It's not that Xu Suizhu is quite confident in his coaching level, but the English speech competitions these days cannot compare with those of later generations.
The main reason is that English has not yet been fully popularized. In some areas, students do not even begin to be exposed to English until high school, and the level of instructors is also limited.
Secondly, English speeches are not like those in later generations - temporary drawing of lots, a few minutes of preparation, and improvisation. Instead, you know the topic of the speech after signing up.
The theme of this year is centered around the tenth anniversary of reform and opening up. It can be about advanced people or things around us, or it can be in the form of poetry and praise. In short, the theme is established, not improvised.
This greatly boosted Xu Suizhu's confidence. For her, this was simply a score test!
She shouldn't have too many good words, sentences, and paragraphs suitable for English speeches in her mind. Isn't it just praising the great rivers and mountains of the motherland and looking forward to the future? Just write it down and it will be a long article.
No pressure!
Once the content is complete, half the battle is won. The remaining half is the students' fluent and emotional recitation.
However, she really didn't expect that half of the problem that she thought was super easy to solve would be missed.
When the students in the three classes heard that they were going to participate in the speech contest, they all hunched their necks in fear of being called out by Xu Suizhu. None of them raised their hands and said they were willing to participate.
Xu Suizhu suddenly became happy.
"Hey! I asked you, are you too ambitious for others and destroying your own prestige?"
"Teacher Xu, it's not that we don't have ambition, it's just that this is too difficult for us. We can't even memorize the text, so it's not too difficult for us to give a speech on stage!" The courageous student stood up and answered.
"These are all excuses!" Xu Suizhu disagreed. "Everyone keeps saying that they must learn English well and that English should no longer be a stumbling block but a stepping stone. But in fact, they shrink back before even trying.
You don’t even have the courage to take a step forward and try, but you still want to surpass yourself and realize your dreams? Then your dreams are really cheap!”
The students below shrank their necks and remained silent.
Xu Suizhu glanced at them and softened his tone: "I said, I will help you get good grades in English, but that requires your cooperation. What you pay for will be what you get in return. Consider it.
There is not enough time to prepare for this speech, so I will help you write the speech. You only need to memorize it by heart and recite it to everyone emotionally. In this way, no one dares to try it? "
The person at the bottom raised a hand weakly, and it was the class representative of Class 2. Then, a few more girls with good grades in liberal arts raised their hands hesitantly.
Xu Suizhu curled his lips: "Very good, it's not too bad. At least a few classmates are willing to take this step. But why are they all female classmates? What about the male compatriots? Aren't they as courageous as the female compatriots?"
"Teacher, I'll go!" A group of tall and athletic sports committee members stood up and said, "I'm not good at English, but I'm willing to try. It's not like some people who usually look good at their grades but act like a pussy when something happens.
Xi..."
"Zhou Dongwei, don't go too far, who says we don't dare!"
"That's right! I just memorized it and recited it to everyone. Why don't you dare!"
"I sign up!"
"I'll sign up too!"
"..."
Hey! This method of stimulating generals works!
Xu Suizhu gave Zhou Dongwei a thumbs up, and Zhou Dongwei smiled and raised his hand to her as a "kudos".
Xu Suizhu shook his head and laughed.
He raised his hand and pressed: "Quiet, students. Since everyone is vying to sign up, let's have an audition. From 12 to 1 in the afternoon, and from 5 to 5 in the afternoon, everyone will come to the library door. I will
I’ll wait for you all there. Regardless of whether you are selected or not, as long as you come to participate in the audition, you will receive a small gift.”
When they heard about the gifts, the students' eyes lit up. Everyone said they wanted to try it.
After the exercise, the students lined up to return to the classroom, with Xu Suizhu walking at the end of the queue.
Principal Chi, who heard about the audition, came over and said, "Teacher Xu, actually you don't have to go to such trouble. Just select a few students with better grades from each class and choose one or two from them to participate."
Xu Suizhu smiled and said: "I originally thought so, but it is inevitably unfair. Another thing is to get a feel for it and see how the students feel about the language. Don't worry, principal, I promised them that I will prepare their gifts. That's it.
My personal donation will not cost the school any money."
Principal Chi suddenly blushed.
Although he did feel a little uncomfortable with the gift Xu Suizhu promised without his consent, he thought on second thought that she also had good intentions and wanted to select a few good prospects to represent the town in the competition. How could she bear the responsibility alone.
Xu Suizhu saw the principal's thoughts and said with a smile: "Principal, I will give you the small gift for the audition. After the speech contest gets the ranking, the school will give awards to the winning students."
The principal immediately responded: "Okay! That's no problem!"
Isn't it appropriate to be rewarded for ranking?
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There was only one English class this morning, and another one in the afternoon. Xu Suizhu finished class before nine o'clock. She first went to Zhou Lihua's house to feed Little Baozi, and then went to the town market.
I bought a handful of green vegetables, weighed a piece of tofu, then went straight to the fish stall and picked out two large and vivid grass carp.
The sales of this kind of spiny freshwater fish in Fjord Town are not very good. When someone wants it and buys two at a time, the stall owner is happy to give a preferential price.
After returning home, Xu Suizhu put on an old dress, rolled up his sleeves, and began to kill fish and make fish balls.
Yes, she plans to cook a pot of delicious fish ball soup for the students who support her.
Fry the head and tail of grass carp into stewed tofu, remove the middle meat section, scrape off the fish meat, stir the fish meat into a slurry with chopsticks, add cornstarch and mix well, then add salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, and ginger juice to taste.
Then stir vigorously until it's almost ready. Hold the surimi in your left hand, squeeze out a round fish ball from the tiger's mouth, catch it with a spoon in your right hand, and put it into a pot of water.
The extruded fish balls must be soaked in clean water for half an hour so that they will not stick to each other when cooked.
The fish balls must be boiled over a high fire. If the fire is not high, the fish balls will only be heated and not cooked, and the taste will change if the time is long. However, after boiling, you need to turn down the heat, otherwise the fish balls will break when they collide.
With such high requirements for heat, Xu Suizhu had no choice but to rely on a gas stove.
Two large grass carp weighing eight | nine pounds cooked nearly two hundred fish balls.
Xu Suizhu calculated that if every student came, each person would not be able to taste two, which was a bit too little.
She simply made another pot of ginger juice and milk.
Auntie Ginger Ma grows it in the vegetable garden behind her house, and there is a bunch of old ginger hanging in the corner of the kitchen. People at the beach usually keep ginger cubes, which are indispensable when eating seafood.
As for milk, I mixed it with milk powder. The milk powder produced by Xingxing is more nutritious.
After finishing these tasks, she drank a bowl of milky white fish head and tofu soup for lunch, and then went to Zhou Lihua's house. Little Baozi woke up, played with him for a while, and fed him again.
Seeing that it was almost time, I hurried to school.