Learn English without teachers and workbooks | Canguro English
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I want to start this class by saying
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something a little bit strange I want
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you to stop watching my videos let me
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explain why I spend all of my time and
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effort trying to give the power back to
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the students you see there are a lot of
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problems in the world of language
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learning right now but the main problem
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is that learning a language has become a
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product if you want to learn a language
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you need this course or this workbook or
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this system or this exam but the truth
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is that learning a language is and has
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always been about the people it's a
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democracy the people have the power and
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I spend a lot of my time trying to
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convince people that they don't need any
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of this rubbish
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to learn a language so if you come to me
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and say Christian I don't watch your
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videos anymore because now I live in
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English I'm a happy man that is for me
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that is success I have succeeded in
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giving the power back to you and I
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really hope that you all realize this
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very soon that you don't need any of
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this stuff to really succeed at learning
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a language Tony Robbins the motivational
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speaker he said that people think that
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it takes 10 years to change but the
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reality is that the change happens in a
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moment it takes you 10 years to realize
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that you can make the change
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so recently I made a class about how to
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pass an English exam without using a
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workbook you should throw the workbook
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in the bin and you don't even need a
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teacher you can teach yourself and a lot
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of people expressed skepticism about
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this how can I learn English without a
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teacher without a book and today I'm
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going to show you how you can learn and
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really succeed at learning a language
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without any resources and without any
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teacher because the reality is that most
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people in this world have no access to
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resources or teachers or any type of
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education but that doesn't mean that you
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can't learn and my goal today is to give
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you back some of that power that I
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really want you to have to give this
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class some structure I'm going to take
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one of the units from this workbook and
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we're going to learn all of the things
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in this unit without the workbook I'm
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going to show you that you don't need
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the workbook to learn all of this stuff
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so in in this chapter
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it's called face the music it's about
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Fame and celebrity and musicians we're
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going to learn some phrasal verbs we're
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going to learn the passive tense we're
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going to listen to a news report we're
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going to speak comparing pictures we're
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going to write describing an event and
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we're going to learn some expressions
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with go we're going to do all of this
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stuff from the book without the book now
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when you're learning you always want to
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learn stuff that's interesting to you
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personally so that you're excited about
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it so
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choose a musician a celebrity that you
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really like that you're interested in
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today I have chosen Adele because I
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think she's a funny person and she has a
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great voice so let's learn all of this
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stuff using Adele and the first place to
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start is of course the Internet so all I
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did was I just opened up a web browser
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and I googled Adele Fame and there were
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two really interesting stories that I
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found one was this one from the mail
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online about Adele and her 100 show
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world tour the other story was about
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Adele and her postpartum depression and
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the downsides of Fame so let's look at
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the first one so the title is hitting
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the right bank notes
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Adele earned a whopping 142 million
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pounds from her 100 show well tour but
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only paid herself a third of the profits
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now maybe this word here whopping
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whopping what does it mean whopping if I
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look at the context it means something
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big right obviously a hundred and forty
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two million pounds is a lot of money I
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have a new a new piece of vocabulary
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whopping let's read some more it's no
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wonder
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Adele raked in a whopping 142 million
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pounds profit Wow okay which kicked off
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in 2016 so here I have in this one
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sentence I have a repetition of my new
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vocabulary whopping so I get the idea
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it's a big amount but also I have two
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phrasal verbs raked in and kicked off
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now
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I can if I know what those words mean
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what those phrasal verbs mean great if
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not I can look them up but I know that
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they are related to fame and music and
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singing because this is reality you see
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what you get from reality that you don't
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get from a workbook is the English that
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people really use every day that's what
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we want an authentic experience so raked
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in means to rake in hides my money and
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to kick off means to start think about a
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game of football a game of football
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begins with the kickoff ok so I have two
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new phrasal verbs some new vocabulary
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let's continue reading records revealed
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on Wednesday that the Cena's company
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remedy Turing made the hefty sum from
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both ticket and merchandise sales okay
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we have another adjective a hefty some
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hefty so again I get the idea that this
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means something big right a hefty sum
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it's a synonym for whopping whopping and
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hefty great okay then we have a photo of
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her in a green dress looking good Adele
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and then it says according to the Sun
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the hitmakers company made close to 70
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million pounds profit during the Adele
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life with the remaining funds covering
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the tourist costs hitmaker
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that's a new noun a new piece of
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vocabulary a person who makes hits and
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you know we see some vocabulary relating
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to tours a tour okay great
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now this sentence the Sun means Adele
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made more than 1 million pounds per show
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okay so you could call it a performance
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or a show now I know there's some
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synonyms she performed 121 dates between
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February 2016 and June 2017 in Europe
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North America
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and oceania dates so now I know there
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are three synonyms I can call them a
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performance or a show or a date I'm
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learning all of this new vocabulary
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related to Fame and music and it's all
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authentic okay the final sentence
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however the singer is believed to have
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pocketed 42 million herself with her
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company using the rest for future
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projects pocketed maybe you didn't know
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that pockets
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okay pocket was also a verb yeah and
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they're using it in the past to put
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something in your pocket is the verb to
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pocket so all of this stuff it's real
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it's authentic and we can continue with
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the next story this is about the
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downside of Fame
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we know that up is good we're happy
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we're up and then down is bad you know
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down is bad so there's a downside to
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fame you know then we can read this and
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we're interested we want to know about
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Adele we love Adele now the writing so
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remember again we really want to make
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this something personal to us we want to
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write a description of an event so write
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about an event that you went to now you
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want to push yourself okay you don't
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want to be safe you want to push
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yourself so we need to incorporate some
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of the things we learnt before so some
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of those phrasal verbs the new
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vocabulary
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the new grammar that we learnt and also
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maybe we're going to look for some
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synonyms in alpha soros you need a
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dictionary okay to to look up words that
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that you're not sure of in your language
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if you don't have physical copies of
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these you can find them for free on the
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internet and
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we're just going to write a description
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of an event we went to how did we feel
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about it how did it smell how did it
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feel
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did you go with your friends with your
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family all of these open questions where
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you really have to use your imagination
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and activate this that just stimulates
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the learning process and all you need is
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a pencil and a piece of paper now one
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other thing we have to do is to compare
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some pictures and talk about them so
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maybe you don't have the vocabulary for
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comparing pictures you're not sure about
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contrast well look for a quick class on
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YouTube or of just Google how to compare
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how to make comparisons but that's not
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the focus we don't want to focus on the
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class the grammar now we want to focus
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on actually making comparison so I've
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googled Adele I click on images and then
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I have lots of different images of Adele
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hmm so I'm gonna choose two and compare
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them okay
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this one here right where she has all of
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these awards in her arm in her arms and
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then maybe this one here where her hair
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is is completely different right so I
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can say in this picture Adele has her
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hair up and her skin looks really
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flawless and glowing but in the other
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picture in the other picture her hair is
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totally different it's more to salt
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they're more like wild her skin also
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looks good but she doesn't look very
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happy in the other picture she looks
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be in this picture she doesn't look so
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happy
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also what else in there in this picture
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she's wearing a green dress with beads
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okay with beads in' and and other things
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and she's wearing some gold earrings and
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in this picture she's um she's wearing a
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black top like maybe a v-neck top okay
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so some of this vocabulary you're going
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to have to look up okay but at least you
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know it's real and it's authentic
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now some listening now when you're
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practicing your listening
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I recommend not watching a video but
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just audio only because when you're
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watching a video you have other visual
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clues to help you like gestures mouth
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position all of these things if you
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really want to practice pure listening
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headphones and and you know your phone
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or your computer or the radio but I
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spent a few minutes looking on my
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telephone for some podcasts I found lots
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of interviews with Adele where she's
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talking about Fame and her life now
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maybe I'm only going to understand 50%
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and really that's not ideal but at least
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it's realistic
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you see listening to those listenings
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from the the workbooks it's just a false
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representation of how people speak and
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it doesn't prepare you for the reality
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of having a conversation where you only
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understand the half of what people are
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saying and you have to start
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understanding from context you have to
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suffer be lost be confused all of that
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stuff is part of
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learning process now you don't have to
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do it here in the office you can listen
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to this when you're on the train on the
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bus when you're going for a walk
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when you're in bed it's about
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incorporating English into your life and
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making it interesting right I mean don't
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you want to hear the interview with
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Adele and that's it we just went through
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everything that was in that chapter of
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the book without using the book at all
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now
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maybe you're thinking Christiane that
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was a waste of my time you didn't teach
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me anything anybody could do that that's
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exactly my point it's about changing
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your mentality the the workbooks and the
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courses and the systems they don't
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contain anything special at all anybody
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can learn like this it's about you
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realizing that that is learning just
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because you're not in front of a list
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you're not suffering
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you're not like constantly memorizing
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things it doesn't mean you're not
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learning this is authentic learning real
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learning that prepares you to go out
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there and do that job interview and have
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that conversation at the pub and fall in
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love that's what I want for you guys
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well I hope that you found this class
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interesting if you would like to support
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free English education then you can
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consider becoming my patron on patreon
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or you can buy some incredible kangaroo
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English merchandise the links for both
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are down below I'm Christian this is
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kangaroo English off see you in class
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or maybe not maybe I'll never see you in
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class again
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but either way just remember you have
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the power
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