That winter vacation, I worked as an oral English teacher for two months in a college English tutoring agency in my hometown. All the students who came to the class were local college students, except for her—she came to stay with my grandma for a while, and signed up for a short-term class of 4 weeks. Before the first class, someone saw on the student information sheet that she was studying in the top ten universities in the country, which caused a small stir—the other students were students from ordinary colleges and universities. At the beginning of the first class, I gave her a chance to speak. Everyone was looking forward to her performance, but she stuttered and couldn't speak a word, and her accent was lame. From the chatter of the class, I could sense that expectations quickly turned to taunting her. "How did she get into that university?" "My spoken English is much better than hers..." Maybe she realized everyone's reaction, so she explained it in Chinese (our class requires all English conversations), she herself Xiaojian lives in a small town in the western province, where the English listening and listening skills of the college entrance examination are not included in the total score, so her English listening and speaking skills are relatively poor. After the first year of her freshman year, it only took a few months for her to really get in touch with standard listening, speaking and learning. No wonder, her "dumb English" makes sense, but others don't seem to be focusing on it. I heard someone say "she doesn't take the listening test", and I also heard that she was a "tester", and I saw everyone's meaningful eyes, as if they had reached a consensus - her excellence is because she did not take the listening test. Dongfeng

After class, I checked and found that in her home province, she had to rank in the top 1,000th in the test before she could be admitted to the current university. In either environment, this is not an easy task. She told me that she wanted to apply for a place in the US as an exchange student in her sophomore year — which would require her to get a passing TOEFL score by the summer of her freshman year. I admire her excellent college entrance examination scores from the bottom of my heart, but I also know that if she wants to get a good TOEFL score, she is already behind the starting line. Her competitors are not students like her, but extremely strict scoring standards. . This tough battle may not necessarily make her spoken language reborn in a short period of time. A month later, she returned to her hometown to continue preparing for the exam. After that, I also quit my part-time job as an oral English teacher. Occasionally open the QQ group of the speaking class, I will find that from "day40", to "day110", and then to "day190", fewer and fewer people in the group are self-disciplined to complete the oral check-in task, but her name is always on Among them, more and more conspicuous. That means she spends at least an hour a day practicing speaking. The TOEFL test was postponed that year, and she did not take her first TOEFL test until August. After I got the results, she announced the good news to me - I got a high score of 111 in the test, and the oral language was only 3 points away from the full score. Staring at the numbers on the phone screen, I wasn't surprised at all because I could see her efforts. She is not a "questioner" who was born to take the exam, but a warrior who faces various life problems and is a soldier who will be blocked by soldiers and covered by water. Her excellence did not rely on a ray of east wind.

After that, her name was still included in the daily list of oral punch-in tasks in the QQ group. I asked her if she was going to the United States, and she said she had changed her plans and was going to finish her studies at this school. I asked her why she still practiced every day, and her answer was: "It's not for 'scoring' the exam, I just want to do it better." Even if you don't have a good foundation in listening and speaking, even with Hometown accent, but with a clear goal and constant efforts to achieve it, can really be reborn. This is my biggest gain as a part-time oral English teacher for two months.

That winter vacation, I worked as an oral English teacher for two months in a college English tutoring agency in my hometown. All the students who came to the class were local college students, except for her—she came to stay with my grandma for a while, and signed up for a short-term class of 4 weeks. Before the first class, someone saw on the student information sheet that she was studying in the top ten universities in the country, which caused a small stir—the other students were students from ordinary colleges and universities. At the beginning of the first class, I gave her a chance to speak. Everyone was looking forward to her performance, but she stuttered and couldn't speak a word, and her accent was lame. From the chatter of the class, I could sense that expectations quickly turned to taunting her. "How did she get into that university?" "My spoken English is much better than hers..." Maybe she realized everyone's reaction, so she explained it in Chinese (our class requires all English conversations), she herself Xiaojian lives in a small town in the western province, where the English listening and listening skills of the college entrance examination are not included in the total score, so her English listening and speaking skills are relatively poor. After the first year of her freshman year, it only took a few months for her to really get in touch with standard listening, speaking and learning. No wonder, her "dumb English" makes sense, but others don't seem to be focusing on it. I heard someone say "she doesn't take the listening test", and I also heard that she was a "tester", and I saw everyone's meaningful eyes, as if they had reached a consensus - her excellence is because she did not take the listening test. Dongfeng

After class, I checked and found that in her home province, she had to rank in the top 1,000th in the test before she could be admitted to the current university. In either environment, this is not an easy task. She told me that she wanted to apply for a place in the US as an exchange student in her sophomore year — which would require her to get a passing TOEFL score by the summer of her freshman year. I admire her excellent college entrance examination scores from the bottom of my heart, but I also know that if she wants to get a good TOEFL score, she is already behind the starting line. Her competitors are not students like her, but extremely strict scoring standards. . This tough battle may not necessarily make her spoken language reborn in a short period of time. A month later, she returned to her hometown to continue preparing for the exam. After that, I also quit my part-time job as an oral English teacher. Occasionally open the QQ group of the speaking class, I will find that from "day40", to "day110", and then to "day190", fewer and fewer people in the group are self-disciplined to complete the oral check-in task, but her name is always on Among them, more and more conspicuous. That means she spends at least an hour a day practicing speaking. The TOEFL test was postponed that year, and she did not take her first TOEFL test until August. After I got the results, she announced the good news to me - I got a high score of 111 in the test, and the oral language was only 3 points away from the full score. Staring at the numbers on the phone screen, I wasn't surprised at all because I could see her efforts. She is not a "questioner" who was born to take the exam, but a warrior who faces various life problems and is a soldier who will be blocked by soldiers and covered by water. Her excellence did not rely on a ray of east wind.

After that, her name was still included in the daily list of oral punch-in tasks in the QQ group. I asked her if she was going to the United States, and she said she had changed her plans and was going to finish her studies at this school. I asked her why she still practiced every day, and her answer was: "It's not for 'scoring' the exam, I just want to do it better." Even if you don't have a good foundation in listening and speaking, even with Hometown accent, but with a clear goal and constant efforts to achieve it, can really be reborn. This is my biggest gain as a part-time oral English teacher for two months.