Hello students and welcome back to the English Danny Channel I'm teacher John
and I'm here to help you become great at using English today's lesson is going to
be about improving your English by using TED Talks please consider subscribing by
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video okay students let's get started you may have heard about TED Talks from
a friend or a teacher if you don't know what a TED talk is you can visit the
website ted.com TED talks are fun and interesting speeches by professionals
these speeches are usually given in English and often come with subtitles
and transcripts in many different languages it's a great way to listen to
authentic native English speakers this is very helpful for students especially
for students who don't have the opportunity to use English very often
this makes Ted calm a fantastic tool to help you improve your English using this
website you can improve your listening speaking reading and writing as a
teacher I have developed a great method and system for using this website to
improve your English it's also very interesting and fun let's take a look at
the website start by typing ted.com into your internet browser this is the basic
front page of Ted calm next bring your mouse pointer to the watch title at the
top and choose TED talks this brings you to the screen where you
can search for videos okay so now you want to choose what kind of video you
want to see to improve our listening you can choose any duration but short videos
are the easiest so click duration and choose 0 to 6
minutes as you can see all the videos are now under 6 minutes long you can
also choose which language you speak click languages and choose your native
language I'm choosing Korean you can see there are more languages like this
simply choose C all languages now you can choose whatever topic you like there
are many different topics if you click see all topics let's choose
technology for now there are many videos click on any video that interests you
now you can do many things on this webpage first you can simply watch the
video and listen to it without any subtitles or transcript to help you by
pressing the play button next let's choose our subtitles move your mouse to
this button and choose English you can also choose your native language let's
look at the transcript click transcript now you can see the English transcript
and the speech is even highlighted for you in blue you can easily follow this
play the video and read the transcript you can also change the transcript
language like this click this button where it says English
and choose a different language now let's learn the method for how to use
ted.com to study here are the steps that you can follow step 1 choose a video
that is 0 to 6 minutes and is also in your native language step 2 watch the
video without subtitles try to answer this question what is the main idea of
the video also write down any new words you can hear watch the video again but
with English subtitles try to answer the question again what is the main idea of
the video also write down any new words you can hear or see in the subtitles
step 4 watch the video again but with subtitles of your native language you
should be able to understand the main idea of the video step 5
next just listen to the video and read along with the English transcript you
can pause the video to hear the pronunciation of any new words you hear
use the Internet to search for the definitions of any new words or phrases
step 6 just listen to the video again but read
along with the transcript in your language step 7
go back to step 1 and try to watch the video without any subtitles or
transcript you should be able to understand it better than before
here's a helpful tip you can pause the video to listen to specific words or
phrases that you don't understand these steps will help you improve your
listening and reading very much there are also two ways to improve your
writing first write the answer to the question what is the main idea of the
video second summarize the main contents of the video in a written paragraph use
some of the new words as well to improve your speaking first try to save the new
words exactly how the speaker in the video says them or you can read your
writing try to copy some of the same pronunciation from the video okay
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