Hello and welcome to this prepare for ILD speaking video.
In this video, I'm going to describe a skill that you can teach other people.
Now, it was incredibly difficult to choose a skill to talk about in this video, because skills that
I'm good at, such as cooking, maybe you don't feel comfortable talking about some afraid.
I've picked a very boring topic, but I thought it was something that lots of people would feel comfortable
talking about.
So I'm going to talk about teaching somebody I.T. skills.
Let's take a look at some of the language first and then I'll read through the model answer.
At the end, I was struggling to come up with a great way to start your part to answer because you've
got complex language and complex grammar.
I was struggling.
I was finding it difficult to come up with to think of talented or gifted.
Both of these words mean the same thing, and it's a good way just to get in some more vocabulary,
talented or gifted, to pass on to.
If you pass something on to when we're talking about skills and knowledge, it's about teaching them
that skill, giving them that skill or knowledge.
I use this word pretty a lot as a native speaker of English, and it's instead of using quite or rather
it's informal, so we only use it in speaking.
I'm pretty good at and we follow it with an English.
I'm pretty good at using a computer and it means I'm quite good at computer literate.
If you are computer literate, you're able to use a computer efficiently.
You're good at using a computer.
You know how to use a computer.
You can also say to be I.T. literate, I could teach them a thing or two.
If you say I could teach someone a thing or two, it means you're good at it.
You're actually saying that you know a lot about something, even though it sounds like you don't know
very much.
It only sounds like, you know, a thing or two.
But we use this idiomatic expression to mean I am good at this.
I could teach them a thing or two, I suppose.
I guess.
I reckon instead of saying I think I'm not entirely sure when I don't know.
It doesn't ask you to say when, but I've included this to include some more complex language, a gradual
process.
If something is a gradual process, it means it happens in small stages over a longer period of time.
So you don't just learn it in a day.
It's happened over many months or many years.
A gradual process I've picked up to pick up means to learn.
I've had no formal training.
Formal training means you've been on a training course and got a qualification, good opportunity to
use the present perfect continuous.
So you started it in the past and you continue in the present.
I've been using one the best part of a decade.
A decade is ten years.
When we say the best part of a decade, it means most of a decade.
I kind of know what I'm doing.
We use this a lot in English in the UK are kind of and it means to some extent I know what I'm doing.
And it's not saying I'm brilliant at it.
I kind of know what I'm doing.
We use it with things like a kind of like rock music.
It means you like it a little bit to some extent.
Don't get me wrong.
A useful discourse marker when you want somebody to not misunderstand you.
I'm not saying I'm an expert, an expert, a person who knows everything about something and is very
skilled and qualified to do this job.
I'm saying don't get me wrong, I'm no expert.
Don't misunderstand me.
The basics, whatever it is you're talking about, if it's cooking, if it's painting, if it's EITE,
the basics, the most simple things in order to introduce another bullet point you can use in order
to do so, in order to share my skills and knowledge.
So good collocation, we talk about sharing skills and knowledge.
I would feel most comfortable to feel comfortable, to feel relaxed face to face, so in person to guide
someone.
If you guide them, you're showing them what to do.
And if you're doing it remotely, you're doing it in a different place.
So you're doing it probably over Zun, for example.
Always try to get some past continuous in there.
So whenever you're talking about times, I did this kind of thing a few times when I was studying at
university and we were working on group projects, I saw examiners like continuous tenses because native
speakers use them all the time.
But often many non-native speakers don't use them because they're often things that you don't use in
your own language.
When I was studying, we were working class mates.
So people in your class weren't.
Confident they didn't feel comfortable with one good at using PowerPoint, I went through.
If you go through something, you explain, I'm going through this model answer at the moment.
I'm explaining it from time to time occasionally now and again.
Mind you, great for speaking, but don't use it in writing.
But however, it's not in my job description.
Your job description is a list of your duties and responsibilities.
So I'm not employed to do this.
But it's something I do from time to time.
An essential skill, a vital skill.
Remember to use words other than important, essential, vital, key, imperative.
All of these words can be used instead of important to rely on, to depend on properly trained.
So you've had some training.
You've been taught by an expert.
You've been on a training course.
PCs and software are updated, made more modern are up to date if you don't keep your skills up to date.
So if you don't have the latest information, your skills are not current up to date and they become
outdated.
So they're no longer useful or modern.
So I've got three words here from the same word.
Family updated up to date outdated.
I would love it if you can use words from the same word family, like I said.
So I've already said this before, but I'm saying in a slightly different way.
I'm not a trained or expert P.C. user trained.
So you've had some formal training or you have a qualification, an expert.
So somebody who knows a lot about something, a p, c user.
So a person who uses a computer.
But I'm a patient.
If you're patient, you're very calm, you're easygoing, you don't get angry easily.
A key characteristic, very useful collocation and can be used in writing as well.
An important thing, a key characteristic.
And like I said before, I use the word pretty a lot instead of using quite I can do it pretty well.
I can do it quite well.
It just sounds more natural.
It makes you sound more like a native speaker of English.
So now I'll just read through the model answer and hopefully will help you to remember these words and
phrases for this topic.
I was struggling to come up with something because I don't think of myself as particularly talented
or gifted, so I wasn't sure what skill I could pass on to others.
I'm pretty good at using a computer.
So if someone wasn't computer literate, I could teach them a thing or two, I suppose.
I'm not entirely sure when I first used a PC or how I learned how to use it.
It's been a gradual process and it's something I've picked up over many years.
I've had no formal training.
I've been using one for the best part of a decade now, so I kind of know what I'm doing.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no expert, but I could teach someone the basics of word, PowerPoint, Excel,
etc. In order to share my skills and knowledge, I would feel most comfortable doing it face to face
because you can see what they are doing and guide them much more easily than doing it remotely.
I did this kind of thing a few times when I was studying at university and we were working on group
projects.
Some of my classmates weren't confident with using PowerPoint, so I went through how to put together
a presentation with them before we started.
I do it from time to time in my current job.
Mind you, it's not in my job description.
Using a computer is an essential skill because most jobs rely on them.
The problem is most workers haven't been properly trained.
PCs and software are updated regularly and if you don't keep your skills up to date, then they become
outdated.
Like I said, I'm not a trained or expert PC user, but I'm a patient person, which is a key characteristic
to have for teaching anyone anything.
So I think I can do it pretty well.
Hope you found this video useful.
Thank you very much for watching.