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Hi this is Randall. To me one of the great disabilities or needs a language learner is the ability to apply what your learning in real life situations in other words when I teach grammar let say the model can of ability. I want to help students actually apply it to real life situations for example if they have a problem and they can't find work in their local community or can't pay for school. Please come up with 3 ideas that you can do to learn and earn money. Students not only have to think about the grammar but they also have to think about critical thinking skills in other words what are things that they can really do in real life situations so the ability not only to understand the grammar but actually use it a higher level skill that every student should be striving for

Hi this is Randall. One of the things that I find students struggle with most is learning how to spell words. But also students don't see the relationship between spelling words and being able to read. Of course students will learn number of site words and be able to recognize them when they see them. For example the word ate as in I ate a sandwich and 8 there are 8 students in my class. And so many times students need to learn how reading takes place and how sounds and letters have sounds that are associated with them. And so one of the things that I try to help students is find resources that will teach them how would the read and spell. And one of these websites that I enjoy is called spelling city dot com. Give it a try. You'll probably find it very useful to help you when your spelling which leads to better reading

Hi this is Randall. About a week ago my wife and I ran in mountain marathon and it was very difficult because mountain marathon you have to climb over mountains. Sometimes gaining a 1000, 2000 meters over certain part. So you're not just running down hill but you're running up and down and sometimes there are times when you just have to walk very slowly to make any progress and you can visit my website, hikinginutah.com(?), to tell you about some of these experiences. But this is something like learning english too sometimes although you might feel that you're making very slow progress up the hill in english as long as you're moving forward and as long as you're doing something to improve you're still making progress and that's what the game is all about.

Hi this is Randall(?). Recently my wife and I went running up in the mountains in the snowing Utah and came across some mountain lion tracks which where not uncommon in this particular area. Normally although their everywhere anyway you see deer mountain lion or present it often you don't notice them because they often stay away from people but it was interesting to come across those tracks but in the same way there are many dangerous around us that often we're not very aware of whether it be problem since society whether be problems in family and whether be problem in school and by being aware of the dangers that around us just like looking for mountain lion tracks often we can prepared for the future. So keep an eye on things whether be your school or in your life. Watch for it sign of problems and always prepare

Hi this is Randall(?). I want to talk today about eye contact and the importance of eye contact to here where I live in the United States. One of the interesting things that I noticed that eye contact is not the same from place to place even within the same country. In other words if you're walking down the street and you see someone coming towards you in your country. Do you actually look at the person in the eye perhaps say hello or do your eyes kinda look away. From many of my students who come from different countries they're surprised that the fact that where we live people tend to be quite open pretty friendly in other words you might be walking down the street and you establish eye contact with the person and say hello. So think about that how is eye contact different from place to place around the world and this could be an interesting steady in culture.

Hi this is Randel. This message is mainly for teachers but I think it's also relevant to students as well. In many cases students and teachers often wonder why students do poorly on exams. Let's say at grammar test and often it has nothing to do with the actual approach or the actual skills of the student might be missing but actually deals with the actual construct of a test. In other words students might not be used to certain types of questions that might be found on test that weren't present in practice activities. In other words students are used to taking multiple choice questions in class but on the test. They're filling the blank or completion task that require them to think critically then of course they might miss the question. So helping students understand the design of the test were really go along way to help.

Hi this is Randall I often tell students to stay ahead of the game in their language learning. In other words many students often delay working on projects keeping up with their homework. Staying ahead in their learning and instead of procrastinating you can just be aware of what is coming up. I often used the analogy of being in a boat(?) and sometimes students are just kinda floating along along the river kind of with their ear phones in their ears not really paying attention to the mighty waterfall that is coming up. In other words. Don't wait until the very end to start preparing for test stay ahead of the game. Be prepared so you can avoid the water falls that will come your way. In other words you just don't wanna fail, stay ahead.

Hi this is Ross and I'm I'm a guest speaker today on the phone casting. We'd like to share a tip about when you go to a restaurant if you have a chance to speak to your waiter or waitresses your server then you can often find some interesting things about the culture relating to the cuisine of the restaurant and just asking questions about how the food is prepared or how it's food ___ is gonna be served you can practice all sorts of things from ___. Hi this is Wendy I'm also a guest speaker on today's program. I would encourage you to be experimental of what you order today we're in an Egyptian restaurant and we ordered a food called Shrik(?) we'd never heard of it we had never tried it but it's was absolutely delicious so just see to order something that you had never tried before. Talk about it with your restaurant partners and friend.

Good morning this is Randall from the International Case(?) on convention here in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. I'm getting ready for a presentation that yeah I don't know there are times when getting presentations in front of people can be somewhat nerve racking for me personally what I tried to do is do the best I can to prepare in advance. So I know the material. Sometimes I take notes and use the notes also I just trying to relax. By training to interact with the audience and by interaction with the audience and trying to find out their specific needs. I think that I can reach them better and this could be very similar to what you might be do in a presentation there on by. Be prepared know your material know you're audience and things should go well

Hi this is Randall. One of the most interesting aspects of learning a new language in a culture basically deals with body language and how it is different from country to country. Now this might sounds simplistic; it might sound very very simple in nature. However, if you ask students how they count from 1 to 10 (with their fingers), watch how a student from a different country uses their fingers to count. Now, if you get together a group of Japanese, Koreans, Chinese and students from other countries, you'll noticed that counting from 1 to 5 (with their fingers) is probably very similar, but once you start counting 6 7 and 8, you'll notice that their fingers change. So try this ask different students from different countries to show how they count from 1 to 10, and you will have a new experience in cross-culture communication and learning.