Yesterday (November 6, 2021) evening, an old friend of the same age invited him to dine together to celebrate his birthday.
Unexpectedly, there was also a foreigner from Britain. This birthday brother is nearly 50 years old, and he actually began to study English diligently, so he had this foreign teacher.
Because there were foreigners, we started to show our English. I also try to say that only you are bold, not afraid of other people's jokes, and English should also be spoken a little.
I can't help but think of the past when I learned English.
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40 years ago, the quality of clothing at that time was average, and children were naughty and active, so they were easy to tear. Many years ago, I learned English "stand up" and jokingly called it "tear-rotten-single-pants" in my hometown. I don't know whose copyright it is, but it's quite harmonious and very graphic, because standing must be accompanied by pants. The male classmate tore up the single pants, and at that time, the rural people did not have the habit of wearing underwear, and it was easy to be embarrassed. But who in that era didn't have such an embarrassing experience? In his famous book "Ordinary World", Mr. Lu Yao once placed his own experience in the childhood of the protagonist Sun Shaoan.
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I've only been exposed to English since junior high school. The first teacher who taught me was surnamed Wang, from Nanwang Village, and my uncle was a high school classmate. My uncle was admitted to secondary school and jumped out of the farm, and as a classmate, he was not willing to be a child king. After teaching us for an autumn, he resolutely stopped doing it after August 15, and he was going to re-study and go to college. I don't know if this teacher Wang got his wish. After mid-autumn, the new teacher arrived. This teacher Yang did not graduate from high school, and it is estimated that he felt that there was no hope of studying to be a child king. Teacher Yang's English level is definitely average, you think, what teaching experience can students who have just reached the third year of high school have? But Teacher Yang is serious, and he is strict with us. A good student like me who is recognized as obedient and honest has been beaten by him! Once the teacher asked me to make a sentence on the blackboard, and everyone didn't make it well. Teacher Yang then hand-picked me as a proud protégé, and as a result, I did not do as he wanted from the old man! This must have broken Teacher Yang's heart, and he inevitably had to educate me a few times to relieve the hatred in his heart. I often think now that although they have fallen behind, they have the determination to teach students to enter the university! How far the heart is, how far one can go. That's a good thing.
Next, the English teacher was replaced by Zhang Donglai, who was disabled. Teacher Zhang is a celebrity in our hometown and a legend of life with a disability. I've seen some news reports about him, and while they're all well written, there always seems to be something missing. Because the reporter came from hearsay, I experienced it firsthand.
Zhang Donglai and my uncle are classmates of Sun Ban Junior High School, and his family is Sun Ban Village. He was born around 1965. When he was a child, he suffered from polio (polio), was poor in the countryside, and was not treated in time, and later left with a severe disability. After graduating from junior high school, due to physical reasons, he was unable to go to school, so he kept learning high school textbooks at home, especially English through self-study and hard training with radio. Later, he dared to write a letter to Sui Huatang, then secretary of the Yidu County Party Committee (a secretary with a high reputation in the local area), and introduced himself. Under the care of Secretary Bole Sui, he entered the substitute class of Sun Ban Junior High School, and became a public teacher many years later.
Teacher Zhang likes to use her chalk head to remind those students who desert in class. Only to see a white arc flying in front of the eyes, people can't help but be nervous, so they cheered up. After several practices, Teacher Zhang's "shooting" is extremely accurate, often hitting you right on the head. At that time, there were some small words about his corporal punishment, and his classmates privately circulated the "four famous killings" and the like, and Teacher Zhang was always listed among them. Today's class reunion, even the most naughty students in the past, but very grateful to Teacher Zhang, everyone after 40 years to understand, "Teacher Zhang is really for our good."
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I have better English, not only English, but also other subjects, all in all, I belong to the good students in the eyes of the teacher. In the eyes of the teacher at that time, it was not because of the family's good or bad situation, not because of the status of the parents, but only based on academic performance to determine preferences. Teacher Zhang is not in good health, but he always stands on a single crutch when he lectures. Today, I sometimes give lectures, and I also learn teacher Zhang to stand, and I am exhausted after only 2 hours. Back then, Teacher Zhang may have 4 classes a day, and there are morning and evening self-study, which is not easy for a disabled person, which relies on a spirit.
Once it was raining heavily outside, Teacher Zhang walked into the classroom on crutches and accidentally fell down when he was on the podium. There was a commotion among the students in the classroom. Although our hearts ached, none of us went up to help the teacher, and this naturally included me. Forgive our young ignorance! More because of a kind of shyness, the kind of timidity that is characteristic of rural people! Teacher Zhang quickly got up from the ground, did not care to pat the dust, his face was swollen red, and his face was blue (today I think it is more humiliation), "good morning, students!" What an unforgettable lesson!
A good teacher, equal to a fairy, points out a path for the student. Although he was a real person, in the eyes of the students, he was a god with a fairy wind Dao bone. Bless our teachers.
4 I was the only one in the university's 410 dormitory who passed the English Level 6 exam.
So I remembered a radio that had accompanied me for many years, and now young people use Walkmans, mp4s or whatever, but our pocket radio was standard at that time. This is the product of a military-to-civilian enterprise in Baoji, just searched online and even has this brand, military products are of excellent quality, the brand is long-lasting. The radio is a "Beacon" card, perhaps based on the allusion of the "Beacon Theatre Princes", this radio is recommended by the school when entering the school, and it has a special band to listen to the school's own FM English broadcast. Thanks to this radio, in addition to listening to literary works such as "Ordinary World", you can also listen to the school's English radio to practice speaking, the announcer is my English teacher, the voice is also very sweet, the pronunciation is also very accurate (this is mainly compared with my "Shandong foreign language"), but I prefer the English program of China Radio International (China Radio International) at 9 p.m., remember that there is a personal head horse advertisement "remy martin open, good nature" (as soon as the head of the horse is opened, good things will naturally come)". I have been secretly wondering how delicious the Rémy Martin is, and this is really a poor child sitting in a well watching the sky. At that age, we have learned to socialize like men, and have begun to drink with fellow villagers, friends, and especially a few buddies in the same dormitory, such as National Day and Labor Day, to treat ourselves. We drank a bottle of Chenggu Daqu for seven cents, more than one dollar sichuan Tuo brand, two pot heads, if any, it is as precious as today's Maotai. Shaanxi and my hometown shandong are mainly liquor, until 2005 I came to Foshan, locals like to drink foreign wine, I also saw xo, although I know that this is a good thing, but helpless stomach is not adapted, some things "can be viewed from a distance and can not be blasphemed" But I always like to play with the xo bottle, because there are dreams and extravagant expectations of a rural child more than 30 years ago.
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This show opened my eyes and let me know about the world abroad. I passed CET4 in 1993, and in 1994 I became one of the few students in my class to pass CET6, and the show was a great part because I didn't buy any tutoring materials or attend any tutoring classes.
almost heaven, west virginia。 blue ridgemountain, shenandoah river。 life is old there,older thanthe trees。 younger than the mountains,growing like abreeze。 country roads, take me home。 to the place ，i belong。
The show of that year liked to play some foreign language songs, such as John Denver's famous song "country roads, take me home", and when I heard it today, it was just like that year.
when i was young，i'd listen to theradio，waiting for my favorite songs，when they played i'd sing along，it made mesmile，those were such happy times。
Whenever I hear this Karen Carpenter's Yesterdayonce more, I think of the happy times when I was in bed listening to the radio, always tearful, that is, the debauchery of a young man, but also a young man's pursuit of extraterritorial civilization. 30 years later, has he found the dream of his youth? Have all those wishes been fulfilled?
Today, I hardly use English, but the efforts of that year were not in vain, and whenever I think of learning English in those years, I always sigh.
Because English opened a window for me to see a different world outside.