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-- 作者:hyde
呵呵,早期曾經看過這200個句子,曾經在一個網站轉載,後來仔細閱讀後,發現不是那回事。不知道當初,俺的帖子害了多少人,真是後悔!!
-- 作者:Yeti
Don't feel bad. Everyone has the urge to share something they thought are good. In their excitment, they often forget to examine it carefully first.
This 寫作必背200句 and its various cousins are so prevalent on Chinese "learn-English" BBSes that some of them have 6 to 10 of the same post. If you go to a big "Learn English sites" such as those Ielts site, Exam-oriented sites (with multi-boards devoting to different exams), or "resource and download based" sites and make a search with the 4 characters 200句, you will find these showing up on various boards in the same BBS, several times over a time span of about 2 years.
Some people argue that for students who have no clue in how to write, or for those whose concern is only in passing the CET exams, these sentences are of value. Perhaps they are right. If these students are never to use English again, little harm is done. However, for those who want to learn to write well, these are not what they should follow as "models."
On various BBSes one would find complaints about the poor state of English education in China. With such material floating around ubiguitously, and with some schools actually using them as teaching material,no wonder there is a problem. Fortunately, there are still lots of very good English teachers around in China who are doing an excellent job. I am sure they do not depend on materials such as these. But that also mean you would need the luck of the draw in ending up with a good teacher.
My finger in the dyke is not going to turn back the floodtide of people continuing to learn from bad learning material: "collection of sentences" and "model essays" that have mistakes in them. There are good materials out there, but the very people they target: the beginners, are the very people who would not be able to tell the difference between the good and the bad.
I came across some "model essays" that are quite good. Some of the excellent ones are by a teacher at one of those Ielts preparation schools by the name of Patrick. His students said, "從美國回來的老師,很年輕。他以前上課時說過現在國內的範文裡面中式英語和劣質模板太多,如果去考試很多連6分都拿不到。這篇範文上周六晚上他就寫完發給我們了." I hope that did not get him into trouble with his colleagues. That statement is a bit of a sweeping generalization. There are some 國內的範文 that are not bad at all. (Yummy of Yummy English and Mr.Dings of dian-dian, for example.)
Many of those "building block" English sentences suggested by tutorial schools run contrary to the writing guide lines I learned in English Composition 101 over 40 years ago (closer to 45) when I was in first year university. However, given the fact that one has only 30 minutes to come up with an essay in those CET exams, one can understand why these prefabricated building blocks are so popular and necessary. In our Composition 101 exam, we were given 3 hours to write just one long and one short composition.
Ah, well, such is the evils of an exam-oriented education system. The department of education in China must decide what they want students to learn English for, and whether everyone should pass an English exit exam, and why, before they set about revamping their English teaching programs and exams. (Hey guys, I am available as a consultant. Hire me. I am cheap. I will work for free, provided the government pays my plane fares, five star hotel accomodation, some pocket money (a few thousand yuans per month would do nicely) and three sumptuous meals per day (farmed-shrimps, peking duck, roast goose,abalone, west-lake fish....) |
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