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Okay, I have to tell you about one more video. This one is so funny. It’s a little girl talking about what she will do if a monster comes into her home. Her mother is a very patient teacher! Click here to watch. This was so funny, I am telling all of my friends about it! Enjoy.
Hey students!
You know that I think learning interesting quotes can be very helpful in learning a language. At the same time that you learn an interesting and thoughtful quote, you gain a kind of “conversation starter” that you can use when talking with your friends and coworkers. Now, you can read the “Quote of the Day” so that you can learn more quickly. In a year or two, your friends will be calling you a genius! Click the link below and start learning:
I will be teaching a “karaoke class” in my school next week, helping students learn songs so that they can improve their pronunciation and speaking. One song I will use is very popular and very famous all around the world - Hotel California. Have you heard of it? It’s a rather difficult song to understand because it’s symbolic of many of the things that were wrong with the United States when the song was written way back in 1976. Unfortunately, the problems in the United States continued for the next 32 years until we have arrived at a dangerous time. You can watch the video of Hotel California, with subtitles, by clicking HERE. I hope you enjoy it…
In my teaching, I show students a lot of videos. I think there is so much to learn from videos. We can learn English words, expressions and sentences, while at the same time learning about other cultures. I am starting to put some videos on my webpage. These are videos that I think are both interesting and useful. You can go to www.teacherjoe.us/Learn.html and you will see the videos in the column on the right.
The first video is a song that was on television when I was a kid. (Click here to watch.) The second one gives a really good example of how to pronounce “R” in English. (Click here to watch.) The second one is quite difficult to understand, but that is not so important. If you don’t understand the humor now, you will certainly get it some day.
I plan to add all kinds of videos in the future, hopefully several each week, so keep checking in to learn more English from videos!
Would you like to live in a city that is cloudy more than 300 days a year and has many snowstorms every winter? Neither do I! That is why I left my hometown, Rochester. I have to say that Rochester has many good points. It’s quiet, making it a good place to raise a family. I, however, have no interest in raising a family! There are few traffic jams there, even during the so-called “rush hour”. And there’s lots of nature - beautiful parks, a canal and a river running through the city, with Lake Ontario and several beaches to the north. But in the end, Rochester is simply too cold for me.
Since leaving Rochester, I have lived in Paris, France (as a student), in Osaka, Japan, briefly in San Jose, Costa Rica, and now in Beijing, China. I’ve enjoyed all of these places but the best city for me, at least right now, is Beijing. Here’s why:
First of all, there are plenty of jobs for me in Beijing! I have worked in a university, in a high school, in several companies both big and small, and I am now working in one of the fastest-growing private schools for adults who want to learn English. Second, there are lots of things here that I enjoy doing, including visiting historical sites, listening to live music on the weekends, or eating delicious - and cheap! - Chinese food.
My absolute favorite place in the whole world is Hawaii, but it’s far too expensive for me to live there now. Someday I DO hope to live in a warmer location, someplace with a beach. In the coming year I hope to visit the south of China in search of a warm place near the beach where I can live in the future. But for me, right now, Beijing is the best place to live.
How about you? What do you think is the best city to live in? Write your opinion in the comment box below. I’m looking foward to reading your thoughts!
