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Question 1:How to establish a good relationship with my roommates? You know we are from various regions, and our interests and characters are quite different, sometimes it is hard for us to communicate well.Answer: I do admit that having a good relationship with your roommates is really important at college. When you get along with others, there are some points you should pay attention to. First, you should be kind and sincere to others. Secondly, you can communicate with others and share your happiness as well as sorrows. Thirdly, it will do you good if you learn to be a good listener. You may know more of your roommates. Finally, you should make up for your shortcomings and learn how to compromise for some occasions.Question 2:I want to find a part-time job, but I am afraid that it may affect my study, what should I do?Answer: Study goes first at college. After your accomplishing your course study, if you still have some spare time, you can find a part time job. It can equip you with a lot of social skills and it helps you to make some preparations for your future life after your graduation from college. Meanwhile, some students consider it a good way to solve their financial problem. By always keep in mind that college life is a golden period for students to accumulate useful knowledge both in class and outside of it.Question 3:How to improve my comprehensive qualities?Answer: As we know, high marks do not mean high comprehensive qualities. For the sake of future development of our country, university students should work harder to cater to the basic requirement. I think, first, we should enrich our knowledge in our own field and improve our learning abilities. Secondly, we can make use of every chance to anneal the volition and harden abilities such as adaptability, organizational and management capability, self-control and self-direction and so on. At last, we need a lot of exercises, both physically and mentally.Question 4:I have some troubles in English study, especially I can’t keep the words in my long-term memory. What should I do?Answer: Well, it’s quite natural to remember the words well for a short period and then forget them after a certain time. I myself have also met the same problem frequently. Based on my personal experience, I think the best way to solve the problem is to repeat. Suppose you’ve just remembered some in the first week, then review them in the third week, and then review them again in the sixth week, and so on. I am sure that in this way you will remember the words firmly and it will be hard for you to forget them. Just have a try! Question 5:I want to make more friends at college, do you have some good ways? Answer: Making friends at college will be quite a rewarding and interesting experience. Actually there are a lot of ways to make friends. Firstly, you can make friends with those ones that you can live well with in your class. After a long time studying and living together, you may know your classmates well. So, why not choose those whom you want to learn from to make good friends with? Secondly, you can join some students clubs, where you can not only widen your horizon, but also find your favorite friends sharing common interest with you. Thirdly, go to the English corner. It’s an ideal place where you can both improve your oral English and make friends with people from the whole school.Question 6:I am a shy boy and always being afraid of giving a speech in public. Can you give me some suggestions?Answer: I suggest you to keep on practicing on you own before standing in front of your audience. You can make a speech loudly to yourself when you are alone, facing a beautify lake or a mirror, etc. when you are well-prepared, be brave enough to catch every chance to speak in class. I do believe in your overcoming shyness and becoming more confident one day.Question 7:How can you balance your school activities and your study?Answer: As college students, we have so many assignments and activities to perform on campus life. So how we can use time efficiently is a vital issue everyone of us has to think about. To me, I would like to take part in colorful school activities on condition that I’ve already coped with all my academic assignments successfully. Meanwhile, I don’t think I should be engaged in all activities. Usually I just choose some to participate in according to my interests or learning goals.Question 8:I’m a freshman here. I have never lived on my own before. How can I get used to the college life as soon as possible?Answer: If I were you, I would first try to get familiar with the campus and my classmates, especially my roommates, and try to make good friend with some of them. Besides, I would also turn to instructors and teachers for some advice. Moreover, taking part in a few student clubs is a good way to overcome the problems brought by homesickness.Question 9:I’m a junior. I’m busy preparing for the Postgraduate Qualification Exam, can you give me some suggestions on preparing for the English Exam?Answer: Well, as for that, I have a lot to talk about. Actually I have done lots of model test papers for the Postgraduate Qualification Exam in these two years. To be frank, I find the real exam I took is much more difficult than the CET-6 test I took two years ago. My first suggestion for you is to enlarge your vocabulary so as to have a good performance in the reading comprehension part, which plays a vital role in the exam. Secondly, try to get used to the logic of the questions produced by testers for it may differ from ours occasionly. To achieve that, you have to practise more.Question 10:As college students, can we give a nod to dating or cohabitation? Answer: According to a recent suyvey conducted by Beijing Sexual Health Research Association, the majority of college students support dating while in school. For me, I do think polite communication bewteen boys and girls should go first followed by love or cohabitation. Although some students are of open-mindedness toward dating or cohabitation, they are actually in the bad need of sex education textbooks, lectures or reliable counsellors to give them correct guidance. Many cohabitators are virtually not ready for the responsibity they have to take in their future life yet.SpeechBasics of Public SpeakingI. Speaking to Develop Self-confidence1. Overcoming nervousness2. Having good posture3. Facial expressions4. Movements and gestures5. Eye contact6. Speaking with enthusiasm & confidence7. Varying speaking rateII. Preliminary PreparationYou set an objective, get to know your audiences, narrow down your topic, draw a map of ideas and finally choose a few key points for further development.Making Good Impromptu Speeches1. Stay calm and begin slowly in order to give yourself time to think.2. Begin with an attention-getting introduction.3. Never apologize to the audience even if you get confused or forget what you want to say.4. Finish your speech gracefully. Never finish your speech with “ I can’t think of anything else,” or “that’s it.” The final words of your speech are the ones your audience will remember.Formal Three-Part Outline: Introduction, Body & ConclusionHow to begin:The introduction to your speech is an invitation to listen. There are many ways to start your speech. What follows is a list of possible ways to attract, build, and hold the interest of your audience. You may:★To tell a story (about yourself);★To quote;★To use unusual statistics;★To ask the audience a challenging question;★To use humor.How to close:Many students end their speech with “That’s all, I guess,” or “Well, that’s all I’ve got to say.” This suggests t hatthey have not planned their speech carefully.★To repeat your opening;★To summarize your presentation;★To close with an anecdote;★To end with a call to action.▲Many ideas should be organized in a logical, easy-to-follow pattern:1. Chronological----- in time sequence/a process2. Spatial----- in physical space3. Causal----- cause & effect relationship4. Problem-Solution----- a specific problem5. Classification----- put things into categories or classes常用句型活用:1、Cohesion 过渡★继续同一个话题:that, the same, these, this, those★重述同一个话题:in other words, that is to say, namely…★转折:but, however, nevertheless, on the contrary, on the other hand…★得出结论:in brief, in conclusion, finally, to summarize, all in all, ab ove all…2、转题★It would be very interesting to …/By the way…/Incidentally…/Talking of …/Now, well…/ Apart form…/In addition to …, we now …/Another point is …/Let me turn to (move to )…/ Second(Next)…/Are you interested in …/Shall we …/Is it sui table to …/Speaking about…3、修正口误★I Mean…/Or rather…/Put it in this way…/To be more exact…/Well, I was saying…/ That is to say…/In other words…/Instead of saying…Topics For Speech:1. What do you look for a friend?2. Should a woman be the president of a country?3. How do you feel about cheating in exams?4. Is traveling the best way to broaden one’s mind?5. Will telephone bring people closer to each other or make them more separate? Why?6. How English has affected you and what you think it can do for you in the future?7. Beijing Olympic Games and how it connects China with the rest of the world?8. Is knowledge more important than wisdom?9. Exams are/are not good forms of assessment10. To be a class leader will affect one’s study result s?11. What C an We Benefit from the Education Ministry’s Evaluation of Our University’s Teaching Quality?12. My Understanding of Our University Motto: Sound in Morality; Broad in Learning; Adherence to Practice; Belief in Hard Work.13. My understanding of the principles of evaluation from the Ministry of Education: To promote the construction with evaluation, To promote the management with evaluation, To promote the reform with evaluation. Combining the evaluation with the construction but with more emphasis on the construction.14. Our University’s teachers and faculty members in My Eyes.15. What Would You Consider Most In Choosing A Job? Salary, Job Satisfaction, Status, the Use of Your Specialty or Location?16. A higher-pay job with long hours or a lower-pay job with shorter hours. Which would you choose?。

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