Video Challenge – Teach an Idiom

34,438 views ・ 2018-03-27

Rachel's English


Please double-click on the English subtitles below to play the video.

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It’s your turn to make a video in this American English pronunciation video challenge.
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I’m trying something new with the video challenge this time around.
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Rather than just having you practice your English, let’s see what happens when you
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try to teach something.
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This is just an experiment.
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Maybe none of you will do it
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But I hope some of you will.
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The challenge is to teach an American English idiom.
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What’s one that you’ve learned, that you think is interesting?
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Make a video saying what the idiom is, what it means, and make up an example sentence,
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or tell us about the context where you first heard this idiom.
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Some people might make a video about the same idiom, that’s okay.
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More sample sentences to learn from.
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I’ll put them in order from shortest to longest.
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For the challenge results video.
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To submit your video to be included in the challenge results video, upload it to Youtube
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as either public or unlisted, and email me the link.
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Email this address by this date.
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Then we can all learn more idioms.
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I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
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For inspiration, please see this playlist of past video challenge results videos.
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It’s really fun to watch others in this community making videos.
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That’s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.
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