Quick English Conversation: Meeting a Black English Teacher

23,295 views ・ 2018-04-22

Shaw English Online


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Hi, everyone. My name is Brandon
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And in this video, we're gonna help improve your English speaking ability.
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This video is going to be about my experiences with my
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students and their interactions with me as their black teacher.
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I hope you learn a lot.
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Please stick around.
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A lot of times when my students first meet me,
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this is the first time they are meeting or interacting with a person of
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my skin color.
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And the only interactions they've had prior to this is from music and the media.
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Movies, rap music - whatever.
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So when they try and greet me for the first time,
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they try to recreate the scenes from those movies.
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Such as doing a crazy handshake.
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And I don't know what... I don't know what they're doing okay they're...
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They're hipping and they're hopping.
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Another thing they try to do is talk a lot of slang with me.
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"Hey, Dawg. What's up? What's up bruh? Where you from, man?"
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No. That's not how you you start a conversation.
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And the third, and the worst thing they sometimes do,
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is they use bad words.
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I'm not gonna say these bad words, but just
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know never start a conversation using bad words.
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It's very rude and crude.
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The proper way to do it is...
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if you're meaning anybody,
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a black guy or whatever,
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treat them as any other person.
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You put your hand out. You say,
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"Hi, nice to meet you. My name is ... What's your name?"
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That's it.
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In conclusion you guys.
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I'm just like any other person .
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I'm just like any other teacher.
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You do not as you treat me any other way just because the color of my skin.
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If you liked this video, please sub and subscribe.
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And thank you for watching.
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