Christmas Lesson in Special English
Join students to learn about how Christmas started, the connection between Jesus and Santa Claus, and what ornaments are and how they help make the Christmas holidays beautiful.
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Enrichment Class About Easter
Two students, one in Taiwan and one in China, join a DreyerCoaching enrichment class to improve their English and learn more about the origin of Easter. To learn a language, it's not enough to memorize vocabulary words and grammar rules. It's essential to learn the culture, and that includes holidays. Let DreyerCoaching.com be your guide to understanding English and the USA.
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Christmas in USA and 3 Carols
Learn about Christmas in the USA. You'll see a Nativity scene, learn the word stem "nat," hear 3 famous Christmas carols with the lyrics, and see the Christmas story acted out.
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Two Writing Students Tell What They Have Learned
Sydney is a rising 10th grader and Tommy is a rising 7th grader. These two students in Taiwan attended a month-long intensive writing class hosted by DreyerCoaching. Here they tell their stories about some key lessons they learned. Examples include: new vocabulary words, grammar, punctuation, cook vs. cooker, "expect" vs. "look forward to, and perhaps most important of all, "Learning a language is a long-term process."
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Student learns about birds, gets to see a wild woodpecker
At DreyerCoaching, we want our students to learn "Real English" and about "Life in America." In this class, Peter from Beijing was learning about birds. He said he is interested in woodpeckers, and there was one in the birdfeeder outside the classroom window at that moment. Peter was also learning the words "around" and "out," so he learned that "There are woodpeckers AROUND the house, and we could look OUT the window to see one." Peter also got pronunciation help with the words "pet" and "pest." The remarkable timing of having a woodpecker outside the window while Peter was talking about them is an example of "Real-life English" and how, at DreyerCoaching, we value nature. (The class is a mixture of English and Chinese. Photo of woodpecker - Unsplash- Patrice Bouchard)
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Jack Li tells his Success Story how his English training helped him
Jack Li attended a prestigious high school in Beijing, China and also studied English online with DreyerCoaching. Jack explains how his English training helped him easily adjust to University of Macau, where all teaching and materials were in English, and then get admitted into an MA program in economics at New York University. (Interview in English)
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CEO Donald Hsiao who graduated from Tsing-Hua University & earned MBA at Columbia Tells His Story
Donald Hsiao of Taipei, Taiwan was a chemistry major at National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan when he took an English writing class in 1991 taught by Scott Dreyer. After graduation, Donald went to the US and earned his MBA at Columbia University in New York City. In this video, Hsiao tells his story about why he studied English writing in college and how those skills helped him with his MBA and now as the CEO of an international corporation. (Interview in Chinese)
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"That Happy Feeling" -- Bert Kaempfert --Theme Song for DreyerCoaching
Enjoy "That Happy Feeling" by Bert Kaempfert and images of happy people enjoying DreyerCoaching as they improve their language and people skills.
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Online ESL Writing Class with DreyerCoaching
Observe an online class that helps a girl who attends a prestigious high school in Hsinchu, Taiwan improve her English writing skills. She wrote an essay "Three Things About Canada That Surprised Me" and in this class we focus on helping her: pick a title, improve her grammar and verb tenses, choose the right vocabulary, avoid "Chinglish," and write a conclusion.
This sample class gives you a sense of how students can improve their writing skills via an online class with DreyerCoaching. In most of our writing classes, 1. the teacher gives the student a prompt (topic), 2. the student writes the essay for homework, and then in the next class 3. the student and teacher discuss the essay line by line, working on pronunciation, grammar, spelling, verb tense, word choice, tone, punctuation, structure, etc.
These writing skills can help people prepare for the TOEFL, IELTS, TOEIC, and school and career success in general.
Do you or someone you know need help with English writing? Take the next step and contact DreyerCoaching today to get started!
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Jack's Success Story (in Chinese): How DreyerCoaching helped him
Jack Li is from Beijing, China. He attended the prestigious Northern Chiao-Tung University's Affiliated High School, and there he asked a friend how we had learned such fluent English. His friend told Jack about DreyerCoaching and Jack signed up. Jack did so well, he scored an impressive 138 on the English section of his college entrance exam, a high enough mark to get into University of Macao, where ALL the instruction and textbooks are in English. Jack explains how DreyerCoaching gave him the foundation to seamlessly adjust to University of Macao. After he graduates in May 2022 with an economics major, he will study for a master's degree in econ at New York University. DreyerCoaching helped Jack make his dreams come true, and they can help you too!
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University of Macao Graduate Explains (in Chinese) Best Way To Study English
Jack Li is from China. Watch this video to hear Jack's advice to people who want to study English and do well in school and life. Jack attended the prestigious Northern Chiao-Tung University's Affiliated High School in Beijing, and there he asked a friend how we had learned such fluent English. His friend told Jack about DreyerCoaching and Jack signed up. Jack did so well, he scored an impressive 138 on the English section of his college entrance exam, a high enough mark to get into University of Macao, where ALL the instruction and textbooks are in English. Jack explains how DreyerCoaching gave him the foundation to seamlessly adjust to University of Macao. After he graduates in May 2022 with an economics major, he will study for a master's degree in econ at New York University. DreyerCoaching helped Jack make his dreams come true, and they can help you too!
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認識自己的開始 Sydney Huang's Success Story: DIY US College Applications
Sydney Huang is a grade 12 student at NEHS, the prestigious National Experimental High School in the Hsinchu (Taiwan) Science Park. (國立新竹科學園區實驗高級中等學校) She scored a 1440 SAT and 104 TOEFL, and 57/60 GSAT. In addition to her great academic successes, she has also excelled in sports, music, computers, logic, leadership, English, and much else! Here she shares some of her tips for success in school and how she did her US college applications DIY. (PPT text in English, discussion in Chinese.)
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Learn about Saint Patrick's Day!
Join this bonus class to learn more about Saint Patrick's Day. You will hear some Celtic music, and learn about the origins of the holiday, how it came from Ireland to the US, how many Americans celebrate it today, and why we wear green! Join high school senior Sydney and her mother in Taiwan as they learn about this holiday and part of American culture.
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Learn an English Saying: "Strike a Happy Medium"
Join this advanced Vocabulary and Reading ESL class to learn the meaning and origin of this saying, "Strike a happy medium." Plus, you will learn that "medium" not only means "average or middle," but it can also mean "fortune teller."
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Learn about Booker T. Washington: A Great American
Booker T. Washington was born into slavery on a farm near Hales Ford in Franklin County, Virginia, in 1856. Thus, he was 9 years old when the Civil War ended and he, his family, and all the other enslaved peoples received their freedom. Join this advanced vocabulary and reading class with DreyerCoaching to learn more about this fascinating man and how he became an American leader. Interestingly, the DreyerCoaching headquarters are only about 20 miles away from Washington's birthplace, which is now a US National Memorial
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Celtic Music, "Irish Toast" with Bagpipes
Enjoy a bit of Saint Patrick's Day with this song, "Irish Toast," performed by the Roanoke (VA) Valley Community Band, Tom Rogers & Dianne Rice, Bagpipes. March 15, 2022.
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An adult student in Taiwan shows how she can explain a photo from her trip to California, in English
Arita is an adult student in Taiwan who studies English online with DreyerCoaching.com. She is a professional woman who wants to improve her English for her career advancement and for international travel. Here she describes a photo from her business trip to California, and her DreyerCoaching teachers give her some tips on how to make her English even better.
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Learn how adult students can improve their business and conversational English with DreyerCoaching
Arita is an adult DreyerCoaching student in Taiwan who works for an international accounting firm. In this video she explains how her online conversation class helps her improve her listening, speaking, and pronunciation skills to help her advance her career and make it easier for her to study in English-speaking places like California. After a few years of her classes, she can now understand about 100% of what her English-speaking clients tell her! DreyerCoaching is for adult students too!
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How to improve your English NOW so you can make friends in an English-speaking country
Learn how to improve your English NOW so you can more easily meet people, make friends, and understand your classes in an English-speaking country. You will hear about two DreyerCoaching students who took online classes while they were still in Taiwan and Beijing. By doing that, when they came to the US to attend high school, they were able to talk with Americans and function in their new school.
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How to improve your English BEFORE studying in an English-speaking country
Join part of a DreyerCoaching conversation class to learn how students can easily improve their English skills while still at home, BEFORE they come to study in an English-speaking nation. Students can improve their listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar skills so they can successfully adapt to life and school in the English-speaking country.
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Berlin Part 8, 1949-1989, Founding NATO, West & East Germany, Iron Curtain, Berlin Wall
This 8-part series is a book study of Giles Milton's excellent work, "Checkmate in Berlin," interspersed with Scott Dreyer's commentary and explanation. The series focuses on Berlin from 1945-1949, which was a global flashpoint and the turning point between the end of WWII and the start of the Cold War. A history major and licensed history teacher since 1987, Dreyer lived in Germany 1985-89 and has traveled extensively in Europe. Part 8 starts with the 1949 creation of NATO, West and East Germany, the Iron Curtain, then explains about the 1961 construction of the infamous Berlin Wall and its celebrated Fall in 1989. Dreyer closes with some personal stories of his visits to the Berlin Wall 1985-86, during the Cold War.
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Berlin Part 7, June 1948-Sept. 1949, The Berlin Airlift & Consequences
This 8-part series is a book study of Giles Milton's excellent work, "Checkmate in Berlin," interspersed with Scott Dreyer's commentary and explanation. The series focuses on Berlin from 1945-1949, which was a global flashpoint and the turning point between the end of WWII and the start of the Cold War. A history major and licensed history teacher since 1987, Dreyer lived in Germany 1985-89 and has traveled extensively in Europe. Part 7 tells you more about the historic, 11-month Berlin Airlift and its effect as a key turning point in the Cold War.
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Berlin Part 5, 1946, How the Soviets Rigged a Political Merger to Help the Communists Take Over
This 8-part series is a book study of Giles Milton's excellent work, "Checkmate in Berlin," interspersed with Scott Dreyer's commentary and explanation. Part 5 explains how the Communists wanted to maintain a "veneer of democracy" as they took over post-war Germany. So, they rigged the union of the Social Democrat Party with the Communist Party to form the new "Socialist Unity Party of Germany."
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Berlin Part 3, April-July 1945, The Early Allied Co-Administration of Berlin
This 8-part series is a book study of Giles Milton's excellent work, "Checkmate in Berlin," interspersed with Scott Dreyer's commentary and explanation. The series focuses on Berlin from 1945-1949, which was a global flashpoint and the turning point between the end of WWII and the start of the Cold War. A history major and licensed history teacher since 1987, Dreyer lived in Germany 1985-89 and has traveled extensively in Europe. Part 3 talks about Hitler's suicide, the Soviet occupation of Berlin, and the first uneasy weeks when American, Russian, and British troops shared control of the defeated capital.
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Berlin Part 4, April-Sept. 1945, Potsdam Conference & Nail-biter Soviet Defection
This 8-part series is a book study of Giles Milton's excellent work, "Checkmate in Berlin," interspersed with Scott Dreyer's commentary and explanation. The series focuses on Berlin from 1945-1949, which was a global flashpoint and the turning point between the end of WWII and the start of the Cold War. A history major and licensed history teacher since 1987, Dreyer lived in Germany 1985-89 and has traveled extensively in Europe. Part 4 introduces Pres. Truman, the Potsdam Conference, and a high-drama Soviet defection in Ottawa, Canada in September 1945, the first-such post-war defection...that almost failed!
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