Hello and welcome to my introduction video
for my video seminar
called Speaking and Speech.
I'd like to take a moment
to introduce myself, so that you know
why — who is teaching this class and
why you should be watching it.
My name is Yifat Shilo
My nickname is Kiki. I can tell you why later.
For now, let's just say that I have been teaching in Korea
English as a second language, for five years.
I started out in kindergarten and I worked through
all the different levels, all the way to business English.
So I have experience teaching small children and adults.
From all my experience,
I've come to understand
teaching English in a certain way
and I will be teaching you
speaking and speech…
Not as in actually using language
with your mouth, but
speech - as in giving a speech or public speaking.
I have five years experience
but I am an amateur video teacher…
So if you don't hear so well, or the lighting is not great…
That's the reason.
I will be putting up subtitles,
which, hopefully, you can turn on and off.
Who should be taking this class?
This class will hopefully have 15 units
Each unit will be accompanied by a worksheet
that has a reading section, a speaking and a grammar section.
You don't have to do the homework…
The homework is not there to stop you…
The homework is there as extra…
for three reasons.
The first reason is -
the number one best way
to improve your language skills,
that you already have, is reading.
When I first started learning German,
the first thing that helped me get vocabulary….
Their difficult grammar structures,
all of those things that are different
between English and German -
was repeatedly seeing the same thing on the page.
That is to say I am a visual learner and it's so important
for me to see the words for me to understand them.
You, on the other hand, may be an
audio learner or kinesthetic learner.
That means you need to use it and that's the way
that you gain access to the information.
If you're an audio learner then the video
lesson should be plenty for you to do.
And you should also be using the speaking section,
because even though it has a fill in the blank section—
or something like that,
it's meant to give you questions
that you can then ask a native speaker.
and get feedback.
And also meant for you to practice your answers.
So you'll see a question, like "what do you do?"
and that's a very common question
that natives ask each other
So you should be able to use that
question any time you need it.
As well as to be able to answer that question.
Well? What do you do?
I (hopefully) am teaching you English,
and speech - public speaking.
The next point is…
Second reason to do the homework
is if you're a kinesthetic learner.
Kinesthetics is the physical —
you know, some people they can't learn to make a cake from a recipe…
They just need to do it…
Sometimes there are certain things…
I need to put the flour in the bowl
otherwise, I just don't get it.
For kinesthetic learners language acquisition can be difficult.
One of the helpful ways to learn a language
is by writing things out.
That is, when you're taking notes
we all have smartphones these days,
you can just take a picture
of the word and the definition. You can…
save it all in a file somewhere. But
sadly,
repeatedly writing
the same word again and again, writing sentences --
This is a kinesthetic way of teaching your hand
muscle memory,
giving you the ability
to recall the information
even when you don't necessarily
remember it in your mind.
Your hand remembers it for you. Interesting, right?
There are three methods of learning:
visual, auditory and kinesthetic.
Those three methods will appear
in the video and the homework.
When it comes to checking the homework…
Before we get to when it comes to checking the homework
let's talk about my three rules.
I do have three rules for my students.
Before we talk about my three rules [laughter]
Who should be taking this class?
This class is for
pre-intermediate, intermediate and advanced.
If you're pre-intermediate and you're watching this video
you will understand every third word
that I'm saying and maybe the speed
will be a little fast.
That's okay.
You don't have to understand everything.
In fact videos are great because you can watch them again and again.
I'm not saying you should do that.
I'm just saying
for pre-intermediate
a video tutorial is helpful because unlike a class
you can go back and watch it agin.
So pre-intermediate - that's for you.
Intermediate.
Intermediate should understand everything I say.
I am speaking pretty slowly.
When I get excited or nervous, which I am,
I do tend speak a little faster.
But I am trying to make sure that you can
understand pretty much everything I say.
There are going to be words you don't know.
For example, kinesthetics is not a common word.
Teachers use it.
You may hear about it if you're studying, because it's a study word.
but if you can understand from the context
what kinesthetic means,
that's more important than knowing the actual word.
In fact, even in your own language,
we don't necessarily all share the same vocabulary.
Some of us read more, some of us
watch more TV.
Slang is different in different areas.
But we get a general understanding of the other person.
The problem is when you are not a native speaker,
context is difficult
and speaking speed is difficult.
As we progress through the videos,
I will be a speaking a little more quickly.
Hopefully, you won't even notice.
The point is that as you watch more of the videos
and as you practice more of the speaking,
you yourself will improve, even to the degree where
I can speak in a native natural pace -
Which is much more like this.
And you won't notice that I've sped up.
That's the goal at the end of the course.
See if you notice.
As for advanced students.
Advanced students - this should seem slow to you
and in fact, if possible, you should try to watch this at 1.2 or 1.5 (speed)
and see if you can still understand me enough.
There shouldn't be a problem.
If you're in the advanced, the reading is actually really important
Much more important than the other two levels
because from the other two levels I only expect them to read about…
For pre-intermediate only the pronunciation part.
For the intermediate half of the article,
because it's one article pre lesson.
For the advanced - if you can read the whole article-
that would really improve your vocab,
your sentence structure - especially the small prepositions.
Like 'for' 'to' 'before,'..... all those prepositions.
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