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ken English. In short, English corner supplies college students with a real language environment to learn English. It plays an unavoidable role in encouraging them to open mouth, building up self-confidence and increasing learning interests, hence it greatly stimulates students’ improvement in oral English. As college students, as long as they work hard, keep persistently and follow the above demands, their effort will pay. 5. The suggestions to improve English corner However, nothing is perfect, and English corner is without exception. For example, its organization is not so efficient; the type is not diversified; the numbers of participants of English teachers are not so large that students cannot solve problems immediately when they have questions; the topic of discussion is not so clear; students lack skills of asking questions and strategies of communicative skills. In order to promote the function of English corner on oral English, the author makes the following suggestions. 5.1 Diversified forms This essay suggests there should have two kinds of English corner. One is free topic English corner; the other is topic English corner. As free topic English corner, students can talks whatever he wants to say, and besides common types as question-answer, debate and discussion, some types like games, riddles, tongue twister, singing English songs, telling English stories, acting English short plays can be added. Of course, all these activities are carried out by English society or theatre society, which is organized by students themselves. Here take guessing a riddle as an example. “I saw a man in white/He looked quite a sight / He was not old / But he stood in the cold / and when he felt the sun / He started to run / who could he be /Do answer me” [17] It is not difficult to get an answer-snowman. What is more, such a riddle with figure of speech and in rhyme, which is easy to read and pleasing to hear, greatly intensifies the language beauty. At the same time, guessing a riddle itself is an intelligent game that needs participants to develop imagination and reasoning. It overcomes mechanism in pure language learning and increases much fun in learning. As a result, it will involve more students with the purpose that students not only practice their oral English but also have good fun. In other words, combine education with entertainment. Because Wednesday is in the middle of a week when students tend to be fed up with study, the author schedules it for Wednesday evening so that students will get an adjustment in a week’s study. In addition, the writer suggests setting up a kind of English corner━ topic English corner which focuses on a certain topic. In this way, students can get a deeper understanding of the special topic with the result that most of the college students can communicate with others in English freely about it. Its merits are as follows: first, Owing to full preparation, students will benefit a lot after attending it; second, it makes up for flaws of scatter and lacking of depth in content in class teaching discussion about the topic due to limited time; third, because of its organization and specific topic, it also makes up for weakness that the previous English corner doesn’t has a clear topic. It is organized and carried out by at least an English teacher. In the meanwhile, several students excellent in oral English are invited to attend it. This measure has several advantages. To begin with, it compe