Tips to LEARN ENGLISH using TED Talks - How to Use TED Talks to Learn English

Hello students and welcome back to the English Danny Channel I'm teacher John

and I'm here to help you become great at using English today's lesson is going to

be about improving your English by using TED Talks please consider subscribing by

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video okay students let's get started you may have heard about TED Talks from

a friend or a teacher if you don't know what a TED talk is you can visit the

website ted.com TED talks are fun and interesting speeches by professionals

these speeches are usually given in English and often come with subtitles

and transcripts in many different languages it's a great way to listen to

authentic native English speakers this is very helpful for students especially

for students who don't have the opportunity to use English very often

this makes Ted calm a fantastic tool to help you improve your English using this

website you can improve your listening speaking reading and writing as a

teacher I have developed a great method and system for using this website to

improve your English it's also very interesting and fun let's take a look at

the website start by typing ted.com into your internet browser this is the basic

front page of Ted calm next bring your mouse pointer to the watch title at the

top and choose TED talks this brings you to the screen where you

can search for videos okay so now you want to choose what kind of video you

want to see to improve our listening you can choose any duration but short videos

are the easiest so click duration and choose 0 to 6

minutes as you can see all the videos are now under 6 minutes long you can

also choose which language you speak click languages and choose your native

language I'm choosing Korean you can see there are more languages like this

simply choose C all languages now you can choose whatever topic you like there

are many different topics if you click see all topics let's choose

technology for now there are many videos click on any video that interests you

now you can do many things on this webpage first you can simply watch the

video and listen to it without any subtitles or transcript to help you by

pressing the play button next let's choose our subtitles move your mouse to

this button and choose English you can also choose your native language let's

look at the transcript click transcript now you can see the English transcript

and the speech is even highlighted for you in blue you can easily follow this

play the video and read the transcript you can also change the transcript

language like this click this button where it says English

and choose a different language now let's learn the method for how to use

ted.com to study here are the steps that you can follow step 1 choose a video

that is 0 to 6 minutes and is also in your native language step 2 watch the

video without subtitles try to answer this question what is the main idea of

the video also write down any new words you can hear watch the video again but

with English subtitles try to answer the question again what is the main idea of

the video also write down any new words you can hear or see in the subtitles

step 4 watch the video again but with subtitles of your native language you

should be able to understand the main idea of the video step 5

next just listen to the video and read along with the English transcript you

can pause the video to hear the pronunciation of any new words you hear

use the Internet to search for the definitions of any new words or phrases

step 6 just listen to the video again but read

along with the transcript in your language step 7

go back to step 1 and try to watch the video without any subtitles or

transcript you should be able to understand it better than before

here's a helpful tip you can pause the video to listen to specific words or

phrases that you don't understand these steps will help you improve your

listening and reading very much there are also two ways to improve your

writing first write the answer to the question what is the main idea of the

video second summarize the main contents of the video in a written paragraph use

some of the new words as well to improve your speaking first try to save the new

words exactly how the speaker in the video says them or you can read your

writing try to copy some of the same pronunciation from the video okay

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