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youtube English
Dec 15th
If you read this blog, you may have noticed that I like to post videos. I love finding new and interesting videos online. Do you often visit youtube? Do you view the youtube site in English?
The other day I was looking at youtube.com and I started thinking about how bad the English as on this site. For every video there are comments left by all different kinds of people. The English comments often contain a lot of spelling mistakes, no punctuation and not many complete sentences. Have you ever noticed this before?
The reason for this is partly due to texting. Many people have cell phones and use them to send text messages. When we send text messages, we often do not use the correct spelling because we want to get as much information in as we can and we need to keep the message short. This means that people take short cuts and take letters out of the words to make them shorter. Sometimes we use numbers as part of words too.
Here are a couple examples of English Text words:
Regular English Texting English
Night Nite
Later L8r
See C
You U
Your/You’re Ur
I also found a video on youtube about this problem. Check it out below. It is also a good idea to view the comments for this video. As many of the people who viewed this video care about grammar, the comments are written in proper English with complete sentences. If you compare the comments of this video to comments of other more popular videos, you should be able to see the difference!
C U L*R!
No language required!
Mar 9th
Hi Everyone!
Have you ever seen one of these viral videos? A viral video is a video that becomes very popular online. A video becomes viral when many, many people watch it and then talk about it with their friends. Sometimes these videos are then shown on TV, like on the news. They are called “viral” because the spread like a virus, very quickly.
Over a year ago there was a famous viral video called, “The Evolution of Dance.” In this video Judson Laipply does different dance moves from all different eras to all different types of music. According to YouTube this video has been watched over 115 million times! Wow!
Below is a video that I watched last week 5 times! I laughed so much. I love this video. And there is absolutely no language so everyone can enjoy this video! (P.S. The dog is sleeping and dreaming!)
ATTACK OF THE SKUNK!
Sep 10th
Since I wrote my last blog about skunks, I have noticed that the skunk population has increased A LOT in Montreal. I see at least a skunk a week, if not more. I see them all around town. Each and every time that I see them I freak out (get very scared and make a lot of noise) but yesterday was the funniest experience so far.
So last night I was walking home after my night class and I was very close to my apartment building. My head was in the clouds (look for an explanation in the upcoming Out of It Catch Word podcast), thinking about school and life in general. I was about to walk up the path to my front door when something caught my attention.
There was some movement at the bush near the path. I instantly knew that there was a skunk, or maybe I just assumed it was a skunk. I got so scared that I turned in a bit hurry but instead of getting away from the skunk I crashed into a parked car. I was leaning against the car trying to think of my next move. In my head I knew that I needed to get away from the skunk (I could see the tail moving up, or so I thought) and I really didn’t want to get sprayed. Time seemed to slow down and it felt like in the movies when everything moves in slow motion.
Finally I made myself move, in what I now describe as a Matrix like twist, I squeezed between the car I crashed into and the one behind it until I was a safe distance from the skunk.
I then karate kick chopped my way past the skunk up the path and ran screaming into my apartment.
When I got into my apartment I finally realized what had happened. The skunk was not afraid of me at all. It was not going to spray me; it saw me and just went the other way. I completely over exaggerated the situation. I then proceeded to laugh for the next 10 minutes and I was not able to tell Craig what happened for about half an hour because I burst out laughing each time I started telling the story. Today I told my co-workers the story and everyone laughed at me and with me.
They look like cute animals when we forget about the bad smell but in reality I’m very afraid of skunks. I don’t want to be sprayed by them and if you remember my “Making a Scene” blog then you all know that I like to run when skunks are anywhere near by.
I guess I should be less afraid of skunks.
Behind the scenes
Apr 22nd
Hello Culips People!
This is the place where I will be writing to tell you what is happening with Culips!
Why is this post called “Behind the scenes”? “Behind the scenes” is the place where things are happening that not everyone sees.
I think this expression may come from the theatre. The actors are on the stage, but behind the scene or set or decorations on the stage the audience cannot see all the action happening backstage or behind the scenes. And all of these actions backstage are really important!
As you listen to our podcasts, you don’t know what we are REALLY doing and how we are preparing to bring you better and better episodes. You don’t really know what is happening “behind the scenes”.
In this blog, I will write to let you know what is happening behind the scenes.
This Sunday we all met for breakfast on an outside patio close to Mount Royal in Montreal, Canada. It was really nice to finally be outside after the long winter!
We are planning to record more episodes this week and also take some real photos of us to put on the website. They will be posted as soon as we get pretty and have them taken.
Our website will be changing over the next little while. So hold on tight! (”hold on tight” means that you shouldn’t move, but you should wait because exciting things are going to happen!)
*If you have any questions about this or any post. Ask in the comments section and we will respond.
Of all the podcasts with 'real world' English examples, I like yours the best. Maybe its the fun you put into the lessons. The students can here that in your voices. And they also feel your dedication to what you are doing - it's just not a job you do, but a gift you give to everyone who listens. And while the students like the Lipservice PDFs for all the information it contains, as a teacher I am impressed by the professional effort put into making them. I give the Culips podcast and the Culips crew my highest recommendation, both as a teacher, and a listener. 
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