sentences? If you make mistakes, that means you don’t know how to say things in English. You You can speak and write later—when you can already build
correct English sentences and want to improve your fluency. Perhaps you can benefit from
corrections if you get a few corrections per week. But when there are many mistakes, you become
unable to concentrate on them. If a teacher returns your composition with 20 corrected mistakes,
how many of these corrections can you keep in your mind? Besides, your teacher is not always
there. What if you’re writing an e-mail message on your own or talking to someone else? Other
people usually ignore your mistakes, and even your teacher does not point out all of them.
First, try to be more careful by using the rules of error-free speaking. If you still make a lot of
mistakes, or if you find that the rules are killing your motivation, you probably shouldn’t open your
mouth just now. Instead, try to get more input by reading and listening in English. True, but believe
Moreover, sometimes you can say or write something which you think is wrong. You can do it your sentence which is probably wrong. And the other person can tell you how to say it in English
correctly. From that you learn the correct way to say the sentence.
if you know that you are saying something which
may be wrong, or you are sure that the other person will correct you if you make a mistake. And
In summary, it should be noted that practice can also serve as a negative factor in English
learning. Hope all of you can find the solution to it from today’s lecture.
SECTION B INTERVIEW
M: It’s been nearly many years since Madonna first made headlines for trying to adopt a small child
from the African nation of Malawi. And she’s since become a voice for the more than 1 million
children or orphans in that country and now she’s behind the film on that subject. And tonight,
we have Madonna here on our show. Welcome, Madonna.
W: Thanks.
M: Well... We watched your film I Am Because We Are last night... and it’s amazing. Why have you
felt the commitment to help those children?
W: and in a way I was going on my own
journey and connecting to these children and wanting to in a way heal myself whilst helping
them.
M: And hearing about their suffering? Something opened to you? school to go to. And I still thought that my world was going to collapse on me, so how could it