for a while, but
you don’t need to think about that. That’s why these stories are so easy and
powerful. You just listen. You listen to story number one. You listen to story
number two, and you listen to story number three and to story number four,
and you learn the grammar like a native speaker. Like a child.
When you learn grammar like this, using these kinds of stories, you are
training like an athlete and you are freeing yourself from the hidden
curriculum. This is the difference between learning grammar as abstract
knowledge and acquiring the skill of using grammar in real speech. You want
the skill. You want to use correct grammar without thinking about it.
