Hello my name is Lex I was born in a city called Melbourne, In the state of Victoria at the bottom of Australia.

My work involves buying products from China I travel there with my work.

I have been studying Chinese for about 4 years. I love listing to Chinese music and singing Chinese song.

I like talking with my Chinese friends on QQ and joined YY to help my spoken Chinese. I have been teaching on YY for about 12 months.

Hope I can help you to love English the way I love Chinese.Thank you for Attending my class

Improve Your English Speaking and English Pronunciation Skills

My first piece of advice is not to get too hung up on trying to sound like a native speaker. Would you start learning the piano in an attempt to sound like Mozart? The first rule of speaking English is to learn to speak clearly and concisely and remember you won't just be speaking to native speakers: There are roughly 380 million native speakers out there, but as many as a billion people speak English as a second language, you do the maths.

English speaking tips

1. Get over any fear you might have of making mistakes. You will make mistakes.

2. Be patient with yourself. Learning any language can be frustrating, but frustration won't help you, so let it go.

3. Grasp every opportunity you have to speak with people in English.4. Talk to friends who are also learning English. Go out together for coffee and

only speak English to each other!5. Read short stories out loud and try to see, say and hear the words to

reinforce your memory. Record yourself and play it back later, how does it sound?

6. Surf the net and find English speaking chat programs sites like YY Skype.

Come up and say hello• What is you name?• Witch city do you live?• What did you do for fun last weekend?• What will you do tomorrow?• What is your favourite food you like to eat?• What time do you get home at night from school

or work?• What is you favourite hobby?• What is a new English word you have learned this

week? What is the word and the meaning?

Australian SlangMany English speaking people visiting Australia for the first time often find Australian English surprisingly different.

For example Aussies tend to shorten words in ways that leave visitors lost:

a politician is a polly.university is uni.Christmas is Chrissie.

So if you're visiting Australia, keep this in mind and you'll be able to guess what they are saying.

Australian Slang• Av-a-go-yer-mug• Meaning: someone is not trying hard enough and you want them to.

Example: Av-a-go-yer-mug. It really easy to do.• Away with the pixies• Meaning: dreaming.

Example: She's not listening. She's in love and away with the pixies• Bag of fruit• Meaning: man's suit. It's an example of Aussie rhyming slang.

Example: He went to the meeting in his new bag of fruit.• Belt up!• Meaning: you are asked stop talking, be quite, in a angry way.

Example: Oh! Belt up. You're getting me mad.• Bloody oath• Meaning: that's the truth

Example: Bloody oath it is.

Australian Slang• Bob's yer uncle• Meaning: if you do this (whatever is said first) it will work or be all right.

Example: Just add some extra water and Bob's yer uncle.• Bonzer mate!• Meaning: that's great friend.

Example: That's bonzer mate. I'm happy for you.• Chuck a U-e• Meaning: make a U-turn.

Example: Chuck a U-e mate, the pubs the other way• Crack a tinnie• Meaning: open a can of cold beer

Example: Come over to my place and we'll crack a tinnie.

Australian Slang• Dinky-di• Meaning: true, genuine.

Example: Jack is a dinky-di Aussie all right..• Doing your block• Meaning: you are getting very angry, losing your head.

Example: Peter is out doing his block 'cause his wife pranged the car.• Don't get your knickers in a knot• Meaning: Don't upset yourself.

Example: Don't get your knickers in a knot. She'll be right, mate.• Fair crack of the whip!• Meaning: give me a fair go.

Example: Fair crack of the whip! I only just started.• Fair dinkum• Meaning: someone really genuine.

Example: Peter is fair dinkum. You can trust him.

Australian Slang

• Fair-go mate!• Meaning: what you say when someone is not letting you do or say something.

Example: Fair go mate. I know I can do it.• Fair suck of the sav• Meaning: statement you make when someone is not letting you do or say something.

Example: Fair suck of the sav, mate. How about shutting up and listening.• Fifty k's south of Woop Woop• Meaning: in the middle of nowhere

Example: He wants to go camping 50 k's south of Woop Woop. (You can use any number for the distance.)

• Flat chat or flat out• Meaning: going very fast what ever they're doing.

Example: He is going flat chat and he'll be finished in half the time.• Full as a goog• Meaning: drunk or eaten to the excess.

Example: That was a great meal. I am full as a goog.

Australian Slang• Ga day Cobber• Meaning: welcome close friend.

Example: Ga day cobber. What have you been up to?• Go and have a cuppa• Meaning: have cup of tea or coffee.

Example: Go and have a cuppa and I will be there soon.• Go and tart yourself up• Meaning: Please dress in your best clothes

Example: Go and tart yourself up we're going out to dinner.• Going to the dunny• Meaning: off to the toilet.

Example: Mate you have to wait. I got to go to the dunny.• Having a blue• Meaning: having a fight or argument.

Example: Listen! Can you hear next door having a blue with her old man.

Australian Slang• Have a naughty• Meaning: sexual intercourse.

Example: Sorry I'm late. I had a quick naughty with the misses.• He's got a goog• Meaning: he's got a bump as big as an egg.

Example: He was in a fight and he got a goog on his head.• He's got tickets on himself• Meaning: highly self opinionated, thinks they are just great

Example: Don't take any notice of him. He's got tickets on himself.• Holy-dooly• Meaning: an expression of surprise.

Example: Holy-dooly! That was hot.• got the wog• Meaning: a cold, flu or virus

Example: I can't go to school because I got the wog.

Australian Slang• I will job you!• Meaning: I will hit you or punch you.

Example: If you don't leave me alone I'll job you.• I'm nackered• Meaning: absolutely exhausted or very tired.

Example: It was a tough day at work. I'm nackered.• It's a goer• Meaning: something that will definitely occur.

Example: no matter if it rains or not it's a goer tomorrow.• Mucking around• Meaning: acting in a way that others generally don't like.

Example: She got very mad at the way he was mucking around.• Nick off• Meaning: go now, get lost.

Example: Nick off you're bothering me.

Australian Slang• No dramas!• Meaning: don't worry about it, everything is fine (same as "no worries")

Example: No dramas mate. It will work out fine.• No worries!• Meaning: don't worry about it, everything is fine (Australian Attitude)

Example: No worries mate. It will work out fine.• Ow-yar-goin• Meaning: how are you?

Example: Ow-yar-goin mate?• Pat malone• Meaning: you are on your own, alone.

Example: If you do that you are on pat malone.• Pigs bum• Meaning: that's wrong, or incorrect.

Example: Pigs bum, you're not smarter than me.

Australian Slang• Play sillybuggers• Meaning: messing around, wasting time.

Example: Stop playing sillybuggers and finish your homework.• Pull ya head in• Meaning: I don't want to listen to you so shut up.

Example: Pull ya head in, you don't know what you're talking about.• Put a snag on the barbie• Meaning: a sausage cooked on a barbeque. That's what real Aussies cook.

Example: Come on over and we'll put a few snags on the barbie.• Rack off• Meaning: leave, you're not wanted here.

Example: Rack off, you idiot.• Rat bag• Meaning: mild insult calling someone a rascal

Example: Where you been you old ratbag!

Australian Slang• Ridgie didge• Meaning: true or genuine article

Example: Ridgie didge! It's true, it really is gold.• She'll be apples!• Meaning: everything will be all right; giving someone assurance

Example: No worries mate. She'll be apples!• Shut ya gob• Meaning: be quiet.

Example: Aw shut ya gob or I'll hit you.• Stunned mullet• Meaning: surprised, bewildered, uncomprehending. You're said to look like a stunned mullet

when you have no idea what's going on or what they're talking about.Example: When she said no, he looked like a stunned mullet.

• Take an early mark• Meaning: leave early from whatever you're doing

Example: they took an early mark from work and are headed to the pub

Australian Slang• Taking a sickie• Meaning: taking time off work when not really sick

Example: I am taking a sickie and going fishing.• This arvo• Meaning: this afternoon.

Example: I'm going to sleep now and this arvo we'll go to the club.• Turn it up• Meaning: stop what your saying or doing as its not right

Example: Turn it up, you're making it worse.• You are a galah• Meaning: loud, rudely behaved person.

Example: Keep quiet you big galah.• You dirty grub• Meaning: dirty eater or dirty child.

Example: You dirty grub. Go change your clothes.

Australian Slang

• You little beauty, that's beaut, you bewdy• Meaning: excited approval, something has gone

really well.Example: You little beauty. I won the lottery. Reply - That's beaut mate.

• Your shout• Meaning: your turn to buy the drinksExample: Bill, it's your shout.

Talking Practise

Please come to the cue and read out the text in pairs. Take it in turns listen to the words as you read them.

• One person is A and reads out the A text• The other is B and reads out the B text • We will 2 Readings per pair

Talking Practise A: I don’t like riding the bus.B: Why not?A: The seats and windows are dirty.B: Don’t they clean the bus every night?A: I think they do.B: You should bring some wipes with you.A: That’s a good idea.B: Then you can wipe your seat and window.A: People will think I’m strange.B: Who cares? Everyone is strange.A: That’s for sure.B: Don’t worry about what people think.

Talking Practise • A: You’re driving too fast.

B: Why do you say that?A: The speed limit is 65.B: I know that.A: But you’re doing 75.B: So is everyone else.A: But a cop might stop you.B: No, he won’t. Some cars are doing 85.A: So the cop will stop those cars?B: Of course. He stops the fastest cars.A: My friend got a ticket for doing 75.B: Your friend was unlucky.

Talking Practise A: Let’s go out to eat.B: That sounds like fun.A: Where do you want to go?B: Let me think a minute.A: I feel like Chinese.B: That sounds delicious.A: I know a good Chinese restaurant.B: How far away is it?A: It’s only 10 minutes from here.B: Do we need reservations?A: Oh, no. We can walk right in.B: Let’s go now. I’m hungry!

Talking Practise A: This hot bread is delicious.B: I like this restaurant because they give you free bread.A: Well, I think we are paying for it.B: No. Look at the bill when we get it. There’s no charge for the bread.A: It is delicious, especially with butter.B: I think we should just leave after we fill up on the bread.A: They probably wouldn’t like that.B: I’m eating so much bread that I’m getting full.A: Then stop eating the bread!B: Okay, just one more piece. Pass the butter, please.A: If I owned a restaurant, I would never serve hot bread before the main course.B: That’s terrible. I would never go to your restaurant.

Talking Practise A: I like that shirt.B: So do I.A: How much is it?B: I don’t know. The tag is missing.A: Ask the clerk.B: I will.A: Oh, look. Here’s another shirt just like it.B: Does it have a price tag?A: Yes, it does. It’s only $20.B: That’s a great price.A: I think I’ll buy both of them.B: You’d better try them on first.

Talking Practise A: I hope I win the lotto.B: Your chances are very small.A: But you can’t win if you don’t play.B: Ha! You can’t win if you do play.A: Someone has to win.B: That’s what everyone says.A: It might as well be me.B: That’s what everyone says.A: You’re trying to tell me something.B: That didn’t take long.A: You think I should quit playing.B: Save your money for school.

Talking Practise A: I went to Hawaii on vacation.B: Did you like it?A: I loved it. I want to live there.B: What did you like?A: The island is so green, and the water is so blue.B: Did you go swimming?A: I went to the beach every day.B: How was the weather?A: It was hot and sunny every day.B: What did you do at night?A: At night I went out to eat. The food was delicious.B: People who live in Hawaii are lucky.