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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hi!
Oh and by the way, I've been noticing some technical difficulties with the audio recently on our recent files.
Okay, what's that?
This randomly happens, but on the beginning of the recording, the audio chops off.
It's like, "Kevin's English Room Podcast!" like that.
I don't know why, but it happens.
Sometimes it's like three seconds long, sometimes it goes up to, I've heard it go up to like seven seconds.
Did you chop that a little bit?
I don't know why, I didn't try to but I ended up chopping myself up.
Well like yeah, it happens, but I don't know why.
That's been going on and I'm sorry if it sounds a little bit, you know, it's difficult to listen to.
I'm trying to find a way to solve it, but just letting you know that that's the difficult...
Oh my god, oh no, it's affecting me!
I'm choppy now!
But just letting you know that that's our problem, not your device's problem.
It's the audio file that's choppy, not your earphones or nothing like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe the cables...
Yeah, that's possible. It's possible. I don't know why, but it always stops after several seconds.
Okay, okay.
So I doubt that it's the cables because we never move the cables.
No, never.
So I don't know what's going on here, but yeah, it's been going on.
Yeah, sorry for the inconvenience.
Yeah, alright.
Okay.
So...
Who wrote?
This is from Rasuki-san.
Rasuki-san?
Yes.
Konnichiwa.
Kevin-san.
Thank you.
Can you read that?
The first line?
Konnichiwa, Kevin-san, Yamachan.
Thank you.
Alright.
Because that's the reason why he...
He wrote in English.
In English.
Yeah.
Eto, hajime-mashite.
Hajime-mashite.
Chugakko de eigo oshieteiru Rasuki to moshimasu.
Alright.
Eto, sensei.
Hajimete DM o suru no de kakinagara naze ka kinchou shiteimasu.
Yomareru ka mo wakaranainoni.
There we go.
Eto, san-gatsu kara shigoto e iku kuruma no naka de kikihajime mani sanoshiku kiiteimasu.
Thank you.
Watashi ga ukagaitai topikku wa, chūgakusei ga eigo ni kyoumi o moteru nanika ai dewa arimasenka?
Wow, that's very difficult.
Eto iu koto desu.
Watashi ga hatarareteiru chūgakko wa chihō desu.
Eigo o hanasu kikai nante nichijō dewa hobo naino desu.
Okay.
Nanode seito ni totte wa eigo wa tsukawanai shi sute kyouka desu.
Wow.
Ga daitai okimari no iiwake desu.
Uh-huh.
Naruhoto.
Wow.
Yama-chan ga chūgakusei no toki wa mawari to no ondo-sa nado arimasen deshita ka?
Tokai no gakkō wa hoka no kyouka to dōyō minna eigo no jigyō o tanoshiku uketeiru node-shōka?
Mata yama-chan ga uketa omoide ni nokotteiru eigo no jigyō wa arimasuka?
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E, Kevin-san wa nihon no kōkō no eigo no jigyō wa tanoshikatta desu ka?
E, oshiete itadakeru to hageme ni narimasu. E, moshi iza no topikku to kabutte itara mōshuake arimasen.
Kevin's English Room no sanrin no masu masu no gogatsuyaku o oen shiteimasu.
Thank you.
E, PS, tokuni watashi wa gita o hītari ongaku ga suki nanode, yama-chan no orijinan no kyoku o YouTube de kikeru hi o tanoshimi ni shiteimasu.
Oh, thank you.
All right.
I've got my own channel actually.
Yeah.
I'm putting out my, um, practicing and originals, so.
You want to give it a shout out?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's, uh, it's, uh, I forget the channel name, but, um, it's Magora.
That's the name of me as an artist.
Magora.
Can you spell that out for me?
Yeah.
It's M-A-G-O-R-A.
Ma- Magora.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
That's the United States.
Magora.
Magora.
Okay.
Yeah, so you can, um, find that, hopefully.
All right.
Oh, thank you.
Nice.
That was good listening.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Thank you.
So, anyways.
Chugakusei ga eigoni kyoumi wo moteru nanika aideya wa arimasen ka?
You know, I have so much respect for the chugakusei, the teachers in general, but especially
the chugakusei teachers.
Okay, why?
Because that's where, that's when the chug, that's when the students are at most dis-,
like uninterested in education, the teachers, the school.
Disrespectful.
Disrespectfully uninterested.
Right?
So, like, I respect the teachers that have to face them.
Yeah.
You know, that, it's just, it's, it must be so difficult.
Like, I, if I had to do that, I would run away.
I would be like, I don't know how to get these kids' attention.
I don't know how to get them interested.
I quit.
I probably would just give up.
Yeah.
Because it's so difficult.
Like, inherently.
Yeah.
Like, I, I feel like inherently middle schoolers hate teachers.
Inherently.
True.
Just being a teacher would be like a demerit if you're trying to build a relationship with
them.
That's what I, I don't know, I don't know, I may be wrong, but like that's how I feel.
Yeah.
Wow.
True.
How, how would you deal with the situation?
Like, if you had to, you know, get the middle schoolers' attention, what strategies would
you, with your knowledge right now, what would you do?
See, I've never, uh, teached, well, I've never stand in the classroom in front of all the,
you know, stupid, stupid students.
Whoa.
What is with, what happened?
You're so aggressive today.
No, sorry about that.
I've never, you know, being a teacher.
Uh huh.
So I don't have any, I can't, I can't, you know, say anything to the professional teachers.
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Um, that's what I first felt.
Uh, but only thing I can do is just try to make, um, them laugh, make it funny so that,
you know, at least try to make the class interesting enough for those students as a, you know,
first step.
That's what I am feeling.
Yeah.
Um, see, if it was like a university or college teacher, you have to provide some professional,
deep knowledge as an academic thing, but it's junior high.
So only like the beginning, like the entry light things are kind of enough.
I, that's what I feel.
So you don't have to be like a professional knowledge provider, but, um, make it funny.
Make English funny.
Yeah.
Make English sounds fun is I guess all I can do for the students.
I feel I don't have to provide those deep knowledge.
Deep knowledge interesting.
Yeah.
It's a little different topic.
So.
Yeah.
I want to just, you know, provide some light, fun, laugh thing to keep them, you know, interested in.
Yeah.
True.
Um, so maybe, um, try to take an example of famous singers or like famous celebrities in US or UK or like maybe a Japanese player, a sport player playing abroad or, you know, those topics.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, one of my, um, one of my Koten teacher in high school, what he did was very interesting.
He, um, he used Ghibli movies.
Yeah.
He would play a Ghibli film in during class and then he would stop every five seconds or 10 seconds and he would explain the words that are being said, right?
With Koten.
Yeah.
With Koten?
Yeah.
So that was really interesting.
That was a very, like, people were really excited to join the class.
Um, that's great.
I guess that's a pliable, like you could use, you could take like a Hollywood movie or like a, maybe like a Kimetsu Nageba English version.
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Yeah.
Right.
And then play it and then dissect the English phrases and like, and then use that to explain your vocabularies and grammatical topics.
But, um, but what's difficult is, you know, teachers have this set of things that they have to teach them, right?
Yeah.
That there's...
学習しの要領.
Exactly, right?
They don't have rooms to watch Ghibli movies or...
That's true.
They don't have rooms to fit in all the movie time.
So that's, I feel like that's difficult.
But if I were, if I had to think of something, I'd probably use the power of Kimetsu Nageba or like Hollywood movies to lure their interest.
Yeah.
Right?
And then somehow connect it to English.
True.
Yeah.
But it's, it's tough.
I understand that.
Yeah.
Especially in those, like, as he mentioned, he's teaching in the countryside schools.
And there would be no people who actually speak English around them.
Then, you know, students, for students really difficult to imagine that English is actually useful or like actually spoken thing.
Right, right.
Actually a really good tool to connect or like make friends.
Right.
Or have, you know, great experiences.
Right.
So I can imagine it's really difficult.
Wow.
Yeah, that's true.
Mmm.
Tough stuff.
Yeah.
Mmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you can use our content, just please use.
Yeah.
Use our content if that helps you.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
Permission given.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Use our content.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How about this?
If a student isn't listening, you slap them in the face.
How about that?
If a student shows disinterest, disinterest in English learning.
Yeah.
You take, you take a whip.
Oh.
And you slap him in the face.
Ah.
Right.
Until, until he listens to you and shows interest in the class.
How about that?
Ah.
Or like, get like a, like a, like a bucket of water.
Yeah.
Just dunk them in the, just splash them in the face.
Ah.
How about that?
Ah.
Or, or like, you know, throw the chokes on to the face.
I like it.
I like that.
I like that.
Or, or get like a hose.
Get a hose from the kitchen.
And then when, whenever a student isn't listening.
Yeah.
You, you chug the hose in their mouth.
Oh.
And then you run the water until they, they give up.
Right.
And then they, they say they'll listen.
You make them drink the water or like just overwhelm them with water.
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Ah.
How about that?
Yeah.
Right.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Right.
Yeah.
Solution right there.
We have a solution guys.
Yeah.
All right.
Don't do it.
No.
Thanks for listening guys.
Bye bye.
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Bye.
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