Learn English from int'l boarding students

时间：2007-03-07 01:44:50

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Chinanews, Shanghai, March 6 – Many Chinese students studying abroad like to stay with host families to learn their language and culture. Nowadays, many Shanghai white-collar workers have received native English speaking international students as their host families, too, in order to learn English from them.

 

It is usually free for foreign students to stay in a host family in Shanghai, but he/she must take up the responsibility1 of teaching2 English to at least one certain members of the family.

 

Miss Li has always worried about her limited English. “I never knew what to say to an English-speaking person,” said she. She has taken a number of English courses, but none has proved to be useful. Last year, she saw an ad recruiting3 host families for foreign students, and that was how Carey (from Chicago, US) came to her home.

 

Carey is actually not a student, but a HR manager. She stays in Li's apartment for free, but has to teach Li oral English for 1 hour every day. “She could hardly speak Chinese at the beginning, and we had to guess what each other meant through gestures,” said Li.

 

Two months later, they could talk to each other without gesticulating. Now, Li can communicate with any English-speaking person freely4.

 

About one hundred Shanghai families have received foreign boarding students, and the figure is rising.

 

However, foreign boarding students can only help improve oral English, but not examination5 skills.

 
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1 responsibility sWtx7     
n.责任，职责
参考例句：
  • The safety of the ship is the captain's responsibility.确保船的安全是船长的责任。
  • The matter is outside my area of the responsibility.此事超出我的责任范围。
2 teaching ngEziT     
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。
3 recruiting 7856ebf310dfaa9c041d8b08e0046e50     
招聘( recruit的现在分词 )； 吸收某人为新成员； 动员…（提供帮助）； 雇用
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  • We are recruiting a sales manager with responsibility for the European market. 我们正在招聘负责欧洲市场的销售经理。
  • "Hoist the recruiting flag and hungry men will come. “插起招军旗，就有吃粮人。”
4 freely LiexN     
adv.自由地，随便地，无拘无束地
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  • She was unable to keep back her tears,and wept freely.她抑制不住泪水，痛痛快快地哭了起来。
  • A liquid flows freely and has no fixed shape.液体能自由流动，无固定形态。
5 examination pn6xJ     
n.考试，考查，试题；检查，调查
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  • Teachers always judge their students on the final examination.老师常根据期末考试来评价他们的学生。
  • He put up a good show in the final examination.他在期末考试中表现得不错。

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