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attention to it. With the limits of students’ knowledge and language environment, they are unable to talk about some topics to their heart content that is strange to them. On the ground of that, they are supposed to make a full preparation before they join it. This preparation consists of two parts. One is psychological preparation, the other is materials preparation. 4.2.1 Psychological preparation With some bad influences, for example, introverted character, unsolid knowledge foundation, some students may still dread speaking English in public, so they need to take some measures to overcome it, which not only need their own endeavors but also need teachers help. For themselves, first, they should give themselves some confident sign. They can speak to themselves: I can; I will be the best; my oral English is not worse than others, and so on; second, “they can practice their oral English in the form of recording their own voice, thus they can practice it as well as control shyness by recording and playing their own voice once and once again; the third way is to do self-practice faced with a mirror.”[15] For teachers, they also can take some action to reduce students fear. They may require students to form study groups, either two people in a group or three people in a group, to make use of five minutes before class or in the middle of class to practice. 4.2.2 Material preparation After making psychological preparation, it turns to students to prepare materials for activities. Students can write down sentences and vocabulary what they are going to use during discussion in English into their notebook or cards, thus it is convenient for them to refer to. Meanwhile, they had better devise a plan that guides the other party into their topic for discussion. Here is a good case in point. A learner wants to choose “proverbs” as his topic, so in his cards or notebook, it should include the following sentences: (4)Would you like ……? (5)What about ……？ (6) That’s a good idea. (7) I cannot agree with you. (8)That is just what I want to say. (9) You have got it. (10) Can you guess its meaning? (11) Can you paraphrase this proverb? (12) The proverb that don’t put all your eggs in one basket is to warn people not to risk everything you have on the success of one thing. And so on. After making the above preparation, he can exchange his opinion with different people freely on the above topic in English corner. 4.3 Reflection after attending it After attending it, it does not mean a participant has achieved a good result of learning, and the learner ought to make a reflection, which range from discussion contents to the vocabulary and expressions what both parties have employed in English corner. Reflecting himself is to encourage himself, while reflecting others is to use for Reference. Sometimes he can easily master some language points and usages of words that he hasn’t learned so far in class. For example, “he is very familiar with the word ‘join’, when he inquires somebody if he will follow him to go to a certain place, he will use the following sentence: will you go with us? While in English corner, some people may say: ‘won’t you join us?’ Instead of ‘will you go with us’，moreover, he may hear the following sentence that “when I have an exam ,I am in the fog .” [16] This kind of expression will give him refreshing. If he writes down and studies in time after attending it, he will easily keep them in mind and use them in his spo