John’s Blog

Wow, it’s been ten days since my last post. There’s been a lot of exciting stuff going on, so hopefully I’ll be able to share more in the next few days.

坐上北京的新的出租车，就会听到一个充满魅力的女声音说这么一句话：”Welcome to take Beijing taxi!”

为什么不能这么讲呢？请留言。。。

学生经常问看美国原版电影的时候该不该看字母。。。我的建议是最好不看，或少看。

不过，我们还有另外一种考虑，也就是有的字幕做的极其差， 非常不可靠。

via winterson.com

Victor (李鑫) and I spent the afternoon answering questions online at 51IELTS. We were there to promote our new book, 雅思口语真经.

You can read the transcript here. (What a terrible picture!)

I also just noticed that there’s a page about me on the 51IELTS site (with another terrible picture!!).

If there are any questions about IELTS speaking or our book that we didn’t answer during the interview, please feel free to ask them in the comments here.

Here’s an article on the rising popularity of Chinese in the West.

Sunday night Harvey （刘洪波）, Wang Xin （王欣） and I went out to our 西三棋 residential campus to welcome students from the IELTS and NETEM 考研 classes that just arrived.

We addressed the two classes together. Harvey introduced the teachers, I spoke about the importance of planning your study time， and Wang Xin went over some of the guidelines for students to remember.

After we were done, it was raining, so I gave the students there four more pieces of advice for their English study:

1) Know your reasons 想好你的原因
2) Follow your interests 跟着你的兴趣学
3) Make a plan 做一个计划
4) Persist 持之以恒

The last point is the most important and the most difficult, but it’s made much easier if the first three are taken care of…

What do you think?