Unique English Course Speak real English. Часть 2

Unique English Course Speak real English

Часть 2

Александр Чумаков

© Александр Чумаков, 2024

ISBN 978-5-0064-7196-2 (т. 2)

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Introduction

Hello everyone! My name is Alexander, but many people call me Alex for short. I am the author of this Unique English Course. Speak real English. Part 2.

Everything I do:

I believe in helping you speak English better.

I believe that English can be easy and fun.

I believe that English is beautiful and awesome.

The way I do it is:

By teaching you real, true and excellent English.

By using the best methods for learning and speaking English.

By inspiring you and motivating you to stay committed to learning English.

I just happened to make a great English course.

Wanna do one?

I have created this “Unique English Course. Speak real English. Part 2.” because I want to help you become a strong, fantastic and confident English speaker. I want you to succeed at English. I want you to speak true, real and excellent English.

Now, I would like to tell you how I can help you start speaking real, true and excellent English and feel absolutely relaxed at the same time. I want you to think of my Unique English Course as a key to the door. It is the key to that beautiful door for you to enter the space of real, true and excellent English. I want to help you by giving you the key to that beautiful, fantastic and gorgeous door to the real world of English; the door that leads you to your better understanding, your better pronunciation and, finally, to your better speaking and, of course, to getting automatic respect from people when you speak English.

I can help you to speak true, real and excellent English because I know how it feels to learn English as a foreign language. I do know what it feels and I do know what it takes to speak English where people around you do not speak English or speak English but very little. I know that because I was there. I was like you. I was born in Russia and I grew up in Russia. I myself learned English as a second language. That is why I understand perfectly well your anxiety, your worry and your embarrassment every time you need to speak English.

When I was 10 years old, I already wanted to be of help. I already wanted to be a teacher. I did not know what I was going to teach, but one thing I knew for sure was that I wanted to be a teacher. I wanted to serve others.

And I decided to teach English – one of the most beautiful languages in the world. I went to University. Since that time I have become a willing student of English, and I have become very much interested in how I could help people to speak excellent English all over the globe.

Many years have passed since then, I have learned from the best, and I’ve found the method that I am going to share with you in this course. This is the story-telling method – one of the best methods in the world for learning foreign languages. I became a teacher of English many years ago. But still I am committed to serving people. Still, I am excited and curious about what I am doing. Still, I am devoted to my calling, which is to teach you to speak true, real and excellent English.

If you let me teach you, and if you let me lead you and guide you through this tough, difficult and meandering process of acquiring English, together we will certainly take your English to a new level. And I promise you will speak English the way you never did before.

With love and respect,your English teacher Alex

What you will learn in this unique english course

Let me tell you what you are going to do in this Unique English Course to succeed at the course faster and better. My Unique English Course. Speak real English (part 2) has 12 units and 3 months of audio lessons.

Each unit includes:

1st A short story. Each story is a pleasant, enjoyable, instructive and mysterious journey which you are going to undertake and, most importantly, you are going to learn a good deal of good, new and useful ideas that can bring out the best in you.

2nd The vocabulary lesson – this is where I explain the meaning of the words you might not know. Here I am going to walk you through some words and some idioms in English, you can hear people use, when they talk about things in everyday life situations and not only. In this lesson I am going to broaden your horizons in terms of using the words and I am going to make some comments of my own as well. I hope you will find them useful.

And, of course, 3rd you will have your favorite mini-story lessons where I am asking the story and answering the questions. The mini-story lessons will help you to understand English grammar better and remember the ideas given faster and longer. I am sure you will have a lot of fun while taking this fantastic, sometimes difficult, but absolutely amazing journey. At the end of the journey, you will certainly become a better English speaker and a better human being.

4th – The commentary lesson. Not each unit has a commentary lesson. Starting from the sixth lesson you are going to have a new lesson where I am going to philosophize about the meaning of the story and about the moral of the story. It will not only help you understand the story better, but it will also help you see better what is hidden between the lines. In other words, what you can learn from the story to speak English better and to learn more about the world around you to become a better human being. All this, I am sure, will help you get the message of the story and, of course, you will listen to English more, you will learn more and you will enjoy it more.

Good luck to you!

With love and respect,your English teacher,Alexander Chumakov.

Why do we learn stories here?

Why do we learn stories here?

That is a great question. You know, how much I love “The Why-questions”. Let me tell you why all my books, why all my English courses have stories and why the method I use when I teach English is called a story-telling method.

Story-telling is one of the best methods for learning foreign languages. We, human beings, are storytelling creatures. Our brains love stories and we all learn from stories. Stories are vital. We convey our feelings, our mood, our energy and the truth with stories. We convey the mystery of the language. And most importantly, we learn English grammar intuitively like children do. That’s why stories. I don’t mean, don’t learn grammar. No. Grammar is important. I am saying that grammar is difficult. Grammar is very difficult. Grammar is boring. It is hard to say anything interesting and comprehensible to people when teaching them languages and you have to focus on grammar rules a lot.

When you learn a language, a foreign language, for example, you learn English. You learn grammar rules, right? You learn all about the sentences and how words work together. And when you want to say something in English, you make the sentence in your own language first, and then you drag out of your memory the words you need and put them into the sentence. That is painful. That is difficult. That is boring and it takes time. When you acquire the language, you understand what you hear. You can only acquire the language when you understand the language, you understand the message. The message has to be interesting and comprehensible. In other words, the message has to be compelling and understandable. Only when you are totally involved in the story, the world disappears around you. You forget that it is in another language. You acquire the language. It means you get the language. You understand the language. Language acquisition happens.

I don’t mean, don’t learn grammar. I don’t mean, if you study grammar, go to jail. No, grammar is important. I am saying again that grammar is difficult. Grammar is very difficult. Grammar is boring. What I have to do as a teacher is say things that are interesting, comprehensible which means understandable, and then grammar will take care of itself. And this is hard enough. All I need, as a teacher, is to make sure that you are paying attention and you are interested in what I am saying. It’s a good story. That is why I sit down and create these compelling and comprehensible, interesting and understandable stories for you.

When you tell a story, something remarkable happens: imagination flies and magic begins. What’s why stories.

Why are mini-stories so powerful?

Mini-stories are powerful because I deliberately use the most common verbs like: go, come, take, give, wish, run and there is so much repetition in these stories. And the questions come and again they should be very, very easy and very much comprehensible. So you answer the questions without thinking.

And you no longer deal with the story; you focus on the most common verbs we use in daily conversations.

What do you get from this? The same words, the same questions and you get the basic structures of the sentences with so much repetition.

Even if you start as a beginner, it is first noisy and then with time it gets clearer and clearer to you and you feel more and more confident in what you are learning.

Some of the stories are easy, some of them are difficult. Why? It is because of our brain again.

The brain requires two things: repetition and novelty. Novelty is not necessarily to be something new. It means when you learn something using a lot of repletion, you eventually get tired and bored and you need to give your brain a kind of break. It can help you develop the flexibility of your brain.

If you stay with simple stories and never push yourself to harder stories, it is easier for you to get that boredom. But if you push yourself and make yourself learn something a little bit more difficult than you did before, your brain becomes more alert and more alive and you remember much better and faster, so you learn better and speak better. That’s why mini-stories are so powerful.

How to use my unique english course

My dear friend! My congratulations! Welcome to Unique English Course. Speak real English. Part 2.

Hello! This is Alex, your English teacher. You are now ready to speak true, real and excellent English. Here I am going to tell you what you should do to start speaking English the way you never did before.

How to use the story

Each story, each set has several lesson files. All lessons, in a story, in a set, have the same name. These lessons go together. Every day, you will listen to all the lessons in ONE story, in ONE lesson set (all the lessons go with the same name). You will listen to only one set for 7 days or more, but not less than 7 days or not less than one week.

This is very important. As you remember, the motto of the course is “Repetition is the mother of skill”.

You will only improve your English quickly if you follow this method – one story, one lesson set everyday – the same lessons set every day for 7 days (or more). Slower is better.

How to use texts:

1. First, try to only listen.

Don’t use these text transcripts first. Try to listen to a story, a vocabulary lesson and a Mini-story, and my comments without the text. If you understand them, you don’t need the text – just continue to listen.

2. Use these text transcripts only when you do not understand something.

If you don’t understand part of a story, a vocabulary or a Mini-Story, or my comments read the text. You absolutely must go back and read what you do not understand. This is vitally important. This will help you identify vocabulary you might not understand from just listening. Use a dictionary, if necessary, to find unknown words. You will certainly begin to understand better and remember much better of what you listen to. Of course, you understand that you can only remember things when you understand them!

3. Read and Listen at the same time, a few times.

Once you know all of the words and phrases in a story, a vocabulary lesson and a Mini-Story, and all the other parts of the story or set of the lessons, now you can listen and read at the same time. Do this a few times only. Every day focus more on answering the questions. Use your voice. I mean, answer the questions in a loud voice. You absolutely must hear your voice!

4. Just listen again.

Now you just listen to the Mini-story. Don’t read. You know the questions and the answers very well.

Do not focus on reading – focus on listening!

Put the text aside and only listen to the Mini-Stories. Only answer the questions. These text transcripts can help you, but don’t use them too much.

And, of course, you have to listen to the Commentary lessons and enjoy them. And do it as many days as you can, but not less than 7 days, not less than one week.

If you follow the system, you will certainly succeed.

Remember: listening is the key to speaking.

I wish you good luck and every success!

With love and respect, your English teacher,

Alex

Oh, there is one more thing, I should mention just a few words about my other courses. I have to tell you about what I have created, I have done by now. You have to know that, because how else will you know what I have to offer you, if I don’t tell you about it, right?

My bestselling book is my first book which is Unique English Course. Speak real English. Part 1. This book has the same structure as the book you are holding now in your hands. It has crazy, funny and stupid stories. It has vocabulary lessons and it has mini-story lessons. This is a very good book for those who already understand English, but still have some difficulty speaking English. It is for those who are still afraid of making mistakes; for those who want to improve.

My second book is Super English Course. Speak like a native. This is a big book. I mean, it is not as easy as the first one, but it has the same structure but the level of English is higher and the vocabulary is more advanced and the stories are even crazier, funnier and it has some lectures and a lot of interesting, instructive and compelling things to learn and to use in everyday life to become not only a brilliant English speaker, but also a fantastic human being.

Number three is the course for beginners with a fantastic and very optimistic name which is “I want to speak English”. One of the reasons I’ve created this course is because I know how difficult it is to find a truly remarkable book to start learning English. After many years of studying, learning, teaching and practicing English, I have learned how to teach beginners English much better, more efficiently and more compelling.

I also have a business English course called “Secrets of Success”. This book is for those who already speak English pretty well, and now want to understand business in general and to speak true, real and excellent business English. But you can go and try it, if you want to. So try these books. You have nothing to lose, but you have a life to win. I guarantee it will help you to speak English the way you never did before.

So you can go and choose any course you like to start with. See you soon.

Unit 1. “The Japanese Farmer”

Hello, my superstar English learner! This is Alex. I hope you are doing well today. Welcome to our first lesson called “The Japanese Farmer”. Let’s begin!

One early morning, a farmer hears a knock on the door. When he answers the door, he sees all of his animals standing on their heads on the porch. The farmer immediately understands that something has happened. Why? Because the animals are standing on their heads and they are looking unhappy, upset and even angry.

“What’s happened?” the farmer asks.

One of the oldest and the wisest donkeys says, “On behalf of the animals, I want to say that there is a big problem, Tatsuki.” By the way, the farmer’s name is Tatsuki.

“A big problem? What’s the problem? Tatsuki wonders.

The problem is that we do not know English. You understand English, you read in English and speak English, but not we. We do not understand English. We do not speak English. We need to know English.” the donkey says.

“Why do you need English?” Tatsuki asks.

“You don’t understand, Tatsuki. We need English to watch YouTube videos, to read American and English books and, of course, to talk with other animals from different countries”, the animals say.

“Okay”, says Tatsuki. “I know English, but I can’t teach you English. So I can’t help you”.

“Maybe you know someone who can?” the animals ask. And at this very moment, the farmer remembers Alex, the English teacher. And he goes, “Wait, wait, I know. If there is anyone who can help you, it is Alex. Alex can teach you to understand and to read and to speak true, real and excellent English.” All the animals are elated. “But”, says the farmer. “But?” ask the animals. “But I have lost his telephone number somewhere. So I can’t call him. Sorry, guys.”

Immediately, the wisest donkey comes up with an idea! “We must find it. How about doing a big search on the farm? I am sure, we will find it.”

“That’s a great idea!” Tatsuki says.

For three days and three nights, the farmer and the animals have searched everywhere. And finally, a young pig finds a small, dirty and crumpled piece of paper with Alex’s telephone number on it.

The farmer immediately calls Alex. He asks him to come and teach his animals English. But Alex cannot come. Why? Because Alex is far away. Now he lives in Russia. But Alex says, “I cannot come to you, but you can buy my books, my English courses. And if you do the courses, I promise, you will understand English. You will read in English and, of course, you will speak true, real and excellent English”.

The farmer and the animals are very happy and very excited.

This is the end of the story for “The Japanese Farmer” What are you going to do next? Right! Next, you are going to listen to this story. And you are going to enjoy the story. And then you go and grab your vocabulary lesson. See you there.

Unit 1. The vocabulary lesson

Hello, this is Alex and this is your vocabulary lesson for “The Japanese Farmer.” Let’s start it immediately.

I am going to start with the phrase “to answer the door”

Let me read this sentence for you again so that you can hear this phrase again.

When the farmer answers the door, he sees all of his animals standing on their heads on the porch.

To answer the door simply means to open the door. It is when you go and open the door because a visitor has knocked on it or rung the bell. So, in our case, the animals have knocked on the door and the farmer goes to the door and opens it. In other words, he answers the door.

Next we have another fantastic expression which is “on behalf of someone”

Well, actually, it is an English idiom. We use this idiom when we want to say something on the part of someone or instead of someone or in support of someone because you are representing the interests of that person or the interests of that group of people. In our case, the oldest and the wisest donkey represents the interests of all the animals. So he speaks for all the animals. He speaks instead of the animals. All the animals have chosen the donkey as he is the oldest and the wisest and he knows how to speak well and they let him speak on their behalf. They let the donkey represent their interests.

Okay, we move on and we see one more idiom which is “at this very moment”

At this or at that very moment simply means at the present moment or at the same moment or simply right now. It’s easy, right? At the same moment, when the animals ask the farmer if he knows anyone who can help to teach them English, he remembers Alex, the English teacher who was his English teacher many years ago. At this very moment, the farmer remembers Alex, the English teacher. I think you get the idea, right?

In this lesson we also have the verb “to go”

You may say what “to go”? Who doesn’t know this verb? Everybody does. Everybody knows this verb. Yes, you’re right. Of course, you know the meaning of this word, no doubt about it. But you also know that English is crazy. Let me prove it to you. Here “to go” means “to say”. Yes, you see. English is really crazy. I go it means I say. That is why in the story you hear me say. I go, “Wait, wait, I know if there is anyone who can help you it is Alex. Alex can teach you to understand, to read and to speak true, real and excellent English”.

Our next expression for today is “to get elated”

The sentence says, “All the animals get elated.” To get elated means to become extremely happy and excited often because something has happened or been achieved. If you want to say that you are full of joy, you are extremely happy about something you say, “I am elated by something”. For example, your friend has a child, a new daughter. You are extremely happy for him and you say, “I am elated by the birth of your daughter”. In our case, the animals become supper happy when they learn that the farmer knows how to help them learn English better and faster and that very fact makes them extremely happy and excited. They are full of joy. They get elated by that fact.

Next we have the expression “to come up with something”

The sentence says, “Immediately, the wisest donkey comes up with an idea!” When someone comes up with something it means that they suggest or think of an idea or of a plan. So the wisest donkey suggests the idea. He has an idea in his head. It has the meaning that an idea comes to his mind and he produces it. He gives an idea. He produces an idea. He comes up with an idea. “Immediately, the wisest donkey comes up with an idea!” And, of course, you remember the idea that the donkey comes up with, right? The wisest donkey says, “How about doing a big search on the farm.”

This is our next sentence that we are going to focus on in this vocabulary lesson. “To do a big search”

When someone decides to do a search it means that they try to find something by looking for them carefully because they want to find something every important, something that they have lost, for example. It may be anything. It may be the key to your room; it maybe the book you’re reading now, or it may be, like in our case, the telephone number. So the wisest donkey suggests doing a big search on the farm in order to find Alex’s telephone number. The telephone number is very important for all of them. I think you get the idea, right?

And our final word for today is “to search”

In the previous vocabulary item, you see this word “search” as a noun, as a thing. Do what? A search. And “a search” there means a thing which is expressed by the object. But here we have the verb. Yes, in English the same word can be a noun and can be a verb. It all depends where we put it in the sentence. In the story I say, “For three days and three nights, the farmer and the animals have searched everywhere.” I use the word “search” as a verb which means to go around a place and look around everywhere very carefully. I put the word between the subject (the farmer and the animals) and the adverbial modifier “everywhere”. This is where we usually put verbs, because we are talking about actions. We put verbs between subjects and objects or adverbials. By doing it we show what the subjects do. This is how we usually structure all the sentences in English, and not only in English. We do it in Russian, in Spanish and in many other European languages. So the farmer and the animals search everywhere wanting to find Alex’s telephone number to start speaking English. And as you remember, they find it. They telephone Alex and everything ends well.