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,
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.
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