Name: 高級英語口語班 (Advanced Spoken English Class )
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:13:06.000Z
Duration: 21 min 4 s
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I haven't made any new lessons in the past couple of months.

I've had a lot of projects going, even though I've been reading all of your comments and

responding to as many as I can almost every single day.

Well, I'm back now, and I'm back today with the first in a series of lessons on advanced

These lessons will help you to improve your listening ability, and most importantly, your

speaking skills, both for everyday communication and if you're preparing for an exam with

Now, I'll make sure to put the text of what I say up on the screen, and I'll also make

sure to highlight any useful vocabulary that you can take away from this lesson.

Now, the way we'll do this is we'll take a topic, and I will be interviewed on the

That is, somebody will ask me questions and I will answer those questions as naturally

That is, I'm not going to try to simplify my answers.

I'm going to answer as I would in real life.

Now, in this first lesson, I thought we'd take the topic of work.

So, we'll start by talking about my work and what I do, and then we'll move on to

Now, after the conversation ends, we will discuss the most important vocabulary items

It's probably more accurate, though, to say that I'm an ESL teacher, ESL being short

I specialize in teaching English as a Second Language to adults.

Even though I've taught classes for children, the bulk of my experience has been in working

with adults, especially in business English and exam preparation courses.

Now, recently, my focus has shifted to teacher training and doing research in the field of

That's the study of how people learn languages.

See, teaching is something that I've always gravitated towards naturally ever since I

Now, whenever there's an opportunity to share a piece of knowledge that I have with

somebody and see that person take that knowledge and use it to make their life easier or better

in some way, I eagerly take that opportunity to teach.

So, teaching is something that I enjoy immensely, and it's the perfect job for me.

What was your dream job when you were younger?

Well, that's a tough one because like most people I wanted to be different things at

I remember wanting to be a pilot when I was a little kid.

I had a lot of toy planes that I would play with.

As a teenager, I would daydream about being a celebrity.

But the first job that I can probably say was truly a dream job for me was computer

I was probably in my late teens when I got into it.

That's when I discovered the joy of coding.

Because if you think about it, the job of a software programmer is essentially to solve

problems in the context of computers or information technology.

So, it was that problem-solving element that really drew me to programming.

Now, even though I ended up becoming a teacher, I still see my present job as a series of

Do you think most people work in jobs that they love?

Because I think you have to be incredibly fortunate to have grown up in the right circumstances

that allow you to discover what really drives you to be able to make a career out of it.

I think that the traditional route that most people take is that they graduate from college

and then they either take the best-paying job that's available to them at the time,

or they take the job that they think offers the brightest career prospects for the future.

And a lot of people do so out of financial necessity.

Because you have to put food on the table.

Do you think it's important for people to enjoy what they do in their job?

I mean, whatever your job is, there's always going to be some things about it that you

I don't like having to write up student reports.

In my previous job, I had to sit through a lot of meetings, and I used to hate doing

that because I thought those meetings were a waste of time.

So, it's unrealistic to expect that everything you do has to be enjoyable.

I think, instead, the key is to have enough challenging tasks in your job, or at the very

least, finding a way to do mundane tasks in a way that challenges you.

I think you have to look at it like a video game.

Because when people play video games, what they do is every time that they play the game,

they try to get a higher and higher score.

So, I think that they key is to keep challenging yourself.

What kinds of activities do people find challenging?

I'd say it depends both on the job and the kind of person that you are.

Because like I said, I like tasks or activities that require me to use my analytical ability,

tasks that have that problem-solving element.

But another person might like a job that's more social because for them, it's about

And, you know, having to work with people, and getting things done through working with

people can be challenging in its own right.

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