you know what there's something that I hear on a regular basis students message means students just like you and say teacher I understand about 80 or 90% of what you say it's so amazing but how come I can't understand other English speakers or what about this one teacher your videos are great I love them I can understand you but how come I can't understand English movies you probably have asked the same question now I'm so happy you can understand me but I realized this is a big issue one of my students last week actually asked
the same question she said TIFF how can I improve my English listening skills so you know what I did I came up with a simple five-step plan that's right five steps that will help you improve your English listening skills now I'm gonna tell you these five steps but I need you to do something for me I need you to like share and also subscribe to this channel now why do I need you to do this because my goal my main goal is to help students around the world gain confidence in their ability to speak in
English and also enjoy the process but I need your help because I can't do it alone I really want to help 1 billion students I know it's a big number but together we can make it happen and all you have to do is like this video share this video with someone else who's learning English and then subscribe to this channel I would appreciate it so much because that will help me spread the word and help other students gain confidence so again like share and subscribe I am teacher Tiffany let's jump right in [Music] all right
so five steps we're going to look at five different steps that will help you improve your listening skills now the first step is find a video or podcast something you are interested in now I mentioned this in last week's video the importance of actually finding something you're interested in because your brain is awesome you already kind of have this this storage room of words connected to your interests and all you have to do is translate those words to English so find a video or podcast about a topic you're interested in now again let me describe
it for you look for a video or podcast that is connected to a topic you enjoy why because learning about topics you already enjoy makes it easy for your brain to make connections as you listen you know it's so funny quick story time I was teaching a class last week and two of my students were having a conversation and I was listening to them and one of the questions was related to a challenge they faced in life now one of my students she's an architect you know who you are hey Daisy and my other student
Roberto he works in Brazil and he works with Caterpillar there's a company that makes these machines that are used in construction and they're Caterpillar Hagee Berto so they were having a discussion about challenges and I was so amazed as I watched them speak confidently and comfortably about the challenges they faced related to their jobs and related to things connected to their jobs now when they stopped I said you know what guys do you realize that you were able to speak confidently about this topic they said yeah we do and I told them it was because
they had already formulated ideas about the topic in their own language so when I asked them the question in English it was very easy for them to translate it into English because they already had kind of the storage room makes it so again find a video or podcast be it's gonna be easier for you to connect the information in English now so after you do that again it needs to be your interests you're going to move on to step number two listen and mark the timestamps the parts you don't understand so here we go listen
to the video or watch the video or listen to the podcast and write down the time stamps of the parts you don't understand now again remember you're only writing down the timestamps sometimes as a student you feel like you have to write every word or every single part that you want to go back and look at or look in the dictionary and sometimes you'll say teacher if I look in the dictionary for every single word I won't finish in time and I get it that's why the second step is literally just write the timestamp so
let's say for example I'm gonna take out my headphones you find your podcast you find the video and you are ready to watch the video or listen to the podcast and then you start and from the very beginning you don't understand anything put my headphones on listening oh I don't know what that is pause write the time stamp but you don't have to write anything else again for step two all right now why is this important reason jotting down quick notes is good because it doesn't stop you from listening to the remainder of the program
oh now real quick you see there's another new one second gonna fix this right here I'm gonna make sure okay all right so you'll notice I said jotting down now jotting down that expression just means to make a quick note you got it so not like when you're studying for a test and you have to write extensively nope quick notes we say jotting down in English all right so you're going to jot down very quickly a time stamp so let's say for example I said I listen to something this is what my notebook would look
like one minute and five seconds second two minutes and 56 seconds and you see I just wrote the timestamps this is all you have to do for part two as you listen now we're gonna progress to step number three the third thing is you're gonna go to the time stamp and listen again and guess so again listen to the portions at the time stamps one more time and guess what is being said that's right so you've listened to it all the way through then what you're gonna do is you're gonna go back this is step
three and you're only gonna look for those parts that you didn't understand not the entire thing just go to one minute and say 25 seconds listen to that short portion and try to figure out what's being said and then guess it's okay just guess what you think is being said now why is this important here's the reason this will help you focus on small portions instead of the entire program many times as an English Learner you get frustrated and overwhelmed because you're trying to see everything at once whereas this is saying hey you've already listened
to the full program now go back to that little part and see can you understand that portion right there so let's see how it would look for example I listen to something this is my notebook one minute and five seconds I heard prec was it ah but the word is prerequisite now prerequisite let me kind of explain it to you so prerequisite is something that must occur before something else happens the easiest way to understand it imagine when you were in university right and you are majoring in biology right it's your freshman year though your
first year they say ah before you take let's say organic chemistry you need to take chemistry you need to take the basic chemistry chemistry 101 chemistry 101 is a pre or before requisite right you need to have this class before you take organic chemistry in English we say pre-requisite alright ok so then two minutes and 56 seconds on clad knife and then realize ah on cloud 9 now again you guys are getting a lot of expressions today on cloud 9 just means you feel awesome you feel amazing everything is a-okay we say on cloud nine
now for me personally when I'm on cloud nine y'all I usually sing and dance for students in my academy I kind of sang a lot last week for one of our QA episodes but yeah when I'm really excited and really happy and I'm on cloud nine I usually like to sing alright so let's go on to the next one number three let's say back on d-day well oh that's actually back in the day back in the day just means a long time ago I taught that I think I taught that on Instagram you can check
out Instagram I teach every day a new word and the new slang term alright next I said call fiber was actually all nighter all that it refers to studying all through the night you have to work or study all through the night we say all-nighter I pulled an all-nighter I did an all-nighter it means I worked or studied all through the night all right now let's say the last one I found was sucked Mike what is sunked eye it's actually Zonk t' all right so pronunciation after me Zonk t' one more time Zonk now some
just means extremely exhausted or really tired now I want to pause really quickly because you see sometimes when you're on this step you're on step three and you hear the words or expressions you may not be able to find out the correct expression or words or you want to ask some a question someone a question well that's where today's sponsor comes in came bleah I love partnering with Kimberly because they're an awesome company now candy has tutors from Australia Canada America english-speaking countries and they are ready to help you so many of my students in
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code right here on the screen Kame bleed thank you so much for sponsoring this video and students take your English to the next level alright so again we're on step three and this is the step where if you need to ask questions you can ask questions to your tutors just like the tutors at Camp Lee so again we're gonna keep going on now so we've looked at the timestamps and now we have to go on to the fourth step figure out the context before after and overall so listen to the portions before and immediately after
the portion you didn't understand then think about the video as a whole so you see what happened in step number three when I was explaining you know back in the day all-nighter I explained those to you but we couldn't listen to the same program right so even if you figure out back in the day our all-nighter you may not understand how that connects to the actual program you listen to this is when you have to figure out the context what are they talking about at that point before that point after that point and what's the
whole focus of what you're listening to that program what's the topic or what's the focus now why is this so important this step is so important because it will help your brain start to connect the information and understand what you miss so let's see how I would do it so for example four minutes and 11 seconds they said back on d-day that's what I heard but it's actually back in the day now you on the left and the right the context before and the context after these two pieces of information are going to help me
kind of guess the real meaning of back in the day all right so here we go talking about all of the new technology available today that happened from 3 minutes and 30 seconds to four minutes and ten seconds then they started to compare it to old technology looking at the context before now what happened after the 4 minute an 11-second mark they start to speak about childhood excuse me memories so they're suddenly going from talking about present-day technology to childhood memories and right in the middle there's this expression back in the day ah they're talking
about old times or the past context clues this can help you understand things when you're listening to things in English all right now this helps us move to step number five alright so step number five is listen one more time to make sure you understand you're going to listen to the program or watch it one more time and make sure you are able to understand the portions you went over this is so important because it will help you feel more confident and give your brain one last time to recognize what you learned this is so
important so step one two three and four that's where you're going to actually process and understand the information to try to guess what's going on then Step five kind of solidifies I understood my listening is improving and that's all you need to do these five steps are gonna take your English to the next level now I have part two as I always do and part two is for my Academy students if you're not a member all you have to do is go to let's jump right in comm and become a member right now and you
can watch part two in part two I really help you by giving you a worksheet where you can use the worksheet as you listen to programs to write times and I explained to you how to use the worksheet as well so I really hope you enjoyed this episode and I want you to take your English to the next level and improve your listening skills so don't forget when you get to step three and you're trying to guess what is actually being said you may need a tutor and that's where it came Billy again comes in
to help you so don't forget to use the coupon code for Campbell you'll see it right in the description Kaylee thanks again response during this video guys I love you guys I really want to help you improve your English remember to Like share and subscribe so that you can help somebody else take their English to the next level I'll see you next week but as always remember to speak English oh yeah you know what time it is it's story time hey I said it's story time okay now whoo I'll be very honest today's story is
gonna be a many funny and interesting so I will never forget this so growing up I was a good child I was a good kid I I wasn't disrespectful I followed the rules you know I had fun but I was a good kid I listened to my parents but I remember this one time my mom and I were home my dad was at work and we were in the kitchen and my mom said something and I got a little bit irritated but I wasn't crazy now I will tell you this about my mom my mom
is short we say sometimes short people are very spunky oh there's Spitfires so I watched to imagine you know fire is hot right and you spit like you spit so spit fire is someone who may jump on you real quick or they can be aggressive sometimes and my mom is loving but she can be a Spitfire sometimes so anyways I'm not sure exactly what was said or what the situation was but for some reason my mom got upset and she told me to go upstairs to my room now I was upset too but again remember
I told you she was a spit I wasn't crazy I wasn't going to talk back now talk back is when you know parents tell their child something and the kid says well I don't want to do that why do I have to never-never did not do that did not do that my mom is a Spitfire my dad my parents raised us to never be disrespectful so we weren't disrespectful my sister and I we were not disrespectful anyways but this situation something happened in the kitchen my mom told me to go upstairs and I was a
teenager so I was a little bit you know when you're a teenager going through your adolescent phase he kind of you know you get upset you want to kind of show your emotion but I was not crazy because my mom was a Spitfire so she said go upstairs to your room so I said yes ma'am now I even in my eyes my facial expression I couldn't show any any measure of disrespect I couldn't say nope you better not you better not you get popped so she said go to your room and again so I had
to go upstairs to my room now my kitchen from my kitchen to my room honestly to walk maybe it took I would say 30 or 40 seconds like it's not close it's not far but it's not close so you know we live in the same home right so I walked up the steps and again I in my head I'm just mad but my facial expression yes ma'am yes ma'am so I walk up the steps my mom's still in the kitchen I get upstairs and I get to my door and I'm just about to open my
door very quietly I said I kid you not it was that it was that quiet now I have the mic right here so it loud to you but it was very quiet like I literally did that before I could get it out of my mouth my mom downstairs says you bet not security okay she said you better not suck your teeth I the level of fear that came over me I said there's no way in the world she could have heard me suck my teeth it was so low so blind so quiet she was downstairs
in the kitchen and she heard it she said you better not suck your teeth needless to say I never sucked my teeth ever again my life ever again in my life and I realized oh my mom's crazy but no again so we're talking about being able to listen so we say my mom can hear everything she can hear everything so if you have children sometimes you need to try that even if you don't hear them suck their teeth call them out oh you better not suck your teeth oh yeah anyways I never sucked my teeth
ever again I continued to be scared of my mom thinking that she could hear anything anywhere and yeah so yeah we say you know sometimes you have to put the fear of God into your children so that they can respect you and I can guarantee when I have children I will do the exact same thing I will not tolerate sucking of teeth or any disrespect but I really never forgot their situation let me know in the comments section if you guys ever experienced the situation where your mom or your dad kind of got upset or
they heard you do something that you thought they couldn't have possibly heard you doing alright I hope you guys enjoyed this story I'll talk to you next week have a good one
