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need some toilet paper because I have to
clean my high jinks Ming vid thinking
about shopping toiletries will do a
lesson on that yeah soon anyway today's
lesson is introducing a brand new guy
might have heard of him before
slowed down a bit because Thomas and I
said Thomas the tutor turtle he wants to
he wants to help you he can be tutoring
so when we do tutoring what that means
is well slide a snake that's slang and
idioms the cool stuff mystery is your
education e for education and also he's
a mystery and then Thomas Tudor is going
to tutor you give you lessons and
questions maybe not the same as mystery
but to help you learn English okay like
a teacher helper private student oh
sorry private teaching today he's going
to help you because what Thomas says is
this basically before you start
something you should know where you want
to go
imagine going on a trip right if you go
in a taxi or in an airplane you don't
just go I pay you thank me okay
you'll go anywhere but if you know where
you want to go then you'll know how much
you want to spend how long you're going
to be there for you're going to get the
results you want and it's going to be a
great vacation we want English to be a
great opportunity for you so let's start
with the first five questions so Thomas
says why do you want to learn English
most of you right now going because well
because isn't a reason because leads to
a reason because of this so for some of
you it's for vacation or I would say
pleasure alright you want to have fun
you're going to a new country you want
to talk to the people you want to
understand them that's it some of you
school you're going to go to a foreign
country Canada United States or England
you know there are benefits to having a
degree from these countries their
international right so in that case
you're gonna have to pass tests like
TOEFL or IELTS so your needs for English
are different than the vacation person
they don't need to know academic words
you do and for some of you it's job so
you were looking at promotions right I
need to get this for my job to keep my
job right or I need this because I want
to have a higher level job because my
company is becoming international and
from Mexico we work with Americans I'm
from India we do telecommunications
right all of these things are necessary
for people so when you're looking at it
your need is going to dictate and
dictate we mean tell you what you need
to do leave the Thomases next question
once you've done this how will you use
your English well James we just ask this
for work
no there are two different types of
English and what do I mean by this well
well any language there's what we call
let me give a green one to give you a
good idea it's what we call passive and
what we call active what are they well
one information comes in and that's
passive the other information goes out
that's active I'm sorry yeah active
passive would be reading for listening
when you listen you're passive you're
not saying anything you're not producing
any information you're just basically
saying taking is information for other
people okay when you're listening and
when you're reading is the same thing so
in this case we want to understand
okay we want to understand that might be
a little low for you so you know what
I'm going to put it up here so when
you're doing passive information think
of passive information as understanding
English or understanding okay so it's
active well active is obviously the
opposite that's when you're going to be
doing a lot of speaking or writing okay
like business reports you might have to
write something or talk at a meeting
okay so this is when you want to give
information or better yet let's say be
understood okay vacation people will
probably like speaking and listening not
much reading or writing students reading
and writing and listening speaking maybe
not so much business people speaking you
get the idea so once you know why you
need the English then you're going to
know how you're going to use it we can
move on to the third part the third part
are believe it or not it has nothing to
do with English it's what are your own
strengths in your own language
are you a good speaker do you like to
read do you like to write if you know
that you will have
noticed I stopped speaking because I
wanted you to pay attention you will
have the ability to learn faster if
you're a good speaker then practice
speaking in English it's natural for you
so it works better for you if you're
good at reading or writing then what you
want to do is read in English you're
loved to read you love classic
literature read you love to write then
write write in English write stories
write crazy stories or funny stories
happy stories whatever makes you feel
comfortable makes you relaxed and makes
you learn faster okay
so figure out in your own figure out
means try to understand or find the
answer what is your strength in your
language what do you do best because
that's the thing that will help you okay
now that's we've done this right we
figured out what we want to do how we
will use it on what our strengths we go
over here what are your strengths or
weaknesses in English let's face facts
you if you had no English you wouldn't
understand anything I just said
so obviously you have some English
experience okay
if that's the case now that you
understand this right what are your
strengths in your language and you
thought about it what strengths or
weaknesses and strengths means like
fourth day muscle weakness okay I mean
what are your best things in English
funny you're probably noticing that your
strength in your language is also your
strength in English maybe not but things
you might want to look at or key in on
and when we say key in we need focus on
would be grammar okay I might be off
board here I'm coming back I'm going off
again vocabulary okay conversation and
listening and by the way if you come
back to envy you'll notice we have
videos and all these things so we can
help you okay but yeah figure out what
your strength is in English and your
weaknesses your strengths you can
improve as they improve actually your
weaknesses get less and less
become stronger all over but if you also
know your weakness and you can work on
those like go to our videos on slang or
grammar or vocabulary you'll notice that
your strengths get faster as well it's
what we call win-win means you get
better and better by looking at both
aspects okay and finally this is the big
one how much time do you really have
this is the big factor a lot of students
say I want to learn English I want to be
good I want to be fluent and they never
asked a quick key question how much time
will you devote devote means give time
or energy to to learning your English 10
minutes a day 20 minutes an hour five
hours be honest be honest with yourself
you see once you make that commitment
and you know what you want to do you say
I will do 10 minutes a day and you do it
I can guarantee yes guarantee money back
by the way it's free so I'm not giving
you any money okay but a money back
guarantee that this if you make a
commitment and say I will do five
minutes every day ten minutes an hour
and you keep it you will learn English
faster than you ever believe it's
possible however you have to make that
commitment
so today write down your time how much
is going to be ten minutes one hour all
right whatever it doesn't matter just
make a commitment and stick to it by
answering these five questions you're
going to find that your English
experience will be fun because you're
going to pick things that you're strong
at doing and you enjoy doing and first
because you make the commitment it will
build every day and so before you know
it one day you and I will be having
coffee with Tom the tutor mystery and
slide the snake having a coffee at
Starbucks here in Canada talking like
that I'd like that
anyway don't call my house because I
probably won't do it but it's a nice
idea I think about it okay so where do
we have to go well since seeing as we're
working on our skills I've spoken a
little fast so you might want to go to
some listening videos at English or
reading I'll give you some reading right
now okay so he wants to help you and so
do I how will we do this we'll do this
by going to
w-w-w-whoa by the way response to a
something one of you guys said I am NOT
tired of writing www and I'm going to
keep doing it because you wrote about it
that's right you know who you are you
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you soon I hope you get your goals
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