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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Volunteers Spread <strong>English</strong> in Olympic<br />

Stadium<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2007--05-09<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=179072181<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, May 9th, 2007: Volunteers from the School <strong>of</strong> Foreign<br />

Languages pay a regular visit to the Olympic stadium every Friday to spread the<br />

Olympic spirits and popularize <strong>English</strong>.<br />

The activity is at the whistle <strong>of</strong> the <strong>PKU</strong> Communist Youth League to teach Olympic<br />

<strong>English</strong>. About ten young volunteers began their work from late March and their<br />

deeds are highly praised by people in the stadium.<br />

Popularizing Olympic <strong>English</strong> is the practical embodiment <strong>of</strong> the idea ―collaborating<br />

between schools and stadium‖ raised by the Youth League. The teaching process is<br />

based on the text One Hundred Sentences <strong>of</strong> Olympic. The volunteers made careful<br />

preparations beforehand and arranged discussions regularly to make the process<br />

coherent and complete. Many <strong>of</strong> them are deeply impressed by the curiousness <strong>of</strong><br />

the workers there. The volunteers are faced with a difficult task since the students<br />

have different <strong>English</strong> levels. They exert efforts to make the students perform<br />

actively and encourage them to help each other. Besides some basic Olympic<br />

<strong>English</strong>, they also translate some <strong>of</strong> the projects‘ names into <strong>English</strong> as<br />

supplementary texts and publicize the project.<br />

2007 is the crucial year in Olympic preparation, so the spread <strong>of</strong> <strong>English</strong> in the<br />

construction site is especially meaningful. Besides improving the workers‘ <strong>English</strong><br />

skills, such activities can hearten the young volunteers to serve as the advocators,<br />

disseminator and practitioners <strong>of</strong> the Olympic spirits.<br />

Edited By : Wang Yi<br />

Translated By : Wang Shu<br />

Source : <strong>PKU</strong> <strong>News</strong> (Chinese)<br />

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