Question

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

在英语课堂上，老师围绕 “How do you prefer your English classes to be taught? In English only, or in both English and Chinese?” 这个话题让同学展开讨论。你喜欢老师授课时只用英语，还是英语、汉语兼用？参考所给要点，选择一种授课形式，请将你的看法写成e-mail发给老师。内容可做适当补充。

授课形式一:只用英语 原因：听、说越来越重要…… 优点：有助于提高听说能力，…… 缺点: 不易听懂，放弃…… 结论：所以……

授课形式二: 英语、汉语兼用 原因：学生词汇较少…… 优点：易于理解，对英语产生兴趣…… 缺点: 如果只讲汉语，缺少英语氛围…… 结论：所以……

注意：1.词数：80字左右，短文开头已经给出,不计入总数

     2. 参考词汇： atmosphere氛围        improve 提高     

ability能力             small vocabulary词汇较少

To: Ms Li

From: Kate

Date: Oct. 15.2008

Subject: I prefer English classes to be taught in----

I prefer our English classes to be taught in______________

Answer 1

One possible version：

I prefer my English classes to be taught in both Chinese and English. In my opinion, learning English is a step-by-step process. As middle school students, we only have a small vocabulary. If the teacher can use some Chinese in an English class, we will understand the lesson better.

Of course, an English class taught in two languages has its shortcomings. Such a class cannot create a good atmosphere for English learning. Some students will speak Chinese all the time and cannot learn English well.

If you want to learn a lesson well, you have to understand it first. To help students understand the lesson better, the teacher should use Chinese from time to time. Therefore, I like my teacher to use both English and Chinese in teaching.