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>Kobe is an American professor in computer science. He got married a Chinese woman, Ying. Today, they invited a Chinese young couple, Ming and Dandan, to go to the bar Sleepless in Seattle. They drove up in the big wagon of Kobe’s. After a couple of drinks, they started to dance. Ying invited Ming, and Kobe had a dance with Dandan.
Student: Who is Kobe?
Teacher: He is an American professor in Computer Science.
Student: What did he do today?
Teacher: He invited some friends to a bar.
Student: Which bar did he choose?
Teacher: Sleepless.
Student: Where is the bar?
Teacher: It’s in Seattle.
Student: How did Ming and Dandan go to the bar?
Teacher: They drove Kobe’s big wagon.
Students will be more acquainted with those basic English sentence patterns through doing this kind of practice.

Ⅳ. Useful Methods for Students’ Speaking English

What a teacher can do is to give students a lot of help, but what a student should do is to try his best to get good results in learning. Of course, practice makes perfect. First of all, students should be aware of the importance of learning spoken English.
Some students want to improve their spoken English, but it seems to them that it is very difficult, and they don’t know how and what to do. And even some students have spent much time and energy in doing lots of practice, but there is little or no effect. They should find out proper learning methods, but not keep on practicing blindly and aimlessly.
A. Cultivating the Students’ Interest in Speaking English
Students who are interested in speaking English can get twice the results with half the effort. To those who are not very interested in speaking English, they not only wait for the teacher to teach them English passively, but also usually are asked to open their mouths to speak English. As a matter of fact, their spoken English is rather poor.
1. English Movies
Most young people like watching movies, especially those famous foreign films. Nowadays, English movies are very popular and available everywhere. But to most students, what they watch are just the scenarios of movies, and they’d like to listen to the translated lines and watch Chinese words.
However, listening to English lines of movies can help students improve their listening, and they can acquaint themselves with native English dialogues. Most of the lines in movies are spoken English in style, they are very useful in daily life and easy to comprehend and remember. Students can imitate the pronunciation of actors or actress and mark down those useful sentences and idioms.
2. English Songs
There is no need to talk about how popular songs are in the people’s daily life, especially to young people. Pop songs have become one part of their life and can bring them happiness and joy and also make their nerves relaxed. In fact, English songs are
important and useful for students to learn spoken English through singing songs.
English songs can be divided into several kinds. To those who want to follow the famous songs nominated in Grammy, Billboard would be the best choice, for they are very beautiful and easy to follow, and most of their lyrics are in line with the formal grammar.
All the practice must be very interesting to young people. Besides enjoying wonderful movies and songs, their English learning can also be improved greatly. At last, good results can be realized by killing two birds with on