phần I :
I went to Australia on a student program last year and I like to tell you about it. I was very excited when I knew I was going to Australia because I had never been there before. I didn’t think about the problems of speaking English untill_I met my host family. At first I couldn’t communicate with them because my English was so bad. All the five years I had been learning English that wasn’t much used at all because_we didn‟t have real practice at school. Even though my grammar was good, my pronunciation wasn’t. My problem is pronunciating , ‘l’ and ‘r’. For example, Australian people often asked “What do you eat in Vietnam?” I wanted to tell them that we eat rice, but they didn‟t understand when I said “We eat lice”…
Phần 2 :
Learning a language is, in some ways, like learning how to fly or play the piano. There some differences, but there is a very important similarity. It is this: learning how to do such things needs lots of practice. It is never enough simply to “know” something. You must be able to “do” things with what to know. For example, it is not enough simply to read a book on how to fly an aeroplane. A book can give you lots of information about how to fly, but if you only read a book and then try to fly without a great deal of practice first, you will crash and kill yourself. The same is true of learning the piano or learning a foreign language. Can you speak English well without having lots of practice? “Practice makes perfect” is what every learner of a foreign language should know.
