Do you want to learn the English language?This blog is a collection of English lesson plans for all levels of ESL/EFL students. This will help the viewers in reading, writing, listening, grammar, speaking, and pronunciation skills.
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Listen to the short scene from Desperate Housewives and fill in the blanks.
__________ ______.
Mike!
What’s ________--?
I didn’t ____________anyone was gonna be _________ here, I just sorta _________ outta ___________.
I’m sure you look _____________.
Oooh.
Ooh, Bongo, Bongo! Shh.. Sorry, uh, he scares easy.
No, it’s fine, I get it.
I didn’t mean to ___________ you. I’ll see you _____________.
_________________________________ have __________ with me?
Just the __________ of us?
Heh, well, and Julie. Uh, it’s a thing we do when ___________ new moves into the _____________, we___________ them over for a ____________- __________ __________. Sort of a __________.
You said you were a __________ cook.
Well. I order __________.
Oh, you invite __________ over for a home-cooked meal and you order___________.
Yeah, it’s sort of a new ____________. I’m working out the kinks.
I’ll tell you what. How ‘bout I ___________? And you guys ____________________ to my place.
Oh. Great.
Friday night at six?
I’ll be there.
Alright.
Bye, Bongo.
Julie? Mike Delfino just____________ us to __________ Friday night.
He did? _________.
But only I’m going. Because you’re gonna __________down with something _________-____________ that__________ bed-rest and _______.
Joey: This guy says: "hello, I wanna kill myself."
Monica: Are you okay,__________?
Ross: I just feel like someone reached down my throat, grabbed my small intestine, pulled it out of my mouth and tied it around my _____________...
Chandler: ____________?
Monica: Carol moved her __________ out today.
Joey: Ohh.
Monica: Let me get you some ___________.
Ross: Thanks.
Phoebe: Ooh! Oh!
Ross: No, no don't! Stop ___________ my aura! No, just leave my _________ alone, okay?
Phoebe: Fine! Be murky!
Ross: I'll be fine, alright? Really, ___________. I hope she'll be very ____________.
Monica: No you don't.
Ross: No I don't, to hell with her, she __________ me!
Joey: And you never knew she was a lesbian...
Ross: No!! Okay?! Why does __________ keep ___________ on that? She didn't know, how should I know?
Chandler: Sometimes I wish I was a lesbian... Did I say that out ______?
Ross: I told mom and dad last _____________, they seemed to take it ________ well.
Monica: Oh really, so that ___________ ____________ call I got from a woman at ___________3:00 A.M., "I'll never have ___________, I'll never have ____________." was what? A wrong number?
Ross: Sorry.
Joey: Alright Ross, __________. You're _________ a lot of pain right now. You're angry. You're hurting. Can I tell you what the answer is?
Joey: Strip joint! C'mon, you're single! Have some hormones!
Ross: I don't want to be single, okay? I just... I just- I just wanna be married again!
Chandler: And I just want a___________ __________!
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I know. I know. It's not Valentine's day today but I want you to practice shadowing technique. Shadowing technique is repeating along as you listen to the English dialogue.This is very effective way to study English. The dialogue is short so you won't get bored.
Play the video and try this: It's Valentine's day today? Hello? No, it's a Monday. Valentine's Day always falls on a Thursday. Use your head! That's Thanksgiving.
It's Valentine's day today?
Hello? -Hello is usually used to greet someone. In this video, the guy said this to the other because the other is slow to realize that it's truly Valentine'sday.
No, it's a Monday. Valentine's Day always falls on a Thursday. Falls - To occur at a specified time.In this sentence, the speaker thinks that Valentine's day always happen on Thursday and not on Monday.
Use your head. That's Thanksgiving. Use your head is used to tell someone to think more carefully to understand something.Thanksgiving day always occurs on a Thursday.
Thanksgiving day is a holiday celebrated in United States and Canada as a time to give thanks to God,friends and family. In the United States, it is always celebrated on the fourth Thursday of October.
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Most students are troubled by the speed of speaking of native English speakers. They're unhappy that they couldn't understand the message.
One of the solutions I could think of is for them to listen to Steve Jobs. He doesn't speak fast and this video would show you.
Happy listening!
Answer the following questions.
1. What makes the iPad 2 different?
2. Steve Jobs mentioned that iPad 2 is " dramatically faster " and "dramatically thinner" What does the word" dramatically " mean?
3. Where can you find the video cameras on the iPad 2?
4. What are the colors of the iPad 2 ?
5. How long is the battery life?
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Why __________ you ___________?
Because ________ have __________ worth _________ for.
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This card was from my previous student,Joshua Park.He used to speak slowly because he wanted to have perfect grammatical structures in his sentences.
He memorized Steve Jobs' speech ( Actually,it was not the whole 15 minutes.He only did the 8 minutes and 43 seconds in the video below)
For him,to memorize the speech was a piece of cake; to say it like Steve Jobs did was tough.
In training him,I focused on the field of Accent Neutralization,with the goals of changing speech patterns,intonation and rhythm, and reduction of some syllables.
One would learn a great deal when there's hardship. The card above is a proof that what he had experienced was worthwhile.
Who wants to be Steve Jobs For 15 Minutes? Play this video, read the speech , and enjoy!
Thank you.
I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife -- except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.
So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.
So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned coke bottles for the five cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the "Mac" would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever -- because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky -- I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz¹ and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a two billion dollar company with over 4000 employees. We'd just released our finest creation -- the Macintosh -- a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.
And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. And so at 30, I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down -- that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me: I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, and I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometime life -- Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
You've got to find what you love.
And that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking -- and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking -- don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die.
Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It's Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the "bibles" of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 60s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along. It was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I've always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
Just like what Steve Jobs said , "Don't settle!" Don't settle on the easy lessons. After you have learned something, go up one level and try to study other areas in English.
P.S. To Inchae, wherever you are in the world, I had an unforgettable time teaching you!Advanced happy birthday on October 14th ^^ I'm not just quite sure if you still remember some lines in The Sixth Sense.Haha!
Can you think of a useful expression to say to a family member or a friend who has just gotten a promotion at work or has accomplished something? This one scene from the movie, You Again, would teach us one useful expression.
Listen carefully on this short conversation!
Didn't you catch the words? Here's a BIG TIP! Replay the movie clip.Write down as many words as you can.Repeat this process until you have completed the dialog. Good luck!
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What is the main ingredient of success? This video presents Chloe Moretz from the movie, Diary of a Wimpy Kid. She gives us some tips on how to succeed in life.
ESL learners, did you listen well ?
What advice did she tell us about success? Write down your answers!
I like watching this trailer again and again.Have you met that one nice guy?
Lucky you.
Oh, don't misunderstood me. I've met him around seven years ago.He has the softest voice I've heard.He's also sweet.
Unlucky me.He doesn't want a nice girl.
Fill in the blanks :
1.Dude, you should ______ _________ ________ right _________.
2. _______ what ?
3. I don't ______, man! Just ________ her _______ you _______!
4. Feel ________ ___________?
Angelina Jolie stars in Salt, a contemporary action thriller from Columbia Pictures.
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt (Jolie) swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Salt's efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: "Who Is Salt?"
Fill in the blanks on what you've heard
What's your __________? ( 00:24 )
Nothing. He doesn't _________. (00:30)
You're ________. You can _______ the rest of your _______ to one of my _________
( 00:51)
My name is _______ _________ (1:00 )
I'm not a ___________ __________ (1:10)
I'm ___________. Somebody's ___________ me _________ (1:17 )
Jack Canfield (born August 19, 1944) is an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, which currently has nearly 200 titles and 112 million copies in print in over 40 languages.
1. How to identify a mentor?
2. When you see a mentor, what should you first do ?
3. "They would feel empowered that they are empowering you" Explain.
4. What does he suggest if somebody says "no" to your request?
5. What should you do after the mentor has helped you?
Vocabulary Words :
1. embarrass- to cause someone to feel uneasy or uncomfortable or self - conscious 2. lisp - A speech defect or mannerism characterized by mispronunciation of the sounds (s) and (z) as (th) and (th).
2. break the ice - idiom. relax a tense or very formal situation
Answer the following questions: What is her opinion of life?
Life is a series of embarrassing moments.
It embarrasses her to talk about her life.
She's embarrassed a lot of people in her life.
What is the best part about acting the fool?
These funny stories are yours only and you don't have to share them with your friends.
In the end, your friends will mock you and call you a fool. That's not funny.
Those are the stories you end up sharing. Those are the funniest things that happen.
What does she say about the new school and the school where she had studied before?
It was her first day in a private school and she had only studied in public schools before then.
Studying in a private High School is difficult at first because it's very different from a public High School.
It was her first day of High School. She hadn't been in a public school in years because she went to private school.
How did she feel on her first day and what did she try to do to break the ice?
She wasn't really nervous, but she thought "I probably need to put some ice on this. It tastes funny".
She was really nervous and she didn't really know anyone, so she thought 'Well, the best way to break the ice is, of course, to be funny."
The idea of breaking the ice in front of everyone on the first day of school made really nervous.
The students in her Algebra-Geometry III class were asked to introduce themselves. What did the girl sitting in front of her say? What did Esther think?
"Hello, my name is Lori." Esther thought: "Ahahaha... she's totally pretending to have a lisp. That's so funny. I'll do the same thing."
"Hello, my name is Dori." Esther thought: "She's totally pretending to be Japanese. That's not funny. I'll have to do something."
"I'm so sorry!" Esther thought: "That's not really true. She's just pretending. I have to say something."
According to Esther, what was the reaction of the class to what she did?
75% of the class thought it was a very nice sentence. She was so surprised, she didn't know what to say.
As soon as she got about 75% of the way through that one sentence, she realized that the room had gone completely silent.
Each student gave 75 cents to help Lori. She got very emotional and didn't know what to say.
What did she finally understand about Lori?
Lori wasn't pretending to have a lisp. SHE HAD ONE!
Lori was just pretending to have a list, but Esther really HAD ONE!
If nobody had a friend to mock, Esther thought SHE HAD ONE!
Go ahead! Put comments in here . What is your most embarrassing moment?
IELTS (pronounced /ˈaɪ.ɛlts/), or 'International English Language Testing System', is an international standardised test of English language proficiency. It is jointly managed by University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, the British Council and IDP Education Pty Ltd, and was established in 1989.
There are two versions of the IELTS: the Academic Version and the General Training Version:
* The Academic Version is intended for those who want to enroll in universities and other institutions of higher education and for professionals such as medical doctors and nurses who want to study or practice in an English-speaking country.
* The General Training Version is intended for those planning to undertake non-academic training or to gain work experience, or for immigration purposes
Answer the following questions:
1.What is one of the biggest problems in IELTS reading test?
2.How many questions do you need to answer in one hour?
3.What are the three different skills that you need in the test?
4.Define each.
5.What example does it give for you to practice skimming skill?
6.What should you scan in a telephone directory?
7.Why would you need to read an instruction manual in detail?
8.Do you have to read everything in detail? Why or why not?
Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry.The setting of the show is the street of Wisteria Lane in the fictional American town of Fairview in the Eagle State. It follows the lives of a group of women, seen through the eyes of their dead neighbor. They work through domestic struggles and family life, while facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their—at the surface—beautiful and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood.
Answer the following uestions
My name is Mary Alice Young. When you read this morning's paper, you may come across an article about the unusual day I had __________.
last week
this week
next week
Normally, there's never anything newsworthy about my life. That all ________________.
changes last Thursday
had changed last Tuesday
changed last Thursday
Of course everything seemed as normal ____________.
At first
At third
At the end
I made my breakfast for my family. I performed my ________.
my Charles
my chores
my chairs
I ___________ my projects.
competed
completed
canceled
I ________ my errands.
ran
run
land
In truth, I spent the day as I spend every other day, _________ polishing the routine of my life until it gleamed with perfection.
calmly
quickly
quietly
That's why it was so astonishing when I decided _______ my hallway closet, and retrieve a revolver that had never been used.
to go to
go
to open
My body was discovered by my neighbor, Mrs. Martha Hoober, who ______ ______ _______ by a strange popping sound.
has been startled
have been startled
had been startled
Her curiosity aroused, Mrs. Hoober tried to think of a reason for ________ ____ unannounced.
coming by
dropping by
running by
After some initial hesitation, she decided to return the blender she ____ ______ from me six months before.
had lended
has borrowed
had borrowed
"It's my neighbor! I think ____ ______ ______. There's blood everywhere! Yes! You've got to send an ambulance. You've got to send one right now!"
had been shot
has been shot
has been shooting
And for a moment, Mrs. Hoober _______motionless in her kitchen, grief stricken by this senseless tragedy.
was standing
had been standing
stood
But only for a moment. If there was one thing Mrs. Hoober was known for, it was her ________ to look on the bright side.
possibility
agility
ability
