Joanna
Now it’s 12:20 p.m., break time after lunch. Some students are nervously playing on their cellphones in the classrooms. It seems something scary is coming soon. A man suddenly comes in with the huge sound of the door opening. “Ah, you are reading Chinese! Give me your cellphone and come take it after 1:40 in my office,” the man says. The student looks up in a panic and then hands in the cellphone.
In Luwan Senior High School, every student can only read English during the time of BC courses. Our principle, Mr. Berg, has also mentioned many times in class that students should read more English everyday. It’s very important. However, how many students really notice the importance of reading English? “If I listened to Mr. Berg’s advice and read more English when I was in grade 10, I believe English 12 would be easier for me,” said Shining in grade 12.
If Chit Chat is the way to help students improve their oral English, then reading is a method to improve their writing. During the process of learning English, everyone may experience difficulties memorizing vocabulary. Although students successfully memorize thousands of words, they don’t know how to use them properly. Reading is the solution to this problem. When students are reading English, some of the vocabulary that they memorized before may appear in sentences. If they think carefully about the connection between the word and the sentence, the way to use the word will be found. Furthermore, English articles is written by native speakers can also help students improve their poor grammar. Grammar mistakes often cause students to get very low marks. However, if students always read English, which is written in correct grammar, the correct grammatical structure will leave an impression in their minds. Therefore, if students read more, more correct grammatical collocations will be accumulated.
The English 12 provincial exam is very hard. Every student in the BC program must take the exam before they graduate. For most students, their mark on the exam is very important because it can decide whether they can go to their dream universities. “Students who read more tend to have higher marks than others,” said Mr. Berg who has taught English 12 at Luwan for three years. So why don’t we stop playing on our cellphones and start reading more English everyday?