这是学员Nancy写在2001年9月19日她在平和就读三天时的随笔，Nancy感受了
浸泡的魅力，无不感叹，这真是一个学英语的好地方。时过数年，
再读Nancy笔下描述的平和，依旧亲切依然。
Teachers or Spies
Nancy 吕建英
2001年9月19日
老师 AL 班级 Advanced 1
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送上一束花——- 也得讲英语 |
We are here at Gateway
Language Village to learn English.
Of course This is not
the first time for me to learn
English,but the reason I want to
mention
is that this time of our world are
teachers, and they are foreign
teachers! (Not exactly all of them
are.)
The first day we came here, we were told that this is a total immersion English
course.To tell you the truth, I didn’t understand it properly at first.
Today is my third day here, and I really get the meaning now. We are not allowed
to say even a single Chinese word here. The “SPEAK ENGLISH NLY” reminders
are everywhere. The teachers here are all acting as spies.
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这些侦探们，摇身一变是老师 |
After class, you can still find
some teachers sitting in the hall,
eating in the dining room, and
watching TV in the TV room.
Even worse, we all are arranged
to share the same apartment
with a certain teacher.
(Worse for YOU? What
do you think the teachers are
thinking?)
You can easily get a few warnings here. For example, I went to dinner this
evening, and I got one warning. The waitress in the Canteen can’t speak English clearly.
She tried to explain to me that there was not enough food, and that I would
have to wait a Moment to get my food.
Unfortunately, I was caught by a teacher. She warned me that I only could use
body language if the waitress couldn’t speak English.Look, our world is full of
these spy teachers. (You better believe it, baby.)
Now you see what a difficult life we have here. I really want to
protest,but what is confusing to me is that we try to do our best to
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别说，还真让我能开口了 |
Take the time and have paid quite
an expensive fee just for this
environment, And The Problem is ,
This environment Works Quite well!
Many students couldn’t speak at
the beginning, and they are starting
to speak English now.
I only have two weeks here.
One thing is quite certain: I will miss it here.
I would like to introduce this place to everybody who wants to learn how to speak
English . Gateway LanguageVillage is just the right place.
(And she even calls it “Gateway Language Village.”)
