Dear Student:

My student was upset.

"Can you say that again?" he asked, leaning forward to hear what I said.

"Which part?" I asked.

"I don't know..., I didn't understand it," he said.

At the time, - and this was years ago,- I was a just starting  my own school and I felt a bit nervous.  I had no manager standing behind me... I was the manager and the teacher! 

"Your job is to help me learn English!" he complained.

Of course, my job was to help him speak English, but listening practice is better done at home (it saves money!).

But he wasn't interested in making the time to practice; he wanted a magic bullet.  Well, it turns out the magic bullet was regular short practice listening to comprehensible English, and shadowing it for about 50% of the listening time.  

After all, if it were easy to learn English, everybody would do it.

The problem, of course, is that students often don't think they are getting better, even when they are, because their progress happens over weeks and months.  

Not to mention that they often don't go back and try listening to the same thing again after months of practice to see how much better they are.

Students improve faster when they practice regularly in small amounts at a time.

Understanding Spoken English with Phrasal Verbs, once difficult, now easy!

If you're listening to natural English from a random sources like podcasts, the radio and television, you can learn faster!.

Now, with these phrasal verb targeted stories, you can listen to the story and read it (for easier understanding).  There are many benefits.

Including:

• Focus on selected phrasal verbs, not just 'whatever they say'

• Freedom to listen anywhere, anytime, if you put the recordings on a protable listening device such as an mp3 player

• multitask: listen while you do other activities such as cleaning, or  exercise (note: do not listen to these stories while doing tasks that require your attention, such as driving a vehicle, operating machinery, etc)

• avoid frustation!!  Stop the recording at any point and re-play it (you can't do that with any human speaker!) to hear exactly. 

• Freedom to control the speed: play it back slowly on a windows computer with  windows media player

• Understand what is being said: read the story at the same time as you listen (you can't do that with any human speaker!).

• Privacy - you don't have to practice in front of other students; practice shadowing in the privacy of your own home (or any other place you choose)

• Choose your own pace; your audio recordings are a great way to supplement a self study program!

• Not sure where to start?  Start anywhere!  the phrasal verb series stories are a flat curriculum, so you can start with any story, without worrying that you need to study something else first. 

• Inexpensive; get the audios you need when you need them without committing to a huge program.  

• Bonus!  Peripheral learning; with these stories, you are not just learning new phrasal verbs, you are also reinforcing the word collocations that happen throughout the story!

• Not enough time to study?  Then use these stories; each one is about 1 to 2 minutes long; perfect for between activities and commuting.  

But wait. There's more...

Learn More Than Just Phrasal Verbs When you Use These Listening Materials For Your English Listening Practice

One new development in English language teaching is the lexical method, based on corpora.  When I first studied this way to teach langauge, I  asked myself, "How can I use this to help my students?" as I did not know at first what to tell my students to do.

    I learned that shadowing is a great way to help students learn word collocations at a deep level, so they can listen and speak without effort.

    The why is twofold. First, as you listen, you also try to repeat the words, and just repeating the words is the first step to remembering them, in the order you say them.  In other words, grammar is part of our productive memory, which we learn by doing, not by traditional studying.  

    The second is, as you try to shadow, you have to listen very carefully to the sounds so that you can make the same sounds.  this kind of heightened concentration is exactly what you need to really practice listening.  many students think that if they just listen they will learn.. and they will, but it can be much more effective when they are shadowing.  

    Again, These short targeted stories help your listening (and speaking!) practice

    Including:

• you can eaily customize your practice to the time you have available because they are short
• you can easily memorize the whole story because they are short, and not too complex, yet they provide enough context to give meaning to the phrasal verbs
• your study sessions are cusomizable, because you can choose which phrasal verbs you would like to study for each study session
• you can listen with high concentration becausue they are short, and it is easy to maintain high concentration for short periods
• Shadowing makes us listen with high concentration, rather than low concentration. 
• saying the words gives us immediate feedback... you Know if you don't make the same sounds as you hear
• grammar is learned by doing, not by thinking, and shadowing is doing, so you can memorize grammar much faster
• shadowing helps us become familiar with sentence patterns, and we can change the patterns later, to suit our own needs
• shadowing is best done out loud, but you can also do it silently in public places (public transport, libraries, etc)

• And so much more....

Use it risk-free for 180 days

My students English is improving right now, and yours will too, risk free.  I guarantee it - or you get your money back.

That's right.

If ELW Phrasal Verbs Series doesn't help you understand English better after practicing it on a frequent and regular basis.

Or you are dissatisfied for any other reason - or for no reason at all - just let me know within 180 days.

I'll refund your payment in full. No questions asked. And, you can still keep the stories free.

That way, you risk nothing.

In 180 days or sooner, you will hear the phrasal verbs you studied, and understand them in their context... increasing your confidence to communicate in English.

Or, you could keep studying in the way you have always studied, with the materials you have always used and get the results you have always had. 

It's entirely up to you.

So what are you waiting for?

To order ELW Phrasal Verbs Series on a 180-day risk-free trial basis, just click below now:

Sincerely,

Les Perras

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