The Online English Teacher - Anisa!
The Online English Teacher - Anisa!
👋 Hi! I'm Anisa, a British / Canadian ESL teacher with 20+ years of experience teaching adults general & business English, IELTS & Cambridge exam preparation, and more.
Although I'm a grammar nerd and majored in Linguistics, I know it's more important to develop confidence so you can communicate fluently.
This channel is based on my years of experience teaching students from federal government departments to multinational companies, CEOs to interns, military personnel to retirees.
I make videos targeting the mistakes I see time and time again from my own students, so you can avoid them.
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Clear and relatable grammar explanations 📖
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Hello teacher thank you for your excellent teaching. Could you explane about some Grammar rules more🙏
Thank you for your feedback 😊 I make videos based on what my students need. So, I'm happy to make more about grammar rules!
They are pretty big and difficult terms and you explained them too well, I think I am not going to forget them ever. Do You take online classes on Zoom or conduct group classes to practice language.
Hi 👋 Thanks for commenting. You are right that they are big terms, and it is something that needs a lot of practise. I try to explain concepts, because when you are aware of the concept, it's something you can keep paying attention to...forever! 😁 Be careful when you say that I explained them 'too well'. When you add 'too', it automatically creates a negative. For example. I love hot, sunny weather. But, when the weather is 'too hot' I am uncomfortable. Normally, I like things that are cheap 😊 However, if something is 'too cheap' it is likely to be poor quality and it will break. So, it turns from a positive (I'm saving money and got a good deal) to negative (I'm wasting money) Check out this video for more examples: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z3mVmaOPqrrZpM4.htmlsi=LuanGQ6MJA3z7j_- And, I absolutely love collocations, even though most of my students hate them! Think about the difference between: to take a class to give a class Are there any other verbs that you can use with the noun 'a class'? I do teach online. Feel free to email me [email protected] Cheers, Anisa
I'm really keen on your lessons. Thank you for your efforts. Example: He is likely to find himself in a difficult situation if he drives under the influence of alcohol.
Thanks for sharing your example. It's perfect!
Excellent presentation and content. The voice volume is a bit low. Good job
Thanks a lot 🙏 🎉.
Thank you very much for helping your KZread viewers grow their confidence in English. keep up the excellent work
Good night, woulyou please explain how to recognise collocations, idioms, phrasal verbs in articles, stories and speech?
Hello, Thanks for your question…but, you’re probably not going to like my answer! IDIOMS can be easy to recognise if you have a good foundation of vocabulary, because the vocabulary is not being used in the normal way. The famous example: It’s raining cats and dogs. Obviously, cats and dogs are not really falling from clouds. So, it’s an idiom. PHRASAL VERBS can be easy to recognise, but it really depends on the context. First, you have to look at what comes after the verb. If there is a preposition, there’s a possibility it’s a phrasal verb. Be careful. If you climb that tree, you might FALL. There is no preposition, so it’s a main verb. If we look in a dictionary, we find there are multiple definitions: 1) move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control. (synonym: drop down) 2) lose one's balance and collapse. (synonym: trip) 3) decrease in number, amount, intensity, or quality. (synonym: decline) Be careful. If you don’t study, you might FALL BEHIND. Now there is a preposition, so you have to think about the context of studying and a student falling behind. Does it fit any of those three definitions? Not really. So, it’s a phrasal verb. The dictionary definition is now slightly different: 1) to not finish work at the time you planned or promised to finish it: 2) to not make as much progress as someone else: COLLOCATIONS are horrible because there is no actual reason why combinations of words are used together. They form over time, become commonly used by many people in different situations, and eventually ‘sound right’. If you say there is a ‘heavy wind’, I will understand you BUT it will take my brain longer to process what you’re saying because the collocation is ‘strong wind’. The difference is only a fraction of a second, but the more unnatural combinations of words you use, the more stress it places on the listener. Remember, the goal of any good communicator is to convey their message accurately in a way that is easy for the listener/reader to understand. If you know collocations, it can help with your listening, because instead of listening to every word to find the meaning, you can predict what word is coming. Then, it’s easier to catch. I was upset when I didn’t get the promotion, but it turned out to be a blessing in __________. There are actual collocations dictionaries and online sources. One site states there are over 2 million collocations for 43,000 English words!!! You definitely can’t memorise all of those! So, focus on topics that you are interested in. If you’re fond of fashion or really into sports, start with the collocations that are used in that field. I’ll make a series of videos on collocations, and I always include some in my videos. If you’d like a book. I recommend ‘Collocations in Use’ by Murphy. (Honestly, any book my Raymond Murphy is likely to be amazing) I hope my answer wasn’t too depressing! Anisa 😊
@@TheOnlineEnglishTeacher-Anisa Thank you so much, Your explanation is so simple and easy to understand. I have all of those books. Hats of. I am very grateful for your efort and help. Thank you😍🥰😘🙏
Less teaching more acting distract students.
Thanks a lot, appreciate your time and help.
You're welcome!
I am very impressed by your high-level pedagogical approach to explaining complex concepts. Keep up the excellent work!
I really appreciate your kind words. I'm glad it made sense to you! 😊
I am quite proud that you are My teacher in the British Council.😍🤝
I love that you are investing so much time and effort in your studies. Even when you are not in class with me, you are doing extra studying on KZread 😁
It was a really beneficial lesson. Thsnks!
You're welcome. I'm glad it was helpful
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I really enjoyed this video. Thank you. ❤
When I say I 'enjoy' grammar and vocabulary, my friend think I'm crazy. So, thanks for enjoying it with me.
@@TheOnlineEnglishTeacher-Anisa I think it's because you teach them with all your heart. Those lessons are interesting, joyful, and full of enthusiasm so they keep me up. Normally I watch them at night and they never make me bored or sleepy.
Great lesson.
Very interesting lesson. I learned so much from this. Thanking you.
Glad it was helpful!
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Welcome to my channel. Thank you for your kind comment
Cheers love
I lllllove your lessons so much! ❤
😀 and I llllove all your comments! Thank you so so much for the continued support! 💖
So useful, I love your explanation
Thank you! (video on contractions coming soon 😊)
@@TheOnlineEnglishTeacher-Anisa 🌹❤️ thanks my great teacher ❤️🌹
I love your Lesson teacher Anisa. It is interesting to listen. Does Bob really need to grow up?
Given that I've been using Bob as my go-to example for the past 20 years, maybe not! Then again, someone once put switched the salt and sugar for April Fool's Day. At the time, I thought it was incredibly childish. Don't mess with my coffee! ☕
Your name is from the Middle East. Where were you born and where did you grow up Anisa?
Didn't you believe my example in the video? 😊 I'm from the UK. I was born in England, but I grew up in the UAE (Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Ras al Khaimah). Then I moved to Canada. That's where I went to high school and university, and later started working. I guess you could say I finished growing up in Canada. 🍁 What about you?
Awesome you explain the best .👍
Thank you. I'm glad it's clear, as it's a very commonly confused pair of words!
Love the way how you explain everything. So much easier to remember :)
That's ok! Grow up is used more with people speaking about their maturity or height, to avoid misunderstanding with an "increase in other measures". Anyway, in general, I see that phrasal verbs like "grow up" are used also to enforce the figurative concept, the specific action. If you look on the web you can find sentences like "A number of cities grew up along the river". Or "We grow up the shows while remaining in repertoire." Or "An increase in the LDR value will affect profits to grow up through credit creation." By my humble opinion (I'm am an italian native), phrasal verbs are more a figurative, lazy and informal way to express actions without using the specific verb (such as to age, to increase, to advance, to evolve, to mature, ...), that become an accepted standard with the frequent use. Probably, many of them are evolving even today.
Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed comment. There are different types of multi-word verb units, but when explaining things to students, many teachers simply say ‘phrasal verbs’. However, there is a distinction between phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs. This is where I think your confusion lies. Grow up is *not* related to height. You must use the main word ‘grow’ to express someone or something getting taller. 1) My tomato plants GREW about 2 feet last month. (Meaning the difference was about 2 feet. They were 1.5ft, now they are 3.5ft) 2) My honeysuckle plant IS GROWING up the fence. (This is not the phrasal verb ‘grow up’, it is the main verb ‘grow’ connected to a prepositional phrase ‘up the fence’) 3) I bought a baby palm tree. Only when I got it home did I read the information tag that said it COULD GROW up to 20 meters!!! (Again, this is the main verb ‘grow’ with a prepositional phrase ‘up to 20 meters’ specifying the maximum height that it could reach) When we talk about profits, they ‘grow’, meaning they ‘increase’ I’m not quite sure what you mean by “We grow up the shows while remaining in repertoire.” ‘Grow up’ is an intransitive verb. This means it cannot take an object. Children grow up. ✅ Parents raise children. ✅ Parents grow up children. ❌ Perhaps you’re talking about the shows that you watched consistently throughout your childhood 'to grow up ON something' I grew up on 80s cartoons. I grew up on cheese sandwiches. In terms of the level of formality of phrasal verbs, perhaps that’s a good idea for another video! Let me know if you have any more questions. Anisa 😊
@@TheOnlineEnglishTeacher-Anisa Oh! Thanks for the long reply. I’m no one to speak about English language, but I’m sure we could open a long thread just speaking about the origin of phrasal verbs, their rules and usage. The English language is a live language. It’s currently alive. Words, usage and even rules change continuously, depending by the preferences of who uses this language. The usage of phrasal verbs depends by the country, even the local region, by the class of age, by the century, even the decades, by the formality of the colloquial language, and typically it is avoided in formal written English. The three sentences I have reported are real on the web, not hard to find. They do not use form like “grow up to”. English people apply the grammar rules but with an infinity of exceptions, so that the language evolve. Grow up is intransitive but as I see people do mistakes such as to use it in the transitive form to express better the idea to govern the process of growing up. I saw several “grow up the company” on the web. Mistakes. However, they well express the idea! And I can barely imagine how many ways grow up is used in informal colloquial communications. The literal meaning of 'grow up' is simply a variation of the verb 'to grow', just with additional emphasis on the upwards direction. Mainly as the synonym of 'to mature'. Anyway, I’m sure that grow up can be used also with plants, cities, ideas, organizations… Not just people. Nonetheless, I think that every English speaker understands immediately its meaning even if it is used not following the grammar rules or in the wrong context.
thank you for the difference .
You're welcome 😊
As always, the lesson was absolutely insightful. ❤
As always, your comments are so positive. Thank you!
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Right on.. Where are you from?
@@tarikmorocco5907 I'm from England (close to Manchester), but I've lived all over the place. Now I'm back in England, but on the other side (north east near Newcastle and Durham)
Great lesson ❤
Clean my house - my favourite topic haha. Any volunteers? :) :) Love your videos, you are so full of bright energy that it is just invites to watch more :)
The best teacher ❤
@@marileidearaujo8329 I remember you always used to tell me about cleaning up after your kids, and I used to convince you to get them to do it. I keep asking my dog to help, but she's useless 😆
I like your energy, I like your videos, and I'm looking forward to next one😊😊
Thank you so much!!
I give it a like even before watching the video.❤
@@helenvederman9618 lol thank you!! You've got a lot of faith in the video. Hope I didn't let you down
@@TheOnlineEnglishTeacher-Anisa Not at all! The video was awesome. Thanks for sharing it!👌🏼
You youeslf sparkle and shine, thanks from heart ❤.
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Thank you! 🥰
Very helpful lesson, I like your photo describing lesson, it helps me a lot, lots of grammar, vocabulary and collocations.
Glad to hear that!
Just a clarification "In a field " or "on a field" And why ?? Thank you for your response 😊
A field is an area, so she is in a field. It's the same as being in a city or in a country. However, if you said on a field, I would still completely understand your meaning.
Thank you Anisa for another educative session. ❤
Any time!
Marvellous lesson. Thank you. A
You're very welcome!
Actually, Maya is looking beyond the mirror to the field of flowers or perhaps something else that lies just outside the photo frame.
Thank you ❤. I would like to join if there is an online platform for student study.
Fantastic ❤❤❤Thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏
You're welcome 😊
You are a brilliant teacher. I love your teaching methodology. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for the kind words of encouragement 😊
Thank you so much for replying to my msg. This is what makes you unique. Stay blessed!