Good morning everyone! This is what Monday looks like in my life in Montreal
in Canada - it's about 10 a.m, I'm in the middle of English lessons but I've got a
bit of a break so I thought I'd put this video together and I don't think I've ever
done a video at this time of the day before hence the fluffy hair - yes I've had a
haircut, more on that in another video and I'm a bit unshaven so sorry about
that! This video is a bit short and it's not a video about Canada, it's not about
Mexico, it's about teaching online so a lot of you may not realize that my
primary income is not YouTube it's Italki, I teach English online to mainly
intermediate to advanced level English learners and I've done many videos in
the past about teaching online - I've got a whole playlist which you can check out
up above, and it's really all about advising and helping new teachers on Itlaki
or people that are looking to pursue this kind of life where you work
online and your location independent and it might surprise you that in terms of
the level of questions and queries I get on email and Instagram, the most popular
topic isn't Mexico, it's not travel, it's teaching online and I've had many
requests in the last couple of months to post my introduction video on Italki
which I've talked about in previous videos. I was slightly apprehensive about
doing that because my old video - yes I did a new one yesterday - and the old one, was,
it was awful, I'm not gonna lie, because like you are when you start anything new in
life, you know, you don't know what you're talking about, you have no experience or
expertise but I think after two years now of doing it I can put together a
much better video to hopefully gain some new students, and so upcoming, upcoming?
that's not right! so my video is coming up all right and the thing I just want
to highlight for you to keep in your mind you know, if you're thinking about doing
a video like this you might think that you should speak like that
very slowly, separating all the word,s no linking sounds, very unnatural
pronunciation because you might be thinking okay I'm going to be appealing
to many beginner beginner English learners things like that
and it's going to be easier for them if you speak like that but honestly I find
that quite patronizing you know, an English Learner is not stupid, you know
many of them, in fact probably all of mine are highly educated and they all
told me, literally all of them, that they want to listen and they want me to speak
as I normally would because that's what they want to learn ,they don't want to
learn to speak like this so just keep that in mind when you watch my video
because I'm not speaking this fast but it's a pace that is slightly more native
so watch away, let me know what you think and I'll be back at the end!
Hello and welcome to my Italki profile. My name is David I a TEFL certified
certified English teacher and I've been teaching when I talk II since 2017. I am
37 years old and I'm originally from London in the UK. After working for a
large retailer for 18 years and as a human resources manager I decided to
leave the UK in 2016 to travel full time as well as teaching online I also run a
YouTube channel charting my journey in relation to travel working online and
sustaining myself while being location independent. If you're looking for a
friendly, relaxed, flexible and knowledgeable teacher, I could be the one
for you! I have extensive experience in teaching English to primarily
intermediate to advanced level English learners. I can assist you with all
aspects of your English learning for example speaking, reading, writing and
listening, IELTS, CPE and BEC preparation, British English pronunciation and
accents as well as all other aspects of English that you may want to learn about
for example idioms, phrasal verbs, expressions, advanced collocations and
also proofreading. Many of my students are highly educated for - example they may
be Masters or PhD students, they may be IT or digital marketing professionals
and a large proportion of my current and regular students are from countries such
as Russia Ukraine Belarus Poland Brazil and Hong Kong. Learning a language or
improving at a language is a two-way process so during a trial lesson we will
discuss your needs and motivations when it comes to improving
your English and we will come up with a plan that works for you. Teaching online
and teaching in a classroom are two different things because every student
has different needs and every student is at a different level. Each week I send my
students a lesson plan on Google Docs additionally I will send you material on
skype for example this may be a list of conversation topics, it may be an article
from a website that we can read together and perhaps focus on your pronunciation
or it may be a collection of videos for example from YouTube that you can watch
prior to the lesson and we can then discuss those topics during. You are of
course welcome to provide your own material as well because I believe
teaching English is a two-way process. During a lesson I am more than happy to
correct any of your errors in relation to grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure
and pronunciation. I would also be typing throughout a lesson for example I may be
recommending any more advanced vocabulary or sentence structures to
help enrich your language. So if you're looking to improve your English why not
send me a message and I will look forward to speaking to you soon!
oh that was embarrassing but honestly seriously I hope you found it useful
when you're planning your video or thinking about becoming an Italki
teacher and you have no idea in terms of what you want to put in a video. One of
the things that many people are concerned about is your confidence and
how you come across on video obviously I've been doing YouTube for a number of
years now I've done over 300 videos so it's gonna be a lot more natural for me
in terms of editing you know you notice I put a lot of text and stuff on the
screen and music it doesn't necessarily have to be like that if you have no
knowledge in terms of video editing which I didn't a couple of years ago. My
first video was very basic. So that's this video and you know the thing I will
say to end this is that you know has an Italki teacher we're not all gonna be
the same you know you'll be appealing to different types of people, you may want
to teach children, you may want to teach beginners in which case your approach in
your video will be different to mine but my video is just an example so I hope ypu've found it
useful thanks very much and if you are a viewer
and you are looking to improve your English, I've got to get this in there
somewhere, you know feel free to check out my
Italki link in the description below, there is also a link where you can get
ten US dollars off your first lesson in terms of Italki credits so take
advantage of that! Thanks so much and I'll see you soon for some more Canada
videos, there's also a special Mexico video coming up which I filmed yesterday
and that's going to come up in a couple of days so have a good week everyone and
I will catch you later