Audio & Video Clips
IYE
On this page, you can find all the recordings from your course…
Here’s some ideas to help you practise your listening skills:
1. Click on the ‘Listen now’ button to hear the recording.
2. Listen to the recording a few times.
3. Write down what you think the recording is about.
4. Write down any words or phrases that you don’t know.
5. Click on the Transcript to read what the character in the recording is saying.
Don’t worry if you don’t understand everything straight away. Listen to these recordings over and over again. The more you practise, the better your listening skills will get!
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Hi! I’m Isha. Can you see me? I’m at the bottom left-hand corner of the picture.
To my left is my grandmother, Divya. She is in a blue green dress with a long white scarf. When we have meals together, I always get to sit next to Grandma. She likes it that way.
Next to her is my brother, Aneesh.
On my right is my aunt, Rita, in the red t-shirt. Rita lives in Malaysia, but she visits us quite often.
The lady next to Rita is her mother, Rohini. You don’t see her much. She’s my grandaunt and on her right is my mother, Deepa.
Guess who’s taking this photo of us? He’s my favourite person – my grandpa, Akil.
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Find community and lifelong friends!
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I am from Indonesia. My hometown is Tulungagung in East Java. I have been working with the same Singaporean family for over 10 years.
By collecting recipes and reading cookbooks, I started gaining an interest in cooking and baking. In 2014, I joined a cooking competition called Foodie Face Off Singapore and I was very surprised to have won first place.
It does not matter how many hours I spend in the kitchen cooking, I feel very happy that people enjoy my food. My plan is to open an Indonesian Nasi Padang restaurant.
My employer has been really supportive and even advises me how to get started.In Aidha, I realised that I can combine both my passion in cooking and baking with setting up a business. Two years ago, I saved enough money and bought a business under my name in my hometown. In a few years time, I hope to expand my nasi padang business to include selling pastries.
My name is Wiwik Sunariya. Cooking is my passion.
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When I was a child, we didn’t have a phone in our house. In the place where we lived, usually, only one family owned a phone. So when we needed to call someone, we would go to their house to use the phone.
The phone we had was very different from your smartphones now. It was connected to a wall plug. You could not carry it here and there. There were no screens on the phone. We did not tap on the keyboard to make calls. We had to move a dial to make a call and we only made calls that were important.
In the late 1960s, every family started to own a phone. The phone was used for long conversations to chat with friends. It was very important in my early years as an adult.
There were also public phones for use everywhere. We could call our families or friends when we were outside. It helped us be in touch with everyone.
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A common challenge that happens is how we can prepare so we can go home for good. Like anonymous explained, life in Singapore is nice, and my employer is also nice. But after staying in Singapore for a long time, it’s not easy to adapt myself again in my own country. So in my opinion, we need to prepare well because we will not stay here forever. We need to prepare well before we plan to go home. We need to plan our future, and we need to communicate it to our family so our family can understand what our vision and our goals are.
When I first came here, my plan was quite smooth. I thought it was going to be maybe three years or four years, and I thought that would be enough. But after I worked here and saw what was happening with my family, they needed more money for this and for that. There were some emergency needs that made me keep working here because I needed to support them.
It’s true. It’s the same as what the anonymous person shared. Going back worries me because here I have a salary every month, but there I might have nothing. I’ve been in Singapore longer than I’ve lived in my own country, so life is very different. It will be hard to adjust.
But if we never make a start, we will never have a living back home. Because we will keep saying, “How can I go back? I don’t have money.” So we keep carrying on working. But sometimes we still cannot save money because we don’t know how to save. Every time we just spend here, spend there, buy things, and send money to our family.
So maybe this is the time to also think about ourselves. For me, I really want to have savings because I really want to go back home for good. I want to be with my family. That’s why I’m trying to build my savings.
I’m trying to have investments. I have my business, and maybe I will have my own house. So that when I go back, I am really prepared to go home for good.
I really need to think carefully because I don’t want to become someone with debt. Debt is really the thing that can give you a headache. If you want to go back home, you should have no loans, nothing.
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What is micro learning? Micro learning is a new bite size way of learning. You can choose when and how you study. Lessons are short and usually last no more than five minutes. Each lesson only focuses on one topic or answers one question, let’s take a look at some examples.
Is this seat taken? Thanks, go ahead. Is this seat taken? Yeah, it is. Sorry.
My phone is different yours. My phone is different from yours.
Shake it out, fold, put it away..
I am dancing, you are dancing, he is dancing, she is dancing.
Wait me, wait for me. I didn’t went to school, I didn’t go to school.
What are your favourite channels?
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In this video, I’m going to teach you 3 simple speaking drills.
Here are the drills: 1. Count from 1 to 20, 2. Say ‘Hi! My name is …’ and 3. Breathing to stay calm.
Here’s your first drill, count from 1 to 20.
Let’s start with counting to 20. The best thing about this drill is you won’t need to think about what you’re going to say. You just have to count up to 20. As you are counting, play with your hand gestures and eye contact. You can go faster, slower, louder, softer or play with pauses. Let me demonstrate it for you.
Presenter demonstrates how to count from 1 to 20.
Next let’s try Drill 2, ‘Say hi my name is’.
The next drill will help you stay present and be in charge of your space. It will help you speak more confidently, especially at the start and at the end of your sentence.
This is what you need to do: Take a deep breath, then say, ‘Hi! My name is …… .’ And after the sentence, take another deep breath.
Let me demonstrate this.Presenter demonstrates how to do Drill 2.
For most of us, after we introduce ourselves or say something, we usually want to run away from the attention on us, like ‘Hi! My name is ….’ and pass that attention to someone else. We usually look away. But here, we choose to stay and be comfortable in our space. So remember: when you do this exercise, practise with your breath at the beginning and at the end. We will now do a variation of Drill 2 to work on different tone of voice. In this exercise, we’ll say ‘Hi! My name is …..’ in 3 different ways. Play with the pitch, speed and use pauses to show how much you are in charge of your space.
Our final drill is, ‘breathe to stay calm’.
In the final drill, you will learn a simple breathing exercise to help you stay calm. This is how it goes…breathe in 2, 3 4, hold 2, 3, 4, breathe out 2, 3, 4, hold 2, 3, 4. This breathing exercise is very helpful before your presentation, when you are feeling a little nervous while waiting for your turn.
Now that you’ve got your 3 drills, have fun going through them.
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Here are two different versions of an introduction to a presentation on chopsticks.
Here’s Introduction One.
Hi! My name is Su and the other members in my group are Angie and Juliana. Today, we are going to teach you how to hold a pair of chopsticks correctly. There are 3 parts in our presentation. First, we will tell you some interesting facts about chopsticks. Next, we will show you how to hold them in the right way. Lastly, everyone will have a chance to try holding a pair of chopsticks correctly.
And here’s Introduction Two.
How many people here eat with chopsticks? Can I have a show of hands? Good, thank you! Well, the topic of our presentation today is chopsticks. There are 3 parts to our presentation. First, we will tell you a few interesting things about chopsticks that you may not know. Some of these facts are really fun! Next, we will show how you can hold them in the right way. You may not realise, there is actually a proper way of holding them! Lastly, all of you will have a chance to try holding a pair of chopsticks correctly. And our group members will go around and help you.
Let’s compare the 2 introductions. Which speaker always keeps eye contact with the audience? And which speaker has open body language? Let’s watch introduction 2 again, this time try to spot these 5 delivery skills; gestures, pauses, stating presence, changes in speed, changes in volume
How many people here eat with chopsticks? Can I have a show of hands? Good, thank you! Well, the topic of our presentation today is chopsticks. There are 3 parts to our presentation. First, we will tell you a few interesting things about chopsticks that you may not know. Some of these facts are really fun! Next, we will show how you can hold them in the right way. You may not realise, there is actually a proper way of holding them! Lastly, all of you will have a chance to try holding a pair of chopsticks correctly. And our group members will go around and help you.
I hope this video has helped you understand how you can make your presentation a lot more interesting. With the use of good body language and voice production, you can shape your speech to hold your audience’s attention. Remember, when you are up there, the space belongs only to you. You have the power to make your audience sit up and listen to what you have to say!
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Sari Marsden: You are today graduating, and I want to congratulate both your achievement and who you have become in the journey.
Jacqueline Loh: It is this day that is truly the highlight of our year, where we take a breath and collectively celebrate a very, very special milestone. Today, we celebrate our wonderful group of graduating students. Our students are the beating heart of our community, and it is ultimately their effort and their desire that compels us all. Every migrant domestic worker endures hardship and makes sacrifices, sometimes almost unimaginable sacrifices, with one goal in mind: to build a better life for herself and her family.
Armi Sampani: In Aidha, I learned how to speak confidently, save money for the future, and to develop a business plan. My employer, supported me throughout my entire journey in Aidha and encouraged me to refine my baking and cooking. Due to their support and all that I have learned in Aidha, I am now paving the way for my business to become a reality. So my business plan is an ice cream shop, which I call Nana Ice Cream. Nana Ice Cream will be the first all-natural, affordable, custard-based ice cream available in this region of the Philippines.
Nur Khasanah: I moved to Singapore in 2008, and over the next six years, I saved money to buy land, to build my own house, and to support my family financially. But I still struggled with my confidence and was insecure about myself. That’s when a friend suggested Aidha to help build my confidence and realise my dream to have a better future. Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Lazato Pizza. I love pizza, and that’s the reason I want to set up my own pizza restaurant in my hometown. Lazato – it comes from the Bahasa word lazat, which means delicious. Lazato Pizza will be the first pizza restaurant in my hometown, which has a population of 57,000. With this business plan and my story, I hope to inspire all the young girls in my hometown to dream big, to think creatively, and to do something different.
