Teaching & Learning Tips & Experience! | Extra-long English listening practice
hello everyone and welcome back to
english with Lucy today I've got a very
special guest this is Harry and he has
erm well along with his friend Charlie
yeah very sad and they have the English
language channel real English with real
Teachers firstly I must apologise for my
voice or if I cough because i'm getting
at the moment I'm quite enjoying the
voice and it's also quite sexy sex it's
thank you yeah yeah yeah especially in
person today Harry and I are going to
this is going to be really good for your
conversation skills because you get to
analyse what we're saying and how we say
it is also going to be great for your
listening skills because i have lovingly
written subtitles for you so make sure
you since they've done and if you really
want to improve your listening try
watching once without subtitles and then
once again with subtitles so that you
can see what you didn't pick up so Harry
tell me how did you get into teaching
English ah so I went travelling okay in
2014
I went to Southeast Asia amazing which
countries did you visit there I went to
thailand cambodia vietnam and laos well
Oh what can you say in Cambodian? robot robot
gnome Harry about Neil you say you are
cool thanks ok so if you're Cambodian
and watching this let us know how we did
yeah sorry to those really wrong so you
around a man-made you guys so I just
stayed around Asia ok but one day I said
to my friend JJ who i was traveling with
barium large oh yeah so we were we're in
Cambodia and I said to JJ already wanted
to do some volunteer voluntary voluntary
teaching ok and you did it for free
I did it for free how honorable and
honorable yeah and so I I found a school
ok I was like JJ that why don't we go in
here and then we walked into school and
said we want to volunteer and you
literally pick a school walk-in walk-in
so they think their mental if there were
no one guarding that took a lot of bull
and theories board everywhere what they
it means it took a lot of courage lot of
you're very courageous very courageous
yes and by monday so the third day and i
said i want to be a volunteer and then
by monday i had my own class of 20
streaming Cambodian kids sound like
dilek yeah it was it was mental and so
how did you learn the peach picking it
difficult because you guys might not
know this but in English schools in our
education system we don't learn grammar
so i think both of us have had to learn
grammar ourselves yeah to be able to
so how did you go about teaching
learning grammar so I basically
struggled through the voluntary
experiences but love the process of
teaching ok and it nice seeing their
faces light up when they learn something
and I really enjoyed that so then when I
got back from traveling i did a teaching
qualification which qualification is he
I did be pinch salt which ok i did the
ok it's not LOL ok we do the Trinity one
yeah yeah so you have teaching practice
sound teaching practice they've assessed
yeah I'm similar yeah yeah and how many
hours in total with you I it was done
from one month I for one month intensive
so most english as a second language
teachers will have done a 120 our one
month intensive course it's pretty
intense than that I mean what yeah
yeah it's difficult but it means that we
we understand how to teach grammar but
that's not enough on it though you
really have an extra reset which is how
i go into YouTube because i was watching
videos and how to explain this crowd of
people and then I thought that I'd like
to do that good so I thought it'd do you
have absolutely why did you thought
youtube app so and me my friend Charlie
who met at University we both studied
absolutely yeah I know to show bit
stressed at the moment yes i'm a little
how did you know so we're you know very
oh yeah maybe so we may university we
got on really well yeah and then we get
kept in contact after ok at Charlie went
to today where his started working as a
ok and after i went traveling i did my
qualification I went to Spain and being
where did you go insane i was in the
basque country so in the menore yeah
yeah and I'm the only South yeah baby
yeah baby yeah the valley and there is
very different climate it sounds ago I
never went to northern thing and I've
ever been and it's on my bucket list are
you need to go it's amazing it rains a
lot in the backcountry it's it seems
yes and if you're making like yeah like
yeah liking then they want a big change
going there and thats into the weather
because England rains a lot as well but
the youtube stuff for Charlie my partner
reason here today because he is shoulder
he had and he was an online feature in
Chile 14a and he continued doing that
and he's been doing that for brown three
ok and i were in Spain and worked there
for a year in the basque country and
then I started doing some online classes
as well and we set up the youtube
channel to give current English at 22
the world because we realize that having
used textbooks and all the language you
absolutely and we don't really need it
anymore now i take the agree as soon as
it's out of date do you know the phrase
sorry just one question the phrase it's
you always know about girls know and the
it's like the prime idiomatic example
yeah and it's just no one uses it that
everyone knows the phrase exactly what
would you say instead of its raining
cats and dogs in a more English way i
would say it's pissing it down and if
no don't look at what would you do
food so already its pouring it down haha
ok or its chucking it down okay that
would be a better yes pissing down you
probably know that with your friend my
friend yeah yeah yeah okay yeah or you
could say it's bucketing it down
marketing it down or Uranus throwing
bucket starting to look at that again
but it sounds fucking about yeah yeah so
I'm a big advocate that the real English
would really look real teachers channel
i've said a lot of their videos on my
social media and the reason I do that is
because i think that you guys a really
unique i think that the channel is
completely different and they're not
feature mutti doing very similar things
sometimes i'm part of that as well and I
like that there's two of you so you have
conversations you go out in the real
world i mean you've done a video out on
you guys can click at the card up here
and you can go and check that out the
really good video I think it's not big
it's just hit 10,000 yeah anything yeah
exactly and then maybe I don't as an the
learner of spanish the most valuable
I think foreigner is having a video of
native speakers speaking at a normal
exactly and having the luxury of having
yeah and better even pictures who can
pick out the interesting phrases that we
use yeah I those native speakers if you
youtube videos that you know you know
what every wednesday absolutely yeah and
wednesday and i like these live videos
always said into my students because
they'll do what about idioms or
something do that in context explain the
meaning and it's a really natural
organic way to learn English thank you
yeah around every Wednesday redo these
live left leave and we originally
started studying songs in class i think
the other week we did be Sam Smith song
yes and before that we did an edge
Sheeran song and and so we were given
your language which is used right now by
pop stars by famous people in the media
and by normal native speakers and and we
analyze that and give you the chance to
participate with us much like Lucy
yes yeah I do i do a couple of life
lessons I think I'm changing the day
actually coming right there won't be a
fun day anymore because I need my
very good yeah unfortunately things are
getting away so and so you've worked in
quite different countries he went to
Spain and in Cambodia that mean and what
are the different struggles that your
respective few prospective student news
that all feel respected their respected
student had with English so now that I
work online an online teacher my
mathematics he have i've got Turkish
student how Koreans of South Koreans and
the enemy of going lots and lots of get
other knots and not of spanish students
Latinos i have Italian students my god
and students are whole grains rushing
literally from everywhere and but the
majority mushrooms are Spanish okay
because I can speak some spanish yet
which helps yeah absolutely you can
understand why they're making specific
ok so you teach loads of different
nationalities use but is there one thing
that you think everyone struggles with
he yet so for those speakers who speak
phonetic languages and for example
spanish or italian is quite connected
and Turkish can be the world and that
yeah it's not completely like a Spanish
I don't think we have the same
information points on their written
language but yet very phonetic because
the english isn't so that's always a
struggle but i think that's that's quite
obvious and not some spanish people know
that they have difficulties with that
but I also think grammar is a big thing
yes they are not with spanish people
yes well one thing I always think is my
finest students are fantastic at grammar
I mean they can tell you that pluperfect
yeah okay so what they can't do is put
yeah absolutely they know what a theory
but the practice in there and I don't
know if it's related to their education
system they're very exam based your and
practical and I think that shows in the
English is very true and having taught
so many Spanish people i think the way
they use the present in spanish is a lot
more flexible yeah than ours and for
example there's three ways i'll give you
three sentences in spanish and which are
using the president in English we
wouldn't use the president you have any
of them so I'm my boy for example we
would say I'm going yeah yeah there you
got to tell you though so i will help
you yeah i'm dead after a fan you get
bukkake exact like believe all that
means I've lived here for three years so
they're very flexible of that so i often
find that might need to say I'm living
yes they do the translation daily don't
yeah so that stuff often issue and you
turkish people know you're not really i
I really only have taught Spanish news
ok base in England and got really good
Spanish community in London so you can
teach them in London yeah yeah okay so
we went out whenever I meet teachers I
always like to ask them if they've ever
had any really embarrassing teaching
ok have you had Ali I've had I've had a
few um no yeah what happened yeah and
well once when i was teaching spain i
was i was the last pitcher in the school
ok so i had to lock up the school and
the receptionist would leave about nine
o'clock and i would leave at ten o'clock
and when the receptionist left she would
always lock the door and I was in my
classrooms two lovely ladies to students
and this wasn't planned and then I
realized I had forgotten my keys so I
was stuck in the school with these two
girls like shit how time deciding were
you there for an hour of different hours
you have these girls them to come back
yeah we had to wake up one of the the
managers at the school to come and let
us out of school so that was really that
was really embarrassing but luckily
back ladies and I've I appreciate them
ok and i also want to test your language
skills do you speak any Spanish but I'm
not that much of a winter are you even
ok can't get there get there when I can
see on michiana that all better in gonna
sento milano or-or-or espanyol he gonna
miss you can we come on say not say okay
a la la Carmina at all ok Oklahoma after
ok baby got came in more out of order in
it's cari no shadow Quinn don't move
your camera cuesta everybody but I don't
have to do anything yet i'm going to see
all you get with neither one of y'all
all a thank you so much for that Harry
that was beautiful i think im gonna get
I don't think we can get along so hope
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