2007年11月28日 星期三
Frustration
I had a new class in my work place. My students are beginners. They just began to learn English for a couple of months. Actually, they have to recognize A to Z immediately right now, but they didn’t make it. That makes me feel so surprised and sad. Because I couldn’t believe they can’t recognize A to Z immediately after we spent a lot of time to let them practiced. One of the teachers and I tried to think many different good ways to help them to learned English. But it seemed that these ways are not really useful. It gave me a lot of frustration. I hope they can learn English happily and without too much stress. And I hope one day that I can find a good way for them in learning English. Therefore, they won’t feel too much f frustration in learning English.
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You have messed up the verb tenses in your first few sentences.
"I have a new English class to teach at work" is idiomatic and natural. You could also say "at my cram school" or "at the cram school I work for".
"Actually, they have to recognize A to Z immediately right now, but they didn’t make it." There is no point in saying "actually" in this sentence. And "they have to" is wrong. It should be "They are supposed to be able to recognize the alphabet from A to Z right now".
"to help them to learned English". I am just as surprised and sad that you did not notice that you made a serious error here. You have never seen this construction in any piece of writing by a native speaker of English. Where did it come from? Either you don't know anything about the "to"-infinitive or you failed to proofread your post. Either way, you lose. It has to be "to learn". Always.
"It gave me a lot of frustration." Natural English is to use the verb "frustrate" instead of the verb "give" plus the noun "frustration": something like "That frustrated me".
"for them in learning English" should be "for them to learn English". Again, I'm sad and surprised. Third-year English majors shouldn't get this kind of simple stuff wrong.
I don't think you'll be able to find such a way. If you do, you'll have to apply it to your own study of English first. You need it more than they do, I'm sorry to say, as do your classmates.
There is only one good way to learn any language: listen, read, speak, and write as much as possible every single day. Pay attention to what you read and hear. Imitate it. Repeat it until it becomes second nature.
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