People and Places – Burke 2 – And then they went to Europe
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Mark: So you came to Toronto when you were about two and a half?
Burke: M-hm. Yep.
Mark: And your parents, were they Canadian or?
Burke: Yeah they were both Canadians. They were simply … They were trained as teachers and so they joined the government program called CSIS.
Mark: How do you spell that?
Burke: C-S-I-S.
Mark: Uh-huh.
Burke: And it was in order to help developing countries train professionals, in this case, training them how to teach.
Mark: So they worked in Ghana as teachers?
Burke: Yeah. Teaching teachers how to teach, so methodology…
Mark: Ah teacher trainers. Right. Ok.
Burke: Yep.
Mark: And then they went to Europe.
Burke: Yep.
Mark: They were doing the same thing in Europe?
Burke: Ahm Europe.. they were just seeing the country with… My sister would have been like five or six and I would have been, as I said, about two at that time so they traveled with two children just to show us I guess..
Mark: Right.
Burke: …a taste of Europe and…
Mark: That must have been wonderful. Do you remember very much?
Burke: Actually the only memory I have of Europe is a green beer bottle and a window sill in Amsterdam.
Mark: Wow!
Burke: And the beer was called Oranjeboom. I remember just looking down on this intersection and there was this kind of cobblestone kind of look and I just have that imprint and a sort of a feeling with it but I do not really have any other extended memories from that time.
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This part very difficult for me. (T_T)
Hi,
Thanks for your native conversation. This conversation was quite hard to undersatand and fast but I tried to listen to it many times, finally I got the meanning of the conversation
I have some questions to ask you. Can you expland to me please, what does it mean between “less developed countries, underdeveloped countries and highly developed countries”?
What does it mean between “a glimpse of Asia and an Asian interlude”?
well, I’m looking forwards to hearing from you.
Hi Sadavee…when we speak of ‘developed’ and ‘underdeveloped’ countries, we are talking about ‘economic development’ from a Western perspective. Of course, there could many types of development, such as ‘social development’ or ‘spiritual development’. Perhaps it is the case that many of the economically developed countries are less spiritually developed.
I don’t know. I don’t like to speak in terms of “development” unless it is necessary or convenient to do so. The term ‘development’ implies a state of being or destination. Who decides that?
A ‘glimpse’ means a ‘quick look at’ or ‘a quick experience of’. An interlude is a short time period between two other significant time periods.
Hope this answers your questions.
Now, lets talk about my experance.
I never work as a teacher before, I used to work as a part time job when I was studied in year 3 to early in year 5 at the National University of Lao. I worked as an accountant and reception at the Oasis Spa shop and Nirvana Spa shop and during I was in tear 3 I used to work with Vientiane Orchids Company, I worked as a translator at that time because people in Hatkhai village can’t speak english so I have to explanded to them how to treat the orchids in the forest. Like, told them to protect the orchids in that area. In the past, lots of people in the village went to the forest and took out many of orchids species to sold in very cheap price to a tourism, some of the toulist they bought it back to thier country and they found it the orchid that they bought from Lao it was a new species then they are recorded it in the list of the orchids in their country. So, that’s the problem of the orchids in Lao, we’ll lose the species that we have to other country. That’s the reason of this company tried to solve the problem by taking that area to be a travle place like if they have a tourist from France or from other country want to visit that place they can take them to tour around the forest, to see the orchids, natural life, waterfall 7 step and to get the fresh air. On the other hand, if they found some species that’s very rare or endanger they would take it to the laboratory in Department of Biology at the National University of Lao to make tissue cultures and then they’ll growth it at the green house, after they’re get healthy or ready to go back to their place we’ll take it back to that place more than usual.
I used to have more experances to tell you but it’s not today because I’ve to do my work. I’ll tell you more about that later ok
Very interesting, Sadavee. Thanks for sharing your experiences in Laos.
Hi
This dialog helped me a lot
Please put some parts of movies with their texts
and explain us (grammer,adverbs,adjectives,proverbs,idioms…)
anyway I appriciate your effort
hi, thanks for these lessons
hi thankes for these lessos .i thinke these lessons help me improve my english thanke you for every thing
Thank you!It’s useful.
hi,am really happy to tell u that am learning to write ,speak and listen with the help of this site.and thanku so much.
and now my opinion for the question wat is devolopment? is it good.
yes ofcourse it is good that it brings a lot of changes to human beings and to the whole world. with the development of different sectors like transportation,telecommunication,agriculture,medicine etc have made life very easy.now we can travel a long distance in less time,we can communicate with friends and collegeus through internet.greeen revelution in the field of agriculture has helped a large population from starving.the contribution of science is enormous. we r advancing day by day with the help of technology.but a contry is said to be when all its people lead better life.if a country has developed the people inthat country is still starviving then it has not developed or that development is not complete.
my 1st teaching experience
when i was doing my graduation my mom forced me to do smthg to become selfsufficient.i personally don’t like teaching as it was not my field of interest.but i strated taking tuition for school children and it was a good teaching and learning experience. as i was doing my final year and i had project works, seminars so i stopped midway and foccused on my studies.
movies…..apart from reading i love watching movies of all kind.for me it is not just an entertainment.there are alot of movies that end with a moral and some otherthat makes us think.i watch indian movies and of other languages.
Thank for your lesson it help me , but I can’t understand all the story without the transcripts .
this website is the best ever!
How many minutes we have to listen in one day.Please advice thankyou.
Dear Teachers
For me the audio is very very difficult, I need to listen it many many times, mainly Burke´s talking, but I realize that it´s the real situation I am going to find in Sydney when I will be there.
But… go ahead, there isn´t no solution, the only way is to follow your criteria and to believe in God´s power.
For a while I only listening the video, after I will put here some coments about the lesson.
Thank you very much for everything.
Best you could make changes to the post name People and Places – Burke 2 – And then they went to Europe | English Conversations to something more catching for your subject you write. I enjoyed the the writing yet.
Thank you for the lesson, although I could not understand the whole story, I need more
practise in listening.
Beautiful pictures of most beuitufal land on our G-d’s earth .how I miss being home !! Praying for G-d to send me home again soon thanks for the great post all of it is SO TRUE!!! Blessings be upon you!!