English corner, of course, English corner, Chinese means an English-speaking corner.In universities, it is usually held on weekends, usually in a more secluded location, either in a pine forest or on the corner of a sparsely populated building, and it usually begins in the evening.Why is there such a special requirement for time and place?The reason is simple, because at night, dark lights and shade, everyone has to control the distance between each other to about two meters, the effect is that each other can not see whose face is the best, so that there is no suspicion of ambiguity.In this case, if a girl has a boyfriend to accompany (which is actually protective), pay more attention to the scale, because the boyfriend's expression can change abnormally, can't cry and laugh.
There are two main types of participants, one is oral English, listening has a natural advantage, simply speaking English is good students.One of the obvious characteristics of these people is that they resemble a star, a foreign star, which means they talk and behave more like foreigners, especially their looks.Usually, these star students laugh, but when necessary, they also humour, shrug their shoulders, spread their hands, and so on. There is always a circle of worship around them. Everyone pricks up their ears for fear of missing an authentic "London sound".Of course, the second group of people is mostly lurking in the crowd around these English stars.One of the characteristics of these students is that they are more modest.My name is Tom.My name is Tom.My name is Tom.My name is Tom. My English is very poor. Then I started to be a loyal listener, nodding my head constantly, but I didn't understand it very well. In most cases, I was confused, but I had to show that I fully understood the other person's message in English.And the other side actually has no bottom, sometimes, said, do not know what they are talking about, just see the other side repeatedly nodding, had to support, so both sides feel time is very slow. In general, the participants in the English corner also have a common feature that most of the English conversations are actually speaking their own English, or performing a given task.This task is to learn the English that you want to speak before coming to English corner, as long as you memorize these contents, tonight to find someone to speak out, even if the great achievements.So after finishing their English conversation, both sides felt relieved.
I was in the English corner once, but I was forced to go by my tutor.Why is the mentor forced?At that time, the tutor organized an international conference with a lot of influence in the field, and invited many foreign professors to attend.Of course, we graduate students are the main force in the organization of conferences.Perhaps the tutor, considering the reception of foreign guests, is a little worried about our graduate students' oral English, so he forced us to go to the English corner of the university every week to improve our oral English.Not modestly speaking, my English was pretty good in the group because I had worked as a research assistant (RA) in Hong Kong for half a year before.By the way, it was ten years ago, and I've seen the world.The book said briefly, one weekend evening, on the way to the English corner, a brother and sister rushed up, blushing face, said: finished!What's the end? I asked.That's it! My brother explained.What's all over? English corner is all over, I met a master tonight, I didn't put a word in, I have no confidence in the oral language, shame, said my brother very frustrated.I said, where did we lose this man in the center? Show me.My brother saw my brother's accomplice, and immediately came to the spirit and took me back to the English corner.Not far away, the dim street lamp weakly penetrated the thick pine branches, leaving a vague shadow, saw a red-clad woman speaking English to a group of people.He pointed his finger and said, "That's her, that woman, that's too good. You have to find a face for me, senior!"
That said, this woman is really not simple, although everyone keeps only two meters away, but there is no fear, war of words, women.Brother stabbed me, I had to seize an opportunity to introduce myself.When I told him that I had been to Hong Kong, I stopped everyone all at once, and then it became a one-on-one conversation between a woman in red and me.I was nervous because I didn't have time to memorize any materials before I came.Fortunately, the woman in red was very good at talking, so I began to introduce little by little what I saw and heard in Hong Kong.When I say in Hong Kong, I'm afraid to answer the phone.First of all, I just went to Cantonese and didn't understand English very well. I often don't understand what the other person is saying on the phone.Once, I helped a friend rent a room and the other person asked my current address, such as 213 street… When I was nervous, I became two yao three street. The other person immediately deceived, long, carefully asked me: what is yao? I was also confused, thought yao is not 1?What's wrong with that?So I told him yao is one in standard English. He then asked me, "How to spell Yao? I came to my senses!Dare Yao is not English!Later, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble on the phone, I usually ask the other person to send me an email to confirm that something is complicated.But I had another problem talking about my email.For example, my Email is xyz123@yahoo.But this @ I don't know how to speak English, Chinese I'm used to calling circle a, English really didn't know at that time.Then I vaguely heard the other person suggesting that I sounded similar to the pronunciation of AT, and it dawned on me.Finally, I conclude that all these years of English study have really been wasted time.I give another example, my first paper on English science and technology, which is full of flaws, let people make terrible changes.What I can't get over is that the English tenses are wrong.I don't even use the basic modern times, the past tense.Don't laugh. I couldn't use it.It was ten years ago, but ten years later, some time ago, a friend of mine, a professor, young talent, and very confused to ask me when to use the ordinary modern time, when to use the ordinary past tense.I laughed out loud, but I understood my buddy very well, and I told him that the experiment, because it was done before, should be described in the past tense.Now, let's talk about the experimental results in modern times.Before, I read his first draft, not to say anything else, the simplest of the two English tenses, he is random switching, as he pleases.And the most basic a, an, the misuse.That's what I'm talking about now, and I'm thinking about it, and it's even worse.In this way, I use English, with the red-clad woman complaining that the English teaching in China is really bad for us students.Usually English study, what is useless, what examination.It's useful. I didn't remember it in practice.And accompanied by the graduate students to study English to give a good beating.The woman in red was said to nod her head frequently, surrounded by worshipful eyes!Finally, I'll get some face back for my students!
At that time, I didn't get a Ph.D. offer in Hong Kong, so to be sure, I registered for a Ph.D. as a mentor and attended a half-term Ph.D. program.Because the tutor has a lot of projects, we students often travel, so my Ph.D. English class just once, but I don't feel any regret, anyway, the final examination is fine.However, it was that class, let me almost recite the anger, because we teach the teacher is English corner that red dress woman, later a query or English department newly transferred to a director of what.Before the reason is called red dress woman, mainly because at night can not see clearly, remember to wear a red dress, in fact, a little disrespectful.It is said that the new director went to the English corner to make a private visit to carry out the English teaching reform for graduate students.I didn't want to be hit by my brother, and I've been taught a lesson.Of course, they are the people who have really met the world, not only did not dispute with me, but also appreciated my "straightforwardness".Unfortunately, I had a lesson, or I'd like to see how she reformed her English teaching.This problem of English teaching, from primary school to graduate school, study, examination, application is seriously disconnected.No student in any country has taken up so much time to study, but the practical application has been so poor.Students from countries like Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Iran seem to be better than us.Therefore, to say that it is serious, it is very serious, but in fact, we should discuss it thoroughly in the last two sessions, and we can only appeal here and hope that the relevant departments will pay full attention to it.