Life Chatting Room: Special Guest On-line

Life Chatting Room: Special Guest On-line

I’m Alex Coyle. Today I’ll be talking to 007.007, hello! Thank you for coming in.

Thank you, Alex, for inviting¹ me.

Perhaps you could begin by introducing yourself…

My name is 007 and today I’m a guest of the most beautiful lady in China.

…and a charmer!

Yes, I really am, Alex, but most of all, I’m glad to meet you today.

Ling Ling Qi, that’s 007, right? How did you come to be called “007?”

When I arrived in China, nine years ago, I landed in Beijing, and I was bringing one of my new businesses to China and I went to deal with the Chinese government. In the other room, there were some other people, and I was talking away in English with my interpreter² and one of the people in the other room came in and said, “Excuse me, are you 007?” I said: “Pardon? 007?” and he said, my interpreter, “That’s James Bond³.” I said, “Of course I’m James Bond. I’m a real Englishman⁴, a pure Englishman,” and the name has stuck since that day.

What are the obstacles⁵ facing a Chinese learner of English and how would you help them overcome them?

As you know, Alex, in my public speaking, I go ‘round the universities, I go ‘round the schools, giving lectures on my way of coaching English. The one thing that’s now very apparent⁶ to me is a lot of the teaching⁷ of English in this country is done, for passing an exam. The Chinese are very good at learning⁸ things but what’s happening is they’re learning it to pass an exam. They’re learning the answer to a question. They don’t really understand what they’re actually saying.

Right, so it doesn’t help them to communicate?

Definitely⁹ not: they can maybe say that one sentence, in their exam paper, but what good is it if you want to ask where the toilet is? No good!

So, how would you help a student to get past that stage, to a point where they ca really communicate in English?

OK. Let me ask you a simple question. Alex. You know when you like doing something, Alex? What do you like doing? Do you like shopping Alex, do you? What do you like doing?

Yes, yes, shopping, listening to music…

When you’re doing that, Alex, do you enjoy it?

Yeah.

And when you enjoy something, do you feel relaxed, and you take time doing it, and youspend it and you enjoy that time, while you’re doing that?

Of course.

Right, so that’s my revolutionary, new-wave theory. Even though it’s revolutionary, it’s simple! I find the only way to make students really understand is make it so much fun. So my students enjoy every word we learn, but they really do remember it.

So, 007, any final words for our Crazy English readers?

Yes! If you believe in your heart, in any thing you do, there is nothing in this world that can stop you. It’s others that influence you and there is another simple saying: If you mix your like with losers, you will lose. If you mix with successful people, you too will be successful.

Learn from your heart. Listen to 007, on my radio program. Listen to how I speak and Alex speaks as well. This is real English, pure English, and if you want to speak like us, then the only way is to learn the 007 way. So my advice is, listen to 007 every day.

Thanks, 007. If you want to hear more from 007, you can tune¹⁰ into him at www.English Vod.net.

 

1 inviting   

adj.诱人的，引人注目的

参考例句：

• An inviting smell of coffee wafted into the room.一股诱人的咖啡香味飘进了房间。
• The kitchen smelled warm and inviting and blessedly familiar.这间厨房的味道温暖诱人，使人感到亲切温馨。

2 interpreter   

n.翻译；口译者

参考例句：

• We must allow him to be a good interpreter.我们必须承认他是个好译员。
• We employ her as an English interpreter.我们雇用她作英语翻译。

3 bond   

n.结合，债券，契约，粘合剂，保证人，键，关栈保留；vt.存入关栈，粘着；vi.结合

参考例句：

• This glue makes a good firm bond.这种胶水粘得很结实。
• His word is his bond.他是讲信用的。

4 Englishman   

n.(pl.Englishmen)英国人；英国男人

参考例句：

• I was astonished that he was not an Englishman.我很惊讶,他竟不是英国人。
• She stared thoughtfully at the Englishman across the table.她若有所思地盯着桌子对面的那个英国人。

5 obstacles   

n. 干扰；障碍

参考例句：

• I think most of these obstacles can be surmounted. 我认为这些障碍大多数都是可以克服的。
• There's no formidable obstacles in the world. 世上没有无法逾越的障碍。

6 apparent   

adj.表面上的，貌似真实的，显然的，明明白白的

参考例句：

• The apparent truth was really a lie.表面上看似实话，实际上是个谎言。
• His guilt is apparent to all.他的罪恶尽人皆知。

7 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

8 learning   

n.学问，学识，学习；动词learn的现在分词

参考例句：

• When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时，常会从车上掉下来。
• Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。

9 definitely   

adv.一定地，肯定地；明确地，确切地

参考例句：

• The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛，这个队肯定会输。
• I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前，我一定回家。

10 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。