📙 Part 2: Describe a person who moved to a new place

This episode's vocabulary

To fit the bill (idiom) - to be suitable for a particular purpose.

Up to date (adj.) - modern, recent, or containing the latest information.

Numerous (adj.) - many.

Uncouth (adj.) - behaving in a rude, unpleasant way.

To give sb an edge (over/on sb/sth) - (to give someone an advantage in a particular situation.

Questions and Answers

M: Rory, over to you.

R: Yes, over to me. Let's get started. Usually, I hate talking about myself. But it seems my experience best fits the bill here since I recently moved to Turkey. We already talked a little about me in part one. But to tell you a bit more about myself in relation to this experience. I'm an English teacher, and an important part of that for me is professional development. I've done that a lot in different countries, including Russia and Scotland. And it's important for me to keep up to date with it so I can teach effectively. Since I'd already done a lot of the simpler courses, I decided to take it to the next level and do Delta, which is like an advanced teaching course. It's very advanced. In terms of when I moved here, I'm actually still there at the moment, I'm just taking a break to come and speak about it. I went in early June of 2023 and planned or plan to stay there until the end of July or the beginning of August, assuming I haven't or don't completely fail or failed the course. The course itself only runs until the end of July. But I thought I might stay a while longer and decompress and organize a few events in the sunshine before going back to cloudy and cold Scotland. Like I already said I moved there to do Delta, but in more detail about what that involved or involves, it's probably important to draw attention to the fact that this really isn't or wasn't a holiday for me. I had and have to do a lot of research and write numerous assignments whenever I wasn't and am not teaching, I keep switching between tenses. But you see, this thing is still ongoing, so it's important for the sense of perspective. It's a bit uncouth to talk about yourself in the third person, in terms of how you feel about yourself. But I'm pretty impressed with myself for making this decision. I certainly didn't have to because I'm a pretty competent teacher and teacher trainer in my own right. But I think this will give me an edge over the competition. In addition to an opportunity to be in the sunshine. If I hadn't made this move, well, I'd still be in Scotland with a more familiar routine. That would hardly be a disaster. Though I'd definitely be poorer for not having had the experience.

M: Do you think you'll move again anytime soon?

R: Well, I need to go back home to Scotland at some point, so it depends how you to find soon, doesn't it?