What does Jim need money for?
For his family, of course. He needs money to provide his family. As a result, it is difficult for Jim to provide his family.
Right?
Yes.
Is it easy or difficult for Jim to provide his family?
It is difficult. It is not easy for Jim to provide his family.
What is difficult for Jim to do?
To provide his family, to give what they want and need. Its difficult for Jim to provide his family.
Who is it difficult for to provide his family?
For Jim, of course. It is difficult for Jim to provide his family.
And why is it difficult for Jim to provide his family?
Because he is in debts. He doesnt have his own money. Jim owes money to other people.
And he even has a list of reasons for not being a success.
What does Jim always do? What does he always say?
He always blames something or something.
What kind of list does Jim have?
He has a list of reasons for not being a success.
Jim has a list of what?
He has a list of reasons. He has a list of things for not being a success. He has the list of things that stops him from doing well.
Does Jim have a list of reasons for being successful or for not being successful?
Jim has a list of reasons for not being successful. He has a list of reasons for not doing well.
Plus, Jim always blames the government and the prices. He always blames the taxes and his neighbors. He blames the weather and the traffic. He blames the company and the community.
What does Jim always do?
Blames. Jim always blames.
What does Jim always blame?
He always blames the government and the prices.
He always blames the taxes and his neighbors.
He always blames the weather and the traffic.
And what does Jim blame the government and the prices for?
For not being a success. Jim always blames the government and the prices for not being a successful man.
What does Jim blame the taxes and his neighbors for?
For not being a success. Jim always blames the taxes and his neighbors for not being a successful man.
What else does Jim blame for not being a successful man?
He blames the weather and the traffic. He blames the company and the community for not being a success.
Why does Jim blame everything and everyone?
Because Jim doesnt know what to do. And as a result, Jim is falling into depression.
Who is falling into depression?
Jim is. Jim is falling into depression.
Why is Jim falling into depression?
Because he is not a success and he doesnt know what to do. Jim is poor. He is in debts. Its difficult for him to provide his family.
But one day, fortunately, he meets a successful businessman.
Who does Jim meet one day?
A successful businessman. One day Jim meets a successful businessman. And when he meets a successful businessman, Jim goes through his list of reasons why he is not a success.
When Jim meets a successful businessman what does he do?
He goes through his list of reasons why he is not a success.
Does Jim tell the successful businessman why he is not a success?
Yes, exactly. Jim tells the successful businessman why he is not a success. Jim goes through his list of reasons for not doing well.
Who goes through his list of reasons why he is not a success?
Right! Jim does. Jim goes through his list of reasons why he is not a success.
The man is very patient. When Jim finishes, the man looks through the list very carefully.
When Jim finishes what does the man do?
He looks through the list very carefully.
Does the man examine, read Jims list of reasons why he is not a success?
Correct. The man examines, he reads very carefully the list of reasons why he is not a success. The man looks through the list very carefully.
What does the man look through very carefully?
Right! Jims list. The man looks though Jims list of reasons why he is not a success.
How does the man look through Jims list?
Very carefully and very quickly, of course. The man looks thought Jims list very carefully. And he tells Jim that there is a big problem with his list.
What does the man tell?
He tells Jim that there is a big problem with his list.
Does the man tell Jim that everything is fine with his list?
No. He doesnt tell him that. He tells Jim that there is a big problem with this list.
Does Jim want to know what is wrong with the list?
Yes, of course. He wants to know what is wrong with his list.
And thats why he says, What is it? Jim wonders.
You are not on the list, tells the man.
What does the man tell Jim?
He tells Jim that his name is not on the list.
Does it change Jims life a little?
No, not a little. It changes his life completely. It revolutionizes Jims life.
You remember that word Revolutionize and it means to change completely. It completely changes Jims life. It revolutionizes Jims life.
What revolutionizes Jims life?
The fact that Jims name is not on the list changes Jims life completely. The fact that Jims name is not on the list revolutionizes Jims life.
Whose life does it revolutionize?
Jims life. It revolutionizes Jims life.
And what does he do next?
Jim tears up the list of reasons for not doing well. Jim throws it away.
What does Jim do with list of reasons for not doing well?
He destroys it. Jim tears up the list of reasons for not doing well. And Jim throws it way.
What does Jim throw away?
Right! The list of reasons for not doing well. Jim throws it way.
Does Jim keep the list?
No, no, he doesnt keep the list. He throws it way. He says good-bye to that list. Jim throws it way.
What does Jim do next?
Next he grabs a fresh piece of paper. He puts one word on it him.
How many words does Jim put on a fresh piece of paper? Two, three?
No, not two, not three. Jim puts one word on it.
Which word does he write on the paper?
He writes his name Jim. He writes his own name.
Jim changes so does his life. He becomes a successful businessman.
Why does Jim become a successful businessman?
He becomes a successful businessman, because he revolutionizes his life. He completely changes his life, because he stops blaming everything and everyone, because he becomes responsible for everything. And Jim understands that he is the key to his better future.
Alright! As always listen to this story every day. Listen and answer the questions. If you listen to my lessons every day for seven days or more, I promise you will speak English easily, confidently and automatically like a native speaker.
And before you go and do your next lesson, I want you to know that by doing this Super English Course, you are not only learning English, you are not only improving your vocabulary, you are not only becoming a better English speaker, but also you are becoming a better human being. All the stories you are listening to in my course, they all teach you, they all guide you, and they all help you gain the real life experiences from the major and minor characters, the experiences that every human being encounters and meets in every day life. I do hope you will learn from them a lot. And it will be of great use to you. Moreover you improve not only your mind but also you improve your body by doing exercises, by jumping and moving a lot. It improves your English and it makes you a strong and healthier person as well. Thats great, isnt it? See next time. Bye-bye.
Unit 4
A Monster
Hello, my superstar English learner! This is Alex. Welcome to the forth lesson. This one is called A Monster. Shoulders back. Chin up. Smile big. Move that body. We are going to do some English. Lets get started.
There is a huge, ugly and super-strong monster. The monster is so huge that he lives everywhere. The monster does terrible, horrible and awful things. And what does the monster do? He takes children away from homes. He also takes children away from their parents from Mondays till Saturdays. But the monster always brings children back. As a result, parents see little of their children.
Every day the monster gives children a lot of tasks to do. And poor children and unhappy parents have to do tasks all Sundays to please the monster. Because of that monster, parents and children dont spend time together. Parents and children miss each other. And as a result, the monster breaks relations between parents and children. They dont understand each other very well.
What is that monsters name? And of course, the monsters name is SCHOOL. What? Yes, it is school that takes children away from homes for 5 or 6 hours a day. It is school that gives children a lot of tasks to do. It is school that breaks relations between parents and children. But one day parents decide not to give their children to that monster any more. They decide to educate their children at home. They also decide to spend time with their children all week.
And because the monster cant take children away from homes any more, the monster gets weaker and weaker. With time the monster gets less and less powerful. And eventually, the monster disappears.
Parents feel fulfilled because their children are well-educated. Parents and children feel fulfilled because they spend a lot of time together.
Everybody knows that parents are the best teachers.
And this is the end of the story for A Monster. What are you doing now? I am sure youre smiling now, youre breathing deep, youre moving your body, and you have good posture.
Why not? Its better than feeling powerless, right? Its better than being bored. And I promise you will learn so much faster if you do this. Every day just before you do a lesson. Get your body strong. Get into that peak emotional state. And say to yourself that English can be fun and easy. Now your body, your mind, your beliefs, theyre all together, very strong. Then youre ready to learn.
You know what goes next. Right! Your vocabulary lesson. See you there!
Vocabulary Lesson
Hello, this Alex again. Time for the vocabulary lesson for A Monster. As always, be sure youre standing tall. Good posture, big smile. Deep breath, move your body. Now you are ready to liberate yourself from the story. You are going to be an absolutely liberated, one hundred percent inspired and totally unique English speaker. Let the magic begin!
In this lesson I used a few difficult words. Maybe difficult, maybe not, I dont know. Lets talk about them. Number one is a monster. What is it? Of course, you have a picture in your head of a monster. A picture of something or someone who is very large, super ugly, very strong and cruel.
In our story the monster is so large that it lives everywhere. And our next word is everywhere. It means that you cant escape the monster. You cant get away from something bad. In our case, it is a huge, ugly and super-strong creature. The monster lives in each village, in each town, in each city. It is everywhere.
Than I say, The Monster does terrible, horrible and awful things. Here we have three words: terrible, horrible and awful. These words are synonyms. They all have an idea of something bad and unpleasant. We can use them when we talk about something that makes you feel bad, frightened and extremely uncomfortable. The monster does super-bad things and it makes everybody feel extremely frightened and uncomfortable.
He takes children away from homes. He also takes children away from their parents from Mondays till Saturdays.
But the monster always brings children back.
So the next expression is to bring back. What it means is that the monster always returns children home to their parents. And he doesnt take children away from homes and from parents forever. No, no, no. The monster always returns children. He always brings children back.
And next you see the sentence Thats why parents see little of their children To see little of somebody. So we use this expression when we want to say that we dont see someone often. Parents dont see their children often. They see little of their children, not much. They dont see much of their children. Parents see little of their children.
Alright, another word we have in this lesson is to please. Of course, you know this word. But it is often used as a polite way of asking for something or of asking someone to do something. Like, Can you help me, please? But here we use it as a verb. I say, Poor children and unhappy parents have to do tasks all Sundays to please the monster. To please somebody means to make a person be glad, be content. So the poor children and unhappy parents have to do a lot of tasks to make that monster be glad, be content or be satisfied or happy. They have to do a lot of tasks to please the monster.
Then we go down the story and we see The monster breaks relations between parents and children.
It really means that the monster separates parents from children. In other words, the monster builds; the monster creates a wall between parents and children. Parents and children dont spend time together. They dont talk much to each other. They become separated. And as a result, they miss each other and they dont understand each other very well. The monster breaks relations between parents and children.
As you may guess, here we use a monster as a metaphor. Let me explain to you this word, I mean, a metaphor. A metaphor is a word or a group of words we use to say that one thing or person is similar to another.
For example, every time when you hear me say, a monster or the monster I mean school. I compare School to a Monster. I say metaphorically, of course, that School is like a monster that takes children away from homes and from their parents. A very large, ugly, super-strong and cruel monster that separates parents from children. The monster that builds a wall between parents and children. The monster that takes children from their parents.
Another word we have in this lesson is to educate. And to educate means to teach someone, usually for several years. In other words, parents become teachers, right? They teach their children at home. They dont send their children to school any more. No, no, no. They educate their children at home.
Okay, our next word is to disappear. You can see this word in the sentence, Eventually, the monster disappears To disappear. To disappear means to no longer happen or exist. The monster no longer exists. No one can see the monster. No one can find the monster. It stops existing. The monster disappears. Its gone.