1 00:00:01,260 --> 00:00:05,790 ‫Hello and welcome back to another alts speaking lesson. 2 00:00:05,790 --> 00:00:11,580 ‫So this is a new updated lesson and thank you for the feedback from you guys. 3 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:17,550 ‫I've asked you before what sort of lessons you would like and some of the feedback I got was for extra 4 00:00:17,550 --> 00:00:18,930 ‫alt speaking lessons. 5 00:00:18,930 --> 00:00:20,430 ‫So here it is. 6 00:00:20,430 --> 00:00:25,560 ‫Now, if you'd like more lessons in different sections or for different things, please do let me know. 7 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:29,160 ‫I do try and update the course as much as I can. 8 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:37,380 ‫And yeah, so this is our first speaking lesson where I'm going to do some live part to speaking topics. 9 00:00:37,380 --> 00:00:40,260 ‫So we're going to focus on just a few part two speaking topics. 10 00:00:40,260 --> 00:00:41,850 ‫We can take a look at the cards. 11 00:00:41,850 --> 00:00:47,610 ‫I'm going to show you my quick plan as well, and which I think will be useful for you to see how I 12 00:00:47,610 --> 00:00:48,870 ‫would write my plan. 13 00:00:48,870 --> 00:00:53,310 ‫And then I'm going to do two or three minute answers for you. 14 00:00:53,310 --> 00:00:55,320 ‫So I hope that you enjoy it. 15 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,480 ‫We'll go through these different answers. 16 00:00:57,630 --> 00:01:01,650 ‫I would definitely recommend using the subtitles on this video. 17 00:01:01,650 --> 00:01:07,200 ‫So if you go to the video toolbar, go and click the subtitles button and you can read along. 18 00:01:07,830 --> 00:01:09,240 ‫Okay, let's get started then. 19 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,540 ‫Let's have a look at our first task two cue card. 20 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:18,930 ‫Okay, so this first task to cue card is about text messages. 21 00:01:18,930 --> 00:01:24,600 ‫And this is quite a common phrase, especially within British English texting, which means to send 22 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,190 ‫messages between phones. 23 00:01:26,190 --> 00:01:32,340 ‫And I explain that because not all cultures actually use that sort of text feature on the phones. 24 00:01:32,340 --> 00:01:37,380 ‫And also commonly now people don't really text messages as much as they used to, although it's still 25 00:01:37,380 --> 00:01:42,870 ‫pretty popular in the UK instead of say using WhatsApp or similar messaging services. 26 00:01:42,870 --> 00:01:46,290 ‫So first up, this is going to be a bit of a strange one. 27 00:01:46,290 --> 00:01:51,330 ‫So I have noted down I've got the plan in my hand here, I've noted down that I don't really text message 28 00:01:51,330 --> 00:01:52,080 ‫any more. 29 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:57,870 ‫So it's a bit of a hard one to answer in all honesty, because I don't really text message much these 30 00:01:57,870 --> 00:02:02,040 ‫days, but it's worth saying that why not say I don't text, I email. 31 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,850 ‫You can talk about that for a little bit to really try and tell the whole story. 32 00:02:05,850 --> 00:02:11,670 ‫And then obviously I've got some more notes on the actual text message that I find important and useful, 33 00:02:11,670 --> 00:02:13,440 ‫which is build reminders. 34 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:14,220 ‫Lucky me. 35 00:02:14,370 --> 00:02:16,440 ‫And yeah, so that's it really. 36 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:17,910 ‫You can see the plan here. 37 00:02:17,910 --> 00:02:23,280 ‫Apologies if the handwriting's not great, but it gives you a real idea about how I run a plan. 38 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:24,780 ‫So let's begin. 39 00:02:24,780 --> 00:02:27,090 ‫Here's my 2 to 3 minute answer. 40 00:02:27,630 --> 00:02:36,570 ‫Well, in actual fact, I don't really text message that often these days, although when I had my phone 41 00:02:36,570 --> 00:02:43,740 ‫say ten, 15 years ago, I definitely did text message a lot more then I guess text messaging really 42 00:02:43,740 --> 00:02:49,500 ‫isn't that important these days because there are other applications that people use. 43 00:02:49,860 --> 00:02:55,710 ‫So it's a little bit difficult for me to think about the most important text because in all honesty, 44 00:02:55,710 --> 00:03:02,700 ‫it was a long time ago since I use that feature on a phone, but I would say that one of the most important 45 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:10,830 ‫text messages that I receive on a monthly basis is about my bills, and it's actually about my phone 46 00:03:10,830 --> 00:03:11,310 ‫bill. 47 00:03:11,310 --> 00:03:19,080 ‫So the company that I use, oh to which is a really famous and large telecommunication company in the 48 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:27,510 ‫UK, they have a service where you can ask them to send you a text message every month because to be 49 00:03:27,510 --> 00:03:29,280 ‫honest, I'm kind of forgetful. 50 00:03:29,580 --> 00:03:36,120 ‫It's really useful for me because yeah, I definitely do forget to pay my bills sometimes. 51 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:43,710 ‫So at the end of every month they sort of drop me a text and tell me that my bill is due and the amount 52 00:03:43,710 --> 00:03:44,940 ‫I owe. 53 00:03:44,970 --> 00:03:47,100 ‫I have like a basic package. 54 00:03:47,100 --> 00:03:54,060 ‫And then on top of that, I sometimes use extra money, safer data if I'm using the Internet a lot or 55 00:03:54,060 --> 00:03:56,280 ‫maybe some extra calls as well. 56 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:02,490 ‫So the amount they tell me at the end of the month is really useful because then I know exactly what 57 00:04:02,490 --> 00:04:05,010 ‫I need to pay with the add ons. 58 00:04:05,010 --> 00:04:11,640 ‫So when I get the text message, I go on to the online payment system and then I just make my payment 59 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,650 ‫there for whatever the amount is. 60 00:04:13,650 --> 00:04:20,190 ‫I'm pretty sure without this important text message I'd forget and probably get the service cut off 61 00:04:20,190 --> 00:04:20,970 ‫from me. 62 00:04:21,390 --> 00:04:21,750 ‫Yeah. 63 00:04:21,750 --> 00:04:28,290 ‫So even though I don't really text people any more, I'd say one of the most useful services I have 64 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,310 ‫is from O2 for my monthly reminders. 65 00:04:33,620 --> 00:04:34,010 ‫Okay. 66 00:04:34,010 --> 00:04:37,610 ‫Let's move on to our second test to cue card. 67 00:04:37,610 --> 00:04:45,830 ‫And this is about describing a challenging thing that I have done or you have done a few answering the 68 00:04:45,830 --> 00:04:46,550 ‫question. 69 00:04:46,580 --> 00:04:53,330 ‫It's a little bit easier to answer this and think about personal experiences and just note as well, 70 00:04:53,330 --> 00:05:00,710 ‫I'm really going to try and describe everything in detail and really try and push the storytelling so 71 00:05:00,710 --> 00:05:02,600 ‫you can see my plan on the screen. 72 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,330 ‫I'm going to talk about my teaching qualification. 73 00:05:05,330 --> 00:05:07,190 ‫So I've got my phone here. 74 00:05:07,190 --> 00:05:09,650 ‫I'm going to set it off for 3 minutes. 75 00:05:09,740 --> 00:05:12,350 ‫It's a good way that you can do this as well. 76 00:05:12,350 --> 00:05:15,590 ‫Set the timer for 3 minutes and see if you can talk that long. 77 00:05:15,950 --> 00:05:19,880 ‫It might be 2 to 3 minutes, but anyway, let's begin. 78 00:05:22,540 --> 00:05:30,100 ‫Well, I'd say this is actually a bit of an easier question to answer than some of the other two cue 79 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:31,790 ‫cards I'd practiced with. 80 00:05:31,810 --> 00:05:37,510 ‫So one of the most challenging things I've ever done, and there are a few different ideas that I was 81 00:05:37,510 --> 00:05:42,940 ‫thinking of, is probably my pgce qualification. 82 00:05:43,330 --> 00:05:49,180 ‫Now, if you're not sure what that is, that actually means postgraduate certificate in education. 83 00:05:49,180 --> 00:05:53,140 ‫So it's a degree that you do after your bachelor's degree. 84 00:05:53,140 --> 00:05:58,030 ‫So a postgraduate degree and it's in education. 85 00:05:58,030 --> 00:06:04,210 ‫So my bachelor's degree was in music and new media production, those types of things. 86 00:06:04,210 --> 00:06:10,480 ‫And I really enjoyed it, but I really wanted to teach and also some of the opportunities that teaching 87 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:11,980 ‫gives you like traveling. 88 00:06:12,340 --> 00:06:20,470 ‫So I decided to go back to university and do my postgraduate certificate in education and this actually 89 00:06:20,470 --> 00:06:23,830 ‫gives you the qualifications to teach in UK schools. 90 00:06:23,830 --> 00:06:30,250 ‫I'm actually primary school teacher and I generally teach year six now, which is actually grade five, 91 00:06:30,250 --> 00:06:32,200 ‫but I teach adults as well. 92 00:06:32,650 --> 00:06:39,280 ‫So I did the postgraduate certificate in education, the PGCE and I found the first couple of months 93 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:44,140 ‫were quite easy because it was more theory based and it was university based. 94 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:49,360 ‫Then after that it was a one year qualification after that came placements. 95 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,930 ‫So I had to go into schools and take over the class and teach. 96 00:06:52,930 --> 00:07:00,880 ‫Now one of the real difficulties was my mentor, my first mentor at this time, the school that I had 97 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,970 ‫was I don't want to sound mean, pretty awful. 98 00:07:03,970 --> 00:07:06,520 ‫She was not supportive at all. 99 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:13,090 ‫In fact, she came back from her holiday and this is a true story early. 100 00:07:13,090 --> 00:07:15,580 ‫She came back from Portugal to meet me. 101 00:07:15,580 --> 00:07:19,990 ‫She wasn't scheduled to meet me and she said to me, to my face, I want to fail you. 102 00:07:19,990 --> 00:07:21,580 ‫I don't want a student teacher. 103 00:07:21,580 --> 00:07:25,570 ‫So that really didn't start things off well. 104 00:07:25,570 --> 00:07:32,770 ‫And then for the next three months, I was basically given a really difficult time. 105 00:07:32,770 --> 00:07:37,990 ‫I taught everything and the mentor was really negative about the whole experience. 106 00:07:37,990 --> 00:07:39,880 ‫However, I passed everything well. 107 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:45,910 ‫I got support from another teacher at the school and I eventually did get through that placement. 108 00:07:45,940 --> 00:07:53,200 ‫The second placement that I had was way better, but it was also a very difficult school in a challenging 109 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:53,800 ‫area. 110 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,890 ‫So there were a lot of needs that the families and the students. 111 00:07:56,890 --> 00:08:02,410 ‫But my mentor at the next school was amazing and taught me so much about teaching. 112 00:08:02,770 --> 00:08:09,100 ‫I really it was worth it, even though it was difficult to make my way through this situation because 113 00:08:09,100 --> 00:08:15,040 ‫I've been teaching for years and years now and both in the UK and I've travelled doing this and I've 114 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,140 ‫had some fantastic experiences. 115 00:08:17,140 --> 00:08:24,220 ‫So even though it was such a stressful, difficult time, it was well worth the experience. 116 00:08:24,730 --> 00:08:27,520 ‫Okay, you can hear my alarms going off there. 117 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:34,270 ‫So I made it to 3 minutes and in fact I could probably talk longer for this tattoo cue card. 118 00:08:34,270 --> 00:08:38,560 ‫And you will find that sometimes the different tasks to cue cards, you'll find a little bit easier 119 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:39,340 ‫to answer. 120 00:08:39,340 --> 00:08:46,810 ‫But just remember to try and story, tell and give as much description using slow, well, pronounced 121 00:08:46,810 --> 00:08:47,620 ‫language. 122 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:48,910 ‫You'll be fine. 123 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:49,510 ‫Okay. 124 00:08:49,510 --> 00:08:52,210 ‫Let's move on to the third question. 125 00:08:54,250 --> 00:08:59,110 ‫This is about a job that you would not like to do. 126 00:08:59,110 --> 00:09:03,280 ‫And interesting, because you would have thought that they would have said, what job would you most 127 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:04,130 ‫like to do? 128 00:09:04,150 --> 00:09:07,970 ‫So kind of interesting that this is how to answer this one. 129 00:09:07,990 --> 00:09:10,510 ‫Thinking about a job that you definitely don't want to do. 130 00:09:10,510 --> 00:09:12,730 ‫And you can see my plan here. 131 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:19,600 ‫Now, again, apologies for the handwriting, but I'm actually going to talk about being a taxi driver. 132 00:09:19,630 --> 00:09:21,190 ‫Nothing wrong with being a taxi driver. 133 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:25,000 ‫Please don't take offence if that's something that you do or a family member does. 134 00:09:25,030 --> 00:09:27,670 ‫It's the traffic for me that I couldn't deal with. 135 00:09:27,670 --> 00:09:29,200 ‫So I'm going to talk about this. 136 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:35,650 ‫I think I'm going to find it a bit more challenging to do the full 3 minutes, but I'll try and slow 137 00:09:35,650 --> 00:09:41,770 ‫my speaking down and give loads of extra details that are of course relevant to the question. 138 00:09:41,770 --> 00:09:43,540 ‫So let's begin. 139 00:09:44,230 --> 00:09:52,270 ‫Well, in actual fact, there are lots of jobs that I would like to do, and I think all jobs have their 140 00:09:52,270 --> 00:09:53,470 ‫own importance. 141 00:09:53,470 --> 00:10:00,520 ‫So, you know, I'll give you the answer, of course, but I don't want to sound demeaning or offensive 142 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,820 ‫to anybody or in particular this type of job. 143 00:10:03,850 --> 00:10:10,510 ‫However, a job that I really would not like to do is being a taxi driver. 144 00:10:10,690 --> 00:10:15,550 ‫Now, taxi drivers, you know, it can be a pretty cool job, I suppose, because you get to meet lots 145 00:10:15,550 --> 00:10:21,010 ‫of different people, you get to have lots of different experiences and you get to learn a lot about 146 00:10:21,010 --> 00:10:22,330 ‫your community. 147 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:29,920 ‫However, I live in a busy city and there's something that I cannot stand and that is traffic. 148 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:34,860 ‫Now I'm a pretty patient guy, especially with friends and family and kids. 149 00:10:34,870 --> 00:10:39,130 ‫However, I don't have any patience. 150 00:10:39,130 --> 00:10:43,060 ‫I have zero patience for sitting in traffic. 151 00:10:43,060 --> 00:10:51,580 ‫So when I do get a taxi, which I actually often do, I'm sat in traffic and I just feel so bad for 152 00:10:51,580 --> 00:10:52,680 ‫the taxi driver. 153 00:10:52,690 --> 00:10:56,980 ‫It must be so stressful to spend 12 hours of your working. 154 00:10:56,980 --> 00:11:05,740 ‫Woke day sat in traffic which in the city I live there is always heavy traffic, but I suppose, you 155 00:11:05,740 --> 00:11:09,340 ‫know, it's an easy job in terms of just being sat down. 156 00:11:09,340 --> 00:11:13,990 ‫But I would find it so frustrating and also quite boring too. 157 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:21,190 ‫Also, there are a few of the things about being a taxi driver that I'm not sure I quite like. 158 00:11:21,430 --> 00:11:27,610 ‫The first one being that the hours can be very unsociable, which means that a lot of the taxi drivers 159 00:11:27,610 --> 00:11:32,770 ‫that I've spoken to, they're sometimes working really late into the night. 160 00:11:32,770 --> 00:11:38,650 ‫Sometimes they might have scheduled jobs that are in the middle of the night, you know, three, 4:00, 161 00:11:38,650 --> 00:11:39,670 ‫something like that. 162 00:11:39,850 --> 00:11:43,090 ‫And also, they often work very long hours. 163 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:49,300 ‫Now, I'm not saying it's always the case, but sometimes for all those long hours and the hard work, 164 00:11:49,300 --> 00:11:57,390 ‫maybe the pay, the salary isn't quite matched with the amount of work and stress that it involves. 165 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:01,040 ‫However, to be honest, I think it can be a pretty well paid job. 166 00:12:01,060 --> 00:12:08,290 ‫The main thing for me is the traffic, though I just could not stand to be sat in traffic all the time. 167 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:14,860 ‫Another issue as well is that you can never guarantee that you would have a nice customer and remember 168 00:12:14,860 --> 00:12:17,680 ‫that sometimes you're going to be sat with them for quite a long time. 169 00:12:17,950 --> 00:12:26,170 ‫I know that in the UK often taxi drivers get a little bit sick of picking up drunk customers who can 170 00:12:26,170 --> 00:12:29,560 ‫be a real handful for the taxi driver. 171 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:33,250 ‫So that's something that I definitely wouldn't enjoy. 172 00:12:33,250 --> 00:12:38,710 ‫And I know that a lot of taxi drivers try to avoid city centres because of this. 173 00:12:39,010 --> 00:12:39,370 ‫Yeah. 174 00:12:39,370 --> 00:12:44,500 ‫So I suppose the taxi driver, although it is a pretty great job, it's definitely not for me. 175 00:12:45,070 --> 00:12:48,990 ‫Okay, so I'll stop there and let me stop that. 176 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,240 ‫The examiner would say there's no alarm, so it's not going to put you off. 177 00:12:52,270 --> 00:12:58,480 ‫The examiner would probably he will or she will sort of say, okay, that's that's enough. 178 00:12:58,480 --> 00:12:59,500 ‫Thank you for the answer. 179 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:01,020 ‫They'll prompt you when it's time. 180 00:13:01,030 --> 00:13:05,590 ‫I'm surprised I made it to 3 minutes there because I wasn't convinced I was going to have enough to 181 00:13:05,590 --> 00:13:06,430 ‫talk about. 182 00:13:06,430 --> 00:13:12,580 ‫But again, just going in detail, stick to the question and really try and explain everything. 183 00:13:12,910 --> 00:13:19,420 ‫And just a storyteller, be confident, enjoy it and practice with different cue cards. 184 00:13:19,750 --> 00:13:22,780 ‫Okay, so I hope you've enjoyed this lesson. 185 00:13:22,780 --> 00:13:28,990 ‫Please do drop me a message if you want more lessons like this and feel free to listen to it through 186 00:13:28,990 --> 00:13:34,120 ‫again and again and write down some of the language I've used and try and use it yourself.