附英语口语

      So far the oral English course has been going very well. We’ve found that students are very interested in speaking English. Through this kind of class it not only improves students’ oral English, but also helps them temporarily keep out of daily routine study. They become more willing to speak out and learn western culture.

      Normally each class has oral English practice twice a week. We combine audio and visual materials to draw students’ attention, and motivate them to speak through various activities. Pair work, group discussion and imitation are all adopted during teaching. No matter what kind of teaching methods we use, the ultimate goal is to help students open their mind and speak out. Take my class for example, usually I will first ask students ro review two phonetics and pronounce words with it. Then the main structure of that class will be shown on the slides, so I’ll ask students to follow me to speak the structure. In order to train their accents, I will speak sentences in different intonations. For example, if we say “I love my family”, I’ll say it in several ways. After that I’ll show the Balooloo cartoon, and ask students to imitate one sentence by one sentence. Sometimes if students find it difficult to pronounce, I’ll stop the radio and practice with them several times. I’ll make sure everyone can say it correctly and then go to next part. In my class, there’s a student who was a little bit shy at first. But then through imitation the American Cartoon, he has become more interested and active. And sometimes he even can’t wait to start imitating. We’ve very glad to see this kind of progress.

      We hope oral English course enhances their language ability and broadens their horizon at the same time.