Hello everybody!
My name is Veronika Horáková. I am a Czech and I've been living in the Czech Republic. And for a really long time I've been a teacher of English. So recently I've been thinking a lot how to help my students to study better English. And so, yeah, it just crossed my mind to prepare something like this to prepare a video of me speaking about some interesting topic which I use frequently in our lessons. So here we go! We can start.
So, at first, I would like to tell you something about me. Because you probably are going to get to know me a little bit better. As I told I have been teaching English for something like twelve, thirteen really long time, so I have got some experience but recently I have been on maternity leave. I am a really proud mum of three beautiful kids. My oldest son is almost 3 years old and then I have also two boys, they are twins and they are only five months old now. So, it is really a lot of work, actually, but still I really like to return back to English because it seems to me like relax. It is really great to have time to do something for my students, to prepare for lessons and to study new and interesting topics on Internet... it is amazing time for me. I really like that. Actually, I told my husband... really quite frequently that... that is actually time for me to relax as it is for him to be at work because to have three small kids at home and to be with them all the time is really making me crazy. When you really cannot go even alone for the toilet or to have coffee. Actually, I prefer drinking cold coffee but when you really do not have time, it is even colder. It is really bad. So, I tell every time my husband to enjoy the time travelling by train because it takes him probably one hour to get to work, and then in the afternoon back. So that's two hours a day! I really told him to enjoy reading a book, for example, or preparing something for our web pages.... really to enjoy that or also enjoy eating alone his lunch because with three kids, you know, it is really hard time.
Actually I have got very interesting experience with my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law is really preparing very nice and traditional dinner on Sunday every time we come. It looks very well. She really gives a lot of effort to prepare it extra-ordinary and to sit there like a family. It is really great. I like these traditions. Actually with three small kids it is quite impossible. And it took her quite a long time to understand that what is the point or why am I being nervous because, you know, three kids. Sometimes happens one of them sleeps. Yeah. Sometimes! But usually they don't so they usually need some attention at least. The oldest son we need to feed or to help him at least. So, now it is really funny for me how she changed her opinion totally and when we come there every time she prepares everything on the table and starts taking care of children, and also her husband and we are (with my husband) feeding the oldest one. It is really funny! Actually, nobody is sitting at the table because we just split like to some … fight groups and we fight with children … it is really amazing. I am really looking forward to time when we sit there again and with calm and quite children eat our lunch there. But that's probably not going to happen very soon.