Xia Xiaolan knows that the National College English Contest, the preliminary round is held in April every year.
Both the preliminary round and the semi-final round are held locally in the university.
And the competition Xia Xiaolan is participating in now spares no effort to mobilize people, and invites the finalists from all over the country to the capital, which shows that the Ministry of Education attaches great importance to it.
"It shows that you all have a mission on your shoulders. The first competition has great influence and can be held every year in the future."
To Xia Xiaolan, it was last year that "English" was officially added to the college entrance examination subjects. Regardless of whether it is arts or sciences, it is the main examination subject. The Ministry of Education's National College English Contest is for positive publicity and to mobilize the enthusiasm of the majority of candidates to learn English.
The leading teacher of the Department of Foreign Languages ??reminded everyone to be vigilant against the competitors of the Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages. This school is definitely not as good as Huaqing and Beijing University in terms of overall strength. If you want to talk about languages, it is the top in the country.
The professional ones beat a group of non-professionals. I don¡¯t know what¡¯s going on. Only three from the School of Foreign Languages ??made it to the finals.
"Because none of the English majors from the School of Foreign Languages ??signed up. This is also Mr. Xu's opinion."
Teacher Lin's tone is brisk, and she also respects Mr. Xu very much.
Currently, the Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages ??has a total of 28 languages, and English is only one of them. In addition to English, that is to say, the three contestants who entered the finals are all learning other languages.
The faces of the two foreign language students of Huaqing University changed.
Xia Xiaolan didn't think it was a big deal. It was originally a specialized language university. If English majors also came to participate, what would other universities do?
It is also the first competition, and I have no experience yet.
In the future, the National College English Contest will be divided into four categories: a, b, c, and d. Category a is for graduate students, category b is for undergraduate and junior college students majoring in English, category c is for undergraduate and junior college students who are not majoring in English, and category d is for undergraduate and junior college students. It is for college students of sports and medicine to participate.
It's right to fight professionally with professionally, and play amateurly with amateurly.
Now, various systems have not yet been perfected. In 1981, the TOEFL test was available, but in 1985, the English Test Band 4 and Band 6, which had tortured college students for many years, had not yet been released!
This time the final was held at the Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages. The Institute of Foreign Languages ??is located on the West Third Ring Road, and the distance from the Beijing Normal University is no more than 3 kilometers. Xia Xiaolan couldn't help but ask Teacher Lin:
"Do you know that there are students from Beijing Normal University who entered the finals this year?"
Teacher Lin thought about it, but was not sure:
"It seems that there is one Hey, Mr. He, is there a student from Beijing Normal University who has entered the final?"
Teacher He is the professor who presides over Xia Xiaolan and the others.
He slowly took out a piece of paper from his pocket, shook it open and looked, "There is one, why did you suddenly ask about the Beijing Normal University?"
Professor He doesn't pay attention to this kind of opponent.
There is only one, and it will never be Xia Ziyu and Wang Jianhua. Xia Xiaolan remembers that neither of them has a particularly good English score. These two people took the college entrance examination in 1983. At that time, their English scores were not fully included in the total score.
"It's nothing, I have a fellow at the Beijing Normal University."
Xia Xiaolan smiled shyly at Professor He, while Ji Jiangyuan was resting with his eyes closed, but his mind was spinning at high speed. Xia Xiaolan asked the Beijing Normal University, probably because she was concerned about her annoying future brother-in-law, the guy who came to Huaqing last time, the one named Wang Jianhua.
Wang Jianhua belongs to the family of Deputy Director Wang of the Department of Higher Education, and Director Wang has been to Huaqing University before.
The reputation of the Wang family is not very good. Many people in the capital know about the cram school last time.
He really wanted to talk to Xia Xiaolan, things happened one after another, Xia Xiaolan really "draws a line" with him now, Ji Jiangyuan couldn't say anything even if he wanted to.
If it's that Wang Jianhua, it's really annoying.
Ji Jiangyuan also didn't understand, Xia Xiaolan and Zhou Cheng were dating, Wang Jianhua dared to come to the door and chattered, and Zhou Instructor didn't seem to be easy to bully. Ji Jiangyuan doesn't like to use "privilege" and "class" to classify people into different grades, but some people like it, so he has to do as the Romans do. According to the national conditions of China, the Wang family is not as good as the Zhou family. Ji Jiangyuan himself feels deeply.
Ji Jiangyuan wanted to talk, but realized that in the eyes of classmate Xia Xiaolan, he might be as annoying as Wang Jianhua, so he continued to close his eyes and pretend to be asleep.
? To Xia Xiaolan, Ji Jiangyuan thought too much.
What she really hates is Ji Ya. Ji Jiangyuan is implicated and must be ranked behind Wang Jianhua.
Wang Jianhua will be ranked behind Xia Ziyu again. Whoever is the "murderer" cannot be forgiven. The school bus swayed and arrived in Beijing.?Foreign Language Institute, it¡¯s not even eight o¡¯clock in the morning.
Xia Xiaolan had breakfast with Teacher Lin and the others.
All of these do not need to be paid by individuals, and are all borne by the school. If you think about it, if you want students from other places to come to the capital to participate in the finals, you have to pay out of your own pockets. Buying a bus ticket will scare off a bunch of people, and you have to eat and live outside the house. Ordinary students can't afford it!
"9:00-10:30 is the written test. After the written test is the oral test. How to test the oral test, I have practiced it repeatedly. You can perform at your normal level."
The oral test has been practiced for a long time.
It is not complicated, and it is divided into three parts. The first is the self-report in English, which is to introduce yourself in English and talk about why you like English. The time is limited to 3 minutes.
The second is story retelling. First, listen to a short audio text. After listening, give 1 minute to organize your language and organize your thinking, and then start to retell the story in your own way. The time should be controlled within 5 minutes.
The third is to pick a topic and explain her own ideas around this topic, just like Xia Xiaolan got environmental protection in the last retest. This kind of topic appears very frequently, and this time is also 5 minutes.
The oral part of a student will take about 15 minutes. For 200 students across the country, wouldn¡¯t it take 3,000 minutes, or 50 hours?
The Ministry of Education is obviously well prepared. The written test ends at 10:30, and the papers will be graded immediately after they are collected.
In the end, only 20 contestants were able to reach the oral part.
The 180 contestants who were eliminated were all "third prizes" in this English competition.
For the remaining 20 contestants, the TV station will come to record and edit the wonderful performances to be broadcast on TV. Xia Xiaolan thinks it is quite a gimmick, but the competition process is cruel.
She felt that the chances of the 180 "third prize winners" who were eliminated to go abroad as exchange students were basically zero.
What's the matter, you have to break into the entrance examination.
Xia Xiaolan stretched her fingers. She had no idea how difficult the written test questions were. When she was in college, she only took the CET-4 test. Later, she taught herself English to use at work, and she never took the IELTS test. And TOEFL, there is no way to know your level standard.
It is too easy for Xia Xiaolan to get a full score in English in the college entrance examination. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com