Name: Ellen Surprises Deserving ESL Teacher
Uploaded: 2019-03-27T01:59:49.000Z
Duration: 7 min 4 s
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There's someone in my audience right now that I want to meet.

Past simple

from Guatemala when she was 15 years old.

Emily came to the United States from Guatemala

when she was 15 years old with only a sixth grade education,

and now she teaches English and is changing the lives

You did not expect to be here, so big surprise.

Tell everyone how you immigrated, how you got here.

I was 15 years old when my mother decided

So I was 13 when she left us in Guatemala.

So she left, you're 13, and then how many siblings?

So you're 13 years old, and for two years

We built a little shack in my neighbor's backyard,

So at 15, then she says, I have enough money and you can come.

I hear that you learned English watching my show and friends.

So were you just walking up to people saying,

and you're watching somebody just talking, and interacting

And I think that probably-- now that you're teaching kids,

I think this is the language we speak in America.

But they kind of forgot to work on my native language,

I make sure that they value their culture

It's Irvin Elementary School in Concord, North Carolina.

Let's see how Jeannie is doing with everybody.

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