What is the speaker point of view toward learning English?
Give your opinions about the speaker's view.
Do you agree or disagree with her? why? or why not?
State your opinions by writing a paragraph. You can use giving opinion expressions and transitional words we've learned in the classroom.
I know what you're thinking. You think I've lost my way,and somebody's going to come on the stage in a minute and guide me gently back to my seat. I get that all the time in dubai. "Here on holiday are you'dear ?" "Come to visit the children? How long you staying?" Well actually, i hope for a while longer yet. I have been living and teaching in the gulf for over 30 years. And in that time,i have seen a lotof changes. Now that statistic is quite shocking. And i want to talk to you today about language loss and the globalization of English. I want to tell you about my friend who was teaching English to adults in Abu Dhabi.And one fine day,she decided to take them into the garden to teach them some nature vicabulary. But it was she who ended up learning all the Arabic words for the local plants,as well as their uses medicinal uses,cosmetics,cooking,herbal. How did those students get all that knowledge? Of course, from their grandparents and even their great-grandparents. It's not necessary to tell you how important it is to be able to communicate across generations. But sadly,today, languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A languages dies every 14 days. Now,at the same time, English is the undisputed global languages. Could there be a connection? Well i don't know. But i do know that i've seen a lotof changes. When i first came out to the gulf, i came to Kuwait in the days when it wad still a hardship post. Actually,not that long ago. That is a little bit too early. But nevertheless, I was recruited by the british council along with about 25 other teachers. And we were the first non/Muslims to teach in the state schools there in kuwait. We were brought to teach English because the goverment wanted to modernize the country and empower the citizens through education. And of course, The U.K. Benefited from some of that lovely oil wralth. Now this is the major change that i've seen how teaching English had morphed from being a mustually beneficial practice to becoming a massive international business that it is today. No longer just a foreign language on the school curriculum. And no longer the sole domain of mother England. It has become a bandwagon for every English-speaking nation on earth. And why not? After all, the best education according to the latest World University Rankings is to be found in the universities of the uk and the us So everybody wants to have an English education, naturally. But if you're not a native speaker,you have to pass a test. Now can it be right to reject a student on linguistic ability alone? Perhaps you have a computer scientist who's a genius. Would he need the same language as a lawyer, for example ? Well , I don't think so. We English teachers reject them all the time. We put a stop sign, and we stop them in their tracks. They can't pursue their dream any longer, till they get English. Now let me put it this way, if i met a monolingual Dutch speaker who had the cure for cancer, would I stop him from entering my British University? I don't think so. But indeed, that is exactly what we do. We english teachers are the gatekeepers. And you have to satisfy us first that your English is good enough. Now i can be dangerous to give too much power to a narrow segment of society. Maybe the barrier would be too universal. It feeds English requirement. And so it goes on. I ask you, what happend to translation ? If you think about the IslamicGolden Age, there was lots ot translation then. They translated from latin and Greek into Arabic,into Persian,and then it was translated on into the Germanic languages of Europe and the Romance languages. And so light shone uponthe dark ages of europe. Now don't get me wrong i am not against teaching English ,all you english teachers out there.
ลำโพงมองไปทางการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษคืออะไรให้ความเห็นของคุณเกี่ยวกับมุมมองของลำโพงคุณเห็นด้วย หรือไม่เห็นด้วยกับเธอหรือไม่ ทำไม หรือไม่ระบุความเห็นของคุณ โดยการเขียนย่อหน้า คุณสามารถใช้นิพจน์และคำเปลี่ยนแปลงเราได้เรียนรู้ในห้องเรียนให้เห็นI know what you're thinking. You think I've lost my way,and somebody's going to come on the stage in a minute and guide me gently back to my seat. I get that all the time in dubai. "Here on holiday are you'dear ?" "Come to visit the children? How long you staying?" Well actually, i hope for a while longer yet. I have been living and teaching in the gulf for over 30 years. And in that time,i have seen a lotof changes. Now that statistic is quite shocking. And i want to talk to you today about language loss and the globalization of English. I want to tell you about my friend who was teaching English to adults in Abu Dhabi.And one fine day,she decided to take them into the garden to teach them some nature vicabulary. But it was she who ended up learning all the Arabic words for the local plants,as well as their uses medicinal uses,cosmetics,cooking,herbal. How did those students get all that knowledge? Of course, from their grandparents and even their great-grandparents. It's not necessary to tell you how important it is to be able to communicate across generations. But sadly,today, languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A languages dies every 14 days. Now,at the same time, English is the undisputed global languages. Could there be a connection? Well i don't know. But i do know that i've seen a lotof changes. When i first came out to the gulf, i came to Kuwait in the days when it wad still a hardship post. Actually,not that long ago. That is a little bit too early. But nevertheless, I was recruited by the british council along with about 25 other teachers. And we were the first non/Muslims to teach in the state schools there in kuwait. We were brought to teach English because the goverment wanted to modernize the country and empower the citizens through education. And of course, The U.K. Benefited from some of that lovely oil wralth. Now this is the major change that i've seen how teaching English had morphed from being a mustually beneficial practice to becoming a massive international business that it is today. No longer just a foreign language on the school curriculum. And no longer the sole domain of mother England. It has become a bandwagon for every English-speaking nation on earth. And why not? After all, the best education according to the latest World University Rankings is to be found in the universities of the uk and the us So everybody wants to have an English education, naturally. But if you're not a native speaker,you have to pass a test. Now can it be right to reject a student on linguistic ability alone? Perhaps you have a computer scientist who's a genius. Would he need the same language as a lawyer, for example ? Well , I don't think so. We English teachers reject them all the time. We put a stop sign, and we stop them in their tracks. They can't pursue their dream any longer, till they get English. Now let me put it this way, if i met a monolingual Dutch speaker who had the cure for cancer, would I stop him from entering my British University? I don't think so. But indeed, that is exactly what we do. We english teachers are the gatekeepers. And you have to satisfy us first that your English is good enough. Now i can be dangerous to give too much power to a narrow segment of society. Maybe the barrier would be too universal. It feeds English requirement. And so it goes on. I ask you, what happend to translation ? If you think about the IslamicGolden Age, there was lots ot translation then. They translated from latin and Greek into Arabic,into Persian,and then it was translated on into the Germanic languages of Europe and the Romance languages. And so light shone uponthe dark ages of europe. Now don't get me wrong i am not against teaching English ,all you english teachers out there.
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