About Learning English
— A Speech Addressed to Students in Middle Schools
Dear Schoolmates,
Good morning, everyone! I’m a Senior 3 student. I was a student in the past. Now I am still a student. I’ll certainly be a student in the future. For we were born to be students — we always live in order to exist in the world and in order to live a better life. So, we are students for ever. Do you agree with me?
Now I’m going to give a speech about English learning. It is often asked whether it is possible to learn English well. As to this question, my answer is YES. Why?
First, we should bear the importance of English clearly in our minds. Successful English learners are those with purpose. We want to learn English because we are interested in the English language and the people who speak it .As we all know, English is a living language and is the most widely used in the world. It is spoken all over the world and widely used in many fields. According to The Economist (1996), English continues to be the world standard language, and there is no major threat to the language or to its global popularity. To us Chinese students, there is no doubt that knowing English is equal to having an additional pair of eyes. More and more people come to realize that we should learn English well. Once we master English, we can read English books and other English publications; we can use it freely at work and study; we can communicate with whoever comes from every corner of the world today, etc. At international meetings, we can express ourselves freely. We can even pay a visit to Italy or France, even though we don’t know Italian or French. This is because English is popular in every corner of our present world. We learn English in order to make our country stronger. Especially our country has more frequently communicated with other countries ever since she joined the international organization WTO on December 11th, 2001. Our country is going through great changes now. We need English to communicate with people from other countries. We can learn their advanced science and technology through English. The English language will be more closely associated with economic modernization and industrial development. This trend will force us to learn it. English is so important that we should make up our minds to learn it well. Let’s just do it at once!
Second, it is also important to have correct learning methods. Correct methods can not only save us time and energy, but also lead us to get better result with less effort. If we have correct learning methods, we’ll find it not so difficult to learn English. We must try our best to do as follows: to preview the lessons before class, listen carefully to the teacher in class and go over after class the lessons that we have just learned before we forget them. By doing so, it often works out better. Besides, we should pay attention to the achievement of every basic skill at the same time, including listening, speaking, reading, writing, and even translating skills. For the achievement of one skill often goes hand in hand with the achievement of another. Of all the skills, listening and speaking seem relatively important, especially listening. Recent studies have suggested that a successful language learner pays much attention to listening. It can give the brain a workout. When we speak to a native speaker, first we have to understand what he or she says. Then we can communicate with each other. So we should practise listening a lot. When we hear English on the radio (or on TV),at the cinema, or anywhere else, listen carefully！Perhaps we will find them speak too quickly or too low for us to catch. Don’t lose heart! Keep up our courage! It helps our ears to learn the pronunciation and intonation. We just listen carefully. Don’t be shy to speak English and don’t be afraid of making mistakes. If we keep our mouths shut, we will never learn English. Catch hold of every chance to speak English. We can practise it with our English teachers and our classmates. The more we speak English, the more fluently we can speak it. In the meanwhile, we should try our best to recite some texts, learn some key sentences by heart, do some extensive reading and often practise writing.
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