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ANNOUNCER:
It's time for English Makeover from BBC World Service.
In this series, learners of English from around the world tell us their language problems. And
there's advice for them and you, from experienced teacher of English, Karen Adams.
Clip: Karen Adams
Hi, I’m Karen Adams and I’m an English language teacher and teacher trainer. And over the
years, I’ve helped or at least I hope I’ve helped, hundred of learners to improve their English.
The English Makeover learners will be telling me about their problems and well…I’ll see what
I can do to help.
ANNOUNCER:
Today’s English Makeover begins in Warlingham school in Surrey, just south of London .
Presenter Vicki Sullivan went to there to meet Adela Taleb, [bad word] from Germany. Vicki
sat in on a German lesson in which Adela was assisting the teacher.
Clip: German class
Classroom atmos + teacher’s voice
Clip: Adela Taleb
ADELA: Hi my name is Adela. I’m from Munich in Germany. I’m 17 years old but at the
moment I’m living here in England. I help out like two or three times a week in a German class
and I help the students when they do exercises with speaking or pronunciation. I came here to
England to improve my English because I wasn’t such a good student.
Vicki: In fact, back home in Germany, Adela’s a student herself. With school exams
looming, she came to a British school for a while to improve her English language skills.
Clip: Vicki interviews Adela about her English language skills
ADELA: In fact, I go in Warlingham to school and I have got normal lessons like all the other
English students. I have Maths, Art and Design and things like this but I also do school service.
VICKI: And how long have you been learning English?
ADELA: I’ve started learning English when I was eleven so now I’ve been learning English for
six years.
VICKI: How hard do you find it, you know going to an English school. How hard is it to keep
up with your English? To understand what people are saying and so on?
ADELA: And in the beginning it was really hard to concentrate all of the time. And also to
understand the lessons, the teachers, the different accents of the teachers, when they have got a
Scottish accent or something like this. It was really not so easy at the beginning of the year.
VICKI: So what do you think about your level of English? Do you find that people usually
understand you or do you have a lot of problems [bad word] 
ADELA: I think it depends on the situation because sometimes like when I go into a shop and
will buy something if it’s normal stuff, it’s OK but if there is a situation that I’m not used to in
a shop, like would you like this or this, sometimes I’m a bit nervous and then I don’t know
what to say.
VICKI: Are there any particular problems that you have when you are using your English?
ADELA: I think the main problem or one of the problems I’m confronted with the most often
is when I’m talking it’s not so fluent. I have the impression like I stop and start again and I
have to think about the words and it doesn’t sound really good. It doesn’t sound fluent so…
VICKI: O.K. And is there anything else that you have problems with?
ADELA: Sometimes, em, I don’t know which word goes together with which word so I don’t
know like..I can’t think of an example but I don’t know yeah.
VICKI: So you have problems knowing which words go together, which words sound natural
in English. O.K. And what about kind of grammar things? Do you have any problems with
specific grammar points?
ADELA: Yeah. Definitely I have a problem with the past tense and I don’t know like when
you have got a phrase or when you are telling someone something and you can’t change the
times and I don’t do it in the right way...