Hello my name is Lex I come from Australia
I have self studied mandarin for 4 years and love
listing to Chinese music and singing Chinese song.
Hope I can help you to love English
the way I love Chinese.
Regards Lex
Learning English
How to Speak like a Native Speaker
• We all dream of speaking fluent English. Students
always stop and ask me how they can learn the same
kind of English that native English speakers do.
• I've spent years working closely with students and
paying attention to what really works and what
doesn't. I think I can finally answer this
question. Some of these ideas you may have heard
before. Maybe some are new. I hope you think about
each tip carefully because they really work.
Make It Fun
• 1. You need to make English learning fun. Humans are
big dreamers and big quitters. Think about how many
plans and dreams you have had in your life that never
happened. I don't want you to feel bad. You are not
alone.
• We are all like this. I have had hundreds of plans and
goals that I never completed. If learning to speak
English is boring then you will quit. You might be able
to keep going for a couple of days or even weeks, but
sooner or later you will think of some excuse to quit.
how to make it fun?
• 2. The question now is how to make it fun? It's a lot
easier to say "make it fun" than to actually make it
fun. I understand that learning can be quite boring. It's
a challenge to make it interesting.
• Here is the secret. Don't study English. Use English to
study something else. I'm sure you like certain English
TV shows or movies. I have created a way to actually
learn from these. I explain over 500 slang meanings
and funny stuff that you would never learn in
school. All of this stuff is important and useful. That's
the only reason I teach it.
how to make it fun?
• Learning English is not about learning a lot of words, it's
about learning the "right" words. 8 year old kids speak
English fluently with a very small vocabulary. They know
how to use what they know. Watching movies and TV isn't
the same as studying.
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You need to have explanations or your level will stay
where it is. Your listening will get a bit better, but then it
will plateau. (I guess you might not even know the word
"plateau") Maybe you can guess it but do you use it? I will
make you use words like this. If your level "plateaus" it
means that it stops getting better. It just stays the
same. Most people have this problem. There is a "sticking
point" and most English learners never get past it.
Copy your favourite voice
• 3. Copy your favourite voice. If you have
pronunciation problems, which you probably do, then
choose some native speaker and copy them. You will
probably need to listen to about 25 hours of them
speaking and then you will be able to speak like them.
• It is not quite natural. It will help if you record yourself
speaking and listen to it. You might be shy to do this in
the beginning, but after you get used to it, I am sure it
will be no problem. You can compare your own
pronunciation with the pronunciation of the native
speaker.
Copy your favourite voice
• Most people don't do this part and their pronunciation
never improves. They learn some bad habit and it just
stays there. People can understand them but they
know the accent is strong.
• If you do this last step, I'm sure that people will think
you were born in an English speaking country. It's so
amazing and I've seen it with my students. It only
takes about 3 to 4 months to totally change your
accent and voice for all English words. It's really cool
actually.
A SAILOR has told Australian
authorities she saw a burning Boeing
• A SAILOR has told Australian authorities she saw
a burning Boeing 777 near Thailand the morning
MH370 disappeared.
• Katherine Tee said she was sailing across the
Indian Ocean in March when she saw what she
believes was the missing Malaysia Airlines plane
MH370 billowing black smoke across the night
sky.
• MISSING PLANE: Where on earth is MH370?
• GLOBAL TRACKING UPGRADE: Trying to avoid a
repeat of MH370
• The British woman was sailing from Kochi, India, to Phuket,
Thailand, with her husband, Marc Horn, when she saw
what appeared to be a large aircraft on fire.
• “I thought I saw a burning plane cross behind our stern
from port to starboard, which would have been
approximately north to south,” Ms Tee wrote on sailing
website,Cruisers’ Forum.
• “Since that’s not something you see every day, I questioned
my mind. I was looking at what appeared to be an elongate
plane glowing bright orange, with a trail of black smoke
behind it. It did occur to me that it might be a meteorite.
But I thought it was more likely that I was going insane.”
• n Tuesday she told Thailand’s Phuket
Gazette newspaper that she was on night-watch
on the couple’s 40 foot sloop on the night of
March 7-8.
• “I saw something that looked like a plane on fire.
That’s what I thought it was. Then I thought I
must be mad. It caught my attention because I
had never seen a plane with orange lights before
so I wondered what they were,” she said.
• “I could see the outline of the plane, it looked longer
than planes usually do. There was what appeared to be
black smoke behind it.
• “There were two other planes well above it — moving
the other way — at the time. They had normal
navigation lights. I remember thinking that if it was a
plane on fire that I was seeing, the other aircraft would
report it.”
• The couple arrived in Phuket two days later, on March
10, but Ms Tee didn’t report her sighting to the Joint
Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) until Sunday.
• Mr Horn, 50, then posted maps of their yacht’s route
on sailing website, Cruisers’ Forum, where they
discovered that their yacht was in the vicinity of one of
MH370’s projected flight paths on the night it
disappeared.
• Ms Tee now believes they were near one of the
projected flight paths for the aircraft.
• She said a map revealed that the aircraft would have
passed the yacht astern.
• “This is what convinced me to file a report with the full
track data for our voyage to the relevant authorities,”
she said.
• The 41-year-old, who spent 13 months at sea, said she did not
report the incident at the time because she was having marital
issues and thought she might be going mad.
• “So when we hit land everyone was talking about the missing plane
and asking if we’d seen anything. Since I doubted what I saw and
was emotionally in a bad way, I brushed over what I thought I’d
seen … Besides, I thought they’d find it,” she said.
• But media reports at the weekend about the embattled search for
the missing plane prompted the couple to recheck their sailing logs.
• “But tonight I heard that they were looking in the wrong place, so
HWMO (her husband) and I looked back through our GPS logs and
lo and behold, what we saw was consistent with the confirmed
contact which the authorities had from MH370,” she said.
How can songs help me learn English?
Learn with video
• if you are able to watch YouTube videos in your country,
the Lyrics Training site could be a useful and fun site for
learning English with songs. Learners watch a video, listen
to the song, and type the correct songs words in the blank
spaces on the transcript below the video. At the end of the
song you are awarded points for your correct words and
how quickly you completed the transcript.
• You can choose the level of English you want to try, and you
can search the site for your favourite artist or song.
• The images in music videos can help you understand the
meaning of the words in the songs, although sometimes
you might it difficult to concentrate on the words of the
songs when you are watching the video for the first time.
http://www.lyricstraining.com/index.php
"Let Her Go"
Song by PASSENGER
"Let Her Go"
Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you'll make a dream last
But dreams come slow and they go so fast
"Let Her Go"
You see her when you close your eyes
Maybe one day you'll understand why
Everything you touch surely dies
But you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast
"Let Her Go"
Well you see her when you fall asleep
But never to touch and never to keep
'Cause you loved her too much
And you dived too deep
Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
And you let her go
Well you let her go
"Let Her Go"
'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
Learning to Reading
Please join the cue
read with a partner take it in turns
http://www.eslfast.com/easydialogs/
I need a job
A: I need a job.
B: I thought you had a job.
A: I did.
B: What happened?
A: I got laid off.
B: That’s terrible! When did it happen?
A: I got laid off last week.
B: Just you?
A: No, ten of my co workers got laid off, too.
B: What are you going to do?
A: I’m looking in the newspaper for a job.
B: Good luck!
Bad Service
A: Have you seen our waiter?
B: Here he comes now.
A: We’ve been sitting here for almost 10 minutes.
B: Oops, I guess I was wrong. That isn’t our waiter.
A: We can give him five more minutes, and then leave.
B: I’ll go up front and talk to the manager.
A: That’s a good idea.
B: Maybe they’ll give us free drinks for waiting so long.
A: Maybe he’ll send us our waiter immediately.
B: Every time we eat out, it’s an adventure.
A: Last time, we got seats next to the kitchen.
B: We’ll never go there again.
A Good Table
• A: Is this table okay?
B: No, it’s too close to the kitchen door.
A: How about this table?
B: No, it’s too close to the front door.
A: This looks like a nice table.
B: No, it’s too close to the salad bar.
A: Okay, I give up.
B: Well, there is one good table.
A: Great. Which one?
B: That one. A group of eight just sat down at it.
Don’t Ride the Bus
A: I don’t like riding the bus.
B: Why not?
A: Number one, it’s too slow.
B: You’re right. A car is faster.
A: Number two, it’s usually late.
B: You’re right. The buses are never on time.
A: Number three, it doesn’t run 24 hours.
B: You’re right. Buses don’t run late at night.
A: Number four, it’s too crowded.
B: You’re right. You have to stand in the aisle.
A: Number five, it’s unsafe.
B: You’re right. Bad guys might rob you.
Before you go to that interview
• A: Before you go to that interview, check yourself.
B: What’s to check?
A: Are your nails clean?
B: Yes, they are.
A: Did you double-check your nose and teeth?
B: They are clean, too.
A: Did you shine your shoes?
B: My shoes are shined.
A: Do your socks match?
B: Of course they match.
A: No, they don’t. One is black and one is dark blue.
B: Yikes! Thank you.
Life is hard
• A: Life is hard.
B: It sure is.
A: I thought school was hard.
B: Me, too. I couldn’t wait to graduate.
A: But now work is hard, too.
B: I agree. Work is just as hard as school.
A: Sometimes I wish I was back in school.
B: Me, too. School was fun.
A: And it was only 12 years.
B: It went by pretty fast.
A: But work goes on forever!
B: We have to work for 30 years!
True Love
A: I love you.
B: I love you, too.
A: I loved you the first day I saw you.
B: It was love at first sight?
A: Yes, it was love at first sight.
B: I didn’t love you at first.
A: I know. I had to chase you for a while.
B: Yes, you chased me and then you caught me.
A: Now you’re mine forever.
B: And you’re mine forever.
A: We’ll grow old together.
B: And be happy together.
A Night by Himself
A: Give me a hug.
B: I’m not in the mood.
A: What’s the matter?
B: I saw you looking at that woman.
A: What woman?
B: You know, that woman with the big boobs.
A: I was not looking at her.
B: You were, too.
A: I’m not interested in her.
B: Then why were you looking at her?
A: I was looking at something else.
B: Oh, really? Then spend tonight looking at the sofa.
A New Car
A: Let’s go for a ride.
B: Where are we going?
A: Into the mountains.
B: That sounds nice.
A: I want to show you my new car.
B: You bought a new car?
A: Yes. I bought a Cadillac.
B: A luxury car.
A: Luxury plus speed.
B: What are we waiting for?
A: Let me get the keys.
B: Let me get my camera.
The Crosswalk
A: Life isn’t fair.
B: It sure isn’t.
A: I got a ticket yesterday.
B: What for?
A: I was crossing the street.
B: Were you in a crosswalk?
A: Yes, but the red hand was blinking.
B: So? That’s a ticket?
A: Yes, it’s a $140 ticket.
B: That’s not right!
A: When I started to cross the street, the white walk sign
was blinking.
B: You need to walk faster.
I don’t like my job
A: I don’t like my job.
B: What do you do?
A: I’m a babysitter.
B: Is that a lot of work?
A: Babies cry all the time.
B: You have to change their diapers.
A: I have to feed them.
B: Are you looking for another job?
A: No, I’m looking for another family.
B: Another family?
A: A family with only one baby.
B: That’s a good idea.
Talk about their jobs?
A: Do your students ever talk about their jobs?
B: Yes, and they ask me what jobs are the best.
A: I tell my students to become a teacher.
B: Teaching is a great job.
A: It’s the best job I’ve ever had.
B: What makes it so good?
A: For me, it’s the students.
B: What do you mean?
A: I mean I have wonderful students.
B: That must be nice.
A: Teaching is the best part of my whole day.
B: You’re a lucky man to have a job you love
Something real stupid
A: I think I did something real stupid.
B: What did you do?
A: I bought some stock.
B: Everybody buys stock.
A: I bought it on a hunch.
B: You didn't read about the company first?
A: I didn't have to. It's been in business for 60 years.
B: So what's the problem?
A: I used all my savings on this one company.
B: You put all your eggs into one basket.
A: If the company goes out of business, I'll have nothing.
B: Oh, you'll have something—you'll have a lesson you'll
never forget!
I was going to be a doctor
A: I was going to be a doctor.
B: What happened to your plans?
A: I got a D in college chemistry.
B: Well, a D is better than an F.
A: A tutor helped me get the D!
B: So, you didn't become a doctor.
A: And now I'm glad that I didn't.
B: Why's that?
A: A hospital is the most dangerous place in the world.
B: Oh, yes, because of all the killer germs.
A: If you're a smart doctor, you stay away from hospitals.
B: Yes, the smart doctors are those TV news doctors—no
hospitals, no patients.
What did the doctor say
A: What did the doctor say?
B: He thinks I have too much stress.
A: Stress causes your stomach-aches?
B: Stress causes different problems with different people.
A: So what did he tell you to do?
B: He said I need to think positive.
A: He didn’t give you any medication?
B: I hate medication. It makes me feel different.
A: So how do you think positive?
B: I think about nice things.
A: Like what?
B: Like a day at the beach, with my toes in the sand.
Do you smell that?
A: Do you smell that?
B: Oh, yes.
A: I can’t stand cigarette smoke.
B: It smells so bad.
A: One cigarette stinks up the whole sidewalk.
B: Smokers think they are so cool.
A: They are so weak.
B: A little cigarette controls them.
A: They look so stupid taking a puff.
B: And then they blow smoke out of their mouth.
A: They think it’s cool.
B: Cigarettes stink.
My back is killing me
A: My back is killing me.
B: What did you do?
A: I got out of my car.
B: That’s it?
A: I injured my back one time just by sneezing.
B: You should see a doctor.
A: My doctor said I need surgery.
B: So?
A: So, forget it.
B: You don’t have the money?
A: I have no insurance.
B: Maybe a back rub would help.
Dirty Nails
A: Let’s leave.
B: But we just got here.
A: Did you see the waiter’s hands?
B: No.
A: He had dirty fingernails.
B: Really?
A: His nails were black!
B: That’s disgusting.
A: And he poured water into our glasses.
B: Yuck! No water for me.
A: I wonder if the cooks? Nails are dirty, too.
B: Who cares? Let’s get out of here.
Remote is filthy
A: Our TV remote is filthy.
B: Yes, it’s covered with crud.
A: I’m going to clean it.
B: Don’t use water on it!
A: I’ll use a damp cloth.
B: Don’t let water get into any of the cracks.
A: I’ll squeeze the cloth so it’s almost dry.
B: Don’t rub the numbers off the remote.
A: I will rub gently but firmly.
B: Do it quickly, please, so I can change channels during
commercials.
A: I’ll give it back to you in a couple of minutes.
B: Maybe we should put it in a plastic bag to keep it clean.
The new face
A: Did you see the woman with the new face?
B: Did she get a nice job?
A: She got a job with “everything?
B: What do you mean?
A: A team of doctors gave her a whole new face.
B: Why did they do that?
A: A mad dog bit most of her face off.
B: Oh, that’s terrible. What does she look like now?
A: Her face is really fat, but they say the swelling will go
down.
B: And then will she look normal again?
A: I guess so.
B: God bless modern medicine.
A Free Trip
A: My dad went to Washington, D.C.
B: Why did he do that?
A: He was invited, along with about 90 other veterans.
B: Who invited them?
A: Some private organization.
B: Why did they invite him?
A: To thank him and all the other soldiers who served in
World War II.
B: That’s very nice.
A: My dad got to see the beautiful new World War II
Monument.
B: That trip must have cost a lot of money.
A: He said all the money came from private donations.
Row Your Boat
A: Some guy rowed across the Atlantic Ocean.
B: Good for him.
A: Why would he do that?
B: Did he set a new record?
A: Yes, I think he did.
B: Well, I guess that’s why he did it.
A: What’s the point?
B: Now he has the world record!
A: But someone’s going to break it, so what good is it?
B: Well, he can enjoy it while it lasts.
A: I don’t think he even got paid for it.
B: Some people do it just to do it.
The Airport
A: What time does your plane leave?
B: It leaves at 12:15.
A: When do you have to be at the airport?
B: I have to be there two hours early.
A: So we have to be at the airport at 10:15.
B: That means we have to leave the house at 9:15.
A: Well, it’s an hour to get there, if there are no traffic
problems.
B: So maybe we better leave at 8:15?
A: Yes, it’s better to get there too early than too late.
B: I agree.
A: You never know what might happen on these freeways.
B: There’s at least one huge accident every day.
A Good Lunch
A: Lunch was delicious.
B: Thank you.
A: What kind of soup was that?
B: It was tomato soup.
A: That tasted so good.
B: I put lemon and butter in it.
A: The sandwich was good, too.
B: Everyone likes bacon and tomato sandwiches.
A: Especially on toast.
B: And the pickles were great, too.
A: Tomorrow we’ll have rice and fish for lunch.
B: I can’t wait.
A Slow Burger
A: I can’t believe how long this line is.
B: This is a popular restaurant, isn’t it?
A: Yes, but it isn’t a fast-food restaurant, is it?
B: It’s the slowest hamburger in town.
A: That’s because they cook it while you wait.
B: Yes. That’s why it’s also the best hamburger in town.
A: A great burger and great service.
B: Yes, the workers are very polite.
A: And they’re clean.
B: I’ve been coming here for years.
A: Me too.
B: Excuse me. They just called my number.
Do I Hear $60,000?
A: I don't believe the art world.
B: What is it this time?
A: An Andy Warhol drawing.
B: He's a famous artist.
A: He drew two butterflies and a flower on a napkin in a
restaurant.
B: Did he sign it?
A: Yes.
B: Is it beautiful?
A: It's just black ink on a white napkin. And the napkin has
food stains!
B: So it's not worth much?
A: Only about $30,000.
B: Without the food stains, it would probably be worth more.
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English web link have a look
http://cdict.net/?q=+curator
http://www.lyricstraining.com/index.php
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/chinese/learnenglish/features
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