A Fantastic English Course. Change your mind, change your English, change your life. Александр Чумаков
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Название: A Fantastic English Course. Change your mind, change your English, change your life
Автор: Александр Чумаков
Издательство: Издательские решения
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Next we have the phrase to be prepared for something. It simply means to be ready for something. That’s easy, right?
Okay, we move on and we see a big believer. A big believer is a strong, true, faithful, firm believer. In other words, a big believer is someone who is strongly, truly and firmly believes in what he is doing or in what he is going to get.
Our final expression for today is to see the end results. To see the end results means to imagine or to see in your head what you will finally get. If you work hard and if you imagine, see in your head yourself speaking, true, real and excellent English and if you always think about it in a very positive and calm way, you will become that fantastic English learner and finally a fantastic English speaker. Why? The answer is simple: we become what we think about.
That is all for our vocabulary lesson today for “What does it take to be an English Learner”. Listen to this lesson as many times as you can. Listen to my voice and see in your head yourself speaking true, real and excellent English. Don’t let different forces pull your left and right. Stay on your course and remember you are a marathon runner, you are not a sprinter. Feel proud of yourself every time you speak English and believe in what you are doing and then success will certainly come to you. I promise you will speak English like no one else. Have a great day! Bye for now.
The mini-story
Hi! This is Alex. Welcome to the mini-story for “What does it take to be an English Learner?” You know what I am going to do, right? Yes, I’m going to ask the story. I want you to answer the questions fast and automatically. I want you to train your brain, teach your brain to answer very quickly. I don’t want you to translate from your language to English or from English to your language. Of course, you can answer with one or two words. It’s okay. Short answers are fine. Let’s go!
Joan is an amazing, intelligent and wonderful woman. She wants to become a freediver. But she cannot. Why? She is a woman with Megalohydrothalassophobia.
Megalohydro what? What is it?
Megalohydrothalassophobia is a fear, a phobia of water and large underwater creatures and objects.
Does Joan have a fear of a fear of deep water and large underwater creatures and objects?
Yes, exactly. She has a fear of deep water and large underwater creatures and objects.
What kind of phobia does Joan have?
Megalohydrothalassophobia. She is a woman with Megalohydrothalassophobia.
She has a phobia, a fear of deep waters like seas, oceans.
Is Joan afraid of large underwater creatures, underwater monsters?
Yes, she is. She is afraid of large underwater creatures such as: whales, sharks, see monsters.
How does Joan feel when she is in the deep waters?
She literally feels very much uncomfortable in the deep waters near huge underwater creatures. It is a huge challenge for Joan.
Is it a difficult task for Joan to dive into the deep waters?
Yes, it is. It is a very difficult task for Joan to dive into the deep waters. It is literally a huge challenge for her.
Why is freediving a huge challenge for Joan?
Because she is a woman with megalohydrothalassophobia.
Oh, I love this word. It is so beautiful, isn’t it? Megalohydrothalassophobia. I love it.
Okay, let’s get back to the story.
Tell me what Joan wants to become?
She wants to become a freediver. She wants to swim as deep as she can underwater without using breathing equipment.
Without using what?
Without using breathing equipment. It is things like an oxygen tank or a scuba tank. She wants to swim as deep as she can underwater without using breathing equipment. But she cannot because of her megalohydrothalassophobia.
What does Joan do about the problem?
She decides to go a local diving school. The diving instructor says, "To get rid of megalohydrothalassophobia you have to dive with a gun. And if you see any underwater monster you have to shoot underwater monsters." Joan goes and buys a gun. She dives with the gun but there is another problem. The gun doesn’t work underwater. Joan quits the school. She feels upset. She is still a woman with megalhydrothalassophobia.
Does the diving instructor help Joan to become a freediver?
No, he doesn’t. The diving instructor doesn’t help Joan to become a freediver.
Does Joan still have that phobia, that fear of deep water and sea monsters?
Yes, she does. She still has that phobia, that fear of deep waters and sea monsters.
She is still the woman with megalhydrothalassophobia.
Why? Why doesn’t he help Joan?
Because the diving instructor is not a good diving instructor. He is a terrible diving instructor.
What does Joan do next?
Joan quits the school. She stops going to the diving school. She feels upset.
Why does she feel upset?
Because she is still a woman with megalohydrothalassophobia. She still has that fear of deep waters and sea monsters.
But one day at a party Joan meets a man. The man is so handsome that she literally cannot take her eyes off him. Through her friends Joan learns that the man’s name is Bob. And that Bob is a professional freediver. She wants to know him better and she wants to learn the secret of his success.
Interesting! Is the man handsome or ugly?
Handsome. He is very handsome. He is so handsome that Joan literally cannot take her eyes off him.
You mean, he is so handsome that Joan cannot not look at him?
Yes, that’s what I mean. Joan cannot not look at him. She cannot take off her eyes off him, because the man is very handsome.
How does Joan learn the man’s name?
Through her friends. Her friends tell Joan his name. Joan learns the man’s name from her friends.
What is the man’s name?
Bob. His name is Bob.
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