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A:   今天老闆很生氣，有學生反映上課太無聊，要求退學費。

jīntiān lǎobǎn hěn shēngqì, yǒu xuésheng fǎnyìng shàngkè tài wúliáo, yāoqiú tuì xuéfèi.

Boss is really angry today. Some students have complained that the classes are too boring, and they're demanding that their tuition be returned.

B:   哎，主要是我們用的教材太無聊了，學生都沒興趣學，特別是歐美學生。

āi, zhǔyào shì wǒmen yòng de jiàocái tài wúliáo le, xuésheng dōu méi xìngqù xué, tèbié shì Oūměi xuésheng.

Agh, the main thing is that the materials we use are too boring. None of the students feel like studying; especially the Western students.

C:   就是。對話都是按照語法點編的，很生硬。有些話平時我們根本不那樣說。

jiùshì. duìhuà dōu shì ànzhào yǔfǎdiǎn biān de, hěn shēngyìng. yǒuxiē huà píngshí wǒmen gēnběn bù nàyàng shuō.

Exactly. The dialogs are all written according to grammar points – they sound forced. Some of those expressions we would never say in daily life.

A:   中高級教材偏重閱讀理解，大概是為考HSK服務的吧。對提高口語幫助不大。

zhōnggāojí jiàocái piānzhòng yuèdú lǐjiě, dàgài shì wèi kǎo HSK fúwù de ba. duì tígāo kǒuyǔ bāngzhù bùdà.

The upper-intermediate materials stress reading comprehension, which is mostly for taking the HSK. It doesn't do much for one's spoken language.

B:   詞彙也有不少問題。有些詞語已經過時了，比如學生最愛說的“馬馬虎虎”。還有些詞不是高頻詞，不實用。學這些不是浪費時間嗎？

cíhuì yě yǒu bùshǎo wèntí. yǒuxiē cíyǔ yǐjīng guòshí le, bǐrú xuésheng zuìài shuō de" mǎmǎhūhū”. hái yǒuxiē cí bùshì gāopíncí, bù shíyòng. xué zhèxiē bùshì làngfèi shíjiān ma?

There's a lot of problems with the vocabulary too. Some of the words are already outdated. For example, the students love to say, 'just so-so.' Also, some of the words aren't high-frequency; it's not practical. Isn't it a waste of the student's time to study these?

C:   還有很多成語，學生一看就頭大。沒必要學那麼多成語吧，中國人也不會一天到晚說成語。

háiyǒu hěn duō chéngyǔ, xuésheng yī kàn jiù tóu dà. méi bìyāo xué nàme duō chéngyǔ ba, Zhōngguórén yě bùhuì yītiāndàowǎn shuō chéngyǔ.

There's a lot of idioms too. One look at idioms and the students are overwhelmed. There's no need to study so many idioms. Even Chinese people can't sit around speaking in idioms all day.

A:   噓，老闆來了！

xū, lǎobǎn lái le!

Shh! The boss is coming.

D:   今天我們開會呢，主要是說說教材的問題。我知道傳統教材有一些弊端。但我們自己編教材的話也一下子編不好。你們看有什麼辦法可以讓學生喜歡上課呢？

jīntiān wǒmen kāihuì ne, zhǔyào shì shuō shuo jiàocái de wèntí. wǒ zhīdào chuántǒng jiàocái yǒu yīxiē bìduān. dàn wǒmén zìjǐ biān jiàocái dehuà yě yīxiàzi biān bù hǎo. nǐmen kàn yǒu shénme bànfǎ kěyǐ ràng xuésheng xǐhuan shàngkè ne?

For the meeting today, our focus will be the problems with our teaching materials. I know that traditional teaching materials have their faults, but if we write the materials ourselves, doing them in such a little amount of time isn't good either. How do you guys think we can get the students liking their classes?

B:   我覺得教材裡的內容可以有選擇地上，老師可以補充一些學生感興趣的東西。自己做些PPT什麼的。

wǒ juéde jiàocái lǐ de nèiróng kěyǐ yǒu xuǎnzé de shàng, lǎoshī kěyǐ bǔchōng yīxiē xuésheng gǎn xìngqù de dōngxi. zìjǐ zuò xiē PPT shénme de.

I think the teacher should cover the materials selectively. The teacher can supplement the class with some things that the students find interesting and can make a few Power Point presentations, etc.

A:   嗯，沒錯。還可以多設計些活動。

ng4, méicuò. hái kěyǐ duō shèjì xiē huódòng.

Yeah, that's right. They can also plan some more activities.

C:   我知道一個教中文的網站，上面有音頻也有視頻，教的東西都很生活化。我以前有個學生進步很快,就是在那個網站學的。

wǒ zhīdào yī gè jiāo Zhōngwén de wǎngzhàn, shàngmian yǒu yīnpín yě yǒu shìpín, jiāo de dōngxi dōu hěn shēnghuóhuà. wǒ yǐqián yǒu gè xuésheng jìnbù hěn kuài, jiùshì zài nàge wǎngzhàn xué de.

I know a website that teaches Chinese. There's audio and video on it, and they teach everyday stuff. I had a student in the past who improved really quickly, and that was the website she used.

D:   網上的教學材料我們倒是可以借鑑。完了你把網址發給大家看看。

wǎngshàng de jiàoxué cáiliào wǒmen dàoshì kěyǐ jièjiàn. wán le nǐ bǎ wǎngzhǐ fāgěi dàjiā kàn kan.

We could certainly learn from online teaching materials. After the meeting, send out the website's address for everyone to have a look.

Key Vocabulary

反映 fǎnyìng

教材 jiàocái

語法點 yǔfǎdiǎn

編 biān

生硬 shēngyìng

偏重 piānzhòng

閱讀 yuèdú

過時 guòshí

高頻詞 gāopíncí

實用 shíyòng

頭大 tóudà

一天到晚 yītiāndàowǎn

噓 xū

弊端 bìduān

一下子 yīxiàzi

有選擇地 yǒu xuǎnzé de

補充 bǔchōng

設計 shèjì

音頻 yīnpín

視頻 shìpín

生活化 shēnghuóhuà

倒是 dàoshì

借鑑 jièjiàn

完了 wán le

Supplementary Vocabulary

教學 jiàoxué

編寫 biānxiě

編輯 biānjí

偏心 piānxīn

詞彙量 cíhuìliàng

頻率 pínlǜ

調理 tiáolǐ

體制 tǐzhì

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