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As you probably know your regular teacher is not able to take your class today as she has had an accident. Over the weekend she got her feet stuck in wet concrete and before she could get away, the concrete had gone hard and had set.
As she lives alone and her neighbours were away until the following day, she had to stay in her garden during the night. Consequently she now has a terrible cold and won’t be back at work for the next two days. Now I don’t think it’s very nice of you to laugh at her situation and I must ask you to stop making so much noise. I can’t possibly teach you until you’re quiet.
Please be quiet and all of you sit at your desks. I would like to tell Miss Williams that while she was away, you all behaved very well.
This morning I want to talk about the homework that you did for her, which I have now corrected. I was very surprised that some of you have been very careless with your exercise books. Several of them were badly stained with coffee marks and one of them looked as if it had spent some time in a bowl of tomato soup. Will you please stop shouting and screaming.
This is a serious matter and I don’t find it a bit amusing. You will never learn anything if you keep on behaving like this. I am here to help you and recommend that at least you try to keep your exercise books in a proper condition. This classroom is also very messy. I am sure that the cleaners made the room nice and tidy and although you’ve only been in here about thirty minutes, you’ve already made it untidy. And what on earth is that strange looking stuff on the floor over by the door? Is that something that any of you are responsible for?
I’m going to find out exactly what it is and also who has put it there in the first place. And when I find out who it is, there will be serious trouble. Let me see. It smells like glue. Yes, it is glue. Oh dear! My shoes are now stuck in it and I can’t move. I’m as bad as Miss Williams! |
Dear Mr Torsen,
Thank you for your support! We really appreciate your help. We find this website and especially this forum is very useful and interesting. I will try to contribute my English knowledge to your website.
Yours sincerely,
Ms Mai Anh |
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| #63 (permalink) Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:47 pm Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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Just listened to a few recordings...
"LisandroAlves" speaks good English. He has a British accent. If it wasn't for the mistakes he made during the last bit of his speech, I would have thought he was a native English speaker.
I thought "huong" and "parallel" both made a very good effort. "Parallel" has a cute way of reading.
"Suchita" is fluent but speaks with a rather thick Indian accent.
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Thank you mate, I actually don't make a lot of mistakes but I have to be honest with you, when I got to the final part of the text I was a little bit nervous so I might have messed up things a bit.
I reckon my English is good at this stage but I really need to get the hang of it. Sometimes, while I'm speaking with somebody I feel pressured and start mixing my thoughts. I need to make it flow so that the words I'm looking for start coming out of my mouth in a natural manner, you know?
And by the way, I don't know if this is a good place to ask but I'm thinking about studying abroad, more precisely in the UK and I could really use a good piece of advice. What are the best and cheaper areas in the UK for a foreign student for example? |
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| #64 (permalink) Tue Feb 02, 2010 17:34 pm Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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| #65 (permalink) Tue Feb 02, 2010 18:17 pm Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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Hi Lisa, I think I do understand what you mean. Personally I grew up with English as my first language therefore I do not have to think to express myself in English. I just say what comes to my mind subconciously. (if that made sense at all)
I also speak Mandarin. I grew up speaking English but because my girlfriend is from China, I have to speak Mandarin to her. I realised that I have to stop and think sometimes before being able to express myself in Mandarin.
The more Mandarin I speak, the more "Chinesedified" my accent becomes. This can't be good lol |
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| #66 (permalink) Tue Feb 02, 2010 18:39 pm Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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| #67 (permalink) Tue Feb 02, 2010 22:16 pm Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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As you probably know your regular teacher is not able to take your class today as she has had an accident. Over the weekend she got her feet stuck in wet concrete and before she could get away, the concrete had gone hard and had set.
As she lives alone and her neighbours were away until the following day, she had to stay in her garden during the night. Consequently she now has a terrible cold and won’t be back at work for the next two days. Now I don’t think it’s very nice of you to laugh at her situation and I must ask you to stop making so much noise. I can’t possibly teach you until you’re quiet.
Please be quiet and all of you sit at your desks. I would like to tell Miss Williams that while she was away, you all behaved very well.
This morning I want to talk about the homework that you did for her, which I have now corrected. I was very surprised that some of you have been very careless with your exercise books. Several of them were badly stained with coffee marks and one of them looked as if it had spent some time in a bowl of tomato soup. Will you please stop shouting and screaming.
This is a serious matter and I don’t find it a bit amusing. You will never learn anything if you keep on behaving like this. I am here to help you and recommend that at least you try to keep your exercise books in a proper condition. This classroom is also very messy. I am sure that the cleaners made the room nice and tidy and although you’ve only been in here about thirty minutes, you’ve already made it untidy. And what on earth is that strange looking stuff on the floor over by the door? Is that something that any of you are responsible for?
I’m going to find out exactly what it is and also who has put it there in the first place. And when I find out who it is, there will be serious trouble. Let me see. It smells like glue. Yes, it is glue. Oh dear! My shoes are now stuck in it and I can’t move. I’m as bad as Miss Williams! |
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| #68 (permalink) Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:37 am Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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| #69 (permalink) Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:13 am Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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As you probably know your regular teacher is not able to take your class today as she has had an accident. Over the weekend she got her feet stuck in wet concrete and before she could get away, the concrete had gone hard and had set.
As she lives alone and her neighbours were away until the following day, she had to stay in her garden during the night. Consequently she now has a terrible cold and won’t be back at work for the next two days. Now I don’t think it’s very nice of you to laugh at her situation and I must ask you to stop making so much noise. I can’t possibly teach you until you’re quiet.
Please be quiet and all of you sit at your desks. I would like to tell Miss Williams that while she was away, you all behaved very well.
This morning I want to talk about the homework that you did for her, which I have now corrected. I was very surprised that some of you have been very careless with your exercise books. Several of them were badly stained with coffee marks and one of them looked as if it had spent some time in a bowl of tomato soup. Will you please stop shouting and screaming.
This is a serious matter and I don’t find it a bit amusing. You will never learn anything if you keep on behaving like this. I am here to help you and recommend that at least you try to keep your exercise books in a proper condition. This classroom is also very messy. I am sure that the cleaners made the room nice and tidy and although you’ve only been in here about thirty minutes, you’ve already made it untidy. And what on earth is that strange looking stuff on the floor over by the door? Is that something that any of you are responsible for?
I’m going to find out exactly what it is and also who has put it there in the first place. And when I find out who it is, there will be serious trouble. Let me see. It smells like glue. Yes, it is glue. Oh dear! My shoes are now stuck in it and I can’t move. I’m as bad as Miss Williams!
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| #70 (permalink) Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:27 am Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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As you probably know your regular teacher is not able to take your class today as she has had an accident. Over the weekend she got her feet stuck in wet concrete and before she could get away, the concrete had gone hard and had set.
As she lives alone and her neighbours were away until the following day, she had to stay in her garden during the night. Consequently she now has a terrible cold and won’t be back at work for the next two days. Now I don’t think it’s very nice of you to laugh at her situation and I must ask you to stop making so much noise. I can’t possibly teach you until you’re quiet.
Please be quiet and all of you sit at your desks. I would like to tell Miss Williams that while she was away, you all behaved very well.
This morning I want to talk about the homework that you did for her, which I have now corrected. I was very surprised that some of you have been very careless with your exercise books. Several of them were badly stained with coffee marks and one of them looked as if it had spent some time in a bowl of tomato soup. Will you please stop shouting and screaming.
This is a serious matter and I don’t find it a bit amusing. You will never learn anything if you keep on behaving like this. I am here to help you and recommend that at least you try to keep your exercise books in a proper condition. This classroom is also very messy. I am sure that the cleaners made the room nice and tidy and although you’ve only been in here about thirty minutes, you’ve already made it untidy. And what on earth is that strange looking stuff on the floor over by the door? Is that something that any of you are responsible for?
I’m going to find out exactly what it is and also who has put it there in the first place. And when I find out who it is, there will be serious trouble. Let me see. It smells like glue. Yes, it is glue. Oh dear! My shoes are now stuck in it and I can’t move. I’m as bad as Miss Williams! |
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| #71 (permalink) Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:04 pm Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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Hi BG,
This is well read. I would ask you to speak more slowly and to pronounce the sounds a little more fully so that each sound has its full value but it was a very good effort and you tried hard and put emphasise in the right place. I liked the way you didn't give up but continued trying as you did with the word 'exactly'.
Well done.
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| #72 (permalink) Tue Feb 09, 2010 16:08 pm Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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Practice.. and Practice |
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| #73 (permalink) Tue Feb 09, 2010 16:20 pm Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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Hi BG,
This is well read. I would ask you to speak more slowly and to pronounce the sounds a little more fully so that each sound has its full value but it was a very good effort and you tried hard and put emphasise in the right place. I liked the way you didn't give up but continued trying as you did with the word 'exactly'.
Well done.
Alan |
Thank you very much Mr Alan about your advice
I know that I have errors in my reading
Is it possible to read the text if you allowed |
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| #74 (permalink) Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:31 am Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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| #75 (permalink) Thu Feb 25, 2010 16:48 pm Read this text aloud: (The New Teacher) |
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As you probably know your regular teacher is not able to take your class today as she has had an accident. Over the weekend she got her feet stuck in wet concrete and before she could get away, the concrete had gone hard and had set.
As she lives alone and her neighbours were away until the following day, she had to stay in her garden during the night. Consequently she now has a terrible cold and won’t be back at work for the next two days. Now I don’t think it’s very nice of you to laugh at her situation and I must ask you to stop making so much noise. I can’t possibly teach you until you’re quiet.
Please be quiet and all of you sit at your desks. I would like to tell Miss Williams that while she was away, you all behaved very well.
This morning I want to talk about the homework that you did for her, which I have now corrected. I was very surprised that some of you have been very careless with your exercise books. Several of them were badly stained with coffee marks and one of them looked as if it had spent some time in a bowl of tomato soup. Will you please stop shouting and screaming.
This is a serious matter and I don’t find it a bit amusing. You will never learn anything if you keep on behaving like this. I am here to help you and recommend that at least you try to keep your exercise books in a proper condition. This classroom is also very messy. I am sure that the cleaners made the room nice and tidy and although you’ve only been in here about thirty minutes, you’ve already made it untidy. And what on earth is that strange looking stuff on the floor over by the door? Is that something that any of you are responsible for?
I’m going to find out exactly what it is and also who has put it there in the first place. And when I find out who it is, there will be serious trouble. Let me see. It smells like glue. Yes, it is glue. Oh dear! My shoes are now stuck in it and I can’t move. I’m as bad as Miss Williams! |
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