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hello everybody Merry Christmas and I

hope you're having a lovely

time in December as we come up to the

New

Year my name is teacher rich and this is

our last ever Oxford online English

stream this is the final

one hello everybody how's it going and

how is your December going how are your

holidays going if you have holidays and

how is your Christmas

going

oh as you can see I'm not in my office

today I am out of

office which means we're not

using the best equipment

for the last ever stream but never mind

it's okay so the plan for today is

mainly we're going to

chat but also I'm going to watch my

first ever stream on Oxford online

English first ever stream was on the 7th

of April

2021 that was almost three years ago was

my first stream on the Channel just

after olle started streaming on Oxford

online English so I will be later

reacting to my first ever

stream but for the moment we're going to

well let's just chat for a little bit

and then we'll talk about some

questions let's chat for a bit how is

everybody doing and how is your

Christmas great holidays hope you're

enjoying your winter holidays says

Karima yes what do you normally do in

December December

Karima what's the what traditions do you

have in December where you're from what

do you normally

do Manuel says Never Say

Goodbye of course Manuel there means

never say Aros but always say

AO or

noos

yeah and they have a similar thing in

French don't they that there's the

difference between

and

AD ad being a more permanent

goodbye NOS BOS is the most popular is

it okay in Valencia they really like to

say aao and they used to say it very

quickly so it wouldn't it didn't sound

like aaigo it was like aligo luigo

luigo

so that's it's great isn't it because it

tells you a lot about

languages that no matter no matter the

language no matter where you are people

find ways to say the words very quickly

so they don't necessarily say every

single word individually which is of

course something that I've told you for

long

time thank you Duo that's an interesting

comment I'm not going to respond too

much to that uh hello there ramelia how

are you doing thank you

for thank you for joining us today

muhamed what's that tavoc coli says hi

meat I'm sorry what's that that's a bit

peculiar I don't know what you mean by

that all right so moving on we've got

ask me any questions I've got some

possible topics for you here that you

could you may want to ask me about I'm

happy to answer any questions on these

topics so we've got a bit of a ask me

anything that's an

amaa for any redditors out

there Mariam says please reply how are

you I'm good Mariam I'm just having a

coffee it's my third coffee of the day

third coffee of the day I do like coffee

maybe it's my last one

greetings from Pakistan UK was the best

place to visit because it's the ideal

place for famous business tycoons yes

Zary and of course you're talking about

London London is a business City isn't

it international business

City not my cup of tea though really to

be honest with you I prefer

lowkey quiet

yeah the cities are too much maybe maybe

maybe it's just getting old you know but

uh always get a little bit stressed in

the city now so many people running

around and missing the buses and getting

on the Underground and all the rest of

it Duo says I'm watching from

Bangladesh fantastic so I'm here to

answer questions folks so any questions

you have about teaching about English

about living abroad uh it Piti says may

I ask a question about grammar yes you

may and

also may I say thank you very much for

your

donation uh

um made a very very generous

donation bought me quite a few coffees

on my YouTube channel Professor Rich so

I want to say thank you for that Edna it

was well

appreciated so of course any questions

that you have about grammar please do

ask and I will do my best to help you

ramelia says rich I wanted to let you

know that I passed C

two grade c a bit s C2 after all big

thank you for your lessons really made a

difference okay ramelia so that's um was

that Cambridge English proficiency was

it that you do was it the

CP or was it a different kind of C2 exam

C2 is a very difficult level to pass C2

really is the level where native

speakers would study uh sorry would

struggle to pass without having specific

exam training so CPE yes well well done

I I've I only know a few people who've

passed CPE and it requires a great deal

of

dedication beyond that of communicative

language Aaron VF pizaro says what can

you tell us about classroom management

I'm in the language education field

Aaron you're talking my language so that

is of course my area I've worked as a

language teacher for 15 years and the

majority of my work is in a classroom

not online so classroom management well

Aaron first of all with classroom

management we do need to think what age

group are we talking

about because obviously classroom

management depends a lot on

context right context is very

important so who are the

students what age what interests what

level of English are

they are they private students paying a

lot of money for a private Academy or

are they students in prison you actually

have English language classes in prisons

now so that would make quite a big

difference to how you're going to deal

with your classroom management and

obviously the way that you deal with

classroom management for five year olds

is significantly different to how you

would deal with classroom management for

25 year olds so is there any particular

context that you're struggling with

Aaron my general advice for classroom

management would

be

that if you're having issues well first

of all it's important to

establish a good classroom structure

from the very first class so it's a lot

more difficult to correct a bad class

than it is to establish a class with the

correct sort of classroom behavior from

the start so obviously you want things

to be in the correct way from the start

now for Young

Learners for primary and secondary this

is children aged from five all the way

way up to about 14

15 you can consider a number of factors

and if you get these factors correct you

will have no issues with classroom

management so the factors

are language

level

interest cognitive

Challenge and physical challenge

oh and you might also say soft

skills so when you're considering what

you're doing in class like for example

what activities you're doing in class or

what your class is

about if the language level is correct

if the interest is there so this is

something the students are interested in

if the cognitive challenge is correct

the physical challenge is correct and

the soft skills the challenge of soft

skills is correct then you won't have

any classroom management issues so you

don't need a punishment reward system

because your class is tailored correctly

the students are interested it's the

right language level there's the right

cognitive challenge so that means you

know if you're dealing with six-year

olds the cognitive ability is

significantly less than a 16year old for

example and also you need to consider

the individual students themselves

sometimes you get students who are very

cognitively capable and some students

who are less so you have to tailor the

class so that it hits at the right level

of these of these different

considerations if the students are

interested if the challenge is correct

not too difficult not too easy cuz too

easy is boring and too difficult is

impossible so not not Bing not

impossible but in the middle then the

students will engage they will follow

your

instructions and they'll the want to

take part in a productive

way and then you don't need to worry you

don't need to worry about punishment

reward however that said it is very

important for teachers to know what the

disciplinary procedure is for their

institution you have to know what

disciplinary actions are available to

you you never want to use those actions

however you need to know that you have

them it's like having a gun in your

pocket right you don't you don't want to

pull out the gun but you need to know

that it's there because you need to have

the confidence to know that when you're

asking your student students to do

something for you eventually if they

keep refusing or being disruptive or

whatever you need to know that you have

some options available so you do need to

know that there is a disciplinary

procedure and that is very much

institution dependent what can the

institution do to support you as a

teacher are they prepared to send a note

to the parents are they prepared to

suspend the student we need to know what

options are available to us we never

want to reach that these are this that's

the Red Zone and you don't ever want to

go to the Red Zone but you need to know

that the possibility is there can you

make a behavioral contract with the

student where the student sits down with

you and their parents and you write a

contract about their behavior and they

sign it and their parents sign it and

you sign it and they sign to say that

they will do better in some area and if

they don't they're gone and that will be

things like I will listen to the teacher

I will not use my phone in class I will

not speak other languages than English

in the class etc

etc all right so I think that's enough

about classroom

management so let's moved on it na atti

says I'm confused about I didn't hear

from you and I haven't heard from you

when use do or have right

so there's a few answers to this

IR did you say I haven't

yeah

so there's a few answers to

this I think first of all it's worth

mentioning that uh in the you no yeah

let's start with that so first of all

it's worth mentioning that in American

English they use the perfect tense

that's the I haven't heard from you a

lot less than British

English so they don't use this perfect

tense so much they often will use the

past

simple when we use the perfect

tense so that's one thing to consider

however since I'm British then let's

consider the UK English

perspective so generally speaking when

you're using the past simple instead of

the the present perfect the past simple

uh is for a finished uh event which does

not lead up to the present moment that's

in British English as I said in American

English they do use the past simple for

that but in British English we

don't so the past simple in British

English is for a finished event which

does not lead up to to the present

moment that means this is

disconnected from the present

moment so I didn't hear from you last

week I didn't hear from you yesterday

but I haven't heard from him or you

today right so you can see here that

these two are about finished events

which are not connected to the present

moment last week and yesterday versus

today which today is the past but it is

also now when I say today I can talk

about the past like I woke up I woke up

at 6:30 today we can say that but it is

also the present like today I'm giving

an English class right so today day is

is is in fact the past and the present

and that's why we can use the present

perfect there I haven't heard from you

today and we're using it to say that

it's something that happened in the past

but has continued to the present

moment all right now as I said the

Americans for this one they actually use

the past simple there so they say I

didn't hear from you today yeah I just

did it did you do it yet uh whereas in

British English will'll say have you

done it yet I haven't done it yet I've

already done it

okay uh my head's in the way of the

notes that's fantastic sorry this is the

problem with being on not your correct

equipment so I hope that's helpful Zary

says British English has always been a

language of accents and dialects and

today the United Kingdom has a among the

highest level of accent diversity in the

English speaking world yes that is an

interesting comment though zaryan I do

wonder how do you measure accent

diversity like how do you consider

something to be a different

accent where do you draw the line like

if we consider an accent such

as RP is RP different than estery

English and is EST English different

than

cogne and is cogne and EST English

different than southern English where

where do we draw the lines on these

accents so I do Wonder exactly how you

measure accent diversity and I am a

linguist I have studied

Linguistics so I know that it's a a

tricky question to

answer

ramelia says do you think it's a good

idea to do a Selter is value for the

money I'm already

teaching a cell if you if you have no

teaching experience then a Selter is one

of the best things you can do if you

want to teach

languages if you have teaching

experience to be honest with you the

main thing that you'll get out of the

Selter is a piece of paper that lets you

work for certain institutions so really

you're just paying for the certificate

that's the main thing that you're paying

through for with the with the

Selter is is the

certificate if if you don't have

teaching if you sorry if you have

teaching experience so if you've been

teaching for two or three years then you

will get a little bit of practical

useful experience from the Selter but

actually what you really need to do is

you need to do the tsol diploma

from

Trinity that is the number one language

education qualification in the

world as far as I

know the Delta is also pretty good but

the Trinity tsol diploma is the one I

can really

recommend that's it's it costs a lot of

money like maybe

5,000 it takes a year at least and it's

really difficult but it's a very very

very good

qualification so that's what I would

recommend if you really want

something how long does it take to

become a native speaker well

Fisher some people might say you can

never become a native speaker because

the very definition of native speaker is

that you're born a speaker of the

language

so I guess the answer to that is is that

you you can't become a native speaker

you can only be a native

speaker maybe your question is actually

how long does it take to be fluent in

English trying to work out how to use

this properly how long does it take to

be fluent in

English and uh really that depends on a

lot of factors there's no there's not a

singular answer to how long it takes to

be fluent in English because it depends

how many languages do you know how good

is your musical

ear how confident are you socially how

academic are you because people who are

very academic tend to find it a lot

easier to learn grammar and vocabulary

people who are very sociable and

confident tend to find it a lot easier

to develop oral

fluency things like that so there is not

one answer for that the British Council

says that you need

roughly 200 hours of instruction for

each level and there are six

levels so according to the British

Council you can become

C2 from having no language you can do

that

with

1,200 hours of

instruction now hours of instruction

means that you also do things outside of

class hours of instruction means time in

class Christopher says I've been

interested in English all my life I love

it very good uh Muhammad Ishmael Mia

says how are you sir I'm good thank

you pavi says Hi teacher how are you is

this the last live stream of the channel

yes it is it's the last one

Mariam says please explain reading

comprehension what do you mean by

explain reading comprehension Mariam So

reading

comprehension is how well you understand

a written

text and often in exams they will test

that by having for example very similar

sounding options and you need to choose

exactly what the text says or what the

words in the text

mean the best way to improve reading

comprehension is through a combination

of extensive reading and intensive

reading so extensive reading means that

you read easy books that you're

interested in so get some whatever

you're interested in

sci-fi historical

drama self-development books whatever

get some of those and get easy ones that

you can read easily in a relaxed way

without having to think too much and

read them as a habit 30 minutes a day

every day that's extensive reading and

then intensive reading means you take a

text of about 200 to 250 words you read

it very carefully analyze it the

difficult words and

phrases and you use things like a you

know dictionary and so on to check words

you don't understand with extensive

reading you don't do that you just read

and enjoy and through a combination of

these two

activities you can develop your reading

comprehension very

well and the way this happens for most

people is that you will practice

intensive reading in class and then

extensive reading outside of class

Ernest says yes that's right in the USA

most people basically use the past

simple instead of the present

perfect

yes I have also been struggling to make

casual conversation in

meetings hesitant to ask questions when

they don't understand

something it's very difficult Zari

because obviously communication is not

only about your linguistic ability it's

not just language language is a factor

but you also have a whole number of

communication

skills

and learning those skills is a challenge

for everyone everybody needs to learn to

be a better

Communicator uh I've been teaching

communicative language uh in English as

a communicative language for 15 years

but I'm by no means the best

Communicator in the world by no means

the best Communicator in the world

however being a teacher of communicative

languages for 15 years has

helped nevertheless soft skills take a

lot of work and a lot of

development and obviously you have

things like personality to take into

account as well some people are more

gregarious than others gregarious means

extroverted or

outgoing some people enjoy being the

center of attention they enjoy telling

stories some people enjoy complaining so

they're very good at saying that this

food is not very good in the restaurant

for

example there's a lot of things to

consider so my advice to you is if

you're struggling to

if you feel outside of your comfort zone

you have to gradually push just

gradually push your comfort zone

and reward yourself when you do and also

treat it

as there's a number of skills you have

to improve it's not only about

confidence and it's not only about

vocabulary it's about a number of

factors learn some polite phrases for

interrupting learn poite

intonation and then push yourself having

lessons helps as

well Trinity diploma what subjects in

this it's the Trinity tesol

diploma and the main three modules

are

projects

practice and Theory and language

language uh Theory use of language

language knowledge something like

that and the Trinity tsaw diploma goes

into great detail in all those things so

the projects involve quite vigorous

academic studies that you have to you

have to do there's three of them one of

them involves 10 hours of observed

teaching practice that's you observing

other teachers

another one involves what we call Action

research which means research is part of

your

institution and another one involves a

developmental

Intervention which means you basically

identify an issue with a specific class

of yours and you construct a teaching

intervention in order to actively tackle

an issue that they're having it's really

really good I love the projects and then

the practice is observe teaching

practice and the language knowledge is

obviously a very deep understanding of

the know of the language much deeper

than you need to teach it you learn all

kinds of absolute

nonsense such

as

graphemes graphemes uh super segmental

uh pronunciation features or super

segmental phic features of the language

antecedent

references and so on and so

on Sir people call English the

international language of

business da da da da da yes it is it's

the linga franer of the world it always

will

be what about social Linguistics can you

give me a definition

definition rater sociol Linguistics oh

dear

dear yeah social Linguistics is all the

rage these

days social Linguistics is all the rage

so what is social

Linguistics it's Linguistics

considered from a social lens so for

example

um how

do how do uh lwi income New Yorkers um

pronounce words

differently compared to high income New

Yorkers

okay uh how do Republicans I'm totally

serious when I say this pronounce words

differently uh than

Democrats okay in the

US uh I'll give you an example of that

by the way there was a very famous study

conducted in the '90s on that very

subject the subject of how Republicans

and Democrats pronounced words and they

found that the pronunciation of the

country Iran uh and Iraq was very

different with Republicans and Democrats

that Republicans in general would say

Iraq whereas Democrats would say

Iraq and uh they also found similar

lines along people who were considered

to be War Hawks and people who wanted

peace and so on there was differences in

pronunciation that is

sociolinguistics it's considering

linguis SS from a social

lens it's interesting it's not my

favorite subject in the world though it

gets a bit wishy-washy sometimes I have

to

say teacher I've been subscribed to this

channel for almost seven months but I

don't know what this channel is about I

have always been

lost

what what do you mean what do you mean

you don't know what it's about it's it's

English teaching

Canal we're learning English what what

do you what do you want it to be about

the lessons can be about all sorts of

subjects because English is a medium of

communication so you can learn English

at the same time as learning all sorts

of things so what's wrong with

that pavi says now you won't teach on

this channel what happens if someone

leaves their YouTube channel does

YouTube delete it no pavi that doesn't

happen and I don't know what future

plans olle has for the

Channel all I know is that we are ending

live streams

today I don't know what the future holds

you'll have to ask olle SF says I'm a

new student here and it's my first class

that's lovely SF it's also your last

class on Oxford online English um

however if you would like

if you would like further classes from

me you

can you

can the link is in the

chat Ernest says Rich could you give a

piece of

advice on how to train or get a British

accent I speak with a sort of mixed

accent makes me embarrassed so

nnest accents a tricky thing it's one of

the most difficult things actually to

train as a language learner is accent

sorry I'm I don't I can't work out how

to put this chair up so I'm going to

have to just lean back a little bit that

doesn't really look very good does it

hello everyone I'm teaching English but

also about to fall

asleep so accent accent is very tricky

particularly ination

actually learning ination is extremely

difficult because people

identify very strongly with the way that

they speak so you often

feel like you're acting if you try to

learn certain

intonation I think the first piece of

advice I would give you Ernest is

try don't don't worry so much about that

feeling of embarrassment or shame when

speaking everybody who speaks a foreign

language feels like that at every level

unless their name is Manuel Gordo

because Manuel just says what he needs

to say isn't that right Manuel but

everybody else or most people do feel

quite embarrassed when they're speaking

in other language it's a natural part of

the process you just need to accept it

accept that hey I'm a non-native speaker

I'm a learner and I need to communicate

and something you must know

is people that you're speaking

to they should be a charitable listener

so someone you're communicating with

should notice that you're a non-native

speaker

and

they they will hopefully be nice about

that they'll try to understand

you

and as long as you can communicate

that's the main thing we don't need to

worry about whether your pronunciation

is perfect because there's no such thing

as pronunciation as perfect

pronunciation actually my pronunciation

certainly isn't perfect and in fact a

lot of the regulars here will tell you

about how if you listen to me speaking

I'll say things in different ways

sometimes I'll say must which is the RP

pronunciation and sometimes I'll say

must which is my my original accent my

native accent so I'm from the the the

northwest of

England

so if someone going to come along and

tell me that I'm saying it wrong and who

decides who decides as exactly which of

those things is right or wrong so the

point is it's all about communication

can you understand can you be

understood that's what you aim for well

you can aim for Perfection actually but

what but what you accept is imperfection

because that's the reality that is the

reality Maman says in Andalucia we are

the best at different accents yes really

maybe Maria Del cman also says I will

miss you

um no I'm on profor reach Maria Del kman

and so are you so you won't miss me

you'll be attending our streams

right uh shadik Kulu says how many

English accents are there in the world

well this goes back to the problem that

I was talking about before shadik which

is what is an act accent and how do you

separate it and we also have problems

like what's the difference between a

dialect and an

accent and linguists have come to the

conclusion that there's no such thing as

an accent or a dialect or a language

they call all of them varieties of

communication that's the point that

we've got to in Academia now where they

can know they it's now it's now taboo to

use the word accent in modern linguistic

studies because it's just a variety of

communication now honestly I think

they've gone a bit too far with that

down the postmodernist deconstructive

route I'll type those words in the chat

for you if you're if you're

interested we're talking about

postmodernism and

deconstruction uh which is where we kind

of break down the meaning of things

until there's basically nothing left but

that that that's where they are with

modern Linguistics they talk about

varieties of language not accent and

they'll point out things

like dialects of

Chinese right so the two primary

dialects of Chinese we call Mandarin and

Cantonese and they're they're supposedly

dialects except they're more different

than from each other than many European

languages so Mandarin and and cantones

are more distinct than Spanish and

Portuguese for example the Spanish and

Portuguese are two different languages

we think but Mandarin and canones we

call

dialects

so this is the kind of discussion that

goes on with

Linguistics so how how many English

accents are in the world no idea no idea

but before I studied

Linguistics I would have said there's

about 30 in the

UK that would be my random guess before

I studied Linguistics and ironically

after I studied Linguistics I have no

idea no

idea Venit says I know many words but

when I speak they don't come why does

this happen oh renit come on you've seen

me teach a lot about this surely it's

what your what you're talking about

there renit is passive versus active

vocabulary so very common situation

which is in fact the situation you're

describing is I have a very large

passive

vocabulary that is the words I know

things I know uh but my active

vocabulary the the the things I

use is

smaller okay so first of all that is of

course a natural situation you would

expect your passive vocabulary to be

larger than your active vocabulary the

the the words and phrases which you

understand is always going to be greater

than the words and phrases that you use

both in speaking and writing

now how do you improve the words that

you

use well or the phrases that you use you

need to use them so first of all you

need to change your mindset about how

you how you learn

vocabulary so when you make vocabulary

notes when you make a note of useful

phrases and things like that we're not

taking note of the things that we don't

know right right we're taking notes of

the things that we know but that we want

to use so you're selecting new phrases

that you want to use that's the point so

as you listen to me talking

now when you notice a useful

phrase when you notice a useful phrase

then make a note make a note of it and

then

later practice it

play with

it use

it that's how you develop your active

vocabulary it's a process of using it

passive vocabulary you don't need to

study to improve it you can if you want

but actually the acquisition of language

the the passive acquisition of language

happens

automatically when you practice

listening or reading you don't need to

study it but for active VOC vocabulary

you do you need to act you need to

imitate so listen to a phrase wait

Replay in your head three times and then

try to say it I've demonstrated that

activity millions of

times that is how you encourage the

phrases to come to your head when you

want to use

them in addition focus on phrases that

you like

focus on phrases that you like don't

learn the things that you think you

should

learn learn the things you want to

learn so don't learn a phrase because

you think you should know it learn a

phrase because you like it I like how

that sounds so I'll learn it

right I'm currently I've just started

learning Vietnamese my Vietnamese is

very bad but the phrases that I do know

in Vietnamese are phrases that I've

learned because I like how they sound

they're fun right like

CH which is Happy Independence Day it's

obviously it's not the most useful

phrase in the world but I remember it

because I like

it so that's my

recommendation thank you Anna a lovely

comment P you sir how to study English

literature what a shame that Pavia isn't

here because she's the expert on that

being that she is a student of English

literature I would say um I'm not I'm

not an English literature teacher and it

is very different actually than what I

do

but probably the best thing you can

possibly do to study English literature

is to read and then talk about what

you've read

so read some Romeo and Juliet or

whatever and then talk to someone else

who's read it that has to be the number

one way in my opinion to learn about

English literature read some stuff and

then have a conversation about it with

other people who've read it and that's

that that will get you going with it

talk about why certain characters did

certain things and so on and so on maybe

talk about how you imagine certain

characters to be

Chinese character is not an art it's a

tool for communication Mandarin and

Cantonese are both chines are they but

they are much more distinct from each

other than Portuguese and Spanish and

Italian and Spanish and Italian and

Portuguese and Brazilian and Spanish and

catalonian valencian catalonian and

valencian are considered different

languages but their grammar is almost

identic

identical their pronunciation is almost

identical what about mayor

kin where do we draw the

line and then what about something like

Scots Scots is Scottish variety

English now the major a lot of words in

Scots are the same as in English but

some of them are different like look

instead of

Lake now Scott is actually considered a

different

language but is it a dialect or is it

just an

accent anyway I don't want to talk about

the ins and outs of linguistics anymore

I think I've done enough of that so what

I did want to do folks because we don't

have a lot of time left is I didn't want

to react to my first ever stream on the

channel so this was almost three years

ago so I thought we could uh oh no we

don't want to do that how did that

happen I thought I had all this set up

but apparently I

didn't

was anyone here for the first ever

stream you know something I found very

interesting is that the people who are

here for the first ever stream I don't

think any of them are regulars

now maybe Manuel was there I think man

Manuel was there

right were you there Manuel

oh all right so we're going to have a

look at this dunk there we go there he

is that's me three years ago down there

in the bottom

place all right let's play list and see

what I see what I think about this

chap hello

hello good start testing the

mic

hello

everyone can you hear

me yeah that's a pretty standard start

to a first ever stream isn't it hello

can you hear me is my microphone working

Etc

hello h it's getting embarrassing now

it's like it's like someone like tried

to make a phone call and there's no one

on the other line Let's uh go forward a

little

bit there's a lot of Silence on this

stream I've noticed is this how I used

to stream I just used to sort of sit

there in complete

silence right let's move forward a few

minutes uh while this guy sorts his life

out you know a lot of a lot of countries

what whatever time of year you have your

summer a lot of countries have have a

holiday just going into

summer well this is enthralling stuff I

mean I don't know about you but I am

very entertained Let's uh let's go

forward to questions see how he deals

with

questions all right next situation I'm

not going to show you the screen because

then you get to see my suggestions but

the next situation was the new the new

place that I found to live the new place

that I found to live is 25 miles

away that's quite away 25 M kilometers

lots of people like kilometers right so

it's about I don't know

35 30 kilm something like that I don't

really know kilometers something like do

you know what I'm quite surprised about

is I actually thought this would be very

different it's it's actually very

similar isn't it have I not changed in

almost three years of doing this in the

way that I uh I talk maybe there's a few

a few less SS now let's go to question

time um and therefore we get get the we

get these phrases that arise such as a

wide range of things and we get like a

wide range being a strong

collocation um uh people say a wide

range of things why don't people say a a

a big a big a big range well they don't

because it doesn't sound right it's not

the collocation so the collocation a

wide range and as for phrasal verbs

phrasal verbs are very specifically

supposed to be uh verb Plus um a

participle oh dear me so there you go

it's ex I'm exactly the same so that's

that's what we learned from from doing

that okay

brilliant that's absolutely fantastic

are are these classes still online yes s

they are now you need

to you need to join and be a member if

you want access to these really old stre

streams on the channel on Oxford online

English but they are they are there yeah

but um and and you get access to all of

them there there's hundreds of them

absolutely hundreds yeah Ernest I have

actually a lot so I'm quite I'm quite

surprised I expected I expected it to be

a lot more

Awkward actually but it's pretty much

the same it's pretty much the same so oh

that's that was a little bit

anticlimactic actually but there you go

you you you you live and learn so folks

we are coming to the very end now you

can download the notes from today from

this link here and I'm going to put that

which will hopefully be forever

enshrined below this

video and I would like to say well it is

the end it is the end It's The End

everybody and I would like to say you

can follow me uh on my own channel and I

stream normally twice per

week not right now because it's a

holiday I need a holiday I've been very

very very busy actually this year

and I'm not I'm not streaming this week

so it will be the new year when I stream

again on Professor

reach but if you wish to join me you may

in January and I will of course see you

next year on that channel so check that

out it's

youtube.com/ reach and also the link

there down below bit. Le and all the

rest of that I'll paste that in the

chat so a few final words I think I

don't have time to go on a long time

today sometimes on professor Rich we do

3our streams when things are going well

but definitely don't have time for that

today so I'm going to start bringing us

to a close and say a few final words

it's been a very interesting

experience joining you all online it is

very different than being in a

classroom very different there's a lot

less

feedback so it is particularly different

it's particularly difficult ult to grade

my language

appropriately and I know

that we have a lot of people who find me

difficult to understand and some other

teachers will slow down a bit more but I

know that in general the people who've

watched my streams on Oxford online

English have being slightly more

advanced people so I've continued

to cater for that

audience focusing on learning phrases in

an interesting way anyone who's watched

me will know that it's all I'm all about

peculiar and interesting topics so we

don't often talk about for example Beach

holidays versus Mountain holidays which

if you've ever taken an English class

you will have discussed that probably

about five times already and you'll

probably know all all of the words for

family members like nieces nephews and

cousins and so on off by heart because

it's just one of those classes which you

always do when you have English classes

so I don't do topics like that you've

probably noticed that instead we learn

about space and we learn about science

fiction and we learn about a a dialogic

story about having a barbecue on the

beach but the Barbe is too big so how do

you get the barbecue to the beach just

little fun things to make it a bit more

a bit different and a bit more

interesting than doing the same old

stuff focusing on learning phrases and

focusing on telling

you how best to learn a language from my

experience I'm a language teacher and a

language

learner

and I have a podcast talking about

language learning

if you are a teacher you might wish to

subscribe to that podcast the podcast is

called elt under the covers that's

education learning teaching under the

covers or elt

UTC and that's a show that we run every

week me and Neil we've been doing that

for three years for as long as I've been

streaming on Oxford online English

actually

and we've interviewed all kinds of

Educators around the world academics

we've we've educ we've interviewed

people who have invented educational

methods we interviewed the inventor of

Lear and dur Le learn by teaching his

name was Jean Paul Martin he was a very

very interesting chat to talk to so we

have a lot of fun over there and if

you're interested in learning and

teaching and being a teacher then you

might be interested in that otherwise

you can find me at

youtube.com/ aprofessor

reach so it has been my pleasure to be

with you all this time I hope that

you've benefited from it and I do wish

you all very very happy New Year a

wonderful holiday and if I don't see you

again then I I wish you a very wonderful

rest of your life so thank you very much

for all the support and for being with

me this time uh my name is being

Professor Rich for Oxford online English

if you're after some private lessons you

can go to

www.oxfordonlineenglish.com

and you can get the highest quality

online teaching available very

experienced teachers and well worth your

teaching so for me that will

be I'll see you

later but not

not a goodbye forever so hopefully I

will see you all soon have a prosperous

and joyful 2024 thank you Julia you took

the words right out of my mouth all

right folks have a lovely day and I'll

see you next time bye-bye now

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
teacher /ˈtiː.tʃər/ A2	noun - a person who teaches or instructs
class /klɑːs/ A1	noun - a group of students learning together
English /ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ/ A1	noun - the language used in England and many other countries adjective - related to England or the language
learn /lɜːrn/ A1	verb - to acquire knowledge or skill
teach /tiːtʃ/ A2	verb - to impart knowledge or skill
accent /ˈæk.sənt/ B2	noun - a way of speaking typical of a particular group of people
grammar /ˈɡræm.ər/ B1	noun - the rules of a language
management /ˈmæn.ɪdʒ.mənt/ B1	noun - the control and organization of something
pronunciation /prəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ B2	noun - the way in which a word or language is spoken
vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ri/ B2	noun - the set of words used in a particular language
fluency /ˈfluː.ən.si/ B1	noun - the ability to speak a language smoothly
comprehension /ˌkɒm.prɪˈhen.ʃən/ B1	noun - understanding of something
channel /ˈtʃæn.əl/ B1	noun - a pathway for communication, like a TV or YouTube channel
stream /striːm/ B2	noun - a live broadcast on the internet verb - to broadcast live on the internet
question /ˈkwes.tʃən/ A2	noun - a sentence asking for information verb - to ask something
holiday /ˈhɒl.ə.deɪ/ A1	noun - a period of time away from work
experience /ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/ B1	noun - knowledge or skill from doing something verb - to undergo something
level /ˈlev.əl/ B1	noun - a position on a scale
interesting /ˈɪn.tər.əs.tɪŋ/ A2	adjective - holding the attention or curiosity
difficult /ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəlt/ A2	adjective - hard to do or understand

Key Grammar Structures

• I haven't heard from you today

  ➔ Present Perfect

  ➔ The present perfect is used to talk about actions that started in the past and are relevant to the present. Here, it emphasizes that the lack of communication is an ongoing situation.

• I didn't hear from you last week

  ➔ Past Simple

  ➔ The past simple is used for completed actions in the past that are not connected to the present. Here, it indicates a specific time (last week) when the action occurred.

• I will be later reacting to my first ever stream

  ➔ Future with 'will'

  ➔ The future with 'will' is used to talk about future actions that are decided at the moment of speaking. Here, it indicates a planned action (reacting to the stream).

• I'm happy to answer any questions on these topics

  ➔ Infinitive after 'to'

  ➔ The infinitive form of a verb is used after 'to' to express purpose or intention. Here, it indicates the purpose of being happy (to answer questions).

• I've been teaching communicative language for 15 years

  ➔ Present Perfect Continuous

  ➔ The present perfect continuous is used to emphasize the duration of an action that started in the past and continues to the present. Here, it highlights the ongoing nature of teaching.

• I would have discussed that probably about five times already

  ➔ Past Perfect

  ➔ The past perfect is used to talk about an action that was completed before another past action. Here, it indicates that the discussion happened before the present moment.

• I don't do topics like that

  ➔ Present Simple with 'do'

  ➔ The present simple with 'do' is used to talk about habits or general truths. Here, it emphasizes a habitual action (not doing certain topics).

• I've continued to cater for that audience

  ➔ Present Perfect with 'have continued'

  ➔ The present perfect with 'have continued' emphasizes that an action started in the past and has continued up to the present. Here, it highlights the ongoing effort to cater to the audience.