I bet there must be something wrong with our English education system. There are so many Chinese students who are extremely good at writing and reading English, but behave as poor dummies.
My niece, a 14-year-old girl, is learning English from a famous English training center on weekends. Once I happened to overhear her reading an English word. And I realized she had made a funny mistake. She said "cock" instead of "rooster'. I asked her what does cock mean, and she said cock meant the male chickens. Hearing that, I laughed so wildly as if I had never met such funny things before in my life. Back to be serious, I asked: Who the hell taught you this? A Chinese teacher in the center, she said.
Nasra Aden, one of my Canadian friends, used to tell me that the Chinese teachers who were teaching English in the same English training center did not understand what she said to them. "And yet they were teaching English", she was confused. When I was in university, one of my English teachers was a Japanese learner. She always made funny pronunciations when teaching us English. And the funniest part was that she always told us about the things happened in Japan. Don't forget we were having English lessons! Frankly, I never like the Japanese people. That's why I hate the teacher sometimes.
As a matter of fact, we're lack of good and qualified English teachers in China. I did whatever my teachers asked me to do when I was a student, cause otherwise, they wouldn't be happy with me; and I could be punished. If I had different opinions, I dared not to rise out the issue. "Thanks" to our educational system; I was really a good student.
Not until I went abroad to try my English, did I realize how poor mine was. Most of the phrases and sentences I had learned from school were useless (only to me). Because they are out-of-date!
Obviously our English teachers only focus on reading and writing English in order that their students could pass the examinations, such as CET4, 6, GRE or whatever rubbishes. I think they ignore or don't want to mention about one fact: A foreign language is originally used to talk. How do they suppose their students to communicate with foreigners in the future? By writing? They gotta be kidding me!
关键字:网友情怀
生词表:
My niece, a 14-year-old girl, is learning English from a famous English training center on weekends. Once I happened to overhear her reading an English word. And I realized she had made a funny mistake. She said "cock" instead of "rooster'. I asked her what does cock mean, and she said cock meant the male chickens. Hearing that, I laughed so wildly as if I had never met such funny things before in my life. Back to be serious, I asked: Who the hell taught you this? A Chinese teacher in the center, she said.
Nasra Aden, one of my Canadian friends, used to tell me that the Chinese teachers who were teaching English in the same English training center did not understand what she said to them. "And yet they were teaching English", she was confused. When I was in university, one of my English teachers was a Japanese learner. She always made funny pronunciations when teaching us English. And the funniest part was that she always told us about the things happened in Japan. Don't forget we were having English lessons! Frankly, I never like the Japanese people. That's why I hate the teacher sometimes.
As a matter of fact, we're lack of good and qualified English teachers in China. I did whatever my teachers asked me to do when I was a student, cause otherwise, they wouldn't be happy with me; and I could be punished. If I had different opinions, I dared not to rise out the issue. "Thanks" to our educational system; I was really a good student.
Not until I went abroad to try my English, did I realize how poor mine was. Most of the phrases and sentences I had learned from school were useless (only to me). Because they are out-of-date!
Obviously our English teachers only focus on reading and writing English in order that their students could pass the examinations, such as CET4, 6, GRE or whatever rubbishes. I think they ignore or don't want to mention about one fact: A foreign language is originally used to talk. How do they suppose their students to communicate with foreigners in the future? By writing? They gotta be kidding me!
关键字:网友情怀
生词表:
- overhear [,əuvə´hiə]
vt.偶然听到；偷听 四级词汇
京公网安备 11011202003401号
