Egypt: Bridging the Gap between School English and Real English
Teaching English in Egypt in general and in my town Damietta in particular, is mainly directed towards helping students to pass their final exams. Unfortunately, most teachers do not adopt a long -term approach that guarantees that their students will be able to use English outside the classroom. So students only concentrate on one skill which is writing. Thus their listening and speaking skills are disabled. What is important to them is to pass the exam which is primarily based on writing .Teachers are not only concentrated with providing their students with questions that are similar to those of the final exam, particularly General Secondary Education Certificate (GSEC) Examination, so students spend most of their time answering typical exam questions.
Most students' scores are high; a lot of students get full marks. However, few students are able to communicate in English because their role plays. As a result, a lot of students complain that they are unable to understand and talk fluently with native speakers of English.
To enable students to communicate freely and spontaneously(自然地) in English, I bring features of real communication into language practice, I always ask students about their own experiences, and suggest groups of students practice what they have learned outside the classroom. This helps lower-achieving students absorb language. Furthermore, role play is a very effective way to improve speaking skills particularly if it is connected to the experience of the students.
【小题1】Who probably write this passage?

A.a teacherB.a governorC.a studentD.a reporter
【小题2】In Egypt, the students only concentrate on ------
A.listening skillB.speaking skillC.reading skillD.writing skill
【小题3】The teachers question their students based on -------
A.what they learn in the class
B.What their parents expect
C.The questions that are similar to those of GSEC
D.The ability that will be used outside the classroom
【小题4】Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A.Most of the students can't get high marks but can communicate with the native speakers of English.
B. Communicating skill is more important than writing skill.
C.Role play connected to the speaker's experience is more effective
in improving his skill.
D.The lower--achieving students can do better in speaking skill than the upper achieving students.
【小题5】Who will responsible for the gap between school English and real English?
A.Their parentsB.The studentsC.The schoolD.The education sys tem

One is not born able to speak a language. One is born able to make a noise. I have heard babies cry in America and in China. I can’t tell any difference. But when I hear someone from America speak English and hear someone speak Chinese, I can tell you there are a lot of differences.
I believe a common(普遍的) problem with Chinese students’ learning English is that they were not taught to think in English. They have an idea spoken in English and want to translate the idea into Chinese, then they think in Chinese of the proper reply and translate it into English. After a long period of speaking the language, one begins to think in the foreign language naturally. You will learn faster if you begin to think in English at the very beginning of your study. Many students ask me: What can I do to improve my spoken English?
My reply is: The more English you speak, the better English you will speak. There are many things you can do to improve your spoken English. Of course, the best way is to live where English is spoken as a language of the country.
【小题1】The cries of American and Chinese babies are _______.

A.differentB.the same
C.not like each otherD.like each other
【小题2】The underlined sentence (in Paragraph 2) means that______.
A.some teachers didn’t teach students to think in English
B.teachers never gave the students the way of learning English
C.students didn’t remember the way teachers taught them
D.teachers didn’t want their students to think in English
【小题3】The underlined word “they” (in Paragraph 2) refers to “_____”.
A.Chinese studentsB.English students
C.Chinese teachersD.English teachers
【小题4】According to the article, which of the following is TRUE?
A.You must think in English all the time.
B.You should always translate English into Chinese.
C.After speaking English for a long time, you may probably think in English naturally(自然地).
D.The best way of learning English is to live in America.

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