By: Scarlett
2019.9.12 2:28pm
To be honest, I felt so tired this week. Maybe it is because of the new term in a new campus. Although lessons are similar, the environment is completely new. You know, the changes of environment can cause great affects. I have to spare more efforts to adapt this and of course my mind is exhausted more.
One thing I feel much happier for is that I prefer the new style of the Integrated English, which can bring up more space to think deep down. And meanwhile, it makes the environment of the class more active. I think it is good to provide more chances for students to show their own ideas, but not learning by rote.
I have never been afraid of speaking English in front of people, even facing those native English speakers. Because I know, language is a tool which is for expressing one's mind. For most of the time, you don't need to care whether your expressions are native or not. One of the reasons is that some Chinese English expressions still can be understood by native speakers.
We usually talk about language sense. However, some teachers may tell us that it is unreliable. I still hold the belief that it helps a lot. But I still get stuck sometimes. That feeling is like you write a sentence in your mother language, and you know you are right, but you don't know why it is right. That should be my first confusion.
I know being good at oral English may easily let others think you arecompletely good at English. Many people around me consider my spoken English good so do my writing, listening. And I know this is wrong because I know my vocabularies and other accumulation are far more not enough. Compared with the English study in senior high school, I feel like I made less progress. Sometimes, I don’t know how to learn English and even feel that I retrogressed.
However, I am still studying. Now I encourage my roommates to study together with me. We recite one article or some paragraphs from New Concept English every night. I also listen to the NPR ONE every morning just for cultivate my language sense. The listening exercise in this semester is much more difficult than ever, so I think I have to spend more time on it. The most urgent task is to pass the TEM4 without doubt.
So I hope I could get more information about this exam from the Integrated English lesson.
Thanks for your time to read my “nonsense”.