Chapter 14. The Reader Discussion Club
Hi.
Yesterday I attended The Reader Discussion Club at the local British Council. A group of people who want to improve their English gather together once a week or once a fortnight and talk English. Yesterday it was our second meeting in this year. We talked about music. And we borrowed books from the library of the British Council to discuss them at our next meeting. I've chosen a book about arhitecture of London.
The group is big enough but it's going to be devided into two of smaller size. We've got a leader of our group who leads us through a discussion. His name is Andrew and he's from Manchester. At the photo he's standing at the left side of the picture, right above me.
The club is quite usefull. It helps us to improve speaking abilities of English. I reckon speaking is the weakest point of English for all those who don't live in the English-speaking countries. Despite the fact that levels of English of group members are different we communicate well with each other. I think it's great that British Council provides us with this tremendous possibility of discussion in English. I'm looking forward to have fun and use from our future meetings.
Alex.
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I feel so happy to join your blog,and also so excited to see your life on internet.I will insist on doing this everyday.
It is nice you have a reading discussion club in which you participate and speak English. I agree with you when you said training English is not easy for someone who are living in a country which one can not have the opportunity the English language. I feel the same problems in my country and I need to find a way to speak more English. Meanwhile I will keep practicing my writing and reading as much as I can.
How nice to have this opportunity to take part in a reading club!!!Your group look great! A really big one! That would be a real problem here in Brazil because we are chatter boxes, so to put our words across it would be really hard.I also have my own way to be in touch with the oral language. I have lessons with a native speaker.It's nice because we don't follow a book ,we just have a chat and sometimes we read books and comment on them. It's good fun. I also agree with you that it's easier to understand local people speaking English rather than native speakers and foreingers.We can't deny the crucial role the mother tongue plays on the acquisiton of a foreing language. It's a common fallacy to force students to think in English. We brazilians will always think and behave like Brazilians and this will be revealed in our English, unless, of course, we live in England for a long period!!Our language is our culture, our history, opur memories etc. That's why today we have many Englishes: the Russian, the Portuguese, the Italian and so forth. But what is nice and magic about this all is that even though we come from different communities we can all understand each other.Your entries are great and the comments from the others are also nice.It's been great fun to follow the chapters.Every day we have a new topic on! By the way your poem( the first one)is cute! I love poems and when I was a kid I used to recite them!!I'm really looking forward to the next topic! Cheerio
I read what you wrote about your group .And we started to have same group in our university ,and it was becuause of what u wrote.we are so excited on it .thanks alot .
I feel so happy to join your blog, i'm learning english. I hope you help me learn.
hello all member or students of this site. its relly very good site & i m very thankful for this site. this is really very helpful for all who wants to speak english a correct english. & also know abt all those mistakes which we did. thankxx
Warm greeting to you all, I should tell you that I found this site very useful and enjoyable for learning and speaking English. I'd like to learn sth useful from this site and join some other students from different countries.
I also think this site is very useful to all of us.But I hope we can communicate with others online.Not only can improve our speaking english but also we can make friends with others from different countries.
I am a student in the uk.I am doing pre-master course.I really think that this way give great opportunity to improve our English.
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