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 Description: Mendy loves the snow.
In Europe, in the winter
(in January, February and in March),
a lot of people go skiing.
They put their ski jackets on.
They put their gloves on.
They put their masks and their&nbsp;
headbands on their heads.
They put their skis on their shoulders.
They put their ski poles on their shoulders.
They take a bum lift, or a chair lift,
or perhaps a gondola or a big cable car,
and they go off into the mountains!
I'm ready and Mendy's ready.
Are you ready?
Okay, so let's go!
Hello, I'm Rachel. If you're new to my channel...
...welcome to smile English stories where you can&nbsp;
listen to English in lots of different contexts.
If I speak too slowly, or too quickly,
you can change the speed in YouTube.
So I think you might have guessed,
I think you might have realized&nbsp;
that I'm not really going skiing.
I'm not going skiing because in France,
where I live...
...all the ski resorts are closed at the moment
because of Covid.
But you know I'm not going skiing
because I'm not good at skiing...
...I'm even a little scared of skiing.
Look! Look at my dusty boots!
I haven't been skiing for a long time.
I'm very good at crossing my&nbsp;
skis and doing a snow plough,
and I'm really... I'm really&nbsp;
not good at parallel skiing.
Skis are really heavy!
So I thought you might like to&nbsp;
hear some of my skiing stories.
The first time I went skiing, I was about 14.
I went to France to stay with a French family,
and the French family lived in&nbsp;
Toulouse in the south west of France,
not far from the Pyrenees,
so near the Pyrenees mountains.
And one day they decided&nbsp;
they should take me skiing,
this poor English girl who had never skied!
And so we went cross-country skiing&nbsp;&nbsp;
in the countryside,
not downhill skiing (not alpine skiing).
So we put all the equipment in the car.
We got out of the car.
We put our hats on etc. etc.
And then it was really strange,&nbsp;
because I had never skied
and I thought that skiing&nbsp;
was down hill not up hill...
...and the family wanted me to ski up hill!
So we skied we skied up through a forest
and then we got to the top of a little hill.
And on the top of the little hill,
the family said, "Okay, so now it's&nbsp;
easy, no problème, you ski down!"
I was so scared... I didn't know what to do!
So I didn't ski down, I walked down!
The next day at breakfast,
the family looked at my face&nbsp;
and said, "Oh no! Oh là là!
Your face is as red as a beetroot!"
You know a lot of English&nbsp;
people have very white skin,
and they had forgotten&nbsp;&nbsp;
to put sun cream on my face,
so my face was really red!
When I was at university,&nbsp;
with some university friends&nbsp;
we decided to go skiing for&nbsp;
one week in the French Alps.
And then I had real (I had proper) skiing lessons.
And so it was a little bit better a little easier.
But then when I started to work in France,
one weekend I went skiing in the Alps again
with some work colleagues.
Now when you go skiing,&nbsp;
there are different slopes,&nbsp;
different colours of slopes.
the green slopes are the easiest,
the blue slopes are a little bit more difficult...
...so when I go down a blue slope,
and it's not narrow, it's wide,
I can go from side to side... not too difficult.
But for me a red slope, a little more difficult,
is too scary...
...and the black slope... impossible!
But my friends wanted me to go down,
they wanted me to try the red slope!
But I was so tired.
It was the end of the afternoon
and I was so tired,
but I went slowly down the red slope.
But to get back to the ski station,
we needed to go back up a bum lift
and then ski down a blue slope to the ski station.
But because I was so tired,
I didn't see the poles,&nbsp;
I didn't see the poles of the&nbsp;
bum lift coming back round
and a bum lift pole hit me on my head!
I fell down and I saw stars!
It was impossible for me to ski&nbsp;
back down to the ski resort.
Luckily somebody had a mobile phone,
so they called the ambulance, not the helicopter,
they called the red sledge ambulance!
So I was happy.
I didn't have to ski back down to the ski resort.
I just had a ride in the ambulance!
And then my friends drove&nbsp;
me down to a nearby village,&nbsp;
a little village not far from the resort,
and I had to have three stitches in my head!
So I think you can understand why
I haven't been skiing for a long time!
Do you like skiing?
Do you have your own skiing equipment?
Do you have long thin socks
or do you have thicker socks in your ski boots?
Do you find it difficult to&nbsp;
put your ski boots on too?
And difficult to walk in your ski boots?
Skiing can be complicated!
Anyway let me know in the comments
if you like skiing...
...and if you do like skiing,
I hope you will be able to go skiing again soon!
So I hope you enjoyed my little ski stories.
If you did, give me a thumbs up,&nbsp;
and share them with a friend&nbsp;
who likes listening to English.
I'm going to go and drink a mulled wine,
but I will be back next time...
...I hope with a little series about carnival,
and maybe a little bit about Brazil.
So I'll see you then. Take care!
Title: Two funny SkIING stories about me in English (my real life experiences!)
Caption: AMELIORER votre anglais - MEJORAR su inglés - Ihr Englisch VERBESSERN

I’m not good at skiing.  In a period when a lot of people would love to be in the mountains, I thought you would like to hear two of my funny skiing experiences… and see some photos !

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- listen and watch all the video
(try to understand with the images, gestures and context - adjust the speed if necessary)
- listen again with the subtitles if necessary
- if you want to, write new words (not more than 10)
- listen again with NO SUBTITLES – you should understand more


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“I want to… understand English, listen to English I can understand, learn English vocabulary, learn English without grammar, have a conversation in English… improve my English!”

Is that you?

Perfect!  I think you are in the right place… because I want to help you to learn English, to acquire English… I want you to listen to English spoken naturally… and to understand English spoken naturally… to listen to English spoken in lots of different contexts!  I want you to enjoy English!

I want you to practice listening to English, but to listen to interesting English.  

English conversation is often an exchange of stories in English.  To have a conversation in English with someone when you travel in English, you need to master “English small talk”.  For example, you might need to :
- talk about yourself in English
- talk about family in English
- talk about food in English
- talk about weather in English
- talk about holidays in English
- talk about interests in English
- talk about sport in English

So, I am building my smile English stories YouTube channel, to give you one opportunity to listen to English spoken naturally in lots of different contexts.  After all, in England we say, “Variety is the spice of life!”

And I tell you stories in English, because if you listen to interesting stories to learn English, you will be more motivated to listen to English and you will naturally improve your listening comprehension.

I try to use simple English when I make my smileEnglishstories YouTube videos.  Simple, but rich in content!  That means accessible English for beginners (good beginners), but still interesting English for elementary level and interesting English for intermediate levels.


In the comments section, do say what you enjoyed, ask questions or tell me what sort of videos you would like to see!  Then I can make videos you will want to watch!




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