2007年10月3日 星期三
I will have an oral interpretation classes tomorrow. The teacher asked us to recite an article everyday. Therefore, I have to spend 10 minutes to recite the article when I am free. Actually, I do not like her, for all the articles she asks us to recite are about economy, medical, and biology etc. Sometimes I do not know the meaning of the word and how to pronounce it. Then, I stopped at that word while I was reciting. I believe that practice makes perfect because no one is innate to be a speaker. So I think this class is really challenging.
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"an oral interpretation classes". This mixes a singular article, "an", with a plural noun, "classes". That's a serious and unforgivable grammar mistake for a third-year English Department student.
What do you mean by "recite"? It's not clear to me. My understanding of the term "oral interpretation" is that it relates to poetry, drama, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and fiction writing, not boring technical prose that has almost nothing to interpret.
"I do not like her, for" ==> "I do not like the teacher, because" is better.
"economy, medical, and biology etc." ==> ""economics, medicine, biology, etc." In other words, they're very technical?
"the word and how to pronounce it." ==> "the words or how to pronounce them." There isn't just one word in every article.
"Then, I stopped at that word while I was reciting." ==> "I have to stop at every word I don't know and look up its meaning and pronunciation before I can continue reciting the article." I think you need to explain what this class is all about. Do you mean that you have to read these articles out loud? What on earth for? Is this some kind of training to be a newsreader on TV or the radio? Why isn't the teacher asking you to read paragraphs from short stories? That seems much more useful to me. I do that every night to put my son to sleep. It usually works.
"I believe that practice makes perfect because no one is innate to be a speaker." These ideas are turned around. First you need to say that no one is born a natural reader of difficult technical articles in English. Then you need to say that practice makes perfect (you don't have to say that you believe it, because just stating it is enough to tell the reader that you believe it). But your final sentence is incredible (which means that I don't believe it) because it doesn't follow from the rest of your post. I imagined that you'd say something like "I hate this class, but it's required". You're being too polite (and I don't mean that you are wearing perfume, just that your words are wearing perfume -- and far too much of it, I'm sorry to say -- when you say that the class is challenging.
Clearly expressed, except for "recite".
My final sentence in the next-to-last paragraph has an typographical error:
"(and I don't mean that you are wearing perfume, just that your words are wearing perfume -- and far too much of it, I'm sorry to say -- when you say that the class is challenging)." ==>
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