Speaking English

MyEnglish teacher Stone always asks us to speak English in our spare time. So we begin[have begun]（1）to speak English when we are chatting with each other in our dormitory. I find it not only helps us with our English study but brings us a lot of fun as well.

　　One day， after I finished the evening class I went into the dormitory. As soon as I entered the room， one partner[a student who is one of my partners when we practise speaking English]（2）said to me loudly， “Hi！”I was very surprised because we had always spoken Chinese before.“But——is she mad today？ Why does she speak in English？”After a while， I smiled，——the teacher advised us to speak English， and she obeyed the rule[followed the advice]（3）。 So I also replied loudly，“Hi！”At that time， another student said shyly，“I want to go to， to， to…do you know how to say'Ce Suo’（厠所）in English？”“W. C. ”“Oh， I see. I want to go to W. C. Is there anybody else who wants to go with me？”“No， No， we don't want to go， you go there yourself.”“What a pity！”She made a face and then went alone.

　　Another evening， I asked，“Do you know how a sheep eats food？”But I said/i/when said pronounced the letters“ee”[pronounced“ee”in the word“sheep” wrongly as/i/]（4）， so all of my friends laughed. One of them said，“Can a ship eat？”“Oh， sorry， I made a mistake. I mean how a sheep has food.”They didn't know. I said proudly， “OK， let me tell you. Listen carefully. First it eats like…and then…”I couldn't speak English very well， so I had to use Chinese sometimes to make things clear. But I did speak more English than ever before. After I finished my talk， they couldn't help laughing but they said it was very good and they also thought they had learned a lot…

　　In my opinion， speaking English in our spare time is a good and effective（有傚的）way of improving（提高）our spoken English. We can talk about everything we like to. We don't need to worry about making mistakes. We can help each other. We can get more knowledge from talking with each other and it can also bring us much fun.

　　My dear friends， why don't you try to do that？

　　江囌省如臯市白蒲中學高一（9）班 陳紹娟

　　評 語

　　學習英語，不僅要會做語法題，考試能得高分，更重要的是會運用學到的英語，練習英語口語便是一個重要方麪。作者圍繞練習口語時的幾個實際例子，運用對話形式，使文章讀來趣味盎然。同時也生動地表達出了文章的主題：練習英語口語，應該鼓起勇氣，不怕出錯，利用一切機會開口講。這樣就一定能對英語學習有推動作用。文章中某些語言上的不足之処點評脩改如下：

　　（1）根據上下文，這裡用現在完成時爲妥。

　　（2）原文沒作任何交代，就出現one partner，語義不清。

　　（3）把老師的建議寫爲rule，用動詞obey語氣太重。

　　（4）原句動詞使用有誤。