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hello my name is Ariel I am a student of English literature this is my story I want to tell you about my life story in London I want to tell you about my fantastic teacher you can read my story you can learn English with me it is a beautiful day of Summers I am traveling on a train two women are on the train with me the women are sitting opposite me they are speaking English I don't understand much I am studying English but I am a beginner I don't know many words I begun speaking to

the women I said some words in basic English the women understood what I wanted to say and that made me happy I said that I want to learn English the women told me that they are from England they are going home from a conference our conversation was 10 minutes long the next station was my station I said goodbye the women gave me their address and phone number they told me that I can visit them in England then we said goodbye after this meeting I worked on my English every day I translated texts and watched films

in English in 6 months my English was improved it was good now but I wanted to learn more I went to London I wanted to study English from London when I was in London I joined School my first lesson was on Monday I met my teacher and other students in the class my teacher was a young and fine lady she was very nice and humble we introduced ourselves and then proceeded with the lesson our teacher has a question for us she wanted to know our general knowledge about the language our teacher told that she can

teach through a very effective method to learn English this method was very simple our teacher tells us that we would not have to study we won't have to read textbooks but we would have to use English a lot in our daily lives it turned out very effective for me I did not like studying from the textbooks because they confused me then we spoke about what is important when we learned a new language our teacher told us language is a purpose and a mode for communication we need languages to communicate languages help us to express ideas

and thoughts so when you learn a new language the best method is to use the language to express our feelings and to communication with other people as communication well and this is what we will do in our course we will speak and make use of English language a lot many students try to remember new words they also study grammar rules and these students don't use English for speaking they study about the language but they don't use the language there is a difference of course you need to learn new words and grammar but you don't have

to study them you need to practice them on daily basis in this course I wanted to show a very simple and effective method on how to learn vocabulary and grammar I like what our teacher says our lesson continues we spoke about our hobbies and what we like to do in our free time we spoke in pairs or with our teacher I enjoyed taking classes I am really happy this system of learning turned out to be very good and effective for me chapter 2 How I Learned vocabulary I went to school on Tuesday again one of

the students asked the question which was interesting for me she asked what is the best way to learn new words our teacher told there are many things you can do to learn new words I will tell you what is statistically the most effective way for learning new words it is reading when people read they learn new words of their language they learn twice as fast as people who don't read it is good to read for at least 30 minutes every day I want to show you what you should do if you want to get the

maximum profit from Reading first it is very important that the book or text which you read is interesting for you it is important that you enjoy reading the book the book can be a nice story or it can be fictional or nonfiction itional whatever your interest is for the book don't read the text which isn't interesting for you when you don't know many words you can get frustrated you always want to enjoy everything you do while using the language it is effective to choose a text which is interesting and also okay for your level when

you read the text and you see a word which you don't understand you should take a dictionary and find the word in the dictionary then you would look at its meaning this will make better understanding of the text and your knowledge for the text will be increased you won't have to write the word anywhere the word will automatically get locked in your brain and you will always remember its meaning wherever you will see this word again every time when there is a new word for you you will do the same reading also has another great

Advantage when you read you learn new words and you also learn how each word is connected to other words in the sentence you can see how to link the words correctly this way of learning new words is very effective try it and you will see how fast you can learn new words then we continue with the lesson we speak about the situation in England and about the best jobs for students this is good for me because I want to get a job I want to do something in my spare time after school I asked other

students if they know that from where I can find a job they told me that I should go to a job center the job center offers a lot of jobs especially for students this is good for me I am happy that I know from where I can find a job when my day at school was over I went to the job center I did not know what job I could do so I asked the lady at the job center what is the best job for a student the lady told me that they have some good

jobs for students she told me that I can be a cleaner or a waitress in a cafe I told the lady that I have no experience with these jobs she told me that my English is good enough to work at the cafe the training was not difficult and I can have more chances to speak English than being a cleaner she told me that I can start my job on Thursday it is all good for me I am happy that I have a job where I can practice English when you want to learn new words effectively

read for 30 minutes every day on Wednesday I went to school again there is one student in the class who is more quiet than the others he is from South Korea when our teacher asked if we had any questions for her this student from Korea said that he has a question he said that he has a big problem with pronunciation he knew that his pronun pronunciation is not very good but you did not know how to improve it he doesn't speak much because he doesn't have others to listen to his bad pronunciation he said that

he reads and watches films in English a lot he understands very well but he also wants to improve speaking he asked if there is something he could do to be better at pronunciation when my teacher heard this she said okay I will tell you something about pronunciation and how to practice it I will also teach you techniques which can help all of you to become better at pronunciation first we have to look at Why students have problem with pronunciation when we speak we have to move our mouth we have to use muscles in our mouth

we all do that the problem is that when you speak English sometimes times you use your muscles the same way you would use them in your native language then your pronunciation is different from the pronunciation of native speakers this happens to many students to learn English almost everybody has a little different pronunciation than they should have in fact it is not a big problem because usually people understand what you want to say even if your pronunciation is not per perfect however you can work on your pronunciation and make it better by a great technique which

can help you a lot the name of this technique is shadowing the technique is very simple when you do shadowing you simply copy the sound which you hear when children learn their first language they learn it by copying they copy after their parents again and again and one day their pronunciation becomes perfect if you can learn English pronunciation the same way this is what you can do you take some videos or audios recording which is not very fast and which you can understand very well you listen and you copy what you hear when you hear

it that is all then our teacher went to wwww youtube.com and she searches for the shadowing technique she found good videos where the shadowing technique was very well demonstrated we watched the video then we all tried to do shadowing for about 3 minutes then our teacher told us shadowing is also good when you are preparing for presentation in English and you want to have good pronunciation before the presentation you can go to some place place where you are alone and you can do shadowing for about 10 minutes you will see how much it will help

you to have better pronunciation during the presentation this was very interesting for me I haven't heard about this technique before when the lesson finished I went to the school reception I asked the lady if there are any sport activities at school I would like to do some sport in England the lady at the reception says yes we have a table tennis team and a football team the football team has training today at 5:00 I was very happy because sport is very important in my life I went to the training of the football team I met

a lot of players from different countries the players are from Brazil Japan Russia Spain Argentina and Italy I like the training I was very happy that my time in England started well I have a great teacher I also have some new friends from my football team also tomorrow I am starting my job as well when you want to have a good pronunciation repeat after native speakers on Thursday I went to school again we had new student in our class her name is Elizabeth and she is from Italy at the beginning of the lesson My teacher

asked Elizabeth some questions my teacher knows Elizabeth because Elizabeth visited her class one year ago it was a class for beginners and it was only for 2 weeks during summer holiday when Elizabeth speaks she speaks beautifully her pronunciation is very good and she is fluent my teacher was very happy and she told Elizabeth your school in Italy must be very good Elizabeth says I don't go to any school I learn English at home I use techniques that I learn from you I do a lot of reading shadowing and thinking aloud I try to think more

in English than in Italian this is how I work on my English the two weeks which I spent Last Summer at your class helped me a lot you showed me the way I know how to work on my English every day this is why I wanted to join your class again because one year ago I was beginner and now I can speak English I want to learn from you again my teacher was very happy when she heard these words she appreciated Elizabeth for her hard work it is all very interesting for me I already know

about reading I also know the shadowing technique but Elizabeth also speaks about thinking aloud I don't know what it is so I asked our teacher what is thinking aloud our teacher replied it is a very effective technique you have to have a strong motivation to learn English if you want to have benefits from this technique it is also good to know that for some people this technique is a little crazy but when you start to think aloud your English can be better very fast I said I have a strong motivation I don't care if the

technique is crazy if it helps I want to learn it can you teach us this technique okay it is actually a very simple you think in your native language all day every time it is normal now you can start to think in English and when you start to think in English then you can think aloud you simply say aloud what you think it is all I say it is very simple why is it very effective our teacher says maybe you can ask Elizabeth she uses this technique maybe she can tell you more about this technique

then our teacher asked Elizabeth if it is okay for her to speak about experience with thinking aloud it is not a problem for Elizabeth she said when I started with this technique it wasn't easy I started with very simple sentences for example I can speak English it is good that I can speak English I want to be better I need to practice every day I don't know many words but I can use these words L can say my ideas with these words I can do this this is great the sentences were really simple but at

the beginning there was one problem my thinking in Italian was long and complicated I was not able to say in English exactly but I said in Italian I needed to find a simpler form for English to think in simple English was the hardest part but after some time it was normal for me to think in English then something interesting happened I met a man from Australia he was on holiday in Italy I was still a beginner but we started to speak English I could see that I was able to speak with him without having problems

my sentences were simple and short but I was able to speak I didn't translate in my head from Italian to English after the meeting with the man from Australia I started to use thinking aloud more this technique helped me a lot with my speaking I still use it every day it is really a very effective technique our teacher thanked Elizabeth for her experience with thinking aloud I wanted to use this technique because L also wanted to get better at speaking when you want to speak English fluently think aloud advice when you want to learn English

read listen think and speak do each activity for 30 minutes every day part two hello I hope you are feeling well first I want to remind you that there is the part one to this story if you have not watched it yet visit my channel and watch it so you can understand the whole story well my name is Ariel I am a student of English this is my story I want to tell you about my life in London I want to tell you about my fantastic teacher you can read my story you you can learn

English with me chapter 1 how I learn grammar after school I go to the cafe where my job training starts I don't know what to expect I have no experience I am not sure if I can do this job when I come to the cafe I am very surprised it is a modern Cafe which sells coffee tea and and also chocolate cakes and sandwiches and my boss is only 25 years old she started to work at the cafe more 2 years ago she has a lot of experience and she knows everything perfectly she shows me

how to prepare coffee how to wash the dishes and how to deal with customers it is all new for me I remember only about 20% of what she tells me but then she lets me do the work work and she corrects me when I make a mistake she is very friendly and learn fast after the first day at work I am very tired but I am happy that I have a job the next day is Friday and I go to school again one student asks an interesting question sometimes when I speak I am not sure

if I speak correctly I am not sure if I use correct grammar can you help me what to do if I want to learn grammar our teacher says thank you for your question there are two groups of students some students study English because they want to be able to speak some students study English because they want to pass an exam for each group the situation is different first I will speak about the students who need English for speaking if this is you you don't have to study grammar a lot when you learn your native language

you also learn it without studying grammar you can learn English grammar Naturally by using the language the best way to learn grammar naturally is by reading a lot books are written in good grammar when you read you will learn grammar in the context of the whole sentence I also recommend shadowing when you do shadowing you practice the correct grammar you do it naturally you don't have to try to remember anything you only copy sentences with correct grammar if you need English for speaking but also want to study grammar you can visit grammar in ls.com this

website shows what grammar is important for the different levels of English you can find the most important grammar rules for speaking there the second group of students are those who study English for passing an exam if you are one of these students I recommend studying specifically for this exam it can take the versions of this exam from the past years if it is possible and train with them the second group of students are those who study English for passing an exam if you are one of these students I recommend studying specifically for this exam it

can take the versions of this exam from the past years if it is possible and train with them of course your exam will be a little different but the structure is usually the same or very similar from my point of view the versions of the exam from the past years are good training materials then I recommend going to the exam only when your results in the training materials are such that you can pass the exam successfully did I answer your question yes thank you says the student this is good news I don't like studying grammar

I learn English because I want to be able to speak I don't need to pass any exam I am happy that I don't have to study grammar much I like reading and I am happy that I can learn grammar by reading books after the lesson I go to the website grammar in levels Comm it is really a nice website there are grammar rules with examples for each level they have three levels these levels are 1,000 2000 and 3,000 words in the afternoon I go to my work it is my second day and I can already

do lot of things by myself but my boss helps me when I need it I see that my work is not very difficult also I can practice English when I speak to our customers moral when you want to have good grammar read a lot chapter 2 how test my English it is Monday again and I go to my school our teacher asks us what we did at the weekend I say that I was at work on Saturday I say that I can already do my work well I say that I am happy when I can

speak to our customers when I speak one of the girls in the class asks me what happened to your voice you sound very different from what we heard last week your pronunciation is very good I smile and I say thank you I use shadowing on Saturday evening after my work and the whole Sunday I tried to speak like a native speaker I know that it is not perfect but I also see a big change in my pronunciation our teacher asks if other students tried to practice shadowing three students say yes one of them is the

student from South Korea he also likes this technique one student says that she tried the technique but her mouth was in pain after 5 minutes of shadowing and she stopped She also says that she wasn't always able to repeat everything because the recording was very fast our teacher says thank you for trying out this technique if you do shadowing for the first time and your mouth is in pain after 5 minutes you do it correctly your need to train your muscles to this new way of speaking it is like going to the gym for the

first time your muscles can hurt if they are not trained if the muscles in our mouth hurt you can take a break after 5 minutes of shadowing and you can continue a bit later with every 5 minutes of practice your pronunciation is better shadowing has also other advantages you practice the correct pronunciation in English and you also practice other things for example intonation Rhythm and connecting words in whole sentences I know that at the beginning the recording can sometimes be very fast for you if this happens you can repeat only the first or the last

word in the sentence with practice you will be able to repeat more I say that it is true on Saturday when I started with shadowing it was difficult for me but on Sunday evening it was easy to repeat what I heard then I have a question for our teacher I tell her that I looked at grammar in ls.com the website is interesting but I don't know what level is for me me because I don't know how many words I know our teacher asks other students if they know how many words they know in English it

is interesting to see that nobody knows we know that we are intermediate students but we don't know how many words we know our teacher says there is a website for people who study foreign languages you can do a test there you can know how many words you know the test has only two steps and it is really simple the name of the website is test languages Comm you can do the test every month and you can see how much you improve during that month if you want you can now take your smartphones and go to

that website and do the test I am really interested in knowing how many words I know I do the test immediately I find out that I know 2100 words in English most of the students know between 2,00 and 2200 words only Monica and the boy from South Korea know 251 words our teacher says so you can see that when you go to grammar and level.com you should already know grammar from level two you can start using grammar from level three because level three is for students who know between 2,000 and 3,000 words moral test your

progress every month chapter 3 how I handle mistakes on Tuesday I go to school again one student asks our teacher an interesting question she says I want to practice speaking with with people around me but I don't want to make mistakes I don't want to look stupid can you help me our teacher says making mistakes is a very interesting topic there are a lot of opinions on this topic I want to show you what I believe is the best to do I have a lot of experience with this because I also learn new languages for

example now I am learning Spanish when I speak Spanish I don't care if I make mistakes or not the reason why I don't care about mistakes is simple when I learned my native language I didn't care about making mistakes mistakes weren't important for me my main goal when I use any language is to say my ideas it is all I know that when I read a lot speak and do shadowing my Spanish will be better and better I know that this can look very very simple but it is my opinion this is what I learned

after many years of teaching and learning languages it works very well for me and many of my students when I speak I only concentrate on speaking at the moment I know 1,500 words in Spanish it is the level of a 2-year-old child 2-year-old children make a lot of mistakes when they speak but they don't care about their mistakes they continue using their native language and when they are 3 years old they make very few mistakes and when they are 4 years old they usually speak very well you can do the same now most of you

know about 2,000 words so it is absolutely okay to make mistakes time to time when you continue using English there will be fewer and fewer mistakes in your speaking it is not possible to go to a higher level if you don't make mistakes when you practice English it is okay not to be perfect Perfection comes with practice all people who started to learn English started from the beginning from the same level from Level zero learning languages is like learning to play a musical instrument it needs to be trained when you start your training it is

not perfect at the beginning and you make mistakes it is normal take it as a necessary part of your learning process you don't go through this period of making mistakes you can't get to higher levels when you continue to use English the mistakes can step by step go away if you want to make fewer and fewer mistakes do a lot of reading and shadowing when you read you can read aloud it can also help you make fewer mistakes in real conversations care only about exchanging ideas don't care about making mistakes when you speak you practice

changing your ideas to words you don't learn grammar or words you have other activities for it don't worry everybody who learns a foreign language makes mistakes sometimes famous people bosses of big companies or politicians make mistakes too when you listen to these people on TV you see that they don't care about mistakes they care about what is important and it is saying their ideas you can do the same does it make sense the girl says yes thank you moral if you don't want to make mistakes do a lot of reading and shadowing advice to enhance

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