A Day in the Life of a YouTuber | English Teacher

Welcome to a day in the life of a YouTube English teacher.

Good morning Eat Sleep Dreamers, it's about five thirtyish. The day has started. I'm editing

my latest vlog which is due to be up at about one o'clock today. There's still a lot of

work to do, that's why I've got up so early. So I'm going to try and do as much as I can

and then I'm going to have some breakfast. Alright I've done the bulk of my editing.

It was a very productive hour. It's now ten past seven, so I'm going to have my breakfast.

This is my favourite part of the day. Breakfast time, it's the reason why I wake up.

Alright my breakfast is made. I've made a bowl of porridge. There's bananas, there's peanut butter

some other good stuff in there, I'm excited to eat this. I'm also going to have a cup

of coffee. Every morning starts with a cup of coffee. Yeah just to tell you my routine.

So usually, today is a special day because I'm editing. But usually when I'm having breakfast

I like to check in on YouTube. So I'll go in and I'll have a look at what's happened

overnight. So I'll look at the views, I'll look at any comments that have come in and

I'll also go and check out Facebook and Instagram and see what's happening over there. See if

I've got any comments that I need to reply to. It's always really cool sort of waking

up and seeing what's happened overnight, it's always quite exciting.

Hey guys, right I'm

awake. I'm finally up. I've left my house. It's eight fifteen and I'm going to walk to

work. Now I didn't get all my editing done unfortunately. There's still some text to

put in, a bit of music stuff like that so I'm going to have to do that in my break time

in between my lessons. It's really cold today, it's January here in London and yeah it's

bitterly cold. On the cars there is a bit of frost but it's a beautiful sunny day. As

you can see, here's the sunshine. It's a really beautiful wintery morning here in London.

So I just wanted to talk you through what I'm going to do. So this morning I'm teaching

from nine until one. I've got an advanced class, I teach in a local language school.

I'm really lucky that I get to walk to work. It's such a joy to get to walk. I don't have

to get on a bus, I don't have to get on a train, I don't have to commute with everybody

it's just quite a peaceful start to the day. Usually what I'll do is I'll listen to a podcast

which is like radio but yo get to listen to it whenever you want. So it might be a podcast

about football or about business or language or it could be about anything really. And

it's a nice way just to start the day. Sometimes I'll have a bit of music instead maybe or

just nothing and just sort of get myself ready for the day. It usually takes me about fifteen

to twenty minutes to walk to work. Yeah it's a nice way to begin the day. So I've got my

advanced class from nine until one. They are a really nice group, really chatty, really

friendly and i love sort of pushing them quite hard especially with lots of new vocabulary.

I think at advanced level new vocab, phrases, idioms stuff like that is really beneficial

for them. So that's what we are going to do between nine and one. In between the lessons

hopefully I'm going to edit my video a bit more and that at one, if I've done it all,

I'll upload my video. If I haven't done it, then I'm in trouble. Because at two thirty

I have a private student, I have to travel to their house to teach them and then at four

o'clock I have another private student and I have to travel to their house to teach them.

It's a busy busy day. I've got all this teaching and I've got to upload a YouTube video as

well. I can do it! Just going to need your help guys. Now why am I filming this today?

Well I thought maybe it would be really interesting for you guys to see what my average day is

like. To be honest there is no average day, it's different every time. Some days I'm not

teaching in the afternoon, I have a bit more free time and then every day is different

to be honest but today is a busy one and I thought I'd bring you along with me.

Alright I've got to work and I'm just planning my lesson for nine o'clock. As I said it's

an advanced class and I'm using Outcomes advanced which is a fantastic book. Lots of wonderful

vocabulary. Ok so this book uses the lexical approach which is looking at language from

a vocabulary perspective. Showing the importance of learning vocabulary over grammar. I love

it, particularly at advanced level because that's what they need. They need new phrases,

new idioms, new language so yes Outcomes is what we are using. Today we are going to be

continuing on from yesterday. We were looking at cities, vocabulary to talk about cities

so I'm going to begin the lesson by revising some of the vocabulary that we learned yesterday

and then moving on from there. It's going to be a fun lesson I'm sure.

We are doing

a speaking activity right now. People are in pairs and they are telling each other their

stories about, they are describing cities that they have been to. So they are using

the language that we have looked at today for exaggerating and for emphasising. We are

working in pairs so I'm one of the group because there is an off number. So I have had to listen

to a story then I have had to pass the information on. People seem to be doing it pretty well.

Alright that's the first half of lesson done. So it's break time, usually I'd be hanging

out, having coffee or chatting to the other teachers. Unfortunately today I've got a video

to get up. I still need to edit it, so I'm going to be editing in my break time. I can

do this! I can do this!

Alright guys that's the morning done! I've taught my four lessons, they were a lot of

fun I enjoyed that. My advanced class are really talkative and they just want to learn,

so that's really great. When students are passionate about learning that makes my job

so much easier. I've also just caught a massive break. Literally as I was leaving my class

I got a text message from my private student saying that he wants to cancel the class today.

He has a meeting and he wants to move it to Thursday. Oh my lord! That's such good news

because that means I get extra time to work on my video for you guys which you can watch

right now. It's actually already out so you can check it just above. So yeah that gives

me a little bit of time to do the thumb nail and to do the whole sort of uploading process

on to YouTube. I'll show you that right now actually when I get home. So I'm walking home

right now and I'm going to make myself some lunch and I'm going to upload the video on

to YouTube so you guys can kind of join me whilst I do that.

Alright guys so as you can see I'm not at home. I ended up going to a cafe. As I was

walking home I was like do you know what I don't want to go home, I want to go somewhere

nice. So I've come to my favourite cafe which is near my house and I'm just going to edit

here. I've got one hour to edit and get this up before I go to my private lesson. So time

is tight but I think I can do it. Yes, I can do it. I've ordered a coffee and I'm going

to have some lunch here as well. So yeah, a lot to do in one hour. Ok my lunch has just

arrived, it looks amazing. So I'm going to take a little break from editing to eat this.

I've got smoked salmon on avocado toast with a boiled egg. Oh my god I'm excited. Ok, the

thumbnail is done. So now I'm going to download that and then upload my vlog to YouTube. Alright

it's up, it's out there, you guys can watch it. This is always a really exciting moment.

I love hitting that publish button and kind of sending my video out there for you guys

to watch and hopefully enjoy. It is always a slightly nerve wracking moment. You hope

that you've got it all correct, you haven't made any mistakes all that kind of stuff.

And then it gets really exciting seeing the views suddenly build up. Seeing comments come

in, that's when it gets really exciting. The moment that I get my first comment and someone

says like 'oh I found that really useful' that's what makes it all worth it. All the

early mornings, the long hours. As soon as someone is like 'that was super helpful that

was really useful' That is when I'm like ok I remember why I do this. So yeah it's up,

it's out there, I'm excited. So I'm going to finish my lunch, I'm going to enjoy my

lunch which is nice. I have about twenty minutes to enjoy it and then I'm going to run home

really quickly and then go to my private lesson. Alright we are back on the road and I'm walking

to my private student. So that was a quick hour getting lunch, uploading the video. The

video seems to be getting a good response which is really nice. People commenting and

liking it. Always nice to see. People saying that they are finding it useful. Yeah, so

I'm going to walk to the train station and then I've got to get a train about four stops

further out of London. This is always my favourite part of the walk to the train station. I get

to walk over Alexandra Palace high above London and you get amazing views of London. I can

see the Olympic stadium, I can see Canary Wharf, the financial district. I can see the

Shard, the City I can also see the Tottenham Hotspur stadium which of course is the most beautiful

building in London. Yeah, it's an amazing view up here, so that's always nice. See a

bit of London as you are commuting.

This private student I'm teaching is a one-to-one and I really enjoy teaching one-to-one students

because you really get a chance to develop their language and to work on the things that

they really need. So what we do a lot of in the class is conversation and then working

with his errors and his mistakes and giving him the language that he needs to say the

things that he wants to say. So let's say he wants to talk about his work. Well that's

fantastic because we can get talking, I can ask him questions and then from his communication,

from what he says, I can give him phrases and vocabulary that are useful. If he needs

a grammar structure to express what he wants then I can give him that and we can really

work closely with his English which is something that maybe is a little harder with a larger

group. Of course there are benefits with working in a classroom, you've got that communication

aspect with different people. Because there is so many people there are different ideas

coming, different mistakes that you can work with. Obviously people can learn from each

other in a classroom so different dynamic. I love having both. In the morning I can teach

in a class and in the afternoon I can teach one-to-one. I think both have their benefits.

But definitely I'm seeing a lot of progress with this student which is fantastic.

So the teaching day is done but the working day is definitely not done. I've still got

plenty to do. So I'm going to head home and I'm going to go and check out my YouTube video

that I posted today. See how many people watched it and to have a look at the comments. Now

I try to reply to as many comments as possible. I love the feedback that you guys give me.

It's not always possible to reply to every comment but I try to at least read every comment

and certainly to reply to as many as I can. So that's what I've got to do when I get home.

Then I'll have some dinner and then planning my next video. So you upload on Tuesday and

then Friday comes round really quickly so I need to think about Friday about what I'm

going to put up and what video I'm going to make so as soon as one video goes up the planning

for the next video starts straight away. Yeah!

Hey guys, so I'm back home and I'm back in front of my computer. And I'm going through

all your comments and I'm trying to reply to as many as I can. As I said before it's

always kind of cool to kind of see your response. To see how you engage with the video. What

bits you liked. Whether you are using the language in a practise sentence or something.

Yeah I love that stuff it's always really cool. So I'm going to go through as many as

I can tonight and then that will be it I think for the day. It's been a long day, it started

at five. It's now seven thirty. But it's been fun, I've really enjoyed it. And yeah I'm

getting to do what I love to do so that's always good. Anyway guys thank you so much

for coming along with me today on this journey looking at a day in the life of a YouTube

English teacher. I hope you have enjoyed it. Let me know in the comments below what you

think and yeah if you liked it I'll do another one at some point. Remember I've got new videos

coming up every Tuesday and every Friday so check them out and make sure you hit the notification

bell so that you don't miss a single video that I release. This is Tom, the Chief Dreamer,

saying goodbye.