Good morning, class. I’m glad to see you. Welcome to remedial high school(centre) for National College Entrance Examination. We come from different high schools or different classes and maybe some of us are strange one another, but “meeting as wanderers alike, why should we mind if we knew each other before?”(同是天涯沦落人，相逢何必曾相识？) The centre will be your home, and you will study here, live here and have sports here. We believe we’ll soon become classmates, roomates and close friends.

    We have our advantages. First, we have experienced NMET, and we have known what NMET is like. Next time we should be calmer but not so nervous as first time. Secondly, since we choose returning high school, we must be ready to meet some obstruction and determined to overcome all kinds of difficulties. I believe some of us will get rid of the old habits. Thirdly, we have an idea that we have the strongest subject and the weakest subject. Therefor we should focus the emphasis on the weakest one and spend more time on it.

    I’m going to grade you 3 groups. Whoever gained over 120 marks only “keep warm”, that is to say, they needn’t spend too much on English. For examplle, in my former class ,a girl called T, (maybe some of us knew her) she was allowed to do other subjects except English in my class, but as a result, she got 134 high marks in this NMET.

    How to learn English? . some advice for you.

Listening

    Take a tape and listen to it over and over again. Don’t look at materials eagerly. If you look at materials early, you actually practice reading. You’d better have a “the time machine” or “repeater”(复读机). If you use a recorder, please use “rewind” often. Finally I suggest you listen to English news, like BBC broadcast or American Voice. Of course you can’t understand completely, but you can imitate the pronunciation and intonation. if you have a good chance, you can see the English films.

Speaking

    In English class we should speak English aloud. Sometimes we ask and answer the questions, sometimes we retell the texts. Don’t be shy. Don’t be afraid of mistakes. Now the test of spoken English is separate in the entrance exam. But when you go to college, you’ll find some students are excellent in oral English.

Reading

    Reading is the most important of four skills in NMET (National Matriculation English Test). It takes a large proportion. How to read? First, you read quickly and silently to get a general idea. When you come to a new word or phrase, don’t look it up in the dictionary. You can guess the meaning by context. Second, you read slowly and carefully. Use the dictionary and write down new words and phrases. Everyone must have a new-word-collecting note and try to enlarge your vocabulary.

    Here, as to vocabulary ,I shall talk more. That you can’t learn English well just because your vocabulary is too small. Now I tell you that vocabulary is very important in the learning of English. Without a good vocabulary, you can’t read, listen and write. So spend more time on the memory of the new words. Memorizing new words takes a long period of time and it happens all the time.

Writing

    Writing is very important too and it is more difficult than reading. Some Chinese students used to write Chinglish. For example, 这台收音机坏了。)It may be translated: This radio is bad. ( 1. There is something wrong with the radio. 2. This radio doesn’t work. 3. This radio is out of order. ) So we must pay attention to English idioms. It is necessary to recite some English sentences and articles.

    Learning English can be fun but I find that it is boring for some of the students to do it. The more you learn, the more interested you will get in it.

By the way, let me introcuce myself. I’m Mr X. after school you can call me Uncle X or Old X. I will make friends with you.

    I hope you have good progress in English and in a year you’ll be admitted to ideal colleges.

    That’s all. Thank you!