Xu Xinyue, Class 14, Senior 2, Shenzhen Xin’an Middle School Instructed by Tang Ying

In Ms. Tang Ying’s strategy training course, she taught us a series of highly effective strategies to systematically help us enjoy learning English easily to achieve maximum results with little effort.

Her purpose of today’s lesson was to teach us how to learn and recite Lesson 34: Quick Work from Book 2 of New Concept English. We learned how to understand the text and recited it. She also encouraged us to take advantage of every chance to speak English. In the future, we can speak English with good pronunciation and intonation.

Tang told us to listen to the recording of the passage first, paying attention to the words’ pronunciation and the sentences’ intonation as well as underlining the tenses used in the article.

After that, she asked us to explain the different tenses and what they express. After listening to it for three times, Tang asked us to stand up and imitate reading the passage sentence by sentence. She demonstrated in order to let us know where to pause and the language chunks that we should read together without a pause. Through imitating, we acquired good pronunciation and intonation.

After understanding this article, we began to discuss what makes up the story. Inspired by her words, we summarized the article by using 5W ( Who, What, When, Where, and Why ) and 1H (How). We gave answers to each of them one by one. In this way, we understood the content of the passage and mastered its writing skills.

Then, we recited the story together. Tang said the Chinese sentences one by one and we spoke out the English sentences respectively to see who could do it the best. I felt that I had thoroughly understood this article.

Next, we practiced reciting the lesson by ourselves according to 5W and 1H and I found reciting the story became a piece of cake.

In the end, Tang asked us to recite it in front of the whole class and two students recited it very well. It was amazing that we could do this in such a short time.

I found that learning English was not difficult after the class. It is really a quick way to master authentic English. Learning English has become a pleasure for me.