Hello, everyone. I'm the director of education at Easee Globe.
And I'm here today to talk about common things in English teacher might come across in Taiwan.
And how we solve it.
First, I would like to talk about grammar.
I know you don't like it.
English grammar is crazy! WHY!
And I know you understand it.
But the problem is using it.
So, a couple of mistakes we see a lot.
No "s"es on verbs.
Do you know the "s" is our favorite letter
We love the sound of "s"es
Where are your "s"es?
Also, "ed"
Chinese doesn't have past tense,
but English does.
and we really need to hear that sound.
or it hurts my ears when you're talking I don't understand what you're saying.
No.2
English grammar
Yeah, we just talk about it. More?
I know!
So English grammar is really hard.
All of my students understand a lot of really long beautiful sentences.
But we don't talk like that.
Americans we're lazy.
We use "S.", "V.", "O."
"subject", "verb", "object"
Who is doing the action?
What are they doing?
And what is the object of the action?
So easy! "S.", "V.", "O."
No.3
Common words
So many students tell me they need so many words.
How many words are in Chinese? How many words are in English?
Thousands and thousands. You'll never learn them all.
But everyday we only use a few thousand words .
Three, maybe four, maybe five thousand words.
Grammar words, verbs, mostly.
After that, there is a punch of nouns you never need.
So study the most common words.
Part No.4
There are three or four different steps to learn a language that are critical.
Input, you have to listen
and read English to learn it.
But you also need to output.
You have to say English to learn it.
And No.3
Critically important is frequency.
Don't quit. Keep going, keep going, keep going.
Another really important part as Easee Globe we take it consideration.
is the difference between students need and students want.
Most students know what they want.
But they don't understand what they need.
There is a real difference between needs and wants.
And what do I mean by this?
The students would come to you and say,
"I want, as a student, business English."
I want grammar, I want pronunciation
I have this goal.
And I'm gonna hire a teacher to walk me across the bridge.
But it doesn't work like that.
Because the goals and the needs are the same.
It's more like building a building, like Taipei 101.
You have to build it layer by layer.
Fluency comes form frequency.
You have to get the input.
What can you do?
At home you can read the news paper in English.
You can listen to the news BBC.
You can watch TV.
This is frequency.
There is also a precess involved.
So, it's one layer by one layer.
You can't just say,
"OK, I'm gonna build a bridge and then be in a better English."
Because it doesn't work like that.
Also, you need to give me your opinion.
The output part.
When your teacher ask you a question.
When I ask the students a question.
And they say, "yes."
They say "no."
That's not practicing.
That's not building fluency.
In the U.S.A,
when I ask my friend,
"hey, what do you think of Barack Obama?"
He is not going to say,"
"I don't know."
He's going to say,
"I think this, this, this. Because, because, because..."
These are perfect opportunities to practice your English.
That's all I have today guys, thanks. And see ya next again.