热身【E诗E歌E决心】活动—My English Teacher Ms Jia Yang

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woodwishper
楼主 (文学城)

My English Teacher Ms Jia Yang

The first impression I had on Ms. Jia yang was very impressive: a beautiful young lady with musical spoken English, and bright eyes smiling behind a pair of glasses. To me, this first impression of a female English teacher was fairly normal, and I thought to myself this lady possibly graduated from Beijing Foreign University.  

Among the many lectures by Ms Yang's,  I still clearly remembered was the one she taught us how to listen to English songs. The song was “My Heart will go on" by Celine Dion, and it was my first time to know the name of Celine Dion. From this song, teacher Yang taught us about the rhyme and rhythm of English songs. Maybe this is the original reason why I like English songs and only like English songs with lyrics that has proper rhyme and rhythm.

Late on, I noticed a detail that in every class, Teacher Yang’s Dad would lead she to the classroom and went away. It astonished me when I found that Teacher Yang could not see! I could not image how she walked to me, looked at me, listened and corrected my pronunciation, and even more, her chalk handwriting on the black board was smooth, beautiful, and as always, she came back to put the dot and slash exactly on top of the handwritten: “i " and “t” following the necessary words. How could you image a blind one doing these above?  It was from that moment I felt shamed of myself: I got to learn English better!

Ms Yang went to Zhengzhou University when she was 15 years old, graduated and stayed at Zhengzhou University to teach English. Later on, she went to Chinese Academy of Sciences for her graduate study, and stayed at collage of graduate, CAS to teach English.

After my graduation, I did not pay much attention to Teacher Yang’s newly progress.  I always reminded myself to improve my English bit by bit and day after day. Though I don’t make a huge progress, but I could proudly say I kept on learning it. It was until the passed Wednesday when I hosted Listening E-songs to practice listening skills that I found Teacher Yang made a huge progress on her career: she went to John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2000 and earned her MPA degree in 2001. Now she is the Vice Chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and more titles. I felt proud of Ms Yang, and I felt shamed for myself again. As I learnt from today’s one sentence translation: “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." and “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”.  So, keep on leaning and never stops, not only in English but everything! This is my new year resolutions.

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beautifulwind
Wow!It is amazing!加上前缀吧!You are the trailblazer of January event
回头笑笑
Have you tried to get hold of her and have a nice conversation w

Will she remember you?

Thanks for sharing!

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woodwishper
现在不是那么容易联系啦,希望她还能记得我的声音。只是她手下的学生多了去。
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woodwishper
我这个不是诗又不是歌,算不上吧?
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beautifulwind
你这个算3, new year resolution啊。你不是最后一句点题了吗。
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woodwishper
随便加了一句还加对了!
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woodwishper
加上了。MF班长,我是不是特别支持美坛?特别快响应班长的号召?我是不是特别值得表扬?哈哈哈。
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beautifulwind
哈哈哈,值得大书特书,说实话,这几天已经快把我累S了。。:)
天边一片白云
Another amazing and inspiring story. Thank you for sharing. You
移花接木
Incredible! When God closes a door,he opens a window

Incredible! When god closes a door,He opens a window.

Some doors are not God’s will for our to enter them and God closes it for our protection.

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woodwishper
谢谢阅读
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woodwishper
谢谢留言.
树的花花世界
喔,太励志了!你确实没理由不努力学英语了。
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MoonRiverMe
speaking of English teacher, the best one in my life is no one e

speaking of English teacher, the best one in my life is no one else but her

At the very moment when I heard her voice the first time, I was so amazed that how could an American speak such perfect mandarin?  Every English word coming out of the radio was nothing closed to the ones taught in school or even in the national radio English teaching program.  That’s what the authentic English really is, finally I heard it in my own ears!

From then on, 8:30 every night I did nothing else but turned on the radio, tuned to VOA, in the next 30 minutes fully concentrated on it, enjoyed her translation in beautiful mandarin  after her colleagues, really enjoyed every second of it until she said “ 这是何丽达在美国首都华盛顿主持播报的,then a  deep male voice appeared: ”this is the voice of America, the next program is in English”.  30 some years late I still remember her word ”印第安老妪”, in the story of Tom Sawyer.

Thank you 何丽达小姐,Thank you VOA, it’s your voice brought me to this greatest  land on earth. Miss you so so so  much!

    

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AprilMei
You wrote a very nice and touching personal story, with a

surprise ending.  I may make some corrections later on, if you don't mind.  Great job!

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xiaosai
Such a great story! Ms. Yang is so beautiful and strong,

she's a wonderful woman.

甜虫虫
Great story! Such an incredible lady!
才歌
This is so far the most encouraging story I have ever read!

Thanks for sharing!

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woodwishper
谢谢楼上各位的共鸣.
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woodwishper
Pls go ahead and let me see your correction.
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just_4_fun
Don’t beat yourself up.

 Best wishes!

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woodwishper
小伙伴们,你们也写写自己的真实的励志故事,让大家都学习一下。期待中。
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woodwishper
有意思。很惭愧没有听过学过英语900句。
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woodwishper
哈哈哈,时不待我,我可不能just for fun,需要养家糊口。
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MoonRiverMe
Apparently that’s a different era than yours
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just_4_fun
嗯,理解. Determination leads to success!
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beautifulwind
2020年,我最幸运的就是回到美坛,和这么多睿智的朋友相识,不好意思玩物丧志这么多年,终于回到轨道:)
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woodwishper
期待读到你的励志故事哈
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woodwishper
I am so happy you are here!
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AprilMei
引号里面是原文,下面是改动以后的。都是些小毛病,无伤大雅。

1.  "I still clearly remembered was the one she taught us how to listen to English songs"

What I still clearly remembered was the one she taught us how to listen to English songs

2.  "teacher Yang"

Ms Yang (better be consistant)

3.  "lead she to the classroom and went away"

lead her to the classroom and leave (or go away) (would covers lead and leave/go away)

4.  "following the necessary words"

following the necessary rules

5.  "I felt shamed of myself"

I felt ashamed of myself

6.  "I always reminded myself"

I always remind myself

7.  "keep on leaning and never stops"

keep on leaning and never stop

 

 

 

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woodwishper
Thx
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zoey@riverside
写的改的都很棒!there is a typo in 7, “learning” instead of “leaning “.
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AprilMei
谢谢!我居然没看出来还copy了。
忒忒绿
A touching story and a nice new year resolution.
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beautifulwind
恭喜Wowie。首页进来,谢谢网管,“E活动热身My English Teacher Ms Jia Yang”挂首成功:)
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woodwishper
又挂城头示众啦?我害怕