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As the law professor noted in the previous letter, thank the God for email! My students continue to flood my Inbox, and in their letters they reveal so much more of their soul than is possible in speech. The two that follow are from one of my first-year students who's taking my elective oral English class. Again, she's a face in a crowd of 66 students every Tuesday night, but a passionate, lively voice on the screen. We're watching the movie "Billy Elliot" in her class, as she mentions . . .
Daniel:
Hello!
Right now,the first time I use the modern
technique - email to write letters.I thought I would
not use such a thing until I graduate.You give me the
chance, I should thank you!
For me, my English grammer is a disaster.
Making mistakes is a common thing that happens to me.
My poor oral English is my headache too. But I am very
optimistic and full of confidence to learn English
well. Most Friday or Saturday, I go to watch films
which speak English. My passion of learning English
encourage to go to your class. After one class, I an
sure that I made a right and perfect choice , because
on your class I can not only improve my oral English
level, but also learn how to achieve our goal and
fullfill our ambitious dream from your attitude and
passion to life.
I shoud say my purpose of leaning English is
not to pass the CET-4 or get a good job or something
like that, but to communicate with more people, to
learn advanced technique, to enjoy the happiness of
learning.
My major is biology technique, I hope that
one day I can journey to America to develop my study
and contribute all my strength to my country.
I heard that you have a lot of trouble every
day and you love them.I think the rational explanation
about trouble is that trouble means you get things to
do and you can make most of your time. I have no
culture shock problems, but I still have trouble,
sometimes, trouble makes me happy. For example, I love
English but it is not easy to learn, I made lots of
jokes on English writting and speaking, I find the
mistakes are really funny and I can not help laughing.
At the same time, I benefit from it because I will not
make the same mistake for the second time.Trouble
makes up our life , does not it?
I wish you are on your way to do whatever
you want to do . I hope that you can fullfill your
dreams in china. I am sure you can learn chinese well
no matter how hard it is, right?
If you have spare time , please write to me
.I will be very glad.
Best wishes!
Dear Daniel:
How are you!
The weather here is varied which I do not
like at all.You should take care of your self. You
would probably say:" It is alright for me, I will try
my best to adapt." In this circumstance, you are
optimistic, I am the oppsite one. But I am never
pessimistic to my dream. I would like to share one of
my dreams with you that I want to master English not
only on reading but also on speaking. To fullfill my
dream, I try my best not to miss any chance to impove
my English level. You always say Chinese students are
diligent, sure, we are hardworking, are not you? Now,
suffering from culture shock,communication, food and
numerous problems, you are energetic and full of
enthusiasm to overcome all of them. I should say you
are also a number of the diligent family.
I like the movie you showed on the class.
I like Bill's character. He firmly followed the dream
no matter how hard it would be, he never gave up the
faith to live confidently and happily as his mother
said. Billy sets a good example for me. Although talk
to you and express clearly what I want to say is too
hard for me,I should just try to follow the star in my
own heart.
I like watching films very much, such as
Gump.I can benefit a lot from the character in the
movie. And I believe if Gump can do it, I can do it
too. Am I right?
In my opinion, the Americans are good at
expressing themselves especially in public, almost
everyone can give a speech freely on the platform.
Your exaggerate expression and action attracts our
attention every second where is quite different from
Chinese teachers who always keep a distance to us. On
the contrary, you are close to us, like friends, we
can talk freely, just like I can write to you whatever
I want.
Well, I'd better to stop because it is
time to go to class. See you next week.
I wish you happy eveyday!
