You want to improve your pronunciation, and I'm gonna show you the best way to
do it! First, I'll tell you what the Imitation Technique is, then introduce
the pronunciation reading club, where we read books together to improve your
pronunciation, vocabulary, and become a confident English speaker.
Finally, you can start with the first chapter of our first book at the end of
the video. So you can perfect these skills right away! Okay what is imitation?
It''s simple, I say something and then you repeat the same thing by copying, or
imitating, my intonation, word stress, and pronunciation. This is the best and
quickest way to sound like a native English speaker, and with me. It's
completely free! You don't even need to have the book because I write everything
I'm reading and saying in the subtitles. The books I choose use a great variety
of English vocabulary, and have lots of dialogue so you can see how native
speakers really communicate with each other. As I read there will be pauses so
you can repeat a sentence. And I will also pause to explain vocabulary and
tell you if a word is outdated or used only in a small part of the
English-speaking world. So that I can give you better vocabulary to use
instead. You just watch the video, listen to me, and then repeat out loud. I also
make chapter review videos to make sure that you understand the plot and to go
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Alright, it's time for a chapter 1 of our first book: the American classic "To
Kill a Mockingbird" Hey guys welcome to the Pronunciation Reading Club. It's not
just pronunciation. You will also improve your vocabulary, listening, and reading
skills. And learn so much about American culture, slang, and popular
idioms. And most importantly, become a confident English speaker. I'm Kallan and
it's super cool that you're joining me today. Subscribe and like this video if
you haven't already. It helps me a lot if you do it and it helps you too. Because
you get to know when new videos are available. Let me explain how the Reading
Club works. While reading a book, I pause after sentences, sometimes after a half
sentence if it's very tricky. When I do this you pause your video to repeat or
imitate what I just read to you. Copy my intonation, word stress, and pronunciation.
If you need to, break sentences into smaller parts. Do the same thing with
words you're having trouble pronouncing. Remember, it takes practice so don't
spend a lot of time on just one part of the reading, because there will be a lot
of videos and a lot of books that we're going to read together. I also stop to
explain some vocabulary and to tell you if a word is not common anymore, if it's
outdated. And to tell you if a word is only used in a small part of the
English-speaking world, so that I can give you a better word to use instead.
Finally, I will also take quick breaks to explain important things about American
culture, so you can understand the country better and maybe me too. Our
first book is the classic "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. In the US, we
are required to read this book in middle school, so almost every American you meet
will have read this book sometime before. If you want to buy the book to read with
me, the link is in the description. Now let me give you a little backstory
before we start reading, so you can understand the story and events a little
better. The book takes place during the Great Depression from 1933 to 1935. In
the southern state of Alabama. Quickly, this is what the Southern United States
is, and this is the Northern United States. Anyways, the Great Depression was
a very difficult economic period across the world. Lots of people didn't have
jobs, and it was just very difficult to survive. To Kill a Mockingbird focuses on
the Finch family. They're quite well-off so they're not suffering like a lot of
other people around them. The Finches play a very important role in the story
that is about to unfold. So let's get started. Part 1. When he was nearly 13, my
brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed and Jem's fears
of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom
self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right.
And when he stood or walked the back of his hand was at right angles to his body.
His thumb parallel to his thigh. He couldn't have cared less, so long as he
could pass and punt. NOTES: Here when the author says that his arm was broken at the
elbow, she basically means that his elbow was
broken. And remember, when Americans say "football" they don't mean kicking a ball
with your foot. We actually mean throwing a ball and catching it. So, when we talk
about Jem passing and punting, we mean throwing, and to punt means to kick. Let's
continue: When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we
sometimes discuss the events leading to his accident. I maintained that the
Ewels started it all, but Jem who was four years my senior, said
it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us.
When Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out. I said if he
wanted to take a broad view of the thing it really began with Andrew Jackson. If
General Jackson hadn't run the Creeks up the creek,
Simon Finch would never have paddled up the Alabama. And where would he be if he
hadn't. We were far too old to settle an argument with a fistfight, so we
consulted Atticus. Our father said we were both right. Being Southerners it
was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded
ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings. NOTES: When Scout, the narrator of
this story, says that her brother Jem was four years her senior, she means four
years older. That's what it means to be someone's senior. The opposite is to be
(an amount of years) someone's junior. The Creeks were... The Cr eeks are an Indian
tribe, or nation. So it sounds strange to hear "... the Creeks up the creek", but
capital "C" Creeks are Indians and lowercase C is a creek: a small river or
a very small, narrow body of water. A Southerner is someone who comes from the
South. READING: All we had was Simon Finch, a fur trapping apothecary from Cornwall, whose
piety was exceeded only by his stinginess. In England
Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves
Methodists, at the hands of their more liberal brethren, and as Simon called
himself a Methodist, he worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia.
Thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up to St. Stephen's. Mindful of John
Wesley's strictures on the use of many words and buying and selling, Simon made
a pile practicing medicine. But in this pursuit he was unhappy,
lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God, as the
putting on of gold and costly apparel. So Simon, having forgotten
his teachers dictum on the possession of human *CHATTELS* bought three slaves
and with their aid established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama
River, some 40 miles above St. Stephen's. REVIEW: There's a lot of good vocabulary on this
page. First of all, an apothecary – don't memorize that! It just means a pharmacist.
Thence also is just a fancy way of saying "after that", "there after". You don't need
to memorize this even for written English, it's very formal. "To make a pile"
is a more idiomatic way of saying to "make a lot", " to make a lot of money doing
something". Human chattel means a slave, so their ancestor Simon bought slaves. READING: He
returned to St. Stephen's only once to find a wife, and with her established a
line that ran high to daughters. Simon lived to an impressive age, and died rich.
It was customary for the men in the family to remain on Simon's homestead,
Finch's Landing, and make their living from cotton. The place was
self-sufficient, modest in comparison with the empires around it. The landing
nevertheless produced everything required to sustain life except ice,
wheat, flour, and articles of clothing supplied by the river boats from Mobile.
Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North
and the South as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land.
Yet, the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well until the
20th century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law and
his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine. REVIEW: To live until an
impressive age means to live a long life, to be very old. If something is customary,
it means it's something that people tend to do, it's a habit, or really, a custom.
It's almost impolite or unacceptable not to do it.
When Scout describes this "impotent fury" she means that he would have been very
angry but unable to do anything about it. To be impotent means unable to act,
unable to do something. READING: their sister Alexandra was the Finch who
remained at the Landing. She married a taciturn man who spent most of his time
lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot lines were full.
When my father was admitted to the bar, he returned to Maycomb and began his
practice. Maycomb, some twenty miles east of Finche's Landing, was the county
seat of McComb County. Atticus's office in the courthouse contained little more
than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard, and an unsullied code of
Alabama. His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb
County Jail. Atticus had urged them to accept the state's generosity in
allowing them to plead guilty to second-degree murder and escape with
their lives. But they were Haverford's, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with
jackass. REVIEW: To be taciturn means someone of very few words, someone who does not say
a lot. Another word is "laconic". To be admitted to the bar, means to pass your
law exams, to become a lawyer and to be able to open your own practice or
business. And don't memorize spittoon, it's just like a pot. Something
decorative. And finally, to be stripped of everything means to lose everything, to
lose all your money and personal belongings. Here, "trot lines" are just
fishing lines. It's when you go fishing. READING: The Haverford's had dispatched Maycomb's
leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful
detention of a mare. Where, imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three
witnesses, and insisted that the son of a bitch had it coming to him, was a good
enough defense for anybody.
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