In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 81: The English of junior high school students in the future has become a stumbling block for the leaders of the experimental class

There are 28 people in the class, including four girls.

Sister Wei is the oldest among the group. She has a family and children. She may not have considered more than the others, but her ideas are more mature.

"Sister Wei, I understand. Thank you."

Mo Lingyu didn't think it through.

"Go back and rest early. Get a good night's sleep. When you wake up, you will find that you have made a little progress compared to yesterday. If you work hard, you will make progress. It has nothing to do with how much progress others have made. By the way, the squad leader goes for a morning run every day, right?"

"Huh?"

Mo Lingyu looked at Chen Wei in confusion.

"Perhaps you can observe when you follow the monitor for a morning run. Maybe he is not just doing it for physical exercise. You can even talk to him and listen to his opinions. The students who participated in the project in the class made rapid progress in their basic knowledge and even faster progress in their professional fields. Otherwise, how could everyone be so enthusiastic to participate in the projects hosted by the monitor when they are under intense study pressure?"

Chen Wei smiled and reminded Mo Lingyu, "Go back and rest quickly. I'll study for a while."

······
The next morning, Xie Wei, who felt dizzy, weak all over, and dry mouth, woke up on time due to the influence of his biological clock.

He felt so weak that he almost fell down when he got out of bed. He gulped down a cup of cold water to relieve his dry mouth. Then he gave up his morning jog and climbed back into bed with difficulty, ready to take another nap.

"Hey, Sixth Brother, you're not going for a morning run today?"

Xie Wei had just climbed onto the bed and laid down when he heard Zhang Jingyan asking him why he didn't go for a morning run.

Last night, Zhang Jingyan forced Xie Wei to drink a lot, because Xie Wei helped him get half a pound of food coupons and 20 cents of experimental subsidies every day.

He spoke with such sincerity that even Xie Wei felt embarrassed when he heard it.

The price of cattle and horses, yet people are so grateful for it.

There was no way. Xie Wei could not get more unless the school’s dire financial situation was alleviated.

"I drank too much last night. I feel weak all over. I'm not going to run anymore!"

Xie Wei said weakly, "Boss, you're the one who gave me the most!"

"Come on, you've taken a few sips of wine and you're determined to fight us. Even if we ask you to drink less, it won't work."

Feng Ke also woke up.

"..."

Xie Wei had some vague memories and suddenly fell silent.

"Sixth brother, you promised last night to teach us how to learn English efficiently. You didn't forget that, did you? We're not going for a morning run today, so why don't we start now? I don't see you practicing normally, so why are you so good at English? When you speak English, it's even harder to understand than what's on the tape, but it sounds like you speak very professionally."

Li Chuangxin also struggled to sit up on the bed.

"..."

We were drinking last night and discussed the foreign language classes at school. Xie Wei doesn't understand Russian, but his English level is much better than the teachers who are teaching them now.

I drank too much and lost control of myself, so I started speaking English.

Why is English so great?

Xie Wei started learning English in the third grade and continued until he passed the Level 6 exam for graduate school. After starting his own business, international business prompted him to study further. Later, he learned it all over again for the sake of his children and had to study various test-taking skills such as grammar and pronunciation.

After decades of doing this, how could the level be so bad?
"Sixth Brother, we now have good relations with the West and have begun to import technology. I guess English will become more and more important in the future."

Feng Ke spoke up.

The importance of English. At the beginning of this year, Capital Daily published an article titled "Take the revolutionary mentor as an example and strive to master foreign languages." The core of the article is "Strive to master foreign languages ​​as a weapon and contribute your own strength to building our country into a great socialist power."

Then, English was included in the college entrance examination subjects.

Anyone with a little common sense will understand its importance.

"What the hell are they learning? I don't know what the school is thinking. They not only teach English, but also Russian!"

Yao Xinwei got up cursing, "We were born under the red flag and grew up in New China. Why should we learn those things?"

"Old Five, your thinking is a bit reactionary! Foreign languages ​​are weapons!"

Foreign languages ​​are weapons, weapons that are difficult to master.

“Then you should learn Japanese!”

Yao Xinwei retorted, "Since I was a child, I have wanted to join the army to fight the Japanese invaders... If there is no war, I will marry a Japanese woman and use the Japanese language as a weapon to deal with her..."

"..."

Yao Xinwei, who was talking nonsense, made everyone look strange.

Xie Wei secretly gave Yao Xinwei a thumbs up.

The dormitory atmosphere was lively, and no one showed signs of depression or autism. They were not hit hard, so Xie Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

"Squad leader, what do you think?"

Zhang Jingyan asked Xie Wei what he meant.

"Okay, let's start with the phonetic symbols?" "Phonetic symbols? What are those?"

Tang Long's words made Xie Wei stunned for a moment.

It seems like, I let the cat out of the bag again?
Xie Wei really didn’t know when the International Phonetic Alphabet of English was introduced and promoted.

He learned 48 international phonetic symbols when he entered junior high school; after his child was born, he started learning phonics in kindergarten and also learned phonetic symbols in junior high school.

No in China now?

I immediately thought that the International Phonetic Alphabet was developed in 1886 and announced in 1888. The English phonetic alphabet was formulated based on the International Phonetic Alphabet, and it has been almost a hundred years now.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many leaders who studied in the West returned to China to build the motherland, and some of them must have brought back the phonetic symbols.

If it really doesn't work, just say that you made it based on Chinese pinyin. What can anyone say?
"A new method? Class monitor, why don't we go to the classroom? It will be painful for everyone to learn English?"

Zhang Jingyan tried to test Xie Wei's attitude. "English is now seriously hindering the progress of my classmates. The teacher told us to memorize more words, read more, and learn more grammar. We don't know how to read the words we haven't learned yet..."

"The phonetic symbols are just like Chinese Pinyin. So, don't worry, I will sort out the basic information I gave my sister before today and teach her tomorrow?"

Xie Weiqiang really didn't have the energy to go to the classroom at this moment.

After a hangover, it is not relieved by sleeping for a few hours. Now there are no alkaline fruits that can sober up, and it is even more difficult to get glucose. You can only drink more water and rely on your liver function and kidneys to sober up naturally.

Without saying anything else, everyone took out their English textbooks and asked Xie Wei, who was lying on the bed, to teach them English.

At this moment, Mo Lingyu had been waiting at the school gate for nearly 20 minutes, but Xie Wei had not shown up yet.

Through Yao Xinwei, Mo Lingyu knew that Xie Wei would arrive at the school gate at around 6:12:.

As a result, I waited from 6:05 to 6:20 but didn't see Xie Wei. I didn't know if Xie Wei had arrived early, so I simply ran along the same route towards the bank of the Songhua River.

I didn't see Xie Wei along the way.

"That's impossible! He didn't stop snowing before! Is he sick?"

If I really get sick, wouldn’t that be my chance?

The more he thought about it, the more possible it seemed, and Mo Lingyu's speed increased suddenly.

It was not until class time that I learned from Yao Xinwei that Xie Wei had drunk too much last night and did not go jogging in the morning.

After class at noon, Mo Lingyu didn't bother to eat. She spent 6 cents to buy more than two kilograms of frozen pears from the school grocery store. She said a lot of nice things to the dormitory supervisor who stopped her before she entered the boys' dormitory and found room 3.

result!

Xie Wei had disappeared long ago.

In the end, Mo Lingyu could only give the frozen pear to Zhang Jingyan who had come back from getting lunch, and asked him to pass it on to Xie Wei.

"Mo Lingyu bought it for me?"

In the evening, Zhang Jingyan called Xie Wei outside the door and told him this quietly, which surprised Xie Wei.

"Yes, Yao Xinwei told her that you drank too much..."

Zhang Jingyan didn't want to let the people in the dormitory know about this, especially Yao Xinwei, who had a big mouth.

"Boss, thank you."

Xie Wei knew what Mo Lingyu was thinking.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to, but that he doesn’t dare.

Three years before the resumption of the college entrance examination, the state allowed married people to take the college entrance examination, but dating was prohibited on university campuses, and getting married while studying was even more prohibited.

Xie Wei is an experienced person. If two people are in a relationship and spend every day together, once they can't control themselves...

The crime of hooliganism a few years later is like the sword of Damocles.

The next day, as soon as Xie Wei entered the classroom, he saw Mo Lingyu's fiery eyes. He pretended not to see it and walked up to the podium with the basic English learning materials he had prepared.

"English phonetic symbols are similar to Chinese Pinyin. They are based on the International Phonetic Alphabet published in 1888 and consist of 20 vowels and 28 consonants. Among the vowel letters, they are divided into single vowels and diphthongs according to whether the lip shape and tongue position change. Single vowels are similar to the single vowels in Chinese Pinyin. There are these..."

While Xie Wei was talking, he wrote monophthongs and diphthongs on the blackboard in the form of a mind map.

The students in the classroom were taking notes quickly.

"Diphthongs are similar to complex vowels..."

"The vowels are divided into front, middle and back according to the different positions of the tongue when pronouncing them..."

"Consonants are divided into voiceless consonants and voiced consonants according to whether the vocal cords vibrate when speaking..."

Standing on the podium, Xie Wei seemed to be back to the time when he was teaching children. Thanks to the fact that he had explained it to Xie Rou once in the first half of the year, he reviewed it and it was easy for him to organize the materials yesterday.

He spoke without a single pause.

In his era, it was only for junior high school students, but it was definitely useful enough for students in the experimental class.

(End of this chapter)